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1 Nov, 4 tweets, 4 min read
@AmarShergillCA is attacking @HinduAmerican in @BrownGirlMag for "pushing away Biden." Umm
It was Shergill who:
-demanded investigation of a debunked Biden assault
-attacked Biden campaign staff
-said on @NPR that Biden failed to condemn "horrors in India"
hinduamerican.medium.com/why-is-califor…
@AmarShergillCA is a Democrat, but doesn't:
-deny connections to @FriedrichPieter's campaign to smear Hindu American candidates & donors
-deny his connections to a CA based Khalistan operative
-deny his attacks on @TulsiGabbard @RepBera & other Democrats

hinduamerican.medium.com/why-the-democr…
That a senior CA @TheDemocrats party leader is not condemning-but amplifying-attacks on only Hindu American candidates, is an election scandal of 2020 for our community.

Instead of attacking @HinduAmerican shouldn't Shergill focus on supporting his party?
browngirlmagazine.com/2020/10/op-ed-…
As a reminder, and as @AmarShergillCA knows, @HinduAmerican is a 501(c)3 non-profit, we cannot endorse any candidate or party.

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2 Nov
Rupa, you make my point when you & media orthodoxy conflate Hindu nationalism with Modi, hence India. Ergo, supporting US-India ties (nuclear deal, defense coop) & Indian policies=Hindu nationalism, & any policy disfavored by the ecosystem=anti-Muslim. (thread)
@HinduAmerican was founded in 2003 and promoted U.S-India ties throughout MMS govt.

@HinduAmerican believes that free speech, religious liberty & equality are principles that are good for Hindus in America and around the world are good for all people regardless of faith or none.
Is supporting U.S.-India ties, abrogation #Article370 to fight cross-border terror & promote KP resettlement, amnesty for religious minorities seeking refuge or end to govt. control of temples nationalism or parochial?

Why circumscribe freedom of religion issues as nationalism?
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25 Oct
My friend @dhume analogizes social media outrage over a racy depiction of the Goddess Kali with the beheading in France. Raises the Enlightenment. I agree that Hindu anger on social media is often crass/crude (experienced it!), but sharing some quick thoughts (thread)
Comparing inchoate tweets to a beheading in France or an attack on a politician in Bangalore over a FB post fails as an equivalence in my eyes. @dhume may be right in Hindu outrage seeming new when deities are defiled, but there's a reason certain speech was outlawed in India.
Muslim demands that certain speech be made off-limits led to hate speech laws in the Indian Constitution. Hindus reciprocating utilizing those extant laws is more a response to what they see as Muslim success in rendering speech that's intended to outrage or insulting as criminal
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28 Apr
@USCIRF just clubbed democratic India in with Pakistan, Saudi, Iran, China as #CPC Country of Particular Concern.

FYI: @USCIRF Chair @tperkins heads @FRCdc--@splcenter designated hate group that calls #yoga an obstacle to God & opposed #Hindu prayer in US Capitol.

(thread)
Crux of argument condemning India: #CAA, cow slaughter, Kashmir.

Note the hypocrisy:

India: CAA | US: Lautenberg
India: restricts cow slaughter | US: bans dog slaughter

Note the irony:

India: fighting terrorism in Kashmir | US has already banned most Kashmir terror groups
We @HinduAmerican have engaged @USCIRF for years.

Recently, @USCIRF:

-hired Pakistani activist to write anti-India report hinduamerican.org/blog/us-religi…
-held multiple hearings perpetuating misinformation on India
-falsely alleged Indian hospitals separate patients based on religion
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4 Mar
My non-validated analysis gleaned over chai of Indian American vote on Super Tuesday & why it favored @JoeBiden:

IA population matters:
CA: 528K TX: 245K VA:103K MA: 77K NC: 57K
Pew estimate: 60% are citizens 80% Dems. ↑↑ turnout.

Huge consolidation for Biden. Why? (Thread)
1. Socialist rhetoric is a non-starter. Indian Americans (IA) left India for a reason & socialist politicians are comic foil there today.

2. Bernie was 1st politician to slam India for fully integrating Kashimr (an enormously popular/emotional issue for IA's). Disastrous move!
Bernie's Congressional proxies are incredibly unpopular among IA's:

1)@PramilaJayapal sponsored anti-India #HRes745-slamming India on Kashmir ignoring #KashmiriPandits
2)@IlhanMN targeted @AartiTikoo during @HouseForeign panel. Her sneering tweets against #CAA, Modi, etc.
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3 Dec 19
A disgraceful piece, and illustrates so much about popular #Hinduphobia in the media that @HinduAmerican highlights daily. Let's count the ways: 1) Ostensibly document recent events in #Kashmir, but completely erase #kashmiripandits. Not a single mention. None. (thread)
@HinduAmerican 2)Tie revocation of Art 370 to the tired, overused media narratives of Gujarat/Godhra, hagiography of @RanaAyyub, Ram temple, RSS, etc, without a single bit of original reporting. Could just read the annual (discredited) @USCIRF report instead. Goal is to make 370 about Islam (2)
@HinduAmerican @RanaAyyub @USCIRF 3)No context that the revocation of 370 is about equal protection, one law for all Indians, that those pushing for "self-determination" are pushing for a theocratic state. Dexter Filkins reported extensively on #ISIS in Iraq, but ignores #ISIS flags being unfurled in Kashmir. (3)
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13 Nov 19
Seeing a lot of anxiety over the @TLHumanRights hearing tomorrow. Few things to keep in mind (thread):

1) A commission hearing is not nearly as significant nor newsworthy as the @HouseForeign hearing in which @AartiTikoo participated.
@TLHumanRights @HouseForeign @AartiTikoo 2) Like UNHRC, @TLHumanRights is known to push agendas of co-chairs. Credibility is a big ?mark. @HinduAmerican called this out before hafsite.org/whats-new/us-c… (2)
@TLHumanRights @HouseForeign @AartiTikoo @HinduAmerican 3) True to its history of bias, the @TLHumanRights hearing tomorrow features well known anti-India activists such as Arjun Sethi, and this time a Kashmiri lawyer who works for a Muslim law group, but not a single #KashmiriPandit. (3)
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