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Ludden additional stated the latest efforts are part of a world strategy to strangle crucial discourse that Hindutva supporters worry will “undermine their credibility as claimants to Hindu tradition”. Last week, the HAF issued an email action alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to write down letters to India’s foreign ministry to persuade the cosponsoring universities to rethink their affiliation with the conference. On September three, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, a far-right group whose members are accused of assassinating journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh in 2017, wrote a letter to India’s Home Minister Amit Shah, in search of motion against the India-based speakers of the convention. A poet and caste activist, Kandasamy informed Al Jazeera that a poem she wrote 10 years in the past was picked up by Hindu teams, alleging it was offensive and ridiculed Hindu gods. ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ organisers and speakers face harassment and intimidation by Hindu right-wing groups in the US and India.
From the government-issued textbooks, college students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report said 'Textbooks reflect intentional obfuscation. [newline]Today's students, citizens of Pakistan and its future leaders are the victims of these partial truths'. In 2014, Brian Collins discovered the tropes of Hinduphobia to be a popular weapon employed by the prosperous Hindu diaspora in stifling critical educational discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists have been drawn. In 2021, a bunch of South Asian students fashioned a collective to combat rising harassment of teachers by individuals and organizations affiliated with Hindutva. They rejected Hinduphobia as an ahistorical and inappropriate neologism employed by the Hindu Right to find a way to suppress educational inquiry into matters involved with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been certainly observed, Hindus haven't faced any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia were also accused of participating in discrimination in opposition to Muslims, lower-castes, Dalits, Christians, and progressive Hindus.
The following day, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced, “Opinions or actions by individual college members or educational models do not characterize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University advised me that the university was approached for assist, but it declined. I was contacted by two college presidents wanting my input, and it seems they were upset that no due course of had been followed before utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they were upset at being dragged into the soiled politics in the guise of academic freedom.
However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate campaign group known as Bailey's comments "grotesque". On 11 May 2006, armed city corridor officers from Kuala Lumpur forcefully demolished a part of a 60-year-old suburban temple that serves greater than 1,000 Hindus. The "Hindu Rights Action Force", a coalition of a quantity of NGO's, have protested these demolitions by lodging complaints with the Malaysian Prime Minister. Many Hindu advocacy groups have protested what they allege is a scientific plan of temple cleaning in Malaysia.
The conference then shared that over 900 lecturers had signed a letter in help of their endeavour. The letter states in no unsure phrases that all Hindu American disagreement with their agenda is political extremism and intimidation. Firstpost is convinced that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online convention (from Sept 10-12) planned by anonymous organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically motivated occasion designed to malign an historic faith and its adherents. Through columns and reported pieces, this Firstpost collection exposes why such programmes are deceptive, agenda-driven, and nothing however thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online convention (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by anonymous organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated occasion designed to malign an historic religion and its adherents. By arguing that those that disagree with their central arguments about “global Hindutva” are members of “the Hindu Right,” the DGHscholars seek to weaponise “academic freedom” and the facility asymmetry that exists between themselves and different students inside the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.
