Week 120: Online Mobs and Hinduphobia, Who's Hinduism?

4/3/2022 - Modern Hindu Content

Welcome to this week’s issue of Eternal Path.

Hinduphobia Highlight: Online Muslim Mobs try to cancel Kashmiri Hindu

Raqib Naik, a Kashmiri Muslim reporter who often writes for Al-Jazeera - a state-owned broadcasting corporation of the Islamic extremist Kingdom of Qatar - unleashed an online lynch mob of Muslims on Rajiv Pandit, Hindu American Foundation board member, and Kashmiri Hindu in relation to a tweet Dr. Pandit made around reaction to the Kashmir files

Raqib Hameed Naik @raqib_naik

Rajiv Pandit, a Texas, US-based ENT specialist who works at @methodistdallas, @MethodistSurg, endorsing calls for genocide of Kashmiri Muslims. Pandit is also a board member of Hindu American Foundation, which shares close ties with Sangh Parivar groups in the US.

Rajiv of course denied the claim by Naik, and Dr. Pandit’s claim was clearly was about ensuring that terrorists and perpetrators of genocide be punished.

Rajiv Pandit @rajiv_pandit

Endorsing a genocide? How dare you @raqib_naik. I'm a Kashmiri Hindu whose family members were killed, faced ethnocide & ethnic cleansing. I want those terrorists that perpetrated that violence to face consequences––only them. That is what retribution means. Delete the tweet

Islamic extremists inspired by Raqib Naik, and supported by other noted Hinduphobic bigots like “South Asia analyst” Pieter Friedrich, Wayne State Law Professor Khaled Beydoun, Rutgers “scholar” Audrey Truschke, tried to get Dr. Pandit fired. Earlier this year, an Islamic extremist in Texas held up a synagogue and took hostages for hours, so calls by Muslims to cancel Hindus here are part of an overall pattern of silencing and violence.

CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, also took to attacking Dr. Pandit, the Hindu American Foundation, and Hindu groups for extremism. The ironic thing is that CAIR’s founders have clear ties to terrorist groups like Hamas, and CAIR rhetoric often gets repurposed by terrorists.

The lessons here are that Islamic extremists, not content with lynching Hindus in the subcontinent itself, are now trying to silence outspoken diaspora Hindus drawing attention to their perfidy. Readers would benefit from staying vigilant to ensure that Islamic extremist cancel mobs, propaganda, and voices are quickly countered and unmasked.

Humor Highlight: Ro Khanna Gets Ratio’d

In response to a video from some Indian people criticizing Congressman Ro Khanna and questioning his fitness to represent Indians and the Hindu community in Congress, Ro Khanna responded with this interesting tweet:

Why was this a dumb tweet? Because it took three people (ignoring Sen’s grandfather) with extremely different ideas of Hinduism, two of which were non-Hindu, and conflated some sort of “Hinduism” from their beliefs.

• Ambedkar - Converted out of Hinduism, was a sharp critic of Islam, complex relationship with early Hindu nationalists, against varna system, and a modernist

• Gandhi - Hindu, very accommodating to Islam, pro-varna system, opposed to Hindu nationalism, and opposed to modernization

• Sen - Atheist, very pro-modernist

One cannot fashion a coherent Hinduism from two non-Hindus and a Hindu, nor do the two non-Hindus have similar visions for Hinduism! Three of the best roasts of and responses to Khanna’s tweet came from:

Mukunda Raghavan (link):

Kushal Mehra (link):

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (link):

Aesthetic: Tamil Nadu Lord Shiva Temple

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