THREAD: Action alert - urge your local and federal lawmakers to call the universities sponsoring the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conf. "Academic freedom" cannot be a licensed for bigotry and hate. Here's why 1/n👇🏾cohna.org/us-lawmakers-d…
The Hindu American community has been working hard to engage with various universities and impress upon them the bigoted nature of this conference. However, we also need to engage our lawmakers and elected officials. 2/n
On the 20th Anniv of the #September11 and the biggest attack on American soil, the conf organizers are attempting to deflect attention from real terror and radicalism and are instead dangerously conflating Hindu organizations with Al Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorists. 3/n
Disturbingly, some of the conference speakers have a history of supporting groups like the Naxals and Maoists, both of whom have been declared as terrorists by the @StateDept 4/n cfr.org/backgrounder/c…
Yet, any Hindu who protests against such communist leaders being featured as speakers on 9/11, is accused of being an agent of a foreign government and a “Hindutva Supremacist.” 5/n
The public statements of many of the conference speakers falsify the organizers' and the universities’ claim that the conference is directed against “Hindutva,” and not an attack on Hinduism itself. 6/n
Many of these universities are funded with taxpayer dollars, including those of hardworking Hindu Americans. Our elected officials must support our concerns and urge the universities to disavow this conference. 7/n
We also want to thank Senator @NirajAntani for his support on this matter and discussing our concerns with @OhioState and @univofdayton. 8/n
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