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Ludden additional mentioned the recent efforts are a half of a world 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 motion alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to put in writing letters to India’s foreign ministry to influence the cosponsoring universities to rethink their affiliation with the convention. On September 3, 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 audio system of the conference. A poet and caste activist, Kandasamy told 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 teams in the US and India.

From the government-issued textbooks, students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report acknowledged 'Textbooks reflect 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 prosperous Hindu diaspora in stifling crucial educational discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists were drawn. In 2021, a group of South Asian students fashioned a collective to combat growing harassment of lecturers by folks and organizations affiliated with Hindutva. They rejected Hinduphobia as an ahistorical and inappropriate neologism employed by the Hindu Right so as to suppress educational inquiry into subjects concerned with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been certainly noticed, Hindus have not confronted any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia were also accused of participating in discrimination towards Muslims, lower-castes, Dalits, Christians, and progressive Hindus.

The following day, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced, “Opinions or actions by individual school members or tutorial models don't characterize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University advised me that the college was approached for assist, nevertheless it declined. I was contacted by two college presidents wanting my enter, and it seems they were upset that no due course of had been followed earlier than utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they were upset at being dragged into the soiled politics in the guise of educational freedom.

However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate marketing campaign group referred to as Bailey's feedback "grotesque". On 11 May 2006, armed metropolis hall officers from Kuala Lumpur forcefully demolished a part of a 60-year-old suburban temple that serves greater 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 systematic plan of temple cleansing in Malaysia.

The convention then shared that over 900 lecturers had signed a letter in assist of their endeavour. The letter states in no uncertain phrases that each one Hindu American disagreement with their agenda is political extremism and intimidation. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day on-line conference (from Sept 10-12) planned by nameless organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically motivated event designed to malign an historical faith and its adherents. Through columns and reported items, this Firstpost series exposes why such programmes are misleading, agenda-driven, and nothing however thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is convinced that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day on-line conference (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by nameless organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an historic religion and its adherents. By arguing that those that disagree with their central arguments about “global Hindutva” are members of “the Hindu Right,” the DGHscholars search to weaponise “academic freedom” and the power asymmetry that exists between themselves and other scholars throughout the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.