Intolerance towards religious minorities, especially Christians, is on the rise among young Indians, warns Michael Williams, dean of Mount Carmel Schools in India, during a meeting in the British House of Lords organised by a Christian group, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International.
Citing government figures, the Indian educationist noted that attacks against religious communities have jumped by 30 percent in the past three years with around a thousand incidents in 2017, 111 people killed and more than 2,500 wounded.
According to Williams, India’s “fundamentalist” government is to blame for creating a climate of intolerance and violation of human rights in the country akin to the current radicalisation in Islamic countries and the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s.
In his view, the modus operandi of the incidents is very similar and include the ‘return home’ movement to convert people to Hinduism.
