1. This IS disturbing not because there is a big collection of Muslims somewhere in the world (though that fact scares people who are ignorant of Muslims) but because the Indian society is, to put it mildly, chaotic.
The Hindus and Muslims there split their entire 3500-year-old society BECAUSE of religion, so it's NOT a small thing.
Mind you, there have been religious persecutions by the Hindus against Sikhs and Christians too, but there were always more Muslims, so the fighting was, therefore, more serious because the larger numbers challenged Hindus.
2. India's "overconfidence" is an enormous understatement. They really do think that they are so much better, smarter, wiser and such, than the rest of the world. It IS built into the very fabric of their culture, society and religion. The caste system may be officially null and void but 3500 hundred years of it won't go away because THEY and others (American's "democracy" push for everyone on the planet....naive, at best) want it to.
The Brahmin caste (from whence all the P.M.s come) IS considered superior, by caste. Brahmins who marry other castes DO "marry down." It used to be a capitol offense to assault a member of the upper caste.
That feeling of superiority to the rest of the Hindus, the very caste system itself, drove MILLIONS to Islam, understandably so. But Brahmins and other higher castes KNEW they were superior to the rest of the world too. Harhar, it must have been quite a show between the British snobs and the Brahmin snobs....as to whose s**t didn't smell.
The point is, the OVERCONFIDENCE stems from their very soul. I don't think they or Pakistan should have nukes EITHER. They are ALMOST as chaotic and nutty as North Korea. I doubt India's (or Pakistan's) ability to control their population, Hindus OR Muslims and their ability to control the Bomb.
Too bad so few Americans really know so very little about India and Hinduism. They are really a timb bomb themselves.
The "ethnic" group is not the problem: it's the religion (the cult of Islam) that is the problem. Unless "Muslim" has suddenly become an ethnicity.