What’s wrong with this picture? The fact that a department of Columbia University decides to use sacred Hindu imagery to advertise a politically charged and controversial conference filled with a list of Hinduphobic professors.
Could Columbia University have used a different picture? Sure, but, instead, the South Asia Institute deliberately targeted Hindu Dharma and Shri Rama for their biased narrative. Academic Freedom not an excuse to target a religion without expecting a response. Let’s also review the speakers.
Rohit Chopra, Dheepa Sundaram, Thomas Blom Hansen – of last year’s Dismantling Global Hindutva conference which openly targeted Hindu Dharma, singled out five Hindu last names as supporters of violence, called Hindu Dharma a danger to democracy.
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd considers Hindu Dharma a “spiritual fascism” where Hindu gods are killers, and states that Hindu Dharma must be destroyed.
Audrey Truschke called Shri Rama a “misogynistic pig,” maintains that the Mahabharata endorses rape culture and misogyny and the Bhagavad Gita endorses “mass slaughter.”
Truschke and Manan Ahmed of Columbia University are part of SASAC, which continues to deny Hinduphobia, endorses those who openly hate Hindu Dharma, denies Kashmiri Hindu genocide and gags the rights of Hindus to express themselves.
Anand Patwardhan spoke at last year’s DGH Conference. Also famous for his short movie which targets the Ramayana using false racial and casteist arguments depicting the army of Hanuman and Sugriva as “dark skinned” indigenous people and Rama as a “white skinned” Aryan.
Irfan Habib is a well known Marxist historian in Bharat. Noted archaeologist KK Muhammad has called out Habib and other Marxist historians for misleading the public on Ayodhya/Babri Masjid in spite of clear archaeological evidence.
Such gatherings are an exercise in political activism rather than academic conferences. They shun rational debates or alternate views and shut down anyone raising concerns about the misuse of Hindu imagery as “Hindu nationalists” all the while crying “academic freedom.”
(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread originally tweeted by CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) (@CoHNAOfficial) on November 30, 2022.)
Can Hindu apologists shut up? India is an open fascist initiative where Muslims are lynched over beef, love marriages, denied citizenship and blamed for every single failure and fault instead of Hinduism and it’s fatalistic and caste based outlook.
I applaud Columbia for honestly looking at this hateful Hindu cancer threatening India and Muslims and its critics elsewhere.
You have demonstrated your ignorance, bigotry and naked Hindu-hatred, all in a short two-line comment. Bharat and the world will be safer with Islamist bigots like you confined to Islamofascist states & theocracies like Pakistan and Qatar.