This has implications beyond the specifics here. It entails the question of how we are to relate to each other as people, as cultures. Before that, this tweet contained one misstep within a)...and I readily conceded it. May I say with quiet emphasis that (b), (c) stand undimmed? https://twitter.com/kazhugan/status/1300014232201617409

While a) substantially stands: beyond the strand of canon, iconography is always mobile. Now, most people would peg @TIinExile higher in their estimation if he gracefully concedes missteps, deliberate or otherwise, when they have been proven, with evidence.

But that is secondary. What matters is the kind of ecosystem that's building up. The handful of redeeming conversations there -- with those still willing to listen, or debate genuinely -- show what drives it. It's a sense of loyalty to faith, and insecurity arising from what they

...perceive as a large-scale, conspiratorial hostility from non-traditional forms of knowing, analysing and relating to tradition. This is not unnatural, fairly common across the globe actually, and behoves introspection on the part of the 'secular' voices whether they're not....

...actually driving such minds into the only zones where their concerns find some resonance. These are minds on the cusp, looking for succour, not yet given over to hate, and the tragedy is the only spaces that offer them anything are those born with an overwhelming misanthropy.

Once lodged there, the psychology of insecurity finds release through acts of incessant symbolic (and physical) violence and aggression. That this could actually be destructive of the vast and subtle complexes of culture we have is not a thought such a mind can entertain.