hinduphobia

India’s government has rejected the findings of a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom that criticized the treatment of religious minorities since it came to power last year. The commission’s 2015 report said that since Narendra Modi’s party took over, religious minorities have been subject to derogatory comments by politicians linked [...]

Many people will tell me, “I practice yoga, I sing kirtan, and I study the Bhagavad Gita and Indian philosophy. I meditate, I believe in an all pervasive consciousness that is manifest as the Universe itself. People have called it by many names and it has been represented by various forms. I study herbal medicine [...]

Dr Koenraad Elst discusses Hindu Bashing and Hinduphobia in today's Media and Academia across the world left unchallenged by the present ruling party the BJP and Hindu organizations.He also discusses anti Hindu/India groups set up by Indians in the west along with their backers for military intervention/ armed resistance to balkanize India.Also Dr Elst proves [...]

Hindu Human Rights talks to Indian parliamentarian and academic, Dr Subramanian Swamy, and Dr Koenraad Elst of Belgium, for the interview they gave on 5 April 2015, in London. In this short film various issues are discussed notably media bias, the concept of Hindu Rashtra, secularism and the lack of effective Hindu think tanks and [...]

“What is more of a hate crime: when a stone is thrown at a church by a drunkard or when respected clergy declare without any proof that Hindus are damned to eternal hell-fire if they don’t become a member of the Church, and when they brainwash Christian children to believe this? Will TV anchors be [...]

Vamsee Juluri, professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco, speaks up for the anonymous Hindu who, he says, was silent all those years of colonial rule only to be criticized as an ‘oppressor’ post-Independence. His new book ‘Rearming Hinduism’ seeks to restore to the millennia-old faith its intellectual heritage by reintroducing Hinduism [...]

National Council of Hindu Temples (UK) – Press Release Oxford University bars Dr Subramanian Swamy & Rajiv Malhotra – Cancels lecture on “Indias Economy” & “Revisionist History” The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and [...]

“I am 78 and thought it is time to speak out. The ordinary people like me are happy and content. We feel no persecution or discrimination and are not on the hit list. Even if we are, truth cannot be hidden. In fact it was the Church which had crucified TRUTH and continues to do [...]

(Speech given at the Dharma Civilization Foundation’s Strategic Retreat, SVYASA, Jigani/Bengaluru, 5-7 February 2015) A knife is sharpened by shaving away all the superfluous material that makes it dull. A sharp knife is a live case of “less is more”: less material means more sharpness. At an action-oriented “strategic retreat”, our knife should be sharpened [...]

Many of my Hindu friends, intelligent, cultured people, whom I respect, have loved the film PK. This set me thinking: I know that most Hindus do not mind being made fun off and that their religion allows for near unlimited tolerance.But nevertheless, as a friend of the Hindus here are my arguments: 1) Obviously amir [...]