The Wire: New Report Traces Activities of US-Based Hindutva Groups Over Last 7 Years
In total, the report names and traces the activities of 24 US Hindu nationalist organisations that have assets totalling nearly $100 million. New Delhi: For nearly two decades, seven US-based groups, affiliated with the Sangh parivar, have spent over $158 million (Rs 1,227 crore) on various projects, including sending money to India, as per a […]
CAIR: CAIR, CAIR-Houston Defend Journalist Threatened for Criticizing Violent Rhetoric Aimed at Kashmiri Muslims
(HOUSTON, TX – 5/4/2022) – The Houston chapter and national office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today rejected an attempt to intimidate and silence a Muslim journalist with Al Jazeera who came under attack after he criticized a call for genocidal violence against Kashmiri Muslims. Last […]
Two Circles: American critics of Hindu nationalism risk sustained attacks
From politicians to academics, Americans who speak against Hindutva face harsh backlash, protests, and violent threats. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net UNITED STATES — When US Senator and then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders criticized then President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership on human rights” for having dismissed the issue of the February 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi […]
Outlook India: Their Master’s Voice In Washington
Given the US-India relationship, last week’s meeting between the US Ambassador to India and Modi shouldn’t surprise us. What is fascinating is that groups that once hid their affection for Modi now feel emboldened to declare it. Last summer, I met a staff member in the United States Congress at a café in Washington DC […]
Religious Dispatches: North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks
Though you aren’t likely to read about it on the front page of the New York Times or spot it in trending topics on Twitter, for over two decades now North America has had a Hindu Nationalism problem. Scholars in the US and Canada working in the areas of Hinduism, Indian politics, and South Asian […]
The Guardian: Death threats sent to participants of US conference on Hindu nationalism
Threats force several scholars to withdraw as ‘far-right fringe groups’ accuse event of being ‘anti-Hindu’ An academic conference in the US addressing Hindu nationalism is being targeted by rightwing Hindu groups, which have sent death threats to participants and forced several scholars to withdraw. The conference, titled Dismantling Global Hindutva, which is co-sponsored by more […]
Frontline: Sangh Parivar’s U.S. funds trail
Huge donations to Sewa International for COVID-relief efforts in India brings into focus the funding patterns of Hindu organisations in the United States and the sophisticated, well-financed plan of the Sangh Parivar to influence the next generation of American leaders. M.S. Golwalkar, Hindutva ideologue and the second ‘Sarsanghchalak’ of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), had […]
Scroll.in: Explained: The Hindu American Foundation’s defamation case against Hindus for Human Rights founders
The suit prompted more than 300 prominent writers, academics, and scholars last week to stand in solidarity with Hindus for Human Rights. The Hindu American Foundation advocacy group said, earlier this month, that it was suing four activists, academic Audrey Truschke, and a journalist for two articles published in Al Jazeera that it claims are […]
Sabrang India: Why did Twitter CEO give millions to RSS-affiliated Sewa International?
The US-based organisation’s affiliation with the right wing RSS, and its Hindutva ideology has been questioned by many US-based Sewa International has recently got a donation of 2.5 million dollars from Twitter, proudly announced on the micro-blogging site by its CEO Jack Dorsey. Sewa International on its own website states that it “aspires to be […]
The Wire: What VHP America’s Invitation to a Hatemonger, Now Rescinded, Tells Us About Sangh Parivar
The event was called off due to public outrage but we should never forget that a group linked through common parentage with India’s ruling party actually offered its platform to a man who says “all Muslims should be eliminated”. As a Hindu who stands firmly opposed to caste, I celebrate April 14 as Ambedkar Jayanti, […]
