How Hindu Nationalism Could Shape the Election

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Journalist Sonia Paul dives into how some activists and donors are trying to use the Hindutva ideology as a wedge issue to attract Indian American voters to the GOP — and to pressure Indian American politicians

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in the district because, the group says, “neither candidate is sufficiently aligned with the interests and values of the Texas Muslim community.”with the Minaret Foundation, a Muslim interfaith and civic engagement organization, he said, “No individual donor is going to influence our campaign’s values, and no one ever has.”

The government prohibits religious nonprofits like the Fremont Hindu Temple from this kind of political activity, says Rebecca Market, a lawyer with the Freedom From Religion Foundation. When I asked Japra about the temple’s politicking, he shrugged it off. “This is only to advertise,” he said. “I don’t think it’s an issue.” The banner had remained in the temple as of late September, as a few people attended an early evening puja.

For Khanna, that his constituents might use his identity to pressure him does not bother him. He says it’s part of being an American politician of Indian descent—an acknowledgement that suggests he and other Indian American politicians can never divorce themselves from their racialized identities in U.S. politics, at least in the current environment. “It’s perfectly fair for them to make any possible argument they can,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

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= rabidly Hinduphobic Hindu Americans r smart ,intelligent ,peace &Ahimsa loving ,empathetic ,inclusive which triggers bigots Hinduism pioneered Ahimsa, invented Yoga, .It has goddesses of learning,knoweldge love It contributed to ancient math,medicine,statecraft

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