hindu sentiments - one can hurt and get away scot-free

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In India, a person (especially if he or she is a politician) can get away easily if his or her utterances hurt the hindu's sentiments. Hindus being a majority are just silent watchers. How is this possible? Is it because the hindus have been trained to show tolerance to others or is it because of their passive submission to rulers from other religions? Just look at the way the chief minister (and his daughter) of Tamilnadu earlier and now the chief minister of West Bengal deliberately distorted the age old beliefs of the hindus in respect of Lord Rama whom the hindus rever and thousands of temples built for Him. The subject of interest is Ramar Sethu, whom the hindus regard as the one built by the monkey king and his army to help Lord Rama to cross over to Lanka (refer the Epic Ramayana). Their claim is Rama was an imagination of a poet named Valmiki. Can we imagine what would be their plight if they had shown the same disregard if they had talked about other religious beliefs? See what is happening to Taslima who has been and is being hounded day in and day out. And Salman Rushdie was not spared, who had to ultimately take asylum in Britain. Naturally both their books have been banned in India. But nobody had thought to bring down these two powerful politicians and cast them away. Perhaps, a new election will do the magic trick. Till then, God save us.