NEW DELHI Fast bowler

was recently trolled by Islamist bigots after he posted a picture of her daughter with a sweet caption saying, "Looking so sweet beta love you so much god bless you beta see you soon (sic)."

Shami’s daughter Aira, posing in a saree, was standing next to Hindu items of worship. This enraged certain

who attacked Shami and the little girl for doing idol worship and puja despite being Muslims.

Here’s what the trolls said and why they’ve crossed all limits of radicalization:

Muslim radicals want everyone to respect their practices and beliefs (which is how it should be), but wouldn’t extend the same courtesy to say a Hindu or a Sikh. They would not miss any opportunity to display hatred for others’ beliefs and attack those who don’t agree with them.

Shami, a champion player, one who’s always made India proud, is ironically being lectured by Islamists (who have zero achievements) as to how he should raise his daughter. They threaten him saying he, and his daughter, will be sent to hell for doing puja (idol worship) but they have no qualms when Indian captain

say an

Sharff. That, for them, was necessary to preserve India’s pluralism.

It is laughable when some of these Islamists remind others that India is a secular nation (which it is) but their own acts and words betray all tenets of secularism and plurality. If at all India’s secular fabric is under threat then it is from these bigots, who can’t peacefully co-exist with anyone who opposes their fundamentalism. To realize their dream of Islamism, they don’t even spare kids, like Shami’s daughter.

We often hear phrases like ‘dara hua musalman’, but we aren’t told that peaceful Indian Muslims are indeed scared of these Islamists, who dictate other Muslims how they should be leading their lives.

If deradicalization centres are opened in India, these Islamists should be the first ones to be kept there until they learn to be civil enough to live in a secular country like India.