Hate crime at Shri Bhagavad Gita Park in Canada

On January 17, the Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple in Carrum Downs was also defaced with anti-India and anti-Hindu slogans ahead of Pongal festivities.

Years of radicalization of the society, an educational curriculum that breeds hatred for minorities, and a judicial system that is unwilling to protect them and often even condones the behavior of aggressors are all part of the problems.

Religious minorities routinely face violence. For example, last year 154 people of religious minorities, including Hindus, were killed and 360 injured, according to the council.
Several incidents of vandalism of houses, places of worship and businesses that resulted in the loss of nearly 220 million taka (US$2.15 million), were also reported last, year the council records show.
Muslims make up nearly 91 percent of Bangladesh’s population of 165 million, according to the 2022 national census. Hindus constitute about 8 percent and the rest is shared by Buddhism, Christianity and others.

Tarique Rahman, co-convener of the Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad and a key adviser to Nurul Haque Nur, launched an attack on Hindu minorities by claiming that the scriptures of the Hindu faith are pornographic and do not provide any moral teaching.

Khalistanis and Islamists in ‘liberal’ Western democracies are strategically creating a narrative of Hindu hatred even as they carry out physical attacks on the Hindu community,