Category: Hinduphobia
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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…
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British Hindu activists condemn grooming and coerced conversions
Hindu activists in the UK have raised concerns about an increase in the grooming of Hindu children. In some cases, children under the age of 16 have been coerced or peer pressured into leaving their Hindu faith. Ravi Chowdhry, a Hindu activist from East London stated, “Growing up as a Bengali Hindu in London, I…
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Hindu postgraduate student cancelled by LSE’s Students’ Union
Hindu and Indian postgraduate student Karan Kataria at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has submitted a complaint against the LSE Student Union (LSE SU) alleging that they unfairly disqualified him from running for the position of General Secretary in the union’s election. Kataria asserts that he was subjected to discrimination because…
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Malaysia: Hindu mother succeeds in fight for religious freedom
In 2019, Loh Siew Hong; a Malaysian Hindu of Chinese origin, had her three children taken away by her now ex-husband Nagashwaran Muniandy. A recent convert to Islam; Nagashwaran declared the children as Muslim without Loh’s consent. After a court battle, Loh regained full custody of the children in 2021. Loh’s fight however continued as…
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Toxic culture of Western ‘Yoga Studios’
Hindu practitioner, Puravi Joshi, describes the superficial nature of this western appropriation of ‘Yoga’ that disrespects and mocks Hinduism. Practising Hindus have long been aware of how the West has reduced Yoga, into a type of physical exercise, ignoring its wider remit on inner and outer purity, character building and spirituality. Writing in the Daily…
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LSE Students’ Union accused of Hindupobia
Hindu and Indian postgraduate student Karan Kataria at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has submitted a complaint against the LSE Student Union (LSE SU) alleging that they unfairly disqualified him from running for the position of General Secretary in the union’s election. Kataria asserts that he was subjected to discrimination because…
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Kashmiri Hindu shot dead while out shopping
Sanjay Sharma, a 40 year old Kashmiri Hindu from Pulwama (Jammu & Kashmir, India) was shot dead by terrorists on Sunday 26th February 2023. Even though targeted killings of Kashmiri Hindus have once again become regular occurrences, Western media sources have adopted a policy of selective silence by failing to report on the situation. In…
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Hindus claim new settlement law is Hinduphobic, discriminatory
“Equality Labs”, an organisation behind the bill to “ban caste discrimination”, have previously called for Hinduism to be “dismantled”. On Tuesday this week, anti-Hindu lobbyists succeeded in Seattle in added “caste” as a protected category covered under its policy for non-discrimination. This resolution was proposed by Councillor Khama Sawant, an Indian origin member of the…