The Mayor office of Edison, a town in New Jersey, USA with a sizeable Hindu population on Wednesday (July 28) recognised July as ‘Hindu persecution awareness month.’ At a time when the lexicon ‘Hinduphobia’ is berated and dismissed by the left-liberal brigade, New Jersey’s fifth-largest municipality accepting it comes as a big breakthrough for the entire diaspora community.
A Twitter handle named ‘Hindu on Campus’ that has worked extensively in the past to bring out stories of Hinduphobia on American University campuses shared the news report.
BREAKING: Edison, NJ’s 5th largest municipality (with significant Hindu population) recognizes Hinduphobia & July as Hindu Persecution Awareness Month!
Thank you to the brave Hindu students who worked for this big win! pic.twitter.com/MJel7BDDCr
— Hindu On Campus (@hinduoncampus) July 30, 2021
Mayor Lankey in the official document stated how Hindus had been facing persecution and discrimination over their religious beliefs over the years, “Whereas, Hinduism is one of the world’s major religions, with over 1 billion global adherents; and whereas historically, as well as in the present day, Hindus have faced persecution and discrimination based on their religious beliefs, including in South Asia; and whereas, our own state, New Jersey, witnessed attacks in the late 1980s aimed at Hindu Indian immigrants, which were perpetrated by the Dotbusters…”
He further stated remarked, “Therefore, be it resolved that L. Thomas Lankey, Mayor of the Township of Edison, de hereby proclaim July as Hindu Persecution Awareness Month to memorialize the discrimination and injustice that members of the Hinds faith face, and to reaffirm our township’s commitment the American ideal of the freedom to freely and peacefully practice one’s religion. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have herunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of Edison to be affixed, this 28th Day of July, in the Year Two Thousand and Twenty One,”
Earlier this year, news stories of Hinduphobia from Indiana University made the headlines across the globe. As reported by TFI, a Hindu student at Indiana University was bullied by Aurangzeb-loving Hindu hater Audrey Truschke and other Hinduphobes for writing against Hinduphobia.
Rama Sardar, a freshman student at the University had written an opinion article on the matter after interviewing several Hindu victims on the campus. The article raked in substantial views and went viral overnight. However, after the likes of Audrey pulled the strings, the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) management unceremoniously decided to un-publish the entire article citing a flimsy reason that the ‘edits would be too lengthy anyway’. Moreover, to make the axing of the article legit, the management further claimed that the article did not meet the journalistic ethics and standards.
Audrey is the same vile person who went after Rashmi Samanth, the ex-president-elect of the Oxford University Student Union. She bullied, threatened, ridiculed and forced to resign Rashmi from her post for being a Hindu.
Similarly, after Rutgers University passed the historic resolution to adopt a scholarly definition of Hinduphobia, Audrey even stalked the parents of the students who had attended the ‘Understanding Hinduphobia Conference.’
Read More: Students of Rutgers University in Newark file online petition against Hindu hater Audrey Truschke
Hinduphobia is a rampant phenomenon in the West and the fact that certain sections have difficulty even digesting the usage of the word, reeks of xenophobia. Edison has set a template and hopefully, other municipalities and states follow the suit in the USA.
lol.. what ever that means… Hindus (and i am one) are the most disjointed , weak, greedy and self centric community on the face of earth. that’s why every one take Hindus for granted and literally walk over them…. Need to man up and get the act together and then only rest of the world will take you seriously.
you can sit here and keep patting on your or Modi’s back for rest of life, Just an acknowledgement from a dude who is trying to increase their sales in a country of 1.3b population means nothing lol..
‘disjointed, weak, greedy, self-centric’…. you’re describing yourself there. You should ‘man up’ and give your real name ‘dude’. Lol.
It’s just one mayor of one town. Not even the university white supremacist professors in THAT town, what to say of all the other institutions of “higher” learning in that declining country. We need to recognize Hinduphobia in India itself first, anyways. That’s where Hindus are living as refugees (ie. Northeast, Kashmiris, Bengalis, Sindhis) and the constitution isn’t helping them, what to say of the propagation of Sanatan Dharma.
Hinduphobia exists and there are enough historical facts, incidents and survivors exists in the society so it’s time to start making amendments to constitution to recognize Hinduphobia and it’s time all Hindus to unite and stand together to demand laws to deal crimes against Hindus.
Absolutely 💯. We need to recognize it in India first. We need to start listing out events of hinduphobia and genocide of Hindus. We need our own information correct first.