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The missing bridge workers haven’t been found yet, but alt right, garbage white supremacists are showing themselves.
10K likes in 3 hours tells you the malaise of Hinduphobia just below the surface in our country.
Whenever
@narendramodi
comes to town, Hindus like
@tulsigabbard
and Hindu orgs come under attack by activists trying to connect them to Hindu nationalism.
@mehdihasan
takes it further by connecting them to a mass murderer. This is wrong. This is tiring. This is Hinduphobia. 1/5
Ask my 3rd gen Indian American sons why they’re vegetarian.
They’ll say it’s because they uphold ahimsa to the extent possible & Oneness of existence.
They’ll show you how to cook high protein vegetarian meals that got them through as collegiate athletes.
Oh, and when they
Hi
@simonsaybrams
, can we postulate that if the 1st sentence introducing a Hindu man in
@NewYorker
is a caste descriptor, then your byline must state: white, supremely privileged man writing for legacy media from a city that violently dispossessed the Lenape people?
Hasn't been a week, but
@POTUS
has a diplomatic headache.
A
#FakeNews
story that 2 Hindu Americans holding senior roles in the Biden campaign are not being given jobs in the Administration because of ties to "RSS/BJP" is causing outrage. How did this happen? Let's unpack: 1/
In the last week...
Pakistan stopped the first Hindu temple in Islamabad from being built.
Turkey turned an ancient church into a mosque.
No op/eds in the New York Times. No clamor from Indian writers with columns in the Washington Post.
Crickets....
Imagine, just imagine the calumny if
@narendramodi
said India would stand up for Hindus. Instead,
@FT
writes a glowing story on how right
@BorisJohnson
is.
Oh, btw, FT's
@EdwardGLuce
condescendingly excoriated India on
#CAA
earlier this week.
The best
#vegetarian
food I’ve had is at a Buddhist temple in Beijing, a Sikh Gurudwara in Toronto, a Jain Derasar in Gujarat, a 7th Day Adventist church in Philly & a Hindu temple in New Jersey.
Nobody says Hinduism “requires” being veg, but many religions consider it sacred.
You wrote a horrific tweet calling Hindus “sickos” & called for a Hindu ban.
People called you out
@PriyamvadaGopal
, so instead of deleting or apologizing, you blame “Hindutva” and deny
#Hinduphobia
.
If you want to know we’re up in arms about DGH, this is pretty much it.
“To get to this border you need to walk 4 to 5 kilometers. Ukrainians are given taxis and buses to travel, all other nationalities have to walk. They were very racist to Indians and other nationalities,'" the 22-year-old from Mumbai told CNN.”
I have only one question for Hindu parents sending off their children to college in the US: are they intellectually & emotionally prepared to challenge their activist teachers who think an anti-Hindu screed makes for an idyllic morning.
Not sure? Please watch our primer:
We
@HinduAmerican
got a call from
@McMasterU
asking why they’re getting so many of the same letter. It’s called a grassroots campaign. Think of it like individuals singing the same song in the same key in a “global” chorus demanding that each and every voice be heard and seen.
She called Lord Rama a “pig” and has been in Pakistan the last week, so no surprise that
@TIME
would carry her delivering the Pakistani perspective to
#RamJanmbhoomiMandir
.
If you want to read a historically grounded view, might try
No one knows this man’s motivation, religion or ideology—yet he invokes “saffron terror” putting a target on the back of every 19-year old Indian kid in America.
Half a million
@twitter
followers & a professor
@UU_Peace
, but nothing stops him from spreading an absolute lie.
No indictment in nearly 3 years & most of the plaintiffs suing the temple over “caste” dropped their suit saying they were coerced with false promises of green cards.
But yeah,
@nytimes
goes with this headline to belittle the opening of the largest Hindu temple in the country.
Sad reality for Indian and Hindu Americans--this kind of bigotry comes at us every day from the far right, far left and too many corners of the American academy.
Indians leave their country of 1.38 billion, come to America/the west and claim minority status to get all the perks. Then they practice nepotism and get ahead on the shoulders of Europeans while we get attacked. Isn't 'diversity' great?
The laughable plagiarism kerfuffle targeting a speech
@vikramsampath
gave 5 years ago confirms one thing when you go against the gatekeepers of South Asian Studies: there is no bottom.
They will make things up, they will try to slime you and they will conspire with others. 1/
This non-Indian, non-Hindu professor dismissing
#Hinduphobia
as a “discredited” concept is itself
#Hinduphobia
.
The sheer racism in this claim gives Ann Coulter a run for her money!
