THREAD: Hinduphobes who support dismantling of Hinduism under veil of "Dismantling Hindutva" naturally want to add "caste" as a federally protected category to further their hate, despite lack of credible evidence of widespread "caste" discrimination. 1/n time.com/6146141/caste-…
Rohit Chopra of @SantaClaraUniv was one of the key organizers of the "Dismantling Hindutva" Conference, has been on record to tweet out extremely Hinduphobic & hateful comments, specifically accusing Hindu, Jain political leaders of "raping India." 2/n medium.com/@satyasarvakam…
The Dismantling Hindutva Conference openly called for dismantling of Hinduism, called Gandhi, Vivekananda, Aurobindo "Hindutva ideologues," targeted Hindu last names and called them advocates of violence. 3/n
Prof Ajantha Subramanian of @Harvard argues that "...U.S. immigration policy guarantees that there will be de facto caste discrimination..." 4/n harvardpolitics.com/casteism-camou…
Subramanian's book launch by @Harvard tweeted an extremely Hinduphobic image of a Hindu religious figure grinding away dark figurines on a millstone. Image was later removed but neither Harvard nor Subramanian ever apologized. 5/n cohna.org/cohna-harvard-…
With such "scholars" penning articles arguing for "caste" to be a federally protected category and using biased data from Hindu hating groups like Equality Labs, it doesn't take a genius to understand who the real targets of their hate and disdain are! 6/n
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It is indeed horrific that SIX #HinduTemples have been vandalized or burgled in the Greater Toronto area (GTA), Ontario, Canada in the last few weeks. The CoHNA Canada team has called the temples as well, amidst this atmosphere of fear 1/n hindustantimes.com/world-news/can…
There have been incidents/attempts like this in the past, but this time it seems like a rampage - resulting in much trauma among the #Hindu community in #Canada. January 16, saw a failed break-in at Shri Hanuman Mandir in Brampton. 2/n
January 25-Mata Chintapurni Mandir in Brampton was broken into. More such incidents occurred at the Sri Gauri Shankar Mandir and Jaganath temple, also in Brampton, in the following days. 3/n
BREAKING: @calstate Hindu students write to university admins expressing their fear around its policy on "caste." Over the past few months, CoHNA has been providing emotional support and counsel to young students scared by the growing anti-Hindu sentiment on campus. Excerpts👇🏾1/n
Letter sent yesterday as @calstate trustees silenced their Hindu faculty who had protested the move to include "caste" in @CFA_United collective bargaining agreement. They also refused to hear from hundreds of concerned Hindu residents who called into their public hearing. 2/n
"I am afraid that this type of policy, if passed, can single out students and faculty members of Hindu and Indian heritage, subject them to bullying, harassment and intimidation and violate their civil rights." 3/n
THREAD: @npr's journalist @lfrayer is an example of the continued problematic representation and structural bias against #Hinduism and #India in mainstream media. A random video of trash and lawlessness in Los Angeles is an opportunity to bash India. 1/n
And this on the holy day of #MakarSankranti, when the country she reports about is honoring the forces of nature--harvest cycles, the rains, the alignment of the sun, the zodiac, traditional local foods & more. But colonial media representatives can only see India in trash. 2/n
@lfrayer seems to be taking cues from Katherine Mayo, a racist American historian, whose 1927 book, "Mother India," was denounced as a “drain inspectors report” by no less a personage than Mahatma Gandhi. #Hinduphobia unfortunately has a long history. 3/n gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/03008…
THREAD: @TheEconomist begins New Year w/ a dose of #Hinduphobia. Notice the crass image- a "Brahmin" wearing pearls, money in his crown, w/ tiny humans carrying him on a pedestal- depicting "greed" &"tyranny" in ways eerily similar to depictions of Jews in Nazi propaganda. 1/n
Falsely accusing #HinduAmericans of exporting "caste problems", @TheEconomist calls India “troubling.” Never mind that this assertion is based on ONE lawsuit that is still on trial. Or that the 2021 @CarnegieEndow survey showed NO evidence of widespread "caste discrimination."2/n
European literature and art similarly caricatured Jews, Roma and other minority groups. A 1937 anti-Semitic art exhibition, called "The Eternal Jew," shows an "eastern" Jew wearing a kaftan, holding gold coins in one hand and a whip in the other. 3/n historyhit.com/anti-jewish-pr…
THREAD: The #Hinduphobia of @nytimes continues on a regular basis. Here, it ignores well documented evidence of the role of Christian missionaries in erasing indigenous Hindu traditions (appropriating others) to "save" the natives. 1/n
8 states in India have majority or significant Christian population in India according to the 2011 census, with some Northeastern states at over 85% Christians. 2/n census2011.co.in/data/religion/…
The plans go way back. "The Conversion of India" by George Smith of the Young Missionary Movement of NY describes historic missionary plans & attempts to convert "heathen cults of Brahmanism, Buddhism and demonolatory"; sings the glory of colonization. 3/n google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
THREAD: #Diwali is around the corner, & Hindus will adorn their homes & businesses w/ the Swastika. But, Prof Truschke peddles #Hinduphobia in the name of the Swastika (this is not the first time). Her argument is dangerous & should be condemned by @rutgers & @Rutgers_Newark. 1/n
"Ambiguous sense??" The Swastika has ALWAYS been a positive, auspicious sign (vs the Hakenkreuz of Hitler). To suggest that Swastika is "sometimes" and "ambiguously" used by Hindus for hate is blatantly false & paints Hindus as Nazi sympathizers, opens them up for attacks. 2/n
In Sept 2016, she connected an innocuous Indian university building shaped like a Swastika to Nazism, even though the two had nothing to do w/ each other - a thinly veiled attempt to link Hindus & Nazis together again (tweet deleted since then). 3/n