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Ludden additional said the latest efforts are part of a global strategy to strangle important discourse that Hindutva supporters concern will “undermine their credibility as claimants to Hindu tradition”. Last week, the HAF issued an e-mail action 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, in search of motion in opposition to the India-based speakers of the conference. 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 teams in the US and India.
From the government-issued textbooks, students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report said 'Textbooks replicate intentional obfuscation. [newline]Today's students, residents of Pakistan and its future leaders are the victims of those partial truths'. In 2014, Brian Collins found the tropes of Hinduphobia to be a preferred weapon employed by the affluent Hindu diaspora in stifling critical educational discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists have been drawn. In 2021, a group of South Asian students shaped 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 so as to suppress educational inquiry into topics involved with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been indeed observed, Hindus have not confronted any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia were also accused of engaging in discrimination against Muslims, lower-castes, Dalits, Christians, and progressive Hindus.
The following day, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced, “Opinions or actions by particular person school members or tutorial hindutva units do not symbolize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University told me that the university was approached for help, but it declined. I was contacted by two university presidents wanting my input, and it seems they have been upset that no due course of had been adopted before utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they were upset at being dragged into the dirty politics within the guise of educational freedom.
However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate campaign group known as Bailey's comments "grotesque". On eleven May 2006, armed city corridor 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 cleaning in Malaysia.
The conference then shared that over 900 teachers had signed a letter in support 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 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 historic religion and its adherents. Through columns and reported pieces, this Firstpost sequence 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 ancient faith 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 power asymmetry that exists between themselves and other students throughout the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.