@FBI
tracked over two dozen instances of anti-Hindu hate crimes in 2022 alone & those have
I find it endlessly entertaining that the same people who insist that Hinduism didn’t exist until the Persians coined the term, have no problem insisting caste is rooted in Hinduism though that word wasn’t even coined by the Portuguese till the 17th century.
The
@StateDept
announces that Ihan Omar's trip to
#Pakistan
is not part of CODEL (congressional delegation).
Omar's office refuses to reveal who paid for her trip, and Clerk of U.S. House website shows no gift travel filings.
Who paid for Omar's trip?
We are hearing from many Hindu Americans in
@Bakersfield_Cal
heartbroken that this person, raised in their tight knit community, uttered such hateful words.
From ripping off posters of hostages to unhinged rants & now death threats using Hindu festivals as props, too many Indian
We are outraged that this person invokes Gandhi & Chaitra Navaratri while threatening to murder
@Bakersfield_Cal
leaders.
The escalation of
#antisemitic
rhetoric from anti-Israel demonstrations into terroristic threats is a horrific reality that we condemn. It must stop now.
I bet the Islamist & radical fringe groups that paid 6-figures for that
@nytimes
ad are kicking themselves.
If only they knew the NYT was going to horrifically gaslight Hindus the next day for free.
Getting the cause of riots wrong to using a discredited source-it’s all there.
Remember
@penn
’s Prof Loomba? The Dismantling Global Hindutva conference was her brainchild.
She bullied
@Wharton
to cancel a Modi lecture some yrs ago, but now led a walkout of her class & insists that a Palestine conference featuring antisemitic writers shouldn’t be canceled.
Okay folks.
Ready to have your voice heard and push back on the
#hinduphobic
Dismantling Hinduism (let's be real) event?
Join us in asking 40 university presidents, provosts and public relations staff to say no to anti-Hindu hate.
This is a college student niece living in Ahmedabad extolling
#KashmirFiles
saying that the “liberal” ecosystem in her college forced a one-sided Kashmir narrative that ignored the Pandit story.
That’s Gujarat. Imagine what the rest of the world was told. We needed this film.
Yes! If you identify as “South Asian” do boycott
#Diwali
events in D.C. It’s an important celebration for Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs & Jains from around the world—not “South Asians.”
Maybe South Asianists could focus on an actual South Asian issue: the ethnic cleansing of 2
To the far-right, our achievements are due to racism, and to the radical left it’s casteism.
A reminder that hate against Indian Americans and Hinduphobia are a trans-ideological affair.
#Alert
:
#dghconference
put up a photo of two private citizens with their names from California (Cisco case) with tag: "Corporate Malignant Brahmins"
Case is pending. No evidence has been presented.
In the US, everyone deserves their day in court.
#dgh
just put lives at risk.
Translation: "We want more scrutiny of an eminent historian that has published more than any of us, but in the meantime, we'll just go ahead and helpfully write to the Royal Historical Society and ask that his membership be revoked, and then tweet about it."
So
@TulsiGabbard
calls out a real anti-Hindu hate story—annissue she knows as the first Hindu serving in Congress. So the response? She’s a fascist. Kinda proves Tulsi’s point. 🤷🏻♀️
Is this what you wanted
@FareedZakaria
from
@RanaAyyub
? In 60s, she said:
-Crowds chanted "Jai Shri Ram"
-Mosques & Qur'an's burned
-Avg Hindu hates Muslims
No mention of Hindu victims & temples burned. No mention of
#TahirHussain
#ISIS
uses rhetoric like this to incite hate.
#Hinduphobia
in the academy:
-Hinduism is defined for us through a colonial lens.
-if we we protest, we are muted.
-if we persist, we are labeled “Hindutva” to silence us.
No longer!
What an inspiring convo with two inspiring women!
@ProfVemsani
@RashmiDVS
@HinduAmerican
See how it works?
Hinduphobic “scholar activists” call Lord Rama a misogynist pig or make up stories about our deities and rape.
Then vile Hinduphobic bigots use those citations to compensate for their moral vacuity.
I know part of this is to drive engagement for an
@X
payday,
It is unfair to judge average Hindus by their religion and religious texts.
But Hinduism is one of the most disgusting religions in human history.
Yes, most Hindus have abandoned its texts and doctrines. Shockingly, they acknowledge the inferiority of their heritage and
.
@TulsiGabbard
raised $12.6 million this cycle. But yeah, focus on some Hindu Americans that together donated a little over a $100K (<1%), and argue that Tulsi, a woman, is speaking for her male masters.
How dare you
@AdityaMenon22
Folks, let
@TheQuint
know that this is not ok.
