Christmas Day Disrupted: How Unemployment, Ignorance, and Manufactured Hatred Fuel Hindu Extremism
Date: 25 December
On a day meant for peace, kindness, and coexistence, parts of India once again witnessed an ugly spectacle: self-proclaimed Hindu extremists disturbing Christmas celebrations. Churches intimidated, prayers disrupted, and fear injected into communities whose only “crime” was celebrating their faith peacefully.
This is not patriotism.
This is not culture.
This is social decay dressed up as nationalism.
Who Are These People, Really?
Let’s confront the uncomfortable truth.
A large number of individuals involved in such disruptions share common traits: Unemployed or underemployed, poorly educated or deliberately misinformed, politically exploited, chronically angry with no real direction in life
Instead of questioning why they lack jobs, why education failed them, or why the system abandoned them, they are handed a far easier target: minorities.
Hatred becomes a substitute for purpose.
Ignorance Is the Real Enemy
India’s Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Christmas has been celebrated on this land for centuries long before many of today’s loud “protectors of culture” even understood what culture means.
Yet extremists are trained to believe: Celebrating Christmas is “conversion” Peaceful prayer is a “threat” Diversity is “danger”
This is not belief.
This is indoctrination.
When people stop reading, stop questioning, and stop thinking critically, they become tools easy to mobilize, easy to provoke, easy to discard.
The Politics of Distraction
Ask a simple question: Did disturbing Christmas celebrations create jobs?
Did it reduce inflation?
Did it improve healthcare or education?
Did it fix farmers’ distress?
The answer is no.
But it did succeed in one thing:
diverting attention from real failures.
When governance fails, noise is created.
When accountability is absent, enemies are invented.
Religious polarization is the cheapest political currency.
Weaponizing Religion Against India Itself
India is strong because it is plural, not because it is uniform.
Every time extremists attack minorities,
they: Damage India’s global image, undermine constitutional values, insult the freedom fighters who envisioned a secular nation, push society closer to permanent conflict
Ironically, these acts hurt Hindus themselves the most by associating an ancient, diverse philosophy with mob behavior and intolerance.
Harsh Truth: This Is Not Faith, It’s Failure
Let’s be brutally honest.
People confident in their identity don’t need to shout. People with education don’t fear festivals. People with jobs don’t roam streets looking for enemies.
What we are witnessing is economic frustration redirected as religious aggression.
And those at the top?
They watch silently or worse, encourage it—because chaos keeps questions away from power.
India Deserves Better
Christmas is not the enemy.
Christians are not the enemy.
Muslims are not the enemy.
Sikhs are not the enemy.
Ignorance, unemployment, and political manipulation are.
Until Indians start demanding education instead of hate, jobs instead of slogans, and accountability instead of mobs, these ugly scenes will repeat on Christmas, on Eid, on any day someone decides to cash in on fear.
The real fight is not between religions.
It is between thinking citizens and manufactured mobs.
And the future of India depends on which side wins.
