How an 'inflammatory' Facebook post led to a killing and sectarian tension in India – AOL

By Saurabh SharmaUDAIPUR, India (Reuters) – Two weeks before a Hindu tailor in India was hacked to death by two Muslim men who filmed the act, he was briefly detained by police after a rival tailor accused him of an “inflammatory” Facebook post on Prophet Mohammad.Kanhaiyalal Teli’s son told Reuters his father had reposted a Facebook post in support of a now-suspended spokesperson of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party, whose incendiary remarks about the Prophet in a television debate had led to national and international outrage in June.”My father was a very good man, he never had any issues with anyone,” Teli’s 20-year-old son Yash, his head shaven as per Hindu custom after a parent dies, told Reuters. “Just a repost of a post on Facebook, and they killed him. Before this, Hindus and Muslims lived together peacefully in this area.”Modi’s pursuit of a “Hindu first” agenda since coming to power in 2014 has added to communal tensions in India, a country with a ghastly history of Hindu-Muslim violence. Many Muslims, who make up 13% of the 1.3 billion population, complain of feeling marginalised due to Modi’s policies.The video of Teli being killed in Udaipur city in northwestern…
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