1. As the new century dawned @media_hhr were doing protests on the streets, selling Voice of India books, books by Sita Ram Goel, Ram Swarup and @Koenraad_Elst outside 10 downing street, selling £5000 of books, and books in libraries.
2. Hindu Human Rights (HHR) were also doing campus talks, getting apology from Cavalli for descrating Hindu imagery, stopping Harrods from selling underwear with Hindu gos, Minelli shoes from selling footwear with Hindu gods.
3. HHR was highlighting #Hinduphobia in parliament as far back as 2003. HHR almost got the BBC to take off material that supported Aryan invasion myth. All this without any donations, just grassroots voluntary time, effort and expense. So what went wrong?
4. Seeing success of HHR the RSS affiliated groups such as @nhsf_uk grew envious and greedy. They were joined by new outsits Hindu Forum and Hindu Council. Together they told BBC, MPs and others that HHR unemployed youth, street thugs, drug dealers, lumpen proletariat.
5. The self-appointed Hindu leaders denounced HHR's efforts as being secret machinations of Christian missionaries (because we had western Hindus with us) and love jihad grooming (because HHR attracted female volunteers). The result is 2 decades on things have gone backwards.
6. That explains the anger against @HinduAmerican and similar bodies. Just like Hindu Forum and Hindu Council they panhandle for donations. But if you are getting money like this then it is right and proper to ask for results.
7. Instead of writing some mealy mouthed letter to a senator, do a protest outside Rutgers and getting Audrey removed. But no. That would spoil the image of Hindus in America as law-abiding model minority. Well fat lot of good that did when you failed in that court case!
8. On the other hand Hindus were doing street activism over 20 years ago, and it worked until sabotaged
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