By Avatans Kumar (The author is an award-winning journalist) Another day and another Hindu Mandir is vandalized and desecrated in the US. This time, it was the turn of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills, Southern California. The perpetrators spray-painted the walls of the Mandir with graffiti that called for death to the land of the Hindus…
Dr. Indu Viswanathan I am a lifelong New Yorker, so, naturally, Saturday Night Live has been a part of my regular media consumption for as long as I can remember. SNL has been the incubator for some of our favorite American comedians, producing fun droplets that sometimes integrate seamlessly into pop culture. (Think Debbie Downer.) At its best, SNL…
Irvine, CA (February 15, 2025): Abduction, rape, forceful marriage, and conversion of Hindu women to Islam is a calculated measure to prevent births within the group and annihilate Hindus. It is a part of the Hindu genocide currently underway in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority state. Calling the exploitation of Hindu women “Womb Jihad,” Prof. Renita Mujumdar, a professor of philosophy in…
By Geeta Sikand Geeta Sikand is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is a community activist, an author specializing in combating anti-Hindu hate narratives in the media, and an influencer to retract anti-Hindu hate narratives. This is a 3-part series: Part I, Part II, Part III (this article) In the previous two parts, the author…
By Geeta Sikand Geeta Sikand is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is a community activist, an author specializing in combating anti-Hindu hate narratives in the media, and an influencer to retract anti-Hindu hate narratives. This is a 3-part series: Part I, Part II (this article), Part III. Below are fifteen responses from American Hindus.…
By Geeta Sikand Geeta Sikand is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is a community activist, an author specializing in combating anti-Hindu hate narratives in the media, and an influencer to retract anti-Hindu hate narratives. This is a 3-part series: Part I (this article), Part II, Part III. Contributions by Hindu Americans to…
By Geeta Sikand, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California Irvine Hindu organizations are experiencing what happens when there aren’t enough adults in the room. A recent report highlights nine significant cases of vandalism targeting Hindu temples across various regions of America, reflecting a troubling trend of anti-Hindu activities. This article takes a deep dive into the role of Hinduphobic organizations…
On November 3, 2024, coordinated attacks were carried out by Khalistani extremists at Hindu temples in Canada, sparking concern and unrest among Hindu Canadians. The incidents took place at the Hindu Sabha Temple in Brampton, Ontario, and the Laxmi Narayan Mandir in Surrey, British Columbia, with protests escalating into violent confrontations and alarming responses from the Canadian police. The Attacks…
By Geeta Sikand, Director of Communications Americans For Hindus Cisco Systems and the Hindu/Indian American community, scored a significant victory in May 2024 when the court penalized the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) in its high-profile caste discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a “Dalit” employee at Cisco. The Civil Rights Department (CRD) has been sanctioned, as the court awarded…
In these turbulent times, the sinister machinations of the organization “HINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS” (HfHR) have plunged the “Hindu” community into a maelstrom of anguish, deprivation, and unrelenting fear. What masqueraded as a bastion of representation for the “Hindu” community has unveiled itself as nothing short of a cesspool of venomous hatred, deliberate misinformation, and the vilest forms of bigotry.…
A report by Professor Geeta Sikand, a Community Activist and Director of Communication at Americans for Hindus, a bipartisan Independent Political Action Committee. An ongoing barrage of venomous hate-filled anti-Hindu narratives has led to the epitome of Hinduphobia, hate-mongering, and bigotry in North America. Of note, the Hinduphobia phenomenon is also known by its many cognate terms like Hindumisia, Hindutvaphobia,…
