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| 2002-09-25 |
| Hindu hardline groups are active in at least 40 U.S. universities operating under different names and are busy spreading "communal feelings" in the Indian community, says a sociologist from New York. Aditi Desai, a former lecturer at Delhi University, has studied Hindu-Muslim relations closely. Based in New York, Desai is a consultant for the U.N. and is an active worker on issues relating to civil society, gender and environment. "These cells with strong leanings to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal are teaching young minds to hate. Communal feelings are spreading among the NRI community in the U.S. You can almost feel it in the air," Desai said. I hate that Hindu extremism. When you can feel it in the air, it sticks to your teeth. Ucky. "Funds for these organisations are also coming in substantial amounts from all across the world. After the Gujarat earthquake last year, Indians in the U.S. regardless of caste and creed contributed generously to support the reconstruction process. But this time finances have not been forthcoming for victims of the communal violence. In one city in the U.S. where 1,400 families of Indian origin reside, only $700 was raised. It shows communal divisions have sprouted in the U.S. too." I don't think it's Hindu extremism that we have to worry about at this moment... The Gujarat violence was blamed mainly on the VHP and Bajrang Dal, both of which are closely linked to the Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules Gujarat. Along with the RSS, India's most influential Hindu group, all these groups are collectively known as the "Sangh Parivar". RSS is the Hindu version of the Brownshirts and should be stamped out in India. Gujarat's supremo, Modi, is a crook and something of a paragon of ineptitude; he should be dumped. But it takes a finely tuned set of extremism detectors to find raging Hindoo extremism in the U.S., unlike Muslim extremism, which people are spending more time than ever scraping off their shoes... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Ceteris paribus, aren't Islamic harldine groups active in at least 40 US universities operating under different names and are busy spreading "dar al-harb" feelings in the Muslim community the greater threat? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-09-25 13:21:32 |