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Ludden additional mentioned the recent efforts are a half of a world technique to strangle critical discourse that Hindutva supporters fear 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 international 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, in search of motion in opposition to the India-based audio system of the conference. A poet and caste activist, Kandasamy told 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 within 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 college students, residents of Pakistan and its future leaders are the victims of these partial truths'. In 2014, Brian Collins discovered the tropes of Hinduphobia to be a well-liked weapon employed by the prosperous Hindu diaspora in stifling crucial tutorial discourses on Hinduism — parallels with Kansas creationists have been drawn. In 2021, a bunch of South Asian students formed a collective to combat growing harassment of lecturers by individuals and organizations affiliated with Hindutva. They rejected Hinduphobia as an ahistorical and inappropriate neologism employed by the Hindu Right in order to suppress tutorial inquiry into subjects concerned with Hinduism, Hindutva, caste, and Indian State. While racist and anti-Hindu prejudices have been certainly observed, Hindus have not 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 tutorial hindu models do not symbolize the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” A trustee of Rice University advised me that the college was approached for support, however it declined. I was contacted by two university presidents wanting my input, and it seems they were upset that no due course of had been followed before utilizing their universities’ names. Clearly, they were upset at being dragged into the dirty politics within the guise of academic freedom.

However, the anti-racism Hope Not Hate campaign group called Bailey's comments "grotesque". On 11 May 2006, armed metropolis corridor 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 teams have protested what they allege is a systematic plan of temple cleaning in Malaysia.

The conference then shared that over 900 lecturers had signed a letter in help of their endeavour. The letter states in no uncertain 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 on-line conference (from Sept 10-12) planned by nameless organisers within the US, is a partisan and politically motivated occasion designed to malign an historical religion and its adherents. Through columns and reported pieces, this Firstpost collection exposes why such programmes are misleading, agenda-driven, and nothing however thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. Firstpost is satisfied that Dismantling Global Hindutva , a three-day online convention (from Sept 10-12) deliberate by anonymous organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an historic 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 other students inside the academy to insulate themselves from reasoned critique.