Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR) is a “Hindu” organisation, using the exact same words as advocates for the religion of peace and the religion of love.
So what does one expect of a “Hindu” group ? Would one expect to see some support for any Hindu cause? Looking through their website, the toxicity is seen to pour right from the introduction where Hindu deities are introduced. Lord Ram is described as the perfect ruler, but with an apologetic “less than ideal husband”. Just the right tone to introduce a bit of doubt into a curious peruser of Hinduism. And then they talk about two deities in South India, and add an off-colour note that the offerings include liquor and animal sacrifices. Again a great opportunity to get the curious peruser to wrinkle their nose with disgust, if they are inclined to digest the news without any further context. They do not even spare Lord Krishna. They very quickly bring in the much maligned five-letter word “caste”, and take great troubles to mention that Lord Krishna was raised as a lower caste. They also play the race card and skin colour card, by mentioning that a particular “Dravidian” deity has a “dark” appearance. No card left unturned !!
They practice a commonly used technique of leftists and the genuine fascists. Mixing truth with propaganda and straight out untruths starts right with their mission statement. It uses the well-accepted Hindu principle of peace, justice and humanity, but then partners with organisations that are indifferent, at best or notoriously anti-Hindu and anti-India, and that support poisoning of the average American’s perspective about Hindu majority in India.
Perhaps, what should ring alarm bells is that they are a member of the Coalition Against Fascism in India (CAFI). Anifa as a terrorist organisation, given their militant ideology. It is not their opposition that one worries about, but the “militant” nature of this opposition (Figure 1), which often involves rioting, burning down cars and buildings and violence. HfHR standing for Human Rights, never ever raises a word for Hindu rights, making one wonder if they have decided that Hindus are not human.
So who makes up the HfHR? It has a bunch of people with strongly militant-activist leanings, Hindu names and Christian faith. Sunita Viswanath, the HfHR, co-founder first co-funded the Women for Afghan Women organisation, standing up obviously for the rights of Afghan women who would be exclusively muslim, given that Afghanistan is 99.8 % Islamic. After that she co-funded Sadhana, another “progressive Hindu” organisation, which has now slowly acquired a habit of guilt-tripping gullible Hindus, into thinking that every festival or act of theirs is environmentally unfriendly.
Sunita is also known to be a member of FOIL (Forum of Inquilabi Leftists). She also co-founded Sadhana and CAFI both anti-Hindu groups. She has endorsed SAHI‘s Holi against Hindutva campaign applauding their “creative approach and…the youthful energy”. This “progressive Hindu” group have not raised their voice against Hindus facing genocide in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Kashmiri Hindus who have faced genocide in the 90’s at the hands of Pakistan backed Islamic terror organisations, Rohingya Hindus who were massacred by Rohingya muslims.
There is an urgent need for the United States and the rest of the world to keep up the pressure on India to take meaningful steps to ease the suffering of the Kashmiri people.
Sunitha Viswanath, 31st January 2020
To top it off, HfHR along with Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) co-sponsored a Congressional briefing that warned the attendees ““preparation for a genocide is definitely underway in India”. On the contrary, Sunita Viswanath endorsed and applauded US Congresswomen Pramila Jaypal’s anti-India resolution on Kashmir. She also supported anti-Kashmir dodgy organisation called Stand With Kashmir (SWK). SWK has time and again denied and whitewashes Kashmiri Hindu genocide by Islamists in Kashmir. One of the supporters of SWK was Ghulam Nabi Fai, Pakistani lobbyist who was arrested by FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
Raju Rajagopal, another Board member is a retired corporate, who now spreads hatred towards Hindu practices in the guise of embracing Christian and Islamic values. It is really sad to see intellectuals who tear down the very Indian structure that nourished them and provided them the education for well-paying jobs abroad. He is the founder of EKTA and Coalition against Communalism. He actively opposed Hindu perspective in 2006 California textbook controversy. He defended anti-Hindu views in American school textbooks saying
“…exposing our children to India’s vibrant pluralistic and ‘argumentative’ traditions, and encouraging classroom discussions on the legacies of racism, caste and gender bias, will serve them better as future citizens, whether of the US or of India.”
Raju Rajagopal, California History book controversy
Sunita Viswanath, Raju Rajagopal and HFHR often peddle that Kashmiri Hindu voices are not genuine and labeled them as ‘stooges’ of a ‘brutal India and Hindutva forces.’
HfHR really is a political organisation with financial support from Christian evangelists and forming political liaisons with Islamist organisations to destabilise India. The motive appears to be to conquer the last bastion in Asia that has remained mostly unconquerable over centuries. A predominantly Hindu nation that was tolerant and accepting of all religions is portrayed as a regressive nation by using words such as “progressive Hindu members from this organisation” that are fighting against the most fashionable fight these days- Islamophobia.
