Andrew, you’re quite right to mention Wahhabi provocations in India. I mention in my book that in 1871 John Norman, the acting Chief Justice, was fatally stabbed by a Wahhabi and the following year the viceroy, Lord Mayo, met a similar fate. And it wasn’t because Indian Muslims were worried their daughters would be tarting about like Paris Hilton. India’s 19th century administrators understood, as our governments still apparently do not, that Wahhabism is a project to subvert and radicalize Muslim populations. The only difference between then and now is that today’s Wahhabists are flush with petrodollars.

It’s very surprising, given that Dinesh discusses his own family background in India during his book, that he seems either unaware of or indifferent to the deep roots of the Islamo-imperialist project in the region.