Letters: Stop polarization

This refers to the article, “Muslims observe Black Eid over lynching” dated June 27, 2017. Advocating non-violent resistance to the racially discriminatory Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance issued by the Transvaal government in 1906, Mahatma Gandhi made a powerful statement to bring the aggrieved on board, “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
 
The disturbing pattern of intolerance and polarisation gradually pervading the country since the new regime got elected to power precisely sums up the fear of Gandhi. To make dissenters fall in line