Category: Anti Hindu Sentiment
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35 years since Kashmiri Hindu Ethnocide, attacks still continue
Today, 19 January 2025, marks 35 years since the Kashmiri Hindu Exodus & ethnocide of 1990. Over 350,000 indigenous Kashmiri Hindus were forced to leave their homes after seeing their leaders, colleagues and family members being subjected to murder, rape or kidnapping. Islamist terrorist groups had become emboldened with numerous Kashmiri Islamists crossing the Line…
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Canada Police assault Hindus on Mandir grounds
On Monday 12th November 2024, Pro-Khalistan held a violent protest outside the Hindu Sabha Temple in Brampton, Canada. The protest was in response to an event by the Indian Consulate aimed at helping elderly Indians with their pension certificates. Many attending this community event weren’t from a Hindu background, with many elderly Indian Sikhs in…
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Trump’s Diwali message highlights plight ofBangladeshi Hindus
31st October 2024: Ahead of Diwali, Donald Trump (now President of the USA) posted on X (formerly Twitter): “I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos…We will also protect Hindu Americans against the…
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Bangladesh Government arrests ISKCON leader
Monday 25th November 2024: Bangladesh ISKCON Leader Chinmoy Das Krishna Prabhu is arrested Dhaka. Since October 2024, ISKCON has been facing opposition from the Muhammad Yunus interim Government as many of its leaders have been active in the formation and leadership of Bangladesh Sanatan Jagaran Mancha. Bringing together Hindu leaders from across different sampradayas and…
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Thousands of Bangladeshi Hindus protest for their rights
October 2024: An estimated 30,000 Hindus held a rally at Laldighi Maidan in Chittagong to demand that the Bangladesh Government increase the provision of rights and security for Hindus and other minorities in the country (Source: The Independent). Led by Sanatan Jagran Manch, this has been one of the largest public demonstrations by Hindu Bangladeshis…
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India & Bangladesh: Islamists attack Ganesh Utsav
16th/17th September 2024 marked the end of the 10-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. Over the first 2 weeks of September, 16 separate reports have emerged across India of Islamists attacking Hindus marking Ganesh Utsav with stone pelting and other forms of violence. In Gujarat, there were 7 incidents: Mundra (6th Sept), Lal Gate-Surat (7th-8th), Syedpura-Surat (6th-7th)…
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5,000 Hindu & Buddhist homes destroyed by Rohingya terrorists
Myanmar: Between April 11th and 21st 2024, 5,000 homes of Hindus and Buddhists were destroyed in Buthidaung which is 25km from the Bangladesh border. The homes were damaged amidst clashes between the Junta lead Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (‘AA’) rebel group. The Arakan Army is made up of a largely Buddhist minority ethnic…
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Safeguarding the Hindu roots of Carnatic Music
March 2024: Well-known Carnatic musicians, Ranjini-Gayatri (shown in the image above), Dushyanth Sridhar, and others have recently decided to withdraw from the Madras Music Academy’s annual festival in response to the Academy’s decision to confer the 2024 Kalanidhi Award to highly controversial musician T.M. Krishna. The Kalanidhi is one of the most prestigious music awards…
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Labour Chair Denies Awareness of Anti-Hindu MPs in Party
On Friday, 28 June 2024, Asian Voice in collaboration with the City Hindus Network and the City Sikhs, held a political hustings for the run-up to the UK General Election. The panel consisted of Anneliese Dodds (Labour), Felicity Buchan (Conservative), Lord Christopher Fox (Lib Dems) and Dr Pallavi Devulapalli (Greens), where they were questioned on…
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No justice for Jaahnavi Kandula
In Autumn 2023, we reported the story of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old master’s student at Northeastern University (Seattle) who died after being run over by a police officer in January 2023. In addition to his history of driving offences, Officer Kevin Dave had hit Jaahnavi on a pedestrian crossing whilst he was driving above the…
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Calls for action: Anti-Hindu Hate in Britain
The APPG* for British Hindus held an event in the Houses of Parliament to for the release of a report on Anti-Hindu Hatred. The report reveals that the Hindu voices are frequently ignored, misunderstood by policymakers, and British institutions, and distorted by the media to deny an issue exists with anti-Hindu hate, and instead misrepresent…
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Sandheshkhali: Hindu Rape Victims Speak Out
Sandheshkhali is a village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas District which is close to India’s border with Bangladesh. This remote corner of India made headlines earlier this year following over 700 cases of crimes against economically disadvantaged Hindus by Sheikh Shahjahan, an influential political leader and member of the state’s ruling party, TMC. In…