paganphobia

Catherina Bray writes on 23 March 2024 in the Guardian, reviewing the biopic movie Swatantara Veer Savarkar, about the Indian freedom fighter and Hindu revolutionary. As the person who coined the term Hindutva, this was hardly going to get a positive response from the Guardian. This newspaper, the bastion of the left-wing white elite and [...]

Accusations of media bias are nothing new. But the BBC has been consistently negative in its reporting on India, especially with regard to Hindu issues. Although not alone in this, the BBC is a legacy brand that somehow awards itself a high degree of impartiality and integrity. That of course has become an unhealthy joke [...]

An African Islamist migrant was arrested under suspicion of vandalizing a Shinto shrine in Japan while proclaiming ‘the only god is Allah,’ according to reports. Surveillance footage shows an African male clad in yellow garb striding across the grounds at Mizuoka Hachiman Shrine before stopping to kick and smash items at an offertory box. [...]

As the Leicester violence demonstrated, Hinduphobia is manifesting itself more and more in the West, especially in the Anglosphere. What are the roots of this phenomenon, and why is the Hindu minority which considers itself a ‘well-assimilated, model minority’ facing apathy from Western governments despite brazen hate crimes? We discuss the colonial-era roots of this [...]

In this period the dirty propaganda war has been raging on to an increasingly open attack to "dismantle" Hinduism, firing all possible ammunition, old and new, against the last stronghold of Dharma, in the desperate attempt to stop the Hindu Resurgence before it grows up to finally come of age. The greatest danger of the present [...]

A controversy has broken out over a reported conference at the University of Toronto in Canada. The topic of the conference is reported to be 'Dismantling Global Hindutva'. Members of the Indian diaspora in Canada reportedly held protests against the conference, asking the University to withdraw its endorsement of the event. They reportedly marched to [...]

A prominent American State Senator has strongly condemned hosting of the ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference and described it as an anti-Hindu gathering as several universities asked the organisers to remove their logos from the site of the event which has generated outrage among Hindu Americans. “This conference represents a disgusting attack on Hindus across the [...]

“And above all, don’t let us forget India, the cradle of the human race, or at least of that part of it to which we belong, where first Mohammedans, and then Christians, were most cruelly infuriated against the adherents of the original faith of mankind. The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols, [...]

Hinduphobia is a modern term for a far more ancient practice. Hindu Human Rights have traced historical roots in their articles for religious persecution of Hindus since Islamic and British colonialisms. The experiences of Hindus may have other terms to describe them. This list is an evolving document, set up to clarify the historical context for [...]

After the world suffered another grim reminder of the merciless Islamist ideology, the Solas Centre for Public Christianity warned instead that the re-emergence of Paganism in Scotland was one of the biggest threats to civilization. On Sunday 15 November 2015 the news media carried extensive commentary to the effect that Islamism, as displayed by Isis [...]