Indisk politi frykter at hindu-ekstremister har organisert seg og står klar til å gjennomføre terror mot landets muslimer, som reaksjon på en serie terrorangrep mot vanlig sivile.
Hindus linked to militant extremist groups have recently been arrested for plotting terror crimes targeted at Muslims – an as-yet unexplained, and perhaps unprecedented, incident in post-independence India.
Hindu radicalism and ultra-nationalist extremism are nothing new to Indian politics, but such right-wing activism has now taken a turn for the dangerous. Across India there is talk of the emergence of «Hindu terrorism» – specifically, a pan-India militant Hindu network set on avenging Islamic fundamentalism and jihadi terrorist attacks.