A leaked house office report that purports to be “extremist” has drawn the attention of American Hindus, who claim it is a part of a false narrative being promoted around the world to demonize Hindus.
The assessment to determine the future UK government’s counter-extremism plan, written by home company officials and leaked last week to the think tank Policy Exchange, was a piece of a global narrative of “anti-Hindu propaganda,” according to Trupti Patel, president of the Hindu Forum of Britain ( HFB).
She said that in no manner are Hindus in Britain “extremist”. She claimed that the home office had been informed of the HFB’s powerful criticism and that it wanted to see a copy of the report.
” We are a majority among minority in Britain. We excel at what we do, we connect and help. But as HFB, we have to make certain Hindus are not branded as fanatics”, Patel said. There is no proof that Hindutva caused the protests in Leicester in 2022, despite the Policy Exchange report’s claim that it is fabricating the facts. In truth, it was our church, the Shivalaya, that was attacked”, she said.
The questionable” sprint”, commissioned by UK home minister Yvette Cooper, sparked criticism last week as it de-prioritised Islamism, and listed Hindu fanaticism as one of nine new forms of fanaticism. Another contentious claims were made in the report, such as that opposing styling gangs or referring to two-tier police were “far right.”
Security secretary Dan Jarvis was called to the House of Commons to describe it, and he confirmed that officials had rejected the statement, claiming that it was one of “many records produced across state that are not implemented.”
The Policy Exchange writers, in their study of the hole, wrote that” Hindu nationalist fanaticism was a factor in the 2022 Leicester riots and in other acts of coercion” and said the UK state is proper to house” Hindutva” under the limelight.
The Hindu Council UK’s director of diversity and equality, Dipen Rajyaguru, said,” This record demonstrates a prejudiced colonial thinking at its worst and is at its best misinformed and biased.” Any effort to compare Hinduism to fanaticism is misleading and harmful at the same time. Hindus in the UK have faced increasing dislike crimes, church theft, and precise attacks, particularly after the Leicester protests”. The Scottish government statement risks demonizing Hindus, he said, if it doesn’t acknowledge these issues.
He said the word Hindutva is usually misrepresented. For some, it” signifies cultural confidence” and no extremism.
