Even as Bharat has busted the fake propaganda peddled by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding his allegations on the Bhartiya government vis a vis the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the anti – Bharat rhetoric of Khalistan separatists is only getting sharper.
Coming close on the heels of the incident that took place in a Glasgow gurudwara where a Bhartiya envoy was denied entry and heckled by Khalistan separatists, now the Khalistan supporters have held a protest outside the Bhartiya High Commission in London.
What stands out is that the Khalistan movement that ostensibly started as an anti-Bharat movement, demanding the separation of a separate country for Sikhs known as Khalistan and rejecting the state of Bharat or Hindustan, has now also become an anti-Hindu movement. The terms anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu can be used interchangeably in the current politics of the Khalistan movement.
What are the reasons for this paradigm shift? How did a movement ostensibly founded by the followers of a religion that has its roots in Sanatan Dharma become so vehemently anti-Sanatan Dharma? The answer lies in the generalized nexus between the Khalistan eco-system and all sorts of anti-Bharat forces including Islamic terrorist organizations like the ISI and the Chinese state.
There is ample evidence to prove that there exist links between the US-based Khalistan advocacy organizations like Sikhs for Justice and the Pakistani ISI. Sikhs for Justice reportedly also has close links with the Chinese state.
According to COHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) a US-based Hindu rights organization, the founder and legal counsel of the Sikhs for Justice can be seen issuing threats to the Hindu community of Canada that they must leave the country and “go to India”. The lawyer of the Hindu Forum Canada also wrote a letter to the Immigration Minister of Canada Marc Miller regarding the hateful threats to Hindu Canadians issued by the Sikhs for Justice Leader Gurupatwant Singh Pannun.
Attacks on Hindu organizations and temples and hate crimes against Hindus have seen a sharp rise in Canada over the past couple of years. In the context of this, a Khalistani group leader issuing open threats to the Canadian Hindus speaks amply of the anti-Hindu nexus of the so-called Khalistan movement.
It is surprising, to say the least, that amidst the growing Hindu hate narrative in the west marked by temple attacks and vandalism in countries like the US, Canada, Australia, Britian, etc., there seems to be a systemic conspiracy to further malign and harass Hindus rather than take steps for their protection.
According to an article published by COHNA representatives in the American Kahani, Canada’s political establishment and mainstream media are vehemently anti-Hindu and while they openly speak when it comes to Islamophobia and Black Lives Matter, they become silent vis a vis Hindu issues. The article further says that they literally justify the acts of vandalism against Hindu places of worship by saying that the Khalistan ‘activists” are doing it to register protest against the Hindutva politics of Indian government and it is not against Hindus.
The US is witnessing a slew of Hinduphobic laws ostensibly in the name of protecting Hindus from the clutches of caste discrimination. These so-called anti-caste discrimination laws target Hindus, a minority community in the US, and create conditions for their 24*7 monitoring, vigilance, caste profiling, and vehement questioning of their customs and traditions.
Hindu organizations in the US have repeatedly questioned the need for such laws when no evidence of caste discrimination in the US exists and when the US constitution already has ample provisions addressing all sorts of discrimination including that practiced on the basis of race, ethnicity, origin, etc. Despite the red flags raised by the US Hindu groups, the woke lobby in the US is lobbying hard to get such laws passed.
After Seattle, Fresno in California has become the second city in the US to pass a law exclusively banning “caste discrimination”. A similar law that has been passed in the US State of California awaits the signature of California governor Gavin Newsom. US Hindu organizations have been organizing peaceful protests and demonstrations to urge the government not to sign the Hinduphobic bill.
According to the US Hindu organizations like COHNA, the Khalistan separatist eco-system is also a part of the anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu lobby that’s introducing such Hinduphobic bills in the US. COHNA posted a pic on X a couple of days back in which Khalistani extremist Gurupatwant Singh Pannun can be seen sitting in a panel that also has Thenmozhi Soundarajan, the lady who introduced the anti-caste bill in California.
The Canadian Organization for Hindu Heritage Education recently initiated a petition calling upon the House to recognize “ Hinduphobia” as a term in the glossary used by the Canadian Human Rights Code. All sorts of woke groups have already started crying hoarse over this petition that if realized would have a disastrous effect on the safety of religious minorities in Bharat like Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Adviasis, Dalits, etc.
What could be more farcical and far-fetched indeed! Calling upon the hatred, discrimination, and violence against a community that forms a miniscule minority in Canada would supposedly have a detrimental impact on the safety of minorities in another country. Does it then imply that Hindus have no right to being called a minority even where their numbers are less? If anyone talks about the rights of Hindus in Bharat, they are shamed and called Hindutva fascists since Hindus are in the majority here.
And if Hindus are being threatened and abused in the west where they are a minority, they still have no right to raise their voice because of the imagined harm it would bring to the minorities in Bharat. What kind of twisted logic is that?
According to a research study published by the Network Contagion Research Institute of Rutgers University a couple of months back, extremist Khalistani elements run coordinated anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu campaigns through social media platforms. The study establishes a link between the hyper-aggressive anti-Hindu and anti-Bharat social media campaigns run by Khalistan bot accounts and the incidents of real-life violence and attacks against Hindus and their places of worship as well as Bhartiya consulates in the western countries.
The study, through a rigorous scientific analysis of the content and the visuals of the anti-Hindu and anti-Bharat memes and posts put out by these Khalistan extremist bot accounts, establishes that the intensity of these social media campaigns increases right before a real-life incident of violence and terror against the Hindus and Bharat and it also increases right after the incident. The report also mentions that many of these Khalistan extremist social media accounts are self-identified Pakistani accounts, and their posts openly calls for bomb threats, grenade attacks, and attacks against infrastructure.
It thus seems to suggest that if governments, in coordination with social media platforms, are able to identify these bot accounts in advance and initiate action against them, many incidents of real-life violence against Hindus and Bharat could be prevented.
This is not the first study that establishes a correlation between online hate campaigns and acts of real-life violence against Hindus. A similar study published by the Network Contagion Research Institute last year found similar patterns between the anti-Hindu posts being circulated on social media by extremist groups and patterns of antisemitic hatred being circulated through social media.
This study analyzed many anti-Hindu memes and images that dehumanized the Hindu community, called them dirty, and almost bordered on calling for their genocide. This report too discovered a direct link between the intensity of these anti-Hindu posts and real-life incidents of violence and vandalism against Hindus as individuals and Hindu places of worship.
The Khalistani extremist elements need to be looked at in the context of the larger anti-Bharat narrative being propagated by a mix and match of woke liberal groups, missionary organizations, Islamic terrorist organizations, and the “Chinese” lobby funding many of these vested interests. Like Rajiv Malhotra rightly remarks in his book “Breaking India” that in the context of Bharat and Hindus, the western left-wing and right-wing forces are willing collaborators.
-Rati Agnihotri
References
- https://networkcontagion.us/reports/4-11-23-inauthentic-cyber-activity-from-khalistani-extremist-accounts-precedes-and-amplifies-attacks-on-hindu-temples-and-indian-government-buildings/
- https://networkcontagion.us/reports/7-11-22-anti-hindu-disinformation-a-case-study-of-hinduphobia-on-social-media/
- https://americankahani.com/category/perspectives/
- https://thewire.in/rights/disastrous-impact-on-minorities-safety-south-asian-diaspora-on-canadas-hinduphobia-petition
