If you have not heard of the Hindu American Foundation, stay away and spread the word they are not Hindu but Leftist traitors. They have been around for more than a decade and push themselves into everything, hogging up the limelight with their ill-gotten Democratic connections on Capital Hill. They try to claim themselves as the largest "Hindu" advocacy group in the USA even though they are universally hated by half of the Hindu community, particularly the substantial right-wing.
We have reported on HAF on this blog before and their anti-Republican, anti-White rhetoric. Back in 2018 HAF attacked a local Fort Bend Texas Republican advocacy group for putting up an ad that featured Ganesh with interpretation of his symbolism, but they presumed to attack the ad for all Hindu because it begged the question “would you worship a donkey or an elephant? The choice is yours.” HAF said the ad was offensive but it really wasn't. First, yes, some Hindus do worship animals, and what of it HAF? They were just trying to look more Western than Westerners. The ad was run in the Indian Herold and the staff had viewed and approved the ad beforehand. All of the complaints came from Democrat Indians who had an agenda.
During the 2016 election, HAF put up a racist anti-White article called "The Racialization of Religion Began Long Before Today’s Islamophobia" in of course the Huffington Post. The article took aim directly at Trump's then proposal to slow down immigration from particular Islamic theocratic states in the Middle East which were known to harbor large numbers of terrorist organizations and Sharia Law activists. The article completely misrepresented the community's concerns about immigration from Islamic Theocracies by trying to paint the opposition as not being against theocracy but being racist. The article strongly implied that Whites were racializing Islam, that their concerns were not about Sharia Law and infiltration by Islamic terrorists from known danger zones, but simply that Whites were anti-brown racists. The implication was that this anti-brown racism could spill over into anti-Hinduism. The Hindu American Foundation hurt the sentiments of Whites and Hindu friends of Whites by implying modern Whites were too ignorant and simply wicked to want to know the difference between race and religion.
When Hindus For Trump started our campaign, HAF was one of the first Leftist organizations to attack us. For our logo we copied the BJP's montage of depicting politicians such as Modi seated upon a lotus flower. When the BJP puts Modi at the center of a lotus it would seem that this is not offensive, however when the person seated in the lotus is Donald Trump, this is deemed inflammatory by the Hindu American Foundation. HAF sent tweets to our twitter account requesting we change our poster so as not to bring disrepute upon the lotus and om symbol. Why did HAF single us out for using imagery which has been standard propaganda for the BJP and Hindu politics for years now? This poster was created by nothing but Hindus, HAF had no right to criticize standard Hindu political artwork just because the art now featured Donald Trump.
We are kicking ourselves that we did not download and save the Houston Chronicle's article written by the Hindu American Foundation's National Leadership Council member Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria, because HAF must have changed the article in response to the negative outrage, which was deserved, and now we don't have the original quotes of issue for this blog. The original title of the article was "I'm Hindu. But not like that", and to understand this issue, that title is all you need to know. You can see above we screen captured the original title on HAF's facebook page and you will notice the URL to the article, now titled "I'm Hindu. But I'm also me" still carries the original title. If anyone has the original version of the article please send it to us.
Origina URL
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-m-Hindu-But-not-like-that-Opinion-13958155.php
We wish we had the direct quotes, but in the article, HAF made it clear they are disparaging of and don't want to be associated with Hindutva (Hindu Nationalism); just the title, "But not like that", dehumanizing Hindus who support Hindutva. HAF has admitted in their own articles they have no staff who espouse Hindutva politics. Would any group claim to be the largest Jewish advocacy group but say they have no Zionists on their team? Would any group claim to be the premier voice of Islam in American without even one Muslim on their board who believes in Sharia Law? Would any supposedly Catholic organization ever subtly disavow the theocratic nation-state of the Vatican? Would these seemingly distance themselves from theocratic movements within the community? Would any of these groups ever refer to any section of their coreligionists as "that"? No, they wouldn't, because not only would that be political suicide, it would also painfully reveal that said organizations did indeed absolutely not speak for all of its coreligionists and indeed looked down on many of them, working against them.
"HAF’s current team spans both the political and religious spectrum, most of whom have a distaste for Indian politics of any sort, and none of whom espouse Hindutva politics." - Sheetal, HAF Senior Director
"Coalition Against Reality: Deconstructing an Attack on the Hindu American Foundation" Retrieved 6/12/2019 From: https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/omsweetom/2014/01/coalition-against-reality-deconstructing-an-attack-on-the-hindu-american-foundation.html#K6YfZUVOTIKUDzEQ.99
Yet there is another scandal HAF is involved in and that is their alliance with the anti-Hindutva organization Sadhana. There has been a steady and persistent organized movement to establish Diwali as a school holiday in both NYC and New Jersey for decades now. Many of the persons and organizations which have joined this coalition are Hinduists who do support Hindutva, and no one would question this if Zionists or Islamists were involved in similar campaigns for their own community, it's only scandalous when the organizers are Hindutva. HAF was well aware of and invited to join this large coalition which spanned dozens of organizations and thousands of Hindus. However, HAF chose to quietly launch their own separate campaign for Diwali that was not only not purely Hindu (they made it an interfaith movement) but they also engaged with Sadhana, a long mistrusted and contentious anti-Hindutva organization. HAF would, of course, have known that snubbing the already establish Hindu Holidays campaign, and siding with such a scandalous organization like Sadhana, this would alienate and aggravate their Hindu support base in the regions, but again HAF just does not seem to care about their membership and donation pool, it's almost as if they don't need us, HAF even tried to poach our collaboration with the Mayor's Office away from us, whose side are they on?
As for HAF's chosen partner Sadhana, here is what they have to say about legitimate and respectable Hindutva:
(Images may be blurry on a mobile phone, to read click on the image)
(Images may be blurry on a mobile phone, to read click on the image)
So now it should be no surprise that the Hindu American Foundation has pushed Kamala Harris on their Facebook page. They published an article by CNN on Kamala Harris' Indian roots and why they matter. Kamala Harris stated on the census that she is "African American", not Asian American, and she has rarely made her Indianess as part of her campaign. Kamala Harris' Indian roots only matter because she is using them in a sleazy way to gain Indian and Hindu votes, even though her Hindu mother chose to raise her daughter's Baptists... why didn't Harris go for a hybrid religion and why does she rarely if ever highlight her Hindu heritage? Harris knows if she overemphasized her Indian and Hindu background it could dampen the ardor of the Christain Black community's identification with her who make up a larger proportion of the electorate than Hindus. When it comes to numbers Harris puts certain minorities above others. Not to mention that Harris knows if she emphasized her Hindu roots should could lose the Islamist vote. And Harris is also partially White, yet that is really never mentioned by the Left... and HAF has proven their lowly opinion of Whites. Both Hindus and Whites need to call out HAF on their racialist politics.
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