“Trust deficit?” (a letter to the newspapers)

by MUKUL DUBE

Shri Mohan Bhagwat of the RSS is reported to have said that “Muslims … [have] to ‘remove the trust deficit’ by helping to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.”

Just what is this “trust deficit”? Who, other than the RSS and its spawn, does not trust India’s Muslims? For whom does Shri Bhagwat speak? Who or what gives him the right to seek to direct the actions of India’s Muslims?

Besides, what can the Muslims expect in return? Do they not know, from decades of experience, that their good will shall only be countered with further hooliganism and barbarity in the name of Hindutva? Does Shri Bhagwat seriously expect them to feed a meat laddu to a crocodile to make friends with it?