Incidents of ‘Hinduphobia’ or anti-Hindu campaigns are becoming more apparent India At the United Nations, warning the world about its dangers, even anti-Sikh and anti-Buddhist phobias, and calling for a more balanced discussion.
Recently, researchers from Rutgers University in the US found evidence of a sharp rise in hate speech cases against Hindus on social media platforms.
According to their analysis of 1 million tweets, Iranian trolls spread anti-Hindu stereotypes, creating memes to create division as part of their campaign to accuse the community of committing genocide on minorities.
The director of both the Miller Center and the Eagleton Institute, John J. “Unfortunately, the bigotry and violence faced by the Hindu population is nothing new,” Farmer Jr said. Politics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. “What is new is the context of social media in which hate messages are being shared. Our prior work has shown a correlation between the intensity of hate messages on social media and the explosion of acts of violence in the real world. ,
‘Anti-Hindu Disinformation: A Case Study of Hinduphobia on Social Media’ describes how popular modes of social media interaction such as memes, messages are increasingly being shared within extreme Islamic web networks on Telegram and elsewhere. Is.
Hinduphobic code words and memes reached record highs in July, especially in relation to religious tensions in India and the recent beheading of a man in Udaipur. Most of the social media platforms are unaware of the code words being used to spread hatred in the form of images, messages.
“Our hope is that this report serves as a timely warning before hate messages lead to violence in the real world,” said Denver Rigelman, a former US Congressman and Miller Center Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar.
The analysis is based on reports from the NCRI and Rutgers Centers released in 2020 that examine conspiracy theories and the use of social media to spread hate and real-world violence.
Last year, departments from over 50 US universities, including Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, organized a three-day global academic conference on the rise of Hindu nationalism. The ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference’ to look at Hindu supremacist ideology was strongly criticized by Hindu groups in India and abroad for being “Hindu phobic” and demanding its cancellation.
The convention was condemned by many, including Ohio State Senator Neeraj Antani, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America, the Alliance of Hindus in North America and the Hindu American Foundation, saying it was “misleading and misogynistic” to refer to Hindus as advocates of extremism. portrays from”.
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