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Ludden further mentioned the current efforts are a half of a global strategy to strangle crucial discourse that Hindutva supporters worry will “undermine their credibility as claimants to Hindu tradition”. Last week, the HAF issued an e mail action alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to put in writing letters to India’s international ministry to steer the cosponsoring universities to rethink their association with the conference. On September three, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, a far-right group whose members are accused of assassinating journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh in 2017, wrote a letter to India’s Home Minister Amit Shah, looking for action towards the India-based speakers of the convention. A poet and caste activist, Kandasamy advised Al Jazeera that a poem she wrote 10 years ago was picked up by Hindu teams, alleging it was offensive and ridiculed Hindu gods. ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ organisers and audio system face harassment and intimidation by Hindu right-wing groups in the US and India.
From the government-issued textbooks, students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report acknowledged 'Textbooks mirror intentional obfuscation. [newline]Today's students, citizens of Pakistan and its future leaders are the victims of those partial truths'. In 2014, Brian Collins found the tropes of Hinduphobia to be a popular weapon employed by the affluent Hindu diaspora in stifling critical educational discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists were drawn. In 2021, a bunch of South Asian students formed a collective to combat growing harassment of academics by individuals and organizations affiliated with Hindutva. They rejected Hinduphobia as an ahistorical and inappropriate neologism employed by the Hindu Right so as to suppress academic inquiry into matters concerned with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been indeed noticed, Hindus haven't confronted any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia had been additionally accused of partaking in discrimination against Muslims, lower-castes, Dalits, Christians, and progressive Hindus.
The following day, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced, “Opinions or actions by individual faculty members or academic items don't symbolize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University told me that the college was approached for help, however it declined. I was contacted by two university presidents wanting my input, and it appears they had been upset that no due process had been adopted earlier than using their universities’ names. Clearly, they have been upset at being dragged into the soiled politics within the guise of educational freedom.
However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate marketing campaign group called Bailey's comments "grotesque". On eleven May 2006, armed city corridor officers from Kuala Lumpur forcefully demolished part of a 60-year-old suburban temple that serves more than 1,000 Hindus. The "Hindu Rights Action Force", a coalition of several NGO's, have protested these demolitions by lodging complaints with the Malaysian Prime Minister. Many Hindu advocacy groups have protested what they allege is a scientific plan of temple cleaning in Malaysia.
The conference then shared that over 900 academics had signed a letter in help of their endeavour. The letter states in no unsure terms that each one Hindu American disagreement with their agenda is political extremism and intimidation. Firstpost is convinced that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online conference (from Sept 10-12) planned by nameless organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically motivated event designed to malign an historic religion and its adherents. Through columns and reported items, this Firstpost sequence exposes why such programmes are misleading, agenda-driven, and nothing but thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day on-line convention (from Sept 10-12) planned by anonymous organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an historical faith and its adherents. By arguing that those that disagree with their central arguments about “global Hindutva” are members of “the Hindu Right,” the DGHscholars seek to weaponise “academic freedom” and the ability asymmetry that exists between themselves and different scholars inside the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.
