Oh I bet this incident will have wide spread repercussion - one of which is changing the narrative from BJP being islamophobe to 'we were right about muslims'. You can almost sense glee in social media from some of the govt chatukaars, as if this is a license for them to further brandish all Indian muslims in a bad light.
But your denial of how we reached to this point also doesn't change the fact that BJP has managed to push country to the edge with their communal politics.
They don't realise that it is a fire they can't put out and something that will consume them as a whole too.
First of all this is not the issue of "Indian Muslims" as a whole.
The issue is when Nupur Sharma made that statement few 1000s came on the streets and rioted. There were slogans asking for her beheading. Muslim leaders didn't condemn that. Infact when action was taken against the rioters, some political parties, journalists etc criticized the government that took hard steps.
Parties saw it as an opportunity to consolidate their muslim votes.
The left leaning media further supported this.
That emboldened these extremists.
The rule of law should he same for every one. Appeasement of any community emboldens them to take the law into their hands.
The day in 1980, Indira Gandhi walked into an agreement with Imam of Jama Masjid to ask for his support in the elections, in return for favours towards the Muslim community, that day laid the foundation of whats happening today.
Rajiv Gandhi took it further in the Shah Bano case and Mulayam Lalu DMK Communists followed suit.
Slowly over 3 decades the hindu votes once fractured by caste divisions consolidated and moved towards the BJP, because the Hindus were fed up with the appeasement.
I had high hopes from AAP, led by an IITian, had RW nationalists like Kumar Vishwas and left leaning liberals like Bhushan. But they too went the appeasement way.
Unless we have a proper centrist party with only nationalism Secularism and development as an agenda, this isn't going to be over.
And dare i say, a dynasty less Congress may be our best hope.