The Werleman tweet is a reminder that whenever horrible things happen in our country, some white, Hinduphobic trolls will try to blame “Hindutva” or “Hindu nationalism.”
It’s a rhetorical trick that targets Hindu Americans. It’s dangerous.
Be aware. It always happens.
Can anyone offer an example of the swastika being used in an “ambiguous sense” by Hindus?
Or is this just the Truschke analogue of Goodwin’s law: the probability that any discussion of Hinduism invokes “Hindu nationalism” approaches 1!
Watching this collective meltdown over a student led effort to define Hinduphobia confirms why it was needed.
Um..denialism of the lived experience of Hindu students & portraying their faith as oppressive/regressive & equating it with white supremacy pretty much IS
#Hinduphobia
!
This is rubbish. There is no such thing. Please don't allow multiculturalism to become a vehicle for racists & supremacists just because they are not white.
For shame.
Hinduphobia only exists in the way that white victimhood and 'reverse racism' exist.
Actual testimony at the
@SeattleCouncil
: "Indians are bringing their diseases with them."
Naw, this isn't about cementing horrible and false stereotypes about Indians.
Naw, this isn't going to adversely impact only one ethnic group.
Sharing as many of us on the
@HinduAmerican
team enjoyed this telling of Lord Ram’s defeat of Ravana to explain the metaphysical meaning of
#Diwali
, rooted in the words of Guru Nanak from the Guru Granth Sahib.
From
@Nanak_Naam
’s Bhai Satpal Singh.
Aryan Invasion became "migration" & now we've gone from no Ram temple existed to "maybe there was a structure" & it was just, you know, "re-used," or "free building material" for Babar's minions.
In the insane, perverse world of scholar-activism, let's take that as progress?🤔
First it was an Aurangzeb rehab and now it’s time to whitewash Portuguese atrocities.
Portuguese “married” Indigenous Goan women as part of a Catholic mandate to convert Hindus thru miscegenation & there was the Goa Inquisition But at least they left most of India “untouched”!!
Oh c’mon
@nytimes
! Assam is known for tea,silk & rhinos, not a long faded insurgency. And Kom faced unfortunate Northeast bias (that is fast disappearing as seen w/ Mirabeau), that had nothing to do with Hindus or her faith. Please spare us the cliched and shallow takes. Thanks.
Yes, we were listening.
We heard:
-Hindu temples are "centers for material wealth and power" and not "a sacred abode, a place where worshippers are made equal under God"
-"Hindutva is inseparable without Hinduism. Arguments that Hindutva is not Hinduism are deeply dangerous"
1/
Truschke gets bad legal advice or ignores it. She’s literally facing an active lawsuit for falsely accusing
@HinduAmerican
of “organizing” threats.
No one is “inviting” hate when they share your own posts labeling Lord Rama a “misogynistic p—“ or mandir denialism. Just stop.
#update
religious phobia panel
@mcgillu
went well!
At the end, a masked student demanded cameras be turned off before she ask a question. She then said my very presence & talk on
#hinduphobia
made her unsafe 🙄 followed by a litany of grievances about India.
And I’m thinking,
Misleading edit. Cuts out that
@IlhanMN
attacked
@AartiTikoo
personally, and then gave her no chance to respond. Tikoo's response came only when
@BradSherman
gave her 30 sec on
@HinduAmerican
's request. Omar should face a House ethics investigation for slandering a witness.
When Indian journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh accused world media of overlooking Kashmir’s terrorism problem, US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar questioned her journalism credentials.
Over 1,000 graves of indigenous children killed in church run schools were just found in Canada.
Not a good time for false equivalencies, and definitely not a good time to imply a denial of Hindu and Indian indigeneity as if it is in contradistinction to Adivasis.
Poor Indians, starving cows, garish temples!
Not surprised that
@nytopinion
publishes peak orientalist hate, just that editors allows so much sneering contempt to be stuffed into one paragraph!
Who would fall for this trap?
@Haqiqatjou
writes insanely craven & insulting nonsense about our Gods and Goddesses and then says debate me.
But if you say anything similar about his prophet or religion, aka “blasphemy,” he’s on record saying “capital punishment” is the penalty.
Lol so Sagasofbharat is too scared to debate me, as predicted. She wrote an entire essay trying to justify why she can't accept my debate challenge 🤣
A bunch of Hindus from
@Heated_Debates
keep spamming in my replies. I'm happy to debate you in a live moderated debate on
If by “research” she means making sh*% up and publishing it— what the law defines as defamation and libel — yes, it’s been a year since we sued for that.
Thanks to all who have stood by us.
