#SalvationArmy, a "Worldwide Church," is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that it failed to pay folks in rehab forced to work in its stores.

Not a single MSM outlet covered this, unlike when a #Hindu temple faced similar allegations. Why?
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revealnews.org/article/salvat…
Neither institution should be presumed guilty until their day in court

Surely this too is newsworthy @nytimes @anniecorreal @HoustonChron?

Salvation Army has deep political ties, but BAPS supposed "ties" to "Hindu" politicians makes print

This is Hinduphobia parading as news
Noteworthy that scholar-activists relentlessly attack Hindus who just worship or speak at BAPS temple events, de facto accusing them of "connections" to unproven allegations. But no academics will similarly insist that we boycott Salvation Army.

Just another day in #Hinduphobia.
Ironic isn't it, that during the raid on the BAPS temple, local govt. invited Salvation Army to be present. A Christian charity was asked to assist during a raid on a Hindu temple.

This is privilege--implied normalizing that Hindu charities rarely enjoy. nj.com/news/2021/06/h…
The point is that the allegations against these religious organizations are serious and the judicial process will proceed. But the asymmetrical targeting/public lynching of a major Hindu org is striking. Remember what one academic said, as I detailed here:

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11 Nov
Audrey just can’t help herself.

She wants to shame the 1000s of #HinduAmericans who are inspired by @BAPS.

But after she shared the latest recycled allegations on an academic listserv, a senior professor told her to knock it off - albeit far more politely than deserved. 1/n
The senior professor said that scholars should:

- be very careful in assessing facts & details in the media

- remember accusations are not proof of wrongdoing

- understand the goals & motivations of every person and organization involved in the issue

2/n
He also asked folks to reserve judgment until more facts were revealed by the appropriate officials and the court.

Wise words, sage advice!

Above all, scholars demonstrating decency, reason, standards, and academic integrity do exist, and at least one spoke up.

3/n
Read 4 tweets
6 Nov
We #HinduAmericans have the unique (mis)fortune to have Indian visitors drop by for a bit and arrogate the immense privilege of platforms such as @TheAtlantic to import their casteist obsessions & counterfactually transfer those anxieties on us. (Thread)
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
You come from a casteist family that dunked on your servants? You want to slam our model minority myth as “flattening”?

Fine.

But your “caste travels” tropes “flatten” varna/jati/etc & expose an entrenched #Hinduphobia & shocking ignorance of Hinduism. Yet you’re platformed.
I mean @TheAtlantic article leads with that Equality Labs survey debunked by the same @CarnegieEndow survey the article also cites! The EL survey excluded the majority of South Asians that identify with no caste & only counted folks like the author identifying as “upper caste” 3/
Read 6 tweets
15 Sep
Reflecting on #dghconference, this was among the most disturbing moments. The same speaker @CeMIS_unigoe who made that repulsive phallus metaphor, put up photos of two men named in the #Cisco case with a casteist slur. They were rendered mute victims of a public spectacle.
Activist-scholars like the one from @CeMIS_unigoe & those in the US pushing for a caste category actually believe that Hindus are so entirely abhorrent that they should be marked a suspicious class and targeted based on their race, national origin, ethnicity, & religion.
It crystallizes for me why we're seeking intervention in the #Cisco case. If caste activists succeeded, companies, states & counties could police one community --Indians & Hindus -- tar them & internationalize names based on allegations alone. This is our formal stance👇
Read 4 tweets
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!
-Thread-
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/
Read 8 tweets
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/
Read 9 tweets
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/
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