There should be no “double standards” when it comes to religiophobia, and combatting it should not be a “selective exercise” involving only one or two religions, but should also apply equally to fears against non-Abrahamic religions, India stated at the United Nations
“The recent “Proclamation on Religious Freedom, 2024” by President Biden lacks any mention of Hindus. This is a shocking omission of a minority faith that is facing increasing attacks in the US. … The Hindu American community is in shock and trauma at the open and repeated violation of their sacred places of worship. CoHNA is disappointed at this how hate against Hinduism raises little to no concern among our lawmakers.
There has been a systematic, egregious and ongoing genocide over the last 5000 years on the most ancient living civilization on the planet. Denied by the historians and untold by its victimized survivors, the Hindu holocaust is one of the biggest “crimes against humanity” in world history. Hindus have time and again suffered religious persecution in the form of forceful conversions, massacres, demolition and desecration of temples, confiscation or destruction of property, incitement to hate, imprisonment, torture, murder, destruction of universities and schools and crimes against women and children.
A Hindu youth in Bangladesh has been sentenced to 5 years in jail by a court for alleged blasphemy. Paritosh Sarkar, accused of making blasphemous comments on Facebook, has also been fined 30,000 Taka by the Rangpur Cyber Tribunal. Sarkar was convicted under Digital Security Act by judge Abdul Majid Roy of the tribunal on Wednesday.
Mohammed Hijab, for example, who declared at a pro-Palestine rally in 2021 that “we love death” and rallied the crowds in Leicester with anti-Hindu slurs, referring to them as “violent vegetarians” and declaring he was leading a Muslim patrol, was interviewed on Channel 4.
While some view this as strategic international cooperation, others see it as a potential threat to India’s sovereignty. Is this just another development partnership, or is there a deeper agenda at play?
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