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This one is from a while ago, but really its completely unbelieveable that this mistake happened. In the whole anti-terrorist sweep that Spain did after the Madrid bombings, they picked up 5 suspects - 3 Northern African, 2 Indian. The Indian suspects at the time struck me as odd, but when I heard they were Hindu - it became a case of obvious blatant ignorance and racism. I guess the suspects must have "looked like" the "kind of people" who are terrorists, according to Spanish authorities. Obviously no one decided to remember that there is a long history of hatred and bloodshed between Hindus and Muslims across India/Pakistan territories so it is incredibly unlikely, if not impossible, to imagine a Hindu person involved in any kind of Islam-centred terrorism.

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