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Ludden further stated the current 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 email action alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to write down letters to India’s overseas ministry to steer the cosponsoring universities to rethink their association 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, seeking motion towards the India-based speakers of the conference. A poet and caste activist, Kandasamy informed Al Jazeera that a poem she wrote 10 years in the past was picked up by Hindu groups, 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, college students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report said 'Textbooks mirror intentional obfuscation. [newline]Today's students, residents of Pakistan and its future leaders are the victims of these partial truths'. In 2014, Brian Collins found the tropes of Hinduphobia to be a well-liked weapon employed by the affluent Hindu diaspora in stifling important tutorial discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists have been drawn. In 2021, a bunch of South Asian students fashioned a collective to combat growing harassment of academics by people 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 matters involved with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been indeed noticed, Hindus have not confronted any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia had been additionally accused of participating in discrimination against 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 hindu units don't represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University told me that the college was approached for assist, however it declined. I was contacted by two university presidents wanting my input, and it seems they have been upset that no due process had been followed earlier than utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they have been upset at being dragged into the dirty politics within the guise of educational freedom.

However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate marketing campaign group referred to as 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 teams have protested what they allege is a systematic plan of temple cleansing in Malaysia.

The convention then shared that over 900 academics had signed a letter in help of their endeavour. The letter states in no unsure terms that every 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) deliberate by anonymous 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 deceptive, agenda-driven, and nothing but thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is convinced that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online convention (from Sept 10-12) planned by anonymous organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an ancient 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 search to weaponise “academic freedom” and the facility asymmetry that exists between themselves and other scholars inside the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.