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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder why noone here seems to be aware of (or brought up) these:

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/american-sangh-affair-tulsi-gabbard
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/tulsi-gabbard-unites-bloodstained-modi-genocidal-assad-putin-and-the-u-s-far-right-1.6870890
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/05/tulsi-gabbard-2020-hindu-nationalist-modi/

The first one is a carefully researched article, documenting the peculiar trajectory of this lady, fueled at least to some extent by a Hindu right-wing organization of the worst kind (brace yourselves now for those trolls to land on this thread, if they are not here already- they are vicious, relentless, populous, and dumb). I have no idea how the dots - Assad, Russians, Modi, Hindu right-wing - connect, or whether they connect at all. The most benign explanation is that they do not connect, and that Gabbard just has a set of world views and contrarian policy positions that endear her to the extremes of the right and left, who are actually much closer to each other ideologically than they would admit.[/quote]

Ridiculous. The ‘carefully’ researched article is written by a Pieter Friedrich. A well know Hinduphobe that writes anti Hindu hate speech for his social media posts all the time. I wonder if it would be okay to call out any other politicians based on the religion of donors. He’s also been investigated by the a United States for trying to purchase semi and automatic weapons to support Khalistani terrorists.

Caravan refused to publish any rebuttal to the racist article and there have been several. Here’s a couple:

https://medium.com/@tjmcnulty_79436/debunking-pieter-friedrichs-tulsi-narrative-1085649b2810

https://www.hafsite.org/hindu-amerrican-foundation-writes-caravan-magazine-article-targeting-hindu-american-political-donors

No need to even go any further as I’m sure your other links are just as slanted. You clearly hate Hindus and need a way to link Tulsi to propaganda to smear her for being Hindu. Say all you want about her being the Russian favorite or the whatever, but trying to add in anti-Hindu garbage to fit your discriminatory agenda will only backfire.

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Being anti-RSS - the self-appointed guardians of their version of, hard-right, reactionary Hinduism - is not synonymous with being "anti-Hindu"; any more than being anti-right wing evangelism is synonymous with being anti-Christian, or anti-Wahabism is synonymous with anti-Islam.  But that's what you guys regurgitating RSS talking points do - attack the messenger as being "anti-Hindu", "anti-India", and most ironically (for an organization whose founders expressed admiration for Hitler), "racist". The second link you posted is a screed published by a RSS outlet attacking the author of the Caravan piece, not a factual rebuttal of the article itself. The first one is slightly better. I will leave it to the readers to judge which of the articles on both sides of the story are more credible. The other links I posted, including one from the Haaretz, that you have conveniently ignored are pretty convincing. I will leave it to your RSS friends to find reasons to attack the authors of those pieces as well.

I am still trying to understand why a "progressive" democrat supposedly espousing left-wing views would be supported by RSS. Even an RSS diehard will be hard-pressed to argue that it is a progressive organization. Five minutes of google search on the writings of Hedgewar, Savarkar and others will demonstrate that. And the latest (2018) report by the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, undoubtedly staffed by diehard "Hindu-haters" as well (sarcasm alert), seems to suggest that the modern RSS has not strayed far from the ideology of their founders. This article summarizes it well (you are welcome to read the original report also).
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/religious-freedom-conditions-continued-downward-trend-in-india-in-2017-uscirf/articleshow/63943718.cms

A sample from the above article: ""Conditions for religious minorities have deteriorated over the last decade due to a multifaceted campaign by Hindu-nationalist groups like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang (RSS), Sangh Parivar, and Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) to alienate non-Hindus or lower-caste Hindus," the USCIRF said. The victims of this campaign include Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains, as well as Dalit Hindus, who belong to the lowest rung in the Hindu caste system, the USCIRF said in its latest annual annual report on international religious freedom."

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