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28 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
This week was #InternationalYogaDay2021, and its a great time to reflect on the global conversation that we @HinduAmerican sparked 11 years ago with our #TakeBackYoga Campaign. Some of the highlights 1/
hinduamerican.org/projects/hindu…
There was @aseemrshukla's Washington Post debate with Deepak Chopra covered here nytimes.com/2010/11/28/nyr… 2/
newsweek.com/do-yogas-hindu… 3/
This reflection by @PadmaKT patheos.com/blogs/seekings…
This! huffpost.com/entry/the-orig…

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29 Jun
The @pewresearch survey of 30,000 Indians has fascinating findings that we will discuss in detail tomorrow evening.

Sharing here a few quick takes showing how Indians see religious tolerance as a central part of who they are as a nation. Tolerance seen as a civic virtue. 1/ Image
Most Hindus in India believe religious diversity benefits the country.

Factoid: BJP supporters were most likely to champion religious diversity (two-thirds). 2/ Image
How about a surprise?

India's Hindus and Muslims believe equally in the concept of Karma! Hindus & Muslims believe in Karma even more than all other Dharma religious traditions. 3/ Image
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1 Jun
#PSA HinduAmericans: Last night, a twitter lynch mob fueled by the anonymous troll Kashmir separatist StandWithKashmir targeted a documentary filmmaker attacking her work.

Why? She spoke at a @HinduAmerican event about water issues. That's it. This will keep happening. (thread)
This Hindu American filmmaker was gaslit after someone had a disagreement over one of her documentaries over something unrelated to HAF. So her HAF presentation was used as some sort of twisted confirmation bias "gotcha" to slam her work. 2/
Said filmmaker correctly stated that her talk was about water, that HAF is a 501(c)3 & speaking at an event hardly implies conformity w/ all positions.

Not enough for the @twitter mob. A tech scholar @UVA went straight for cancellation. Condemn HAF, else, your career is over. 3/
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21 May
There’s Doniger, Thapar, Pollock, Yengde, Nussbaum, Chomsky & more “repudiating” @HinduAmerican! Could there be a greater endorsement of our work? Could there be a stronger statement that HAF has shaken these academics with a record of anti-Hindu scholarship to the core? 1/
These academics with too little to do today but attack @HinduAmerican are known for sullying their fields with exoticized, eroticized interpretations of Hinduism. I wrote more on these ethical failings here: m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_49…
And who can forget @aseemrshukla ‘s derailed takedown of Doniger’s factual and interpretive errors in her work on Hinduism first published in @washingtonpost & archived here?indiafacts.org/on-wendy-donig…
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30 Apr
#Breaking: After hours of testimony from hundreds of #HinduAmericans at a public hearing last night, @SCCgov Human Rights Commission decided to defer a vote on Equality Labs' proposal that "Caste" be added to county non-discrimination policy. 1/ diyatvusa.com/2021/04/29/exc…
The hearing began with testimony from caste 'experts'--a panel that seemed to be selected by Equality Labs, with no input accepted from Hindu advocacy groups. Panel included @IUMaurerLaw Professor Kevin Brown, well known for overt anti-Hindu speech. 2/ vice.com/en/article/3az…
Equality Labs was then given 20 mins to build upon their handpicked panel's testimony. Only then was @HinduAmerican allowed to present our argument that adding 'caste' to official policy uniquely targets only South Asians & Hindus for ethno-religious monitoring & policing 3/
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20 Apr
#Breaking: @HinduAmerican takes legal action demanding retraction & apology for false and defamatory stories that appeared in @AJEnglish (by @raqib_naik) earlier this month. Letter sent sent through CA based litigation firm retained for this action. 1/ hinduamerican.org/press/haf-lega…
The letters outlining 17 false & defamatory statements were also sent to individuals quoted attacking @HinduAmerican:
-Sunita Viswanath, Raju Rajagopal @Hindus4HR
-Rasheed Ahmed @IAMCouncil
-John Prabhudoss @Fiacona_us

Damaging lies about @HinduAmerican cannot be tolerated.
2/
Legal action required due to #Hinduphobic/xenophobic allegations of dual loyalty to foreign govt, sending funds overseas to promote hate or malign influence on US govt. These lies mirror anti-Semitic rhetoric Jewish groups historically faced & will be strongly countered. 3/
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5 Apr
After COVID, 1000's of religious orgs received federal loans. But @AJEnglish runs a hit piece attacking only Hindu orgs for receiving aid.

Kashmiri activist @raqib_naik writes that Hindus "exploit [COVID] crisis and systems that are put in place to mitigate it."

Why?

1/
We know that some were upset after this article exposed how the overseas arm of Jamaat-e-Islami and Laskhar-e-Taiba were seeking paycheck protection loans due to COVID.

We figured Hindu groups would be targeted in response--@AJEnglish delivered. 2/
jns.org/opinion/for-te…
Did Hindus receive a sweetheart deal?

At this site, put in "Christian" "Muslim" "Islam" "Jewish." See what other religious advocacy groups received.

Hindus are the smallest recipient by far, yet we're targeted. @AJEnglish, this is religious bigotry. 3/
federalpay.org/paycheck-prote…
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