Satyameva jayate.
She is to keynote a conference South Asian studies depts from major universities are organizing. This fatuous equivocation on the day of the Taliban takeover is the level of discourse.
Still wondering why academic South Asian studies is losing credibility and relevance?
She’s right! An Aurangzeb hagiographer admitting that a “destroyed” Hindu temple under Gyanvapi mosque is an “uncontested fact” wasn’t on my bingo card for today, yet here we are.
If we agree that the mosque represents cruelty & conquest, couldn’t Indian Hindus & Muslims work
Of course, Hindus are at fault for what ails the Indo-Canadian Diaspora per
@nytimes
Canadian Hindus didn’t blow up an airplane, attack consulates, or vandalize temples. But hey, let’s amplify a WSO/NCCM report that calls for deporting Hindus.
@onishinyt
@LaVjosa
See how this works? Only Audrey & her colleagues are allowed to judge expertise, qualifications & adhikaar. If you assert an opinion they don't like, you're the bigot.
Btw, if Audrey likes lurking on my TL and cutting/pasting my posts, why did she bother blocking me?
Ethical?
Yup, a lawyer & head of the largest & oldest Hindu advocacy organization in the U.S. is poking fun at a really suspicious email ostensibly sent by
@andymstone
. And Twitter is having a meltdown.
Btw, this lady’s already a defendant in a lawsuit for spreading the same lies.
Western academia has taken advantage of language barriers and lack of access and resources to silence the formerly colonized. They’ve portrayed us through racist, Eurocentric frames for far too long. Their monopoly of defining who we are and what we believe is over.
Sitting here in India, I wonder if
@ForeignPolicy
’s executive editor
@RaviReports
cares how ridiculous these “democracy khatre mein hain” headlines look here to Indians. They’re busy writing, speaking their minds, protesting and voting—over and over again.
The first India
Whoa.
@TIME
published quite an apologia of the Khalistan terrorist movement.
-Bhindranwale being described as a “charismatic” leader is the most shameless elegy of a terrorist since bin Laden.
-spreads a lie that India views Sikhs with “suspicion” & “disdain”. Sikhs have
#Breaking
:
@Rutgers_Newark
regrets its failure to acknowledge concerns of Hindu students/faculty over
#AudreyTrushcke
's provocations. Commits to a process of sustained engagement.
Spoke to a Hindu student leader. Good 1st step, more to come. We will keep standing with students.
Hiya
@UofT
I'm a lawyer, so I know about debate. I also know about academic freedom.
A debate requires more than one side.
Academic freedom requires open inquiry, a diversity of viewpoints, and an ability to constructively engage difference.
This event ain't either.
“India’s Gang Rape CULTURE!”
Got your attention, right?
While India has one of the lowest per capita rape rates in the world, it has plenty of writers happy to sh-t on its people & culture for clickbait.
Rape is horrific, but shouldn’t be trivialized to push political agendas.
If I'm going to be trolled by a New Yorker staff writer, is it too much to ask that he not retreat to overused Irish alliteration?
"Sinister sectarian"? Really, Isaac.
But at least he didn't assign me a caste as the New Yorker does to all Hindus of late. Small mercies.
It is our “lot” in the Indian and Hindu diaspora that precisely those who ���detest” us and call us “termites” are given platforms like
@TheAtlantic
@JeffreyGoldberg
to chronicle our lives in the mainstream media.
The same
@HudsonInstitute
’s Paul Marshall who started with “Hinduism and Terror” is now onto “The Hindutva Threat Outside India.”
No Hindu terror attacks here—ever—but plenty of scaremongering & anti-Hindu hate crimes are up.
Maybe think tanks should think about that.
I mean the folks over
@TheEconomist
could contain their sneering condescension for Indians.
But why bother when us “messy” brown savages are spoiling the “friendly and orderly West”?
No, can’t have that. No way. 🤡
Patwardhan at
#DGH
just invoked the
#Hinduphobic
term
#Brahmanism
to reduce Hindus to caste.
Does he know the anti-Semitic roots of the term? Does he care?
The
@CNN
chyron says everything you need to know of a deep anti-India animus infesting mainstream media today. That bias easily manifests as
#Hinduphobia
when Hindu American advocacy is neatly dismissed as “far-right.”
Connect the dots.
Here’s
@nytimes
@jonathanweisman
saying it out loud:
@VivekGRamaswamy
’s liability is that he “maintains his Hindu faith” and oh, there’s this “Hindu hierarchy”?
We keep saying caste is a stereotype only used to target Hindus. No one else. Who would
#SB403
target?