In October 2023, after Hamas entered Israeli villages and killed more 900+ people, Harvard Kennedy School student and Hindus for Human Rights Board member Sravya Tadepalli, signed a document condemning Israel for human rights violation in Gaza and in support of proscribed terror group, Hamas.
The list with names of students of various American schools who have condemned Israel can be read here -https://sites.google.com/view/college-terror-list/
What are the “human rights” that this organisation is currently fighting for? “Shaheen Bagh” has been the epicentre of muslim-instigated violence, and not a non-violent civil disobedience movement. Kashmir, once the land of Hindus, and which is now the breeding ground for jihadis and Islamic terrorists. Flood relief for Kerala, whose communist-chief minister is now embroiled in the more than INR1000 crore (USD1.35 billion) – the state where Hindus are oppressed, their religious identity questioned and Christians and Muslims have a free run. Yet, there is no protest for the Hindus who are killed in Pakistan, Bangladesh or even in India. The only time they help poor Hindus it is with a motive towards conversion to Christianity. They have even welcomed USCIRF’s report 2020 on India designating it as Country of Particular Concern. Raju Rajagopal has gone a step further and has called for ‘sanctions’ against India.
Other members of HfHR are Punya Upadhyaya, a ‘leadership’ expert, Sunil Sakhalkar, architect, who understands his ‘brahmin privilege’, Deepak Gupta, actor and activist, who worked with ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’, Swati Garg, IT professional, Sarvya Tadepalli, very active member who is seen in briefings held by Islamist groups, Bidisha Diswas, a political analyst, Urmila Kutikkad, a graduate student at Harvard and Dr. Shanti Raman, a paediatrician, Sydney, Australia.
HfHR advisory board include Rev. Abhi Jannmanchi, Akriti Bhatia, Faisal Khan, R.P.Ramaunni, Dr.Linda Hess, Martin Macwan, Medha, Dr. Rajamohan Gandhi, singer T.M.Krishna, and fellow FOIL member Dr. Balmurali Natrajan. Alongwith Sunita Viswanath, Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Ria Chakarabarty, Pranay Somayajula, Harita Iswara, Shevani Khatri, form the staff of HfHR.
Volunteers include Aminah Ahmed, Brandon Juhl Sanjana Jaiswal, and Meghana Sudhakar. Aminah Ahmed is also an activist associated with Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), Brandon Juhl is married to Sadaf Hussain. HfHR counts non-Hindus fighting for the rights of Hindus. IAMC and CAIR both are anti-Hindu and have on numerous occasions made fun of Hindus using “cow urine” jibe. CAIR has in the past advertised on their website for a ‘Hate Monitor Intern, Hindutva’ to monitor Hindutva activities in the US. CAIR is a known Muslim Brotherhood front, and deeply anti-Semitic and anti-Hindu. It is also alleged that two individuals working for Islamic Association of Palestine an off-shoot of Hamas, a terror group were founders of CAIR.
In 2022, Hindus for Human Rights released a calendar. The calendar has some very disturbing images – 1. Islamic verses inside Shri Ganesha’s image. 2. A blazer wearing women shown as Goddess Durga and in place of her astra-shastra, the women is seen crying phone, i-pad, pen, calculator, phone, gamin console. 3. Shri Krishna is shown as a transgender women.
On 21st February 2022, H4HR UK has appealed to British Parliamentarians by writing a letter to address Hinduphobia as “Nazi Hate Speech Construct”. According to the letter, “…..we are aware that while racism and prejudice against us is indeed widespread in the UK, it is not directed at us as Hindus. Rather, we experience discrimination & violence because we are brown and viewed as “the other”. In fact, we are sometimes targeted because we are wrongly identified as Muslim-and in this context we are actually victims of Islamophobia”.
On May 12th Kashmiri Hindu Rahul Bhat was shot dead by Pakistan sponsored terrorists for being a Hindu in Kashmir. HfHR didn’t tweet or send out condolences for the departed atma. On the 25th May 2022, our twitter search yielded zero results with the name Rahul Bhat from their timeline. The # Rahul Bhat yielded one result, not a condolence but propaganda article blaming BJP.
They go on to insist Hindus do not face any race attacks nor do they face violence or racism. These insist Hinduphobia doesn’t have a structural basis nor should it be classified as racism.
H4HR is a co-partner for an anti-India, anti-Hindu three day summit to be held from the 26th-28th of February 2022. The summit is titles “India on the Brink:Preventing Genocide”.
Hindus for Human Rights have representatives for Australia and New Zealand. H4HR Australia representative is Dr.Shanti Raman. In the below pic, Dr. Shanti Raman is seen with The Humanism Project‘s Dr. Mohammed Haroon Kasim.
Hindus for Human Rights New Zealand representative is Dr. Mohan J Dutta and also has AAPI (Aotearoa Alliance of Progressive Indians) founder Dr. Sapna Samant as their members. H4HR came out in support of Dutta when he wrote a Hinduphobic white paper series accusing Chinamaya Mission of Islamphobia.
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