“Erasing Hindu Suffering in Bangladesh: Elite Media and the Art of Narrative Deflection”, Stop Hindu Dvesha, January 28, 2026
“Colonial-era discourse in India perfected a moral inversion that recast victims as oppressors. Hindu society as a whole was subjected to conquest, economic extraction, famine, and sustained humiliation under British rule. Yet colonial Indologists, European missionaries, and the imperial establishment produced a steady stream of atrocity literature portraying Hindu Dharma and its followers as the true perpetrators. The “natives” were framed as morally defective and in need of rescue for their own good, even as they endured systematic oppression.
Contemporary discourse targeting Hindus follows the same pattern. The continued persecution of Hindus in Islamic countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan is routinely gaslighted or quietly justified through the propagation of hostile narratives about Hindus and India. Rather than confronting Hindu victimhood, attention is redirected, and responsibility diffused.
Over the past decade, one of the most pernicious narratives promoted by the left-liberal ecosystem has been the claim of rising Hindu fundamentalism and minority oppression in India. Motivated religious freedom reports, selective indices, and biased Western media coverage frame India’s civilizational self-assertion as “Hindu majoritarianism,” ensuring that Hindus remain perennially on the defensive…….”
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