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Ludden further mentioned the recent efforts are a half of a world strategy to strangle crucial discourse that Hindutva supporters concern 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 write down letters to India’s overseas ministry to influence the cosponsoring universities to reconsider their association with the conference. 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 motion in opposition to the India-based audio system of the convention. 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 speakers 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 acknowledged 'Textbooks replicate intentional obfuscation. [newline]Today's college students, residents 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 preferred weapon employed by the prosperous Hindu diaspora in stifling critical educational discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists had been drawn. In 2021, a bunch of South Asian scholars fashioned a collective to fight 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 to have the ability to suppress academic inquiry into subjects concerned with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been indeed noticed, Hindus haven't faced any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia were also accused of engaging in discrimination in opposition to 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 hindu units do not characterize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University advised me that the university was approached for help, but it declined. I was contacted by two college presidents wanting my input, and it seems they had been upset that no due course of had been followed earlier than using their universities’ names. Clearly, they had been upset at being dragged into the dirty politics within the guise of academic freedom.

However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate campaign group referred to as Bailey's comments "grotesque". On 11 May 2006, armed city corridor officers from Kuala Lumpur forcefully demolished a half of a 60-year-old suburban temple that serves greater than 1,000 Hindus. The "Hindu Rights Action Force", a coalition of a quantity of 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 scientific plan of temple cleaning in Malaysia.

The conference then shared that over 900 teachers had signed a letter in assist of their endeavour. The letter states in no unsure terms that all Hindu American disagreement with their agenda is political extremism and intimidation. Firstpost is convinced that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online convention (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by anonymous organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically motivated occasion designed to malign an historical faith and its adherents. Through columns and reported items, this Firstpost collection exposes why such programmes are deceptive, agenda-driven, and nothing however thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day on-line conference (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by nameless organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an historic religion and its adherents. By arguing that those who 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 other students within the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.