#BREAKING! Rutgers Univ. Student Assembly, a co-sponsor of UH2021, publicizes its resolution recognizing Hinduphobia. Our hats off to everyone who worked on this, esp. @RutgersHSC's indomitable president, Prasiddha Sudhakar, who worked tirelessly w/ RUSA to make this happen.

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Given DGH's blatant Hinduphobia and currently unraveling scandal around its lack of academic integrity and prof. ethics, it's the perfect time to read each word of this resolution, understand its significance, and make this go viral!!

rusa.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

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Resolution to Condemn Hinduphobia & Co-Sponsor “Understanding Hinduphobia” Conference

Whereas, it is important to recognize that the state of NJ, home to Rutgers University, has the largest population of Hindu Americans constituting an estimated 3% of the population, and

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in addition, college campuses make up for an estimated 24,000 Hindu undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S.A.; and

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It's important to protect Hindu students on campus against Hinduphobia, and the working definition of Hinduphobia is “a set of antagonistic, destructive, and derogatory attitudes and behaviors towards Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism) and Hindus that may manifest as fear or hatred” 5/
Whereas, protection of Hindu students against bias and hatred of any kind provides for a supportive campus environment, cultural learning opportunities, and contributes to personal development to fashion civil, compassionate, and caring citizens and future leaders; and

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According to the FBI 2018 Hate Crime Statistics Rpt released in November 2018, 12 reported incidents and 14 offenses against Hindus in the US were documented, depicting an increase from 11 reported incidents in 2017 and 10 incidents in 2016, marking the third straight year of
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increased violence targeting Hindu Americans; and

Whereas, Hinduism and Hinduphobia remain poorly understood in the American public sphere and media, and according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2014,

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only 22% of Americans knew a practitioner of the Hindu faith, and Americans in general also held a neutral or negative view of Hindus compared to other religions in the United States; and

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Be it hereby resolved, the Rutgers University Student Assembly expresses solidarity with Hindu students and condemns those who seek to perpetuate anti-Hindu acts, including denial of the existence of Hinduphobia, at the University and throughout the state of New Jersey; and

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Be it hereby further resolved, the RUSA agrees to co-sponsor “Understanding Hinduphobia Conference” to protect Hindu students on campus by educating Rutgers community members and students across the USA about the historical, empirical, and epistemic evidence of Hinduphobia.

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Watch Nicholas LaBelle's announcement DURING Understanding Hinduphobia 2021.



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21 Aug
What is Hinduphobia? The Official Definition from Understanding Hinduphobia.

We invite you to take some time to read through this entire thread a familiarize yourself with the working definition.

.@parthparihar .@indumathi37 .@RutgersHSC .@HinduStudentsC .@hinduoncampus
We invite you to engage with the definition recognizing that we are not engaging with the terminology and its etymological meaning in a semantic exercise.
Instead, the definition has been written to capture the vastness of the phenomenon as it has manifested throughout the history of Sanatana Dharma...
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19 Aug
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We're resharing the entire thread here without any institutional tags - please retweet with the hashtag #SponsorUH2022 and tag institutions.
By calling this act exclusionary, the conference conveners are demonstrating that their agenda is not just about Hindutva politics.

This conference is about erasing Hindu persecution.

Nothing could be more Hinduphobic.
#sponsorUH2022
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19 Aug
Will the champions of academic freedom stand with Hindu scholars and stand against Hinduphobia?

@indumathi37 @parthparihar @hinduprof @aravindasharma @RaniRosser Meenakshi Jain @vjgtweets @HindooHistory @RutgersHSC @hinduoncampus @HinduStudentsC @RashmiDVS

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The DGH conference description is filled with distortions and intellectual dishonesty. It's disturbingly violent. Look at the imagery.

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Look at the Conference Propaganda versus the facts. How exactly does this classify as "academic freedom"?
@NorthwesternU @UofPenn @Harvard @UofWA @Princeton @Stanford @ucsc @OhioState @McMasterU @Cornell @UCBerkeley @Columbia @SyracuseU @UTAustin @EmoryUniversity @UCSanDiego

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