Introduction
Purnima Nath explores how Hinduphobia is rampant in Indian as well as Western media. She tells us how anti-Hindu, anti-Indian campaigns are openly run with seldom any repurcussions or strong reactions from the Hindu side. She also tells us how minorities are safest in India and not in neighboring countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh and that is because of the Hindu culture and ethos of India.
Although India and Hindus were attacked for centuries, India maintained a peaceful environment and communal harmony, to a great extent. India is the second most populated country in the world with 1.34 billion people…in essence, four times the population of the U.S. in less-than-one-third of U.S land. You can certainly imagine the complexity India faces as a country. In comparison, the issues are managed brilliantly, and balance is restored quickly oftentimes. The recent past has been particularly difficult for the Hindus, Hinduism, and India; as we have witnessed communist media’s effort to defame, divide and weaken India. These questions have been bothering me for a while –
- Is there one Hindu (or a group) who stood up against blatant bias, negative narratives, defamation, and anti-Hindu and anti-India propaganda?
- Why would U.S. Democrats, like Bernie Sanders, an ultra-leftist communist, be influenced to propagate such sick anti-India, anti-Hindu statements, directly inciting violence against Hindus worldwide?
- How many Indian Muslims were driven out of India?
- Why are the western media relentlessly pushing an one-sided narrative of victimhood, painting the Modi government as fascists, murderous, genocidal, xenophobic and anti-Muslim?
Some Facts about India
Let’s Start With Some Facts About India:
First, India is the ONLY country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries
Second, India holds third of world’s Muslim population (10.9%), slightly behind Pakistan (11.1%) and Indonesia (12.7%) [Note, just a few years ago, India was at the second place over Pakistan]
Third, India has over 200 million Muslims – can one neighboring Islamic state provide such statistics of minorities?
Fourth, India remains a secular country. YET, the neighboring Islamic State nations (Pakistan & Bangladesh) cannot say the same
Fifth, there are 51 Islamic nations, 0 Hindu countries, 1 Jewish country, and the rest are Christian and Buddhist countries, out of 195 countries in the world
Sixth, India is a Hindu majority country with 79% Hindus and 21% minority. This percentage is retained more-or-less constant since the 1947 India-Pakistan division. Nepal was a Hindu nation at the time of monarchs, BUT not anymore – it was declared as a secular state in 2007 after abolition of it’s monarchy
Seventh, Pakistan’s minority number dropped from ~27% in 1947 to 2% now, and numbers fell from ~23% to 10% in Bangladesh
Eighth, the ‘Hindu way of life’ is much older than the existence of Hinduism as a religion. This sophisticated ancient civilization by the Indus river is at least 10,000 years old and people of the region are known as Hindus. Hinduism came up as religion long after
Anti-CAA Protest
Finally, Hindus and Hinduism cannot be separated from Hindustan (India)
Search on ‘anti-CAA protest’ turned ‘Delhi Riots’ that was perfectly aligned with the timing of President Trump’s India visit will give you plenty of anti-India anti-Hindu coverage. It is increasingly becoming clear that the massive protest was highly organized, funded, pre-planned and executed with thousands of outsiders that were brought in from elsewhere (& very quickly disappeared), primarily organized during President Trump’s visit to make a strong international wave against India. What I will bring here is what the media DIDN’T tell you. Gravely critical informations were kept out of mainstream media coverage – DELIBERATE? For instance, a Hindu IB (Investigative Bureau) officer’s body was found in a drain (he was investigating an opposition political party’s leader). He was stabbed 400 times, according to the autopsy. That Muslim political leader was booked, arrested, and suspended for allegedly starting the Delhi Riot, IB officer’s murder, Islamic group PFI money laundering charges. Rocks, stones, petrol, temporary slings were found on his roof-top (still an open investigation). A Hindu policeman was murdered during a mob lynching and heavy stone-pelting. A shooter with a gun in hand pointing at police force was identified as a Muslim, and had gone missing. Images of burqa-covered women stone-pelting in action were circulated. Muslim rioters bore drill machine into a 19-year Hindu boy. These are just a few examples. Civilians and policemen were beaten, lynched, shot, stabbed and killed. Public properties, homes, schools were destroyed. HOW DOES ONE EXPLAIN SUCH VIOLENCE? 49 died in this horrifying clash. Were Muslims the only ones who got impacted? But the media largely didn’t tell you that. Violent protests in the liberal universities occurred just before the Delhi riot.
Man with a gun identified as Shahrukh fled Delhi and missing since the riot
You might find it astonishing that, foreigners such as a Polish and a Bangladeshi student studying in Vishva Bharti University had been ordered to leave the country for engaging in anti-India protests. Do you know Poland has refrained from taking a single immigrant refugee? What do you make out of this?
Recent 77-day ‘Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA’ protest at the nation’s capital, Delhi, was primarily attended by Muslim women and children. The entire ground is empty now, Delhi election is over, and they disappeared rather magically. Where did they come from? Who funded them? How did they manage to occupy the area for these many days without steady organization or enormous source of funding? As per India’s democracy, peaceful protests are welcome, however, this massive gathering was blocking roads causing inconvenience for people for months. They pressured the Modi government to take back CAA decision, while Modi stood firm. You might ask, what did they accomplish? WHAT WAS THEIR GOAL? Their real victory was the Delhi election when they successfully blocked BJP from winning in Delhi. This was a massive win for the liberal opposition party. ACCIDENT?
In the United States, an Ivy League university student group named ‘Students Against Hindutva’ created by South Asian Indian-American student from Yale University, attacked Hindu by celebrating a protest named ‘Holi Against Hindutva’. Interestingly, College Democrats of 20 plus universities were involved. COINCIDENCE? Would an organized effort such as these against Eid, Ramadan, Christmas, Hanukah ever be tolerated?
