Expectations and unexpectations - India Pakistan, Hindu Muslim conflicts

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My building secretary lost a relative in the recent Pahalgam incident. The terrorists asked the gentleman coming out from the washroom, are you a Hindu or a Muslim. The gentleman not knowing that the person was a Muslim, since he came in army uniform, answered he was a Hindu and it took just one bullet to sniff the life out of the person. There is an uproar against what has happened there, and in recent past, in Bangladesh. Though we are divided as a nation, strangely we are united as a religion. Notwithstanding that I would kill my cousin who is also a Hindu for abusing me. But if a Muslim does it, well...all Muslims are bad...my rationality and logic will take a back seat. I am, of course, an exception to the rule, so that suppression of logic and rationality does not hold good with me IN THIS CASE. Expectations were, that the chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir should have expressed sorrow instead of just saying they had no hand in it. Hey...wait a minute...was there not a lynching of a Muslim guy 52 years old, by many Hindu MEN, suspecting him to have consumed beef. Now, ignorance is bliss. Beef can be meat of cows, buffaloes, bullocks, male calfs, and so on. Nobody hurt the man who must have sold the cow, or the man who butchered it. But the man who is PRESUMED TO HAVE EATEN IT, got killed by Hindus acting like a pack of stray dogs. Did our Prime Minister apologize for it or remember it at Red Fort on January 26. Nope. He is too old, and well fed. But we have a right to expect apologies from others who have pain in their heart for such incidents. Or the Nazi like order of the Chief Minister of a State, banning usage of own terrace for Eid celebrations, banning usage of streets for Eid celebrations. But Hindus are allowed to use it for lighting fireworks, playing festival of colors Holi, taking processions of gods and goddesses, and breaking matka on janmashtmi. You see, like Aryan Germans, we Hindus too are blessed people, and are trying to make the people of other religion miserable by adopting such discriminatory approach. I could bring up many such discriminatory and angering issues that have culminated in what has happened at Pahalgam, and in Bangladesh. But the post would become too long. Finally, those who feel Muslims are happy with Modi, Shah, and Yogi, see the results. For wrongful indulgences, we risk the lives of other Hindus and also armed force personnel. It is better to be honest and dare to defy the fanatic needling of a religion, else the development that we brag about could all be brought to a naught by a few bombs. So if you thought India is in better shape than before, every citizen, whether Hindu or Muslim, knows in his or her heart, that this is just a temporary bliss or lull. Gory stuff awaits them. The unhappiness index this year clearly ranks India lower than Pakistan for such fears. Time up. Time to be honest. Time to stop discrimination. Time to put nation above the religion.