Performative condemnation by Islamo-leftists masquerading as secularists in response to anti-Hindu attacks is almost always accompanied by monkey balancing, whataboutery, equivocation and drawing an equivalence with the supposed targeting of non-Hindus. In a latest act of monkey balancing, Sunita Vishwanath, the co-founder of anti-Hindu outfit Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), has drawn parallels between the recent “Deport all Dot Heads” disruption by white Christian supremacists Jake Lang and Thomas Allen in Seattle and the supposed forcing of Church congregations in India by Hindus to say ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
Equating ‘right-wing Hindus’ in India with right-wing Christians in the US, Sunita Vishwanath wrote on X on 8th November, “Anti-immigrant sentiment has taken the form of anti-Hindu hatred extreme enough for Christian xenophobes to “storm” a Diwali celebration in Seattle with signs like, “Deport all Dotheads.” This is as heartbreaking as the Hindutva mobs that harrass Christians in India on Christmas, forcing church congregations to say “Jai Shri Ram” at the threat of violence.”
Resorting to a typical Islamo-leftist balancing act, the HfHR co-founder argued that if the hateful and intimidating behaviour of right-wing Christians appals people, they should be equally appalled by the hate and violence Indian Christians are subjected to by Indian right-wing Hindus.
“If we are appalled by this hateful and threatening behavior of right wing Christians towards Hindus, we must be equally appalled by the hate and violence that Indian Christians suffer at the hands of right wing Hindus. Namaste means the divine in me bows to the divine in you. In God, we are connected as one. May this Deepavali bring us all the wisdom to embrace each other across difference. Om Shanti,” Vishwanath added.
Before delving into Sunita Vishwanath’s drawing parallels between Christian supremacists and ‘Hindutva mobs’, it is pertinent to recall what happened in Seattle.
On 7th November 2026, a Diwali celebration in Seattle was disrupted after far-right American activist Jake Lang arrived at the event with a group of protesters carrying anti-Hindu placards. One of the signs read, “Deport All Dot Heads”. Lang and the protesters were confronted by people attending the celebration, who stopped them from interrupting the festivities. In the viral video of the disruption, another anti-Hindu poster read, ‘Stop Hindu Replacement of Christians.’
Sharing the visuals of his degenerate and Hinduphobic act on X, Jake Lang suggested that his hateful gimmick was in response to Hindus ‘flipping’ Texas blue in the recent midterm elections. Land and the broader MAGA racist base, however, refuse to understand that it is their anti-Hindu and anti-India hate that pushed Hindus towards the blue bloc.
Sunita Vishwanath cannot condemn anti-Hindu hate in the US without invoking Christian-Muslim victimhood
The Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR) co-founder Sunita Vishwanath lamented the anti-Hindu expression by Christian xenophobes; however, in the same post, she immediately equated it with ‘Hindutva mobs that harass Christians in India on Christmas’.
This equal-weight comparison between American Christian xenophobes targeting Hindus and alleged ‘Hindutva’ violence against Christians in India, in addition to the conditional “if we are appalled…we must be equally appalled”, shows that performative condemnation by the likes of Sunita Vishwanath is all about presenting a widespread anti-Hindu campaign in the US, including the Seattle incident as a mirror image of rare and standalone incidents in India.
This is a pattern repeated by Islamo-leftists far too many times. In 2024, when Islamists went on a rampage against Hindus in Bangladesh, assaulting, looting, raping and killing them and attacking their temples, the global Islamo-leftist coterie resorted to similar whataboutism. Attempts were made to draw false equivalence between the Islamist pogrom against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh and the imaginary persecution of Muslim ‘minorities’ in India.
While it may appear on the surface, this monkey balancing is less about insisting on moral consistency and more about planting the thought, ‘do not think Hindus are victims; they do the same harassment to other communities in India’.
Are Christians in India subjected to constant online attacks and ridicule regarding their religious beliefs and identity by the Hindu majority? Are Christians in India regularly asked to leave India? Are Indian Christians treated as any less Indian citizens? Are Hindus in India constantly dehumanising Christians? Are Hindus amplifying and normalising genocidal rhetoric against Christians in India? Have churches in India faced as frequent attacks and defacements as Hindu temples in the US?
The answer to these questions is no. There may be specific instances; however, Christians in India are not subjected to constant hate, ridicule, and threats that Hindus in America have been grappling with in recent years. There is no comparison between the situation of the two communities in the two countries.
Establishing equivalence between the situation of Indian Christians and American Hindus and vilifying ‘far right’ Hindus as the other side of the same coin, with one being American Christian supremacists, is dishonest, deceitful and amounts to gaslighting.
Clearly, for Sunita Vishwanath and her ilk, the ideological agenda takes priority over unambiguous solidarity with Hindus against attacks on their religiosity.
In fact, Vishwanath is inciting further hatred against Hindus by pushing this bogey that Hindus persecute Christians in India, handing an easy excuse to Christian supremacists in the US to vilify and attack Hindus.
However, it is not surprising that Sunita Vishwanath resorted to equating anti-Hindu disruption in Seattle with purported incidents of Hindutva mobs forcing Christians on Christmas to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
Islamo-leftists have this unsaid rule that the monopoly of victimhood shall always remain with Muslims in India and the world, and with Christians in the Indian context. In addition, Hindus shall never be allowed to even think that they have been or can be subjected to religious persecution. Basically, it is the rule of denial of victimhood despite real grievances.
Perfectly calling out Sunita Vishwanath’s equivocation, an X user wrote, “You cannot even condemn blatant hate against Hindus without equivocating about your non-existent pet peeve. Imagine if someone did that when condemning anti-muslim hate in US, bringing in ISIS/Taliban killing in the discussion. Kya human rights activist banegi re tu…”
@SunitaSunitaV 😂😂😂 You cannot even condemn blatant hate against Hindus without equivocating about your non-existent pet peeve. Imagine if someone did that when condemning anti-muslim hate in US, bringing in ISIS/Taliban killing in the discussion. Kya human rights activist banegi re tu…
— lsob+ (@lsob_) November 8, 2026
Another one wrote, “Your basic premise is the same as of racists. Every Hindu has to behave in a pristine way as defined by you before they deserve dignity and peace. Since thats impossible, Hindus forever condemned. Thats not the Constitutional scheme. Indian or American. No individual rights?”
@SunitaSunitaV Your basic premise is the same as of racists. Every Hindu has to behave in a pristine way as defined by you before they deserve dignity and peace. Since thats impossible, Hindus forever condemned. Thats not the Constitutional scheme. Indian or American. No individual rights?
— Atish Bagrodia (@atishbazi) November 8, 2026
Notably, Sunita Vishwanath has a long history of fuelling Hinduphobia while downplaying this term itself.
In 2024, Sunita Vishwanath co-authored an opinion piece for the leftist propaganda rag Scroll, headlined: “How ‘Hinduphobia’ is being weaponised in the US”.
Vishwanath portrayed the condemnation from Hindu rights organisations in the US of a 2021 ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ event as weaponisation of Hinduphobia. Throughout the article the HfHR co-founder and the leftist co-author ranted about Hindu nationalism, Hindutva, and relied on half-truths and even lies to suggest that Hinduphobia is not real, definitely not on par with Islamophobia, rather is a weapon used by pro-Modi Hindu nationalists to silence critics.
Sunita Vishwanath and HfHR: Hindu by name, anti-Hindu by agenda
Hindus for Human Rights and its co-founder Sunita Vishwanath are wolves in sheep’s skin. Beyond their Hindu names and outlook, there is nothing remotely pro-Hindu about them.
In fact, HfHR was formed in the year 2019 by two Islamist advocacy groups named Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI). Interestingly, the three organisations had formed another outfit called the Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), which, alongside IAMC, had been at the forefront of leading demonstrations against the visit of PM Modi to Houston on 22nd September 2019.
Sunita Vishwanath also runs an organisation named ‘Women for Afghan Women’, which is funded by the Soros Open Society Foundation. Earlier, OpIndia reported in detail how George Soros had been fuelling a dangerous anti-India narrative through media and ‘civil society.’
The HfHR chief Sunita Vishwanath, who was pictured alongside Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, had attempted to create hysteria and panic among Indian Muslims about the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
“We are especially appalled by the most recent nightmare of the Kashmiri people, and the situation of 1.9 million people in India who are rendered stateless due to the imposition of the travesty called the National Register of Citizens”, Vishwanath had said.
In 2021, ‘Hindus for Human Rights’ also endorsed the anti-Hindu event ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference.
It also came up with a “special toolkit” to propagate against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his State visit to the US in June 2023.
In October 2023, the X (formerly Twitter) account of HfHR was withheld in India in response to a legal demand.
Notably, HfHR’s founding member Raju also heads EKTA. It is an associate organisation of IAMC.
The sole purpose was to have Hindus on the panel to project that the Hindus, in general, were against Hindutva. Interestingly, HfHR ran Facebook ads to promote previous anti-India and anti-Hindu USCIRF reports.
In February 2024, HfHR hosted an event titled ‘Zionism and Hindu Supremacy: partners against Pluralism’ designed to blame Hinduism for supposedly being ‘anti-pluralism.’
In August this year, HfHR endorsed IAMC’s online petition asking people to take part in it to urge Secretary of State Marco Rubio to revoke Bhagwat’s US visa, insisting that otherwise it would “send the wrong message about America’s commitment to religious freedom and the safety of minority communities.”
In August 2024, Sunita Viswanath authored an op-ed for the Islamo-leftist propaganda portal The Wire, attempting to draw a parallel between the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the trials faced by Bhagwan Krishna and the Pandavas in the Mahabharat. Vishwanath essentially asked Hindus to sympathise with Islamic terrorists of Hamas on Krishna Janmasthami.
In August 2026, HfHR’s offshoot Hindus for Human Rights Action and another outfit, SACRED Acts, secured signatures of about 100 US politicians on a pledge against receiving donations from RSS-linked entities or their supporters.
In a press release issued on 31st August, Hindus for Human Rights Action and SACRED Acts said, “– Hindus for Human Rights Action and SACRED Acts announce an historic commitment against hate with nearly 100 American political leaders from across the United States pledging to reject political contributions from the anti-democratic movement behind the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (R.S.S.).”
During Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral candidacy, Sunita Vishwanath had extended support to the Islamist leader.
In an X post, Sunita Vishwanath, who has nothing remotely Hindu about her except her name, said that she, “as a Hindu”, stands with Zohran Mamdani as he faced backlash for supporting anti-semitism and his anti-Hindu comments.
Interestingly, HfHR is funded by the likes of the Tides Foundation, an entity linked to funding pro-Hamas rallies on US university campuses. HfHR’s advocacy efforts often align with those of separatist and extremist groups hostile to Hindu interests.
The Tides Foundation itself has been implicated in numerous activities that go beyond mere political advocacy.
OpIndia’s dossier on Wikipedia documented how