Bengaluru has parallels with Rangeela Rasool. Muslims first published some derogatory material. Arya Samajis responded by publishing "Rangeela Rasool". A Muslim responded by stabbing to death the publisher of Rangeela Rasool. The British upheld the law and hanged the....

Killer. Jinnah appeared in court for the accused who was a dirt poor illiterate carpenter (back then you had to be a Maharaja or Nawab to pay for Jinnah as your lawyer - so Jinnah did it of his own volition and cost!) Iqbal wept at his funeral saying, "this illiterate boy.....

Has truly shamed us intellectuals today." 600,000 attended the killer Ilm ud Din's funeral in Lahore (a city far smaller back then than it is today). A decade and a bit later, Hindus and Sikhs were wiped out and Pakistan was born.

Later, in our 21st century, this story gets repeated as Mumtaz Qadri gets a hero's funeral in Pakistan.

Incidentally, there are shrines to Ilm ud Din all over Pakistan. He is still revered as a hero.

And we have the killers of Kamlesh Tiwari.

If you don't understand history, you will be condemned to repeat it.

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