#SayNoToSB403
“We will snatch it (छीन के लेंगे ) —Palestine.”
“We will scream (चिल्ला )for it—Palestine.”
Know the context.
This slogan being bastardized for Palestine was first chanted by Pakistani militias in 1989, to instill fear amongst Kashmir’s indigenous Hindus before hundreds of
PS
@auntylectuals
You are NOT teachers of Hindu traditions.
You are people who study Hinduism through a very particular lens.
The teachers of Hindu traditions are our gurus, our mothers and fathers, our aunts and uncles, and our sisters and brothers.
Stay in your lane.
Jews mark the Exodus of the 8th century BCE, Muslims the Hegira from 6th century AD & Christians the Crucifixion from 2000 yrs ago.
But to you
@davidfrum
, an oppressive tyrant who killed millions, destroyed celebrated Hindu temples & beheaded Sikh Gurus should just be forgotten?
Dismantling Hindutva or Denying Hinduphobia? What Prompted the Largest Grassroots Mobilization of Hindu Americans in History.
My take on why
#DGH
has so viscerally affected
#HinduAmericans
.
Would
@mehdihasan
point to Islamic scripture or Muslim advocates as responsible for ISIS or 9/11 since OBL used them to justify his attack? He wouldn't, because it would be wrong. But Hindus are uniquely acceptable to be targeted thus? 3/5
Sooo…now we’re told Indian American students born here benefit from brown privilege for being assumed to be smart and caste privilege for just existing.
Hoo-boy, can’t keep up with these privilege Olympics!
“Asian American students who have earned admission to Harvard are smart, promising, and have no doubt worked very hard. But in ways . . . they may have also benefited from their racial status long before they applied,” writes sociology Professor
@JLeeSoc
.
This is the colossal breadth of Hindu scripture. Yet what do most textbooks & some academics obsess over in the name of pinning “caste” upon Hindu society?
I’ve circled it but you can barely see it.
Credit
@pburavalli
for the share.
#Breaking
| Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes
#SB403
!
With the stroke of his pen, Governor Newsom kills a bill premised on racist rhetoric, a baseless lawsuit, egregious
@calcivilrights
misconduct & false claims about the Hindu religion.
Our statement:
We
@HinduAmerican
have engaged
@USCIRF
for years.
Recently,
@USCIRF
:
-hired Pakistani activist to write anti-India report
-held multiple hearings perpetuating misinformation on India
-falsely alleged Indian hospitals separate patients based on religion
Got so much positive feedback after my
@WSJ
piece, so been ignoring a bunch of hateful emails & notifications.
But this one was impressive for how many casteist, Hinduphobic & racist tropes you can get in one email!!
IAMC's last (mis)adventure in Chicago was teaming up with CAIR to target a Hindu child over a fake Quran burning allegation.
That fizzled out, so hey, why not use contacts over at the
@Suntimes
editorial board to gin up another frenzy fearmongering over Hindu Chicagoans.
Hey,
@elonmusk
, I see you’re trying to figure out how to clamp down on parody accounts. But what about when a verified account becomes a parody itself?
“Unbelievably, one moderator, a former faculty member
@Penn
, even asked panelists if, instead of focusing on dismantling Hindutva, the focus should really be on dismantling Hinduism.”
My oped on why
@HinduAmerican
filed a complaint w/
@EDcivilrights
.
We know that she’s been threatening many prominent Hindu Americans that they’re the target of her “research.” Now we get a glimpse in this paragraph about her attack on
@sewausa
.
No original first hand ethnography. Many 2nd hand sources. This, apparently, passes peer review?!
Hi
@SaharHGhazi
@Narcomania
@pallavipundir
: as you’re based in Pakistan, Jakarta & London, you don’t seem to understand the legal basis of
@HinduAmerican
’s landmark civil rights actions in California.
Prior to horribly distorting our work, shouldn’t you have at least called us?
Always entertaining when non-Hindus police us as to when and where Hindus are allowed to take offense.
To be clear,
#HinduAmericans
are upset about the horrific “Jai Shree Ram” tweet AND the
#Hinduphobic
“misogynist pig” tweet.
Maybe sit this one out.
Silence? India's foreign minister chose not to meet with the sponsor of the first anti-India resolution in 7 years--how is that silencing? But
@RepJayapal
silenced 500,000
#KashmiriPandits
in introducing a
#Kashmir
resolution that erases Pandits and never mentions Pakistan.
Efforts to silence
@PramilaJayapal
are deeply troubling. The U.S. and India have an important partnership—but our partnership can only succeed if it is rooted in honest dialogue and shared respect for religious pluralism, democracy, and human rights.