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11 Jul, 3 tweets, 3 min read
A few days ago, some scholar-activists posted a "field manual" denying the existence of #Hinduphobia.

Today another scholar-activist posted 👇

At least @NASA will see that #Hinduphobia does exist.
If @NASA posted a photo of a young intern in a hijab or a Sikh in a turban it would be celebrated.

But a young intern photographed with her bindi and Hindu deities is being targeted.

This is textbook #Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu hate.

.@NASA has a lineage of amazing Hindu women.

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla gave her life for science. Dr. Sunita Williams took the #BhagawadGita to space. Dr. Swati Mohan helped land the rover on Mars.

Will reach out to our @nasa contacts. Till then, may God(s) bless this intern 🙏

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10 Jul
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but c'mon! In response to @HinduAmerican's #Hinduphobia glossary, a few South Asianists released a "manual" denying the existence of #Hinduphobia, thereby trafficking in it!
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hinduamerican.org/hindu-hate-glo…
Remember also that because of one of the "manual" author's track record of #Hinduphobia, a conference was actually held on her university's main campus @RutgersU where her Chancellor called #Hinduphobia & anti-Hindu hate out & the concept was fully defined hindustudentscouncil.org/2021/press-rel…
Back to the "manual": it denies #Hinduphobia by denying anti-Hindu bias ever occurs on a "horrific scale." My God.
-Bangladesh Hindu genocide?
-Hindu girls targeted & raped in Pakistan?
-Hindus cleansed from Kashmir?
-generational trauma from temple dest/colonization?
Erased. 3/
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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/
Most Hindus in India believe religious diversity benefits the country.

Factoid: BJP supporters were most likely to champion religious diversity (two-thirds). 2/
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/
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28 Jun
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/
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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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