Over 1.7 billion Muslims, one quarter of humanity, must be held to a standard and benchmark that doesn't hold true for the practitioner of any other faith, for the actions of 0.001 per cent. Would it seem equally sound and legitimate to ask every Christian, over 2.2 billion of them, to denounce the brutalities committed in the Iraq ,Afghanistan War and the subsequent occupation of Iraq by American forces led by George W Bush, launched on the false premise of the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that did not exist and eventually led to the rise of ISIS- a fact that has been quite candidly admitted to by the former British PM Tony Blair who allied with Bush in leading this "war on terror" in the first place? Would it be pertinent to ask why every Christian must not apologise for the mass murder of six million Jews in a predominantly Christian and anti-semitic Europe of the 1930s, the killings of thousands by the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in Africa, the organised gendercide of over 30,000 women, branded as witches, in the infamous "witch-hunt" in Europe during the 15th to 18th centuries, and of course slavery, all of which were carried out in the name of Christianity and were said to be sanctioned or justified by religious scriptures? Would it also be legitimate to ask of every Hindu to apologise for the genocide of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the riots that ensued thereafter, the killing of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 simply because we have now chosen to impute the acts of a few individuals like Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi as representative of the entire 800 million population of Hindus in India? May be not. This is a double standard only meant to be applied to Muslims.