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Ludden additional said the latest efforts are a part of a world technique to strangle crucial discourse that Hindutva supporters fear will “undermine their credibility as claimants to Hindu tradition”. Last week, the HAF issued an e-mail motion alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to write down letters to India’s international ministry to steer the cosponsoring universities to rethink their association with the convention. On September 3, 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, looking for action towards the India-based audio system 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 audio system face harassment and intimidation by Hindu right-wing teams within the US and India.
From the government-issued textbooks, students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report acknowledged 'Textbooks replicate intentional obfuscation. [newline]Today's students, residents 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 affluent Hindu diaspora in stifling important tutorial discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists had been drawn. In 2021, a bunch of South Asian students fashioned a collective to fight rising harassment of academics by people 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 topics involved with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been indeed noticed, Hindus have not confronted any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia have been additionally accused of engaging in discrimination against Muslims, lower-castes, Dalits, Christians, and progressive Hindus.
The following day, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced, “Opinions or actions by particular person college members or tutorial hinduphobia units don't symbolize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University advised me that the university was approached for support, however it declined. I was contacted by two college presidents wanting my enter, and it seems they have been upset that no due course of had been adopted earlier than utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they have been upset at being dragged into the soiled politics within the guise of academic freedom.
However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate marketing campaign group called Bailey's comments "grotesque". On 11 May 2006, armed city hall officers from Kuala Lumpur forcefully demolished a half 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 teams have protested what they allege is a systematic plan of temple cleansing in Malaysia.
The convention then shared that over 900 teachers had signed a letter in support of their endeavour. The letter states in no unsure phrases that every one Hindu American disagreement with their agenda is political extremism and intimidation. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day on-line conference (from Sept 10-12) planned by nameless organisers within 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 but thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online convention (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by nameless organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an historical faith and its adherents. By arguing that those who disagree with their central arguments about “global Hindutva” are members of “the Hindu Right,” the DGHscholars search to weaponise “academic freedom” and the facility asymmetry that exists between themselves and other students within the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.