India's second party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), remains rooted in the Hindutva (Hindu-ness) movement, which seems to believe that India's 160m Muslims live there onsufferance.
If the reaction in Muslim-majority states has been muffled, that could be because certain of them share the Swiss voters' belief that the world really does divide into Huntingtonian blocks, where one religion or another prevails, and the rest exist onsufferance.