Attacks on Hindus and Hindu Dharma, both in Bharat and overseas, are frequent and unrelenting. In many regions of the world, this persecution is like a genocide slowly unfolding before our eyes. For decades, the world has ignored the actual depth and breadth of these attacks, driven by disturbing anti-Hindu bigotry. From murders, forced conversions, land grabs, assault on festivals, desecration of temples and murtis, hate speech, and sexual violence to institutionalized & legal discrimination, Hindus are facing an increasing assault on their very existence along with an unprecedented Hindu hatred.

In this weekly summary for the period from 27 November to 03 December 2022, we hope to provide a snapshot of such crimes and hopefully awaken more people around the world to this human rights crisis:

Bharat

1) The Sitapur district police have slapped the National Security Act (NSA) against Faiyyaz Alam and his son Zahir, who are in jail for the murder of Faiyyaz’s daughter Shabrin in December 2021. The father and son had killed Shabrin after they came to know that she was in a relationship with one Ranjit.

2) An independent journalist has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s state capital Lucknow in connection with a case filed against the Twitter account of the Samajwadi Party (SP) Media Cell for allegedly spreading communal hatred, Hazratganj police said.

3) Shocking videos of Rajasthan police lathi-charging Hindus protesting against the demolition of a temple have surfaced on social media. The administration claims that the temple was demolished following a court order allegedly because it encroached on a waterbody. Local Hindus say that the petitioner has a personal interest in the concerned property.

4) The Nehru-Gandhi Parivar has been siding with anti-Bharat forces and favouring Christian evangelism. After peddling lies about the Modi government taking away vanvasi rights, it has now emerged that Rahul Gandhi met Christian representatives on November 9 in Maharashtra’s Nanded during the yatra who submitted a list of demands.

5) UP Police has arrested Md. Faiz for threatening to murder a minor Hindu girl and her family if she does not convert to Islam and marry him. The accused lives in the Chamanganj area of Kanpur, and his family and friends attacked the police with sticks when they went to arrest him. An additional force from 18 police stations had to be rushed to control the situation and complete the arrest.

6) The latest case of a minor being groomed for four years since she was 13 years old is reported (Tweet archived here) from Bihar’s Purnia. The distressed family has appealed for help.

7) A case of live-in gone wrong has emerged from Ahmedabad where Nasir is alleged to have assumed a fake Hindu identity to trap a woman working in a spa. Nasir Hussain Ghanchi is accused of trapping the girl by introducing himself as Sameer Prajapati. He convinced her to get into a live-in relationship with him during which he not only established a physical relationship with her but even gang-raped her with his friends.

8) A temple mandapam in Tamil Nadu has been encroached upon by Muslims who have turned the place into an Islamic place of worship. The Mandapam was lying in neglect due to the HRCE department’s neglect.

9) Mumbai police have arrested a man named Salman Quraishi (30) & seized his friend’s Mercedes car for chasing two minor girls & molesting them while they were returning home from tuition classes in suburban Andheri.

10) A much-circulated myth about radical Islamists lay shattered when several, including a lady doctor, were charged for forced conversion to Islam in Mangaluru.

11) Hindu Jagarana Vedike and villagers on Wednesday lodged a police complaint against forced religious conversions at a farmhouse in this district of the state. They demanded vacating of the farmhouse located in the limits of M.K. Doddi police station and the removal of crosses installed on government land.

12) In Maharashtra’s Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad) District, a case of a Muslim girl and her family is accused of trapping an SC neo-Buddhist man. The girl’s family not only extorted 11 lakhs rupees from the victim identified as Dipak Sonawane but also forced him to embrace Islam and forcibly got him circumcised. Sonawane also highlighted that AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel, District Judge Kadari, and a police officer were helping the girl Sana Farheen Shahmir and her family.

13) SC youth Swapnil paid the price for being in a relationship with a Muslim woman. As per reports, Nanded’s Vasant Nagar area resident Swapnil Nageshwar and his Muslim girlfriend were attacked on the afternoon of November 21 by a mob of 10 Muslims with sticks and iron rods. Swapnil received serious injuries leading to his death.

14) Two days after a South Korean YouTuber was sexually harassed in the upscale Khar suburb of Mumbai by 2 Muslim youths, another shocking incident has come to light in which a woman was molested by a Muslim delivery person from Zepto at her residence.

15) A 14-year-old Sikh boy was coerced to convert to Christianity in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar. The boy is a student at De Paul English Medium School. His hair was cut and pagdi was thrown away after he refused to convert.

16) Farman Khan has been arrested by Kota Police in Rajasthan for harassing an 18-year-old NEET Aspirant after she provided her number for billing while buying some medicines from the Apollo Pharmacy store in Jawahar Nagar where he works.

Bangladesh

Attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh are relentless and designed to gradually cleanse the religious minority from the country. According to a study by Prof. Abul Barakat of Dhaka University, no Hindus will be left in Bangladesh by 2050 due to systemic and institutionalized persecution. Temple desecration, land grabbing, mob attacks after false blasphemy charges, rape/forced conversion of women, and hate speech are some tools used to intimidate and drive Hindus out.

1) Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak (volunteer) League leader Mizanur Rahman was caught by the locals in Kaliganj Upazila (sub-district) under the Jhenaidah district of southwestern Bangladesh while trying to rape a woman from the minority Hindu community.

World

1) In a terrifying armed robbery, Sidhu Naresh, a vape store owner in Hamilton, said a staff worker was made to kneel on the ground “and a knife put to his neck”, the NZ Herald reported on Monday.

2) A department of Columbia University used sacred Hindu imagery to advertise a politically charged and controversial conference filled with a list of Hinduphobic professors.

Most hate crimes are driven by anti-Hindu bigotry encoded in certain religious teachings and political ideologies. While the anti-Hindu hate in Islamic countries is evident, there is another subtler form of anti-Hindu sentiment within institutions and the public sphere of ostensibly secular states (like India) that provides an enabling environment for Hinduphobia and hate crimes. This subtle, everyday discrimination can be missed unless one studies prevailing laws and patterns. The gradual ban on firecrackers during Diwali is a good example – it might seem pollution-related on the surface, but the double standards at play become apparent when one looks at the larger picture of restrictions on Hindu festivals and the lack of sound reasoning behind the ban.

We request all readers to share other anti-Hindu hate crimes that we might have missed in this period in the comments below or by dropping an email to [email protected]. We also solicit support in maintaining the Hindu human rights tracker database.