“Anti-Hindu Event at Rutgers Draws Community Outrage, Congressional Concerns and Protest”, Cohna, October 28, 2025
“The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) strongly condemns Monday’s event, “Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism,” at Rutgers University that has drawn bipartisan criticism from Members of Congress and widespread outrage from the Hindu community, both on and off campus.
The event, framed as an academic inquiry, featured a panel that did not include a single practicing Hindu but, nevertheless, made sweeping, uninformed claims about the faith. Notably, the non-Hindu panelists labored to make an artificial and, frankly, preposterous distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva; and when practicing Hindus asked questions, they were shut down.
The talk itself was peppered with false claims, primary among them being the denial of Hinduphobia itself. There was no mention of the seven Hindu temples that have been vandalized across the U.S. since December 2023 or of the hate crime data from states like California that show a rise in anti-Hindu hate, second only to antisemitism…….”
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