“In fact, you’ll find this kind of thing everywhere. Here in India, for example, sometimes you may have some violence take place within a community. But instead of focusing on resolving that particular situation and dealing with the specific individuals responsible for the act, some Hindu leader may proclaim, ‘Look, this is what the Muslims do to us Hindus!’ Or, some Muslim leader may equally say, ‘Look at what the Hindus are doing to us!’ And the moment they overgeneralize and exaggerate in this way, it evokes a different kind of response, creating unrest within these communities. I feel that
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