India Intolerant?

A lot of flavor of intolerance has been in the air of India from last couple of years.  A fait accompli or a perception incubated by repetitive usage of the term. Intolerance, as the terminology indicates, is the feeling which is deprived of tolerance for any person or a group of persons complemented with a feeling of antipathy towards the same. Is the present India intolerant? Is there not any intolerance anywhere else? If there is any phenomenon of intolerance, then it came into existence with the development of human brain and flourished perpetually. Life sprout out with a follow up principle of survival of fittest triggering the cascade of the intolerance, intolerance against anything harming one’s interest or not complying with one's ideology. Tolerance or intolerance is one of the human psychological attributes malleable enough to be influenced by the patterns of socialization, one’s instinctive behavior, extent of cognizance and level of maturity. Every living being is intolerant against something. A microbe shows intolerance intra-specific prioritizing its needs. Intolerance can be said to have flourished spatially and temporally infinite. Vedic period, one of the enlightened period of Indian history, furcated the society into four Varna leaving the rest as untouchables. The untouchables were so insulated by the elites or the twice-borns that mere their glimpses tainted the latter and was customary for untouchables  to beat the drums before entering the main dwelling areas.  Intolerance started incubating, curse of which haunting the societies hitherto. After the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632,  a dispute over succession to Muhammad as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. The dispute intensified manifold after the Battle of Karbala, in which Hussein Ibn Ali and his household were killed by the ruling Umayyad Caliph Yazid I, and the clamour for revenge divided the early Islamic community.

In recent years, Sunni–Shia relations have been increasingly marked by conflict, particularly the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict. Sectarian violence persists to this day from Pakistan to Yemen and is a major element of friction throughout the Middle East and South Asia. Tensions between communities have intensified manifolds, such as the Bahraini uprising, the Iraq War, and most recently the Syrian Civil War and in the formation of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and Syria that has launched a genocide against Shias.

There is a gradient of tolerance. More the affection more will be the magnitude of tolerance. One is more tolerant towards his brother than his cousin than his neighbours than a person with a faith, belief , ideology especially when these are contradictory to the former's. In worst case scenarios, a person born in family and society  with such a predisposition is susceptible to infection of imbibing hatred towards a select group, community or religion, resultant of which are the inhuman, biased, anti-social actions. Inolerance is seed for scathing antipathy that may endanger the existence of whole human kind if goes unchecked. 

Every niche of this planet failed to evade such human instinct and it's not only in India :

•  US President Donald Trump's talk about prohibiting people from six Muslim-majority nations namely Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, from entering the US.
•  Over 55% of Europeans want immigration from Muslim-majority countries to be banned, a poll carried out by a London-based think tank revealed.
•   A 2016 poll has revealed that 49% of Australians support a ban on Muslim immigration to the country. The most common reason cited for the ban were fears of terror attacks and that Muslim immigrants may not share Australian values, the poll said.
•  Norway, pioneer in Human Development Index [HDI], has announced plans to ban burqas (full-face veil) worn by Muslims from schools and universities across the country.
•   Angola bans Islam and Muslims, thereby becoming the world's first country to do so. As part of the ban, the Angolan government ordered the demolition of the mosques in the country. Not just Islam, many other faiths, which are contradictory to the Angola culture, may face ban in future.
•  The Europe Parliament's biggest group, European People's Party (EPP), has called for an EU-wide ban on Muslim veil citing cultural and security concerns. The EPP adopted the measure as official policy under a resolution entitled, "For a cohesive society: Countering Islamic extremism". "Seeing one another's faces is an integral part of human interaction in Europe," the resolution stated.
•  Turkey's army had a historic ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country.
•  Dutch Parliament has approved a ban on wearing burqas in designated public places including schools, hospitals and on public transport. Similar laws have already been implemented in France, Belgium, and Bulgaria.
•  Swiss Parliament approves draft bill on burqa ban in Switzerland Parliament's lower house. Swiss politician Walter Wobmann, who is pushing for a referendum on the issue, said the ban will preserve Swiss culture and curb radical Islam.
•  In 2016, France's Nice after a terrorist attack imposed a ban on full body swimsuit, burkini claiming that wearing the garment had public order risks and poses risk to hygiene, decency and safety while swimming.
•  The UK Independence Party (UKIP), in its manifesto, has promised to ban burqas in Britain, saying that the Muslim veil blocks women from receiving essential vitamin D from the sun. Calling burqas a "barrier" to integration, the manifesto stated, "We will not accept these de-humanising symbols of segregation and oppression, nor the security risks they impose."
•   A Hungarian village ordered ban on the construction of mosques and headscarves worn by Muslim women. The mayor who led the ban had said that the ordinance was adopted to defend the village's community and traditions.
•  Bulgaria recently banned burqa in public places
•  June 20, 2017, The crew of a Pakistani TV Channel was beaten up by students of a Madrasa for reportedly drinking water during the fasting period of Ramadan. However, the channel said that its employee only poured water on his head to cool off.
•  Protests erupted in Libya on Tuesday in response to the military-backed eastern Libyan government's move to restrict travel for female citizens without male guardianship. The eastern Libyan government had earlier announced the ban for women under the age of 60 over "national security reasons".
•   Up until June 2018, Saudi Arabia was unique in being the only country in the world where women were forbidden to drive motor vehicles
•   Singapore had a ban on HIV-positive entering country for two-decades. Recently the ban has been lifted but their stay in Singapore will be limited to a maximum of three months.
•   In 2015, Turkish authorities banned Twitter and Youtube after websites showing images of slain prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz held at gunpoint by far-left militants, taken hours before he was killed in a shootout.
•   Pakistan had banned YouTube in 2012 after the film "Innocence Of Muslims" was made available on it.
• On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, died in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on a city street during an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kept his knee on the right side of Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds; 2 minutes and 53 seconds of which occurred after Floyd became unresponsive, according to the criminal complaint filed against Chauvin. 
  
• A 1984 Pakistani law declared Ahmadis non-Muslims, and Ahmadis can be jailed for three years for posing as a Muslim or outraging Muslims' feelings. Some mullahs promise that killing Ahmadis earns a place in heaven.
  
• France introduced a new Bill in its Parliament to protect its country from radical Islamic terrorism. Under which- There will be no Madarsa in France, Mosque will be used only for prayer. No resident card will be given to them who have married more than one. All mosque need to registered with government. No religious funding will be allowed more than 10K Euro. Ban on issuance of Certificate of Virginity.
• On December 30 2020, a mob of over a hundred people led by local Muslim clerics had destroyed and set on fire a Hindu temple in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A viral video clip on social media showed a violent mob destroying the walls and roof of the temple.