The comparison to Islamic State is particularly odious because the Islamists are growing more barbaric with every passing year; from the Taliban to Al Qaeda to Boko Haram to Al Shabaab to Islamic State, Islamists have been hitting new depths of barbarism, making even the most bigoted Sanghis look like boy scouts. But you can’t demonise the Sangh unless you draw the parallels anyway. Hence the attempt to lump unconnected cases of church vandalism to build a narrative of systematic attack on minorities; the idea is to keep planting the idea of barbarism into narratives about the Sangh so that when one incident falls into this category – like the lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq for alleged cow slaughter – the whole story can be validated. This is a typical Goebbelsian technique of demonisation.