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Ludden further said the current efforts are part of a global strategy to strangle important discourse that Hindutva supporters worry will “undermine their credibility as claimants to Hindu tradition”. Last week, the HAF issued an email motion alert, calling on the non-resident Indians to write down letters to India’s international ministry to influence 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 audio system of the convention. A poet and caste activist, Kandasamy advised Al Jazeera that a poem she wrote 10 years in the past 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, college students are taught that Hindus are backward and superstitious.' Further the report said 'Textbooks reflect 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 crucial educational discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists were drawn. In 2021, a group of South Asian scholars formed a collective to combat growing harassment of lecturers by people 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 tutorial inquiry into matters involved with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been indeed noticed, Hindus have not faced any entrenched systematic oppression in India or United States. The claimants of Hinduphobia have been additionally accused of participating in discrimination towards Muslims, lower-castes, Dalits, Christians, and progressive Hindus.

The following day, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced, “Opinions or actions by particular person college members or educational hindutva models do not symbolize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University advised me that the college was approached for assist, but it declined. I was contacted by two university presidents wanting my enter, and it appears they have been upset that no due course of had been adopted before utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they have been upset at being dragged into the dirty 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 eleven May 2006, armed city corridor officers from Kuala Lumpur forcefully demolished part of a 60-year-old suburban temple that serves greater than 1,000 Hindus. The "Hindu Rights Action Force", a coalition of a number of 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 convention then shared that over 900 lecturers had signed a letter in assist of their endeavour. The letter states in no unsure phrases 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 convention (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by nameless organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically motivated event designed to malign an ancient faith and its adherents. Through columns and reported pieces, this Firstpost sequence exposes why such programmes are deceptive, 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) planned by nameless organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated occasion designed to malign an historic faith and its adherents. By arguing that those who disagree with their central arguments about “global Hindutva” are members of “the Hindu Right,” the DGHscholars search to weaponise “academic freedom” and the ability asymmetry that exists between themselves and other students inside the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.