I don’t think you have not comprehended what double standards mean. You know it pretty well,but are just pretending ignorance. So I won’t bother to explain it to you. In order to obfuscate the issue you have brought in a smokescreen of irrelevancies,such as ”daubing
the teeming multitude with its spectacular assortment of differences with drab monochrome” blah blah blah. You have hidden your identity but I suspect you are a Bong,just like me. You know,or ought to know,that when Bengali Muslims drove 1.2 crores of Bengali Hindus out
of East Bengal,their scythe of rape,plunder and mass murder ran right across the gamut,from Brahmin to Sudra and from Shakta to Vaishnav. In fact Dalit leader Jogen Mandal (a Central Minister of Pakistan,1947-1950) who tried to project that the political interests of Dalits
and Muslims are identical,as some politicians are trying to do right now,had to run for his life to India. Your attempt to project your ‘spectacular assortment’ is merely an often-tried method to divide Hindus so as to make them vulnerable to attacks from Islam and Christianity.
Likewise for the “different strands of Islam”. Muslims fought among themselves along Shia-Sunni,Bengali-Bihari-Punjabi faultlines,but got united when killing and raping Hindus in East Bengal.
But the process of uniting Hindus,which Dr Hedgewar had started in 1925 through
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha has gathered its own momentum and is now irreversible. Your dialectics of Hindutva vs Hinduism notwithstanding. Jai Shri Ram!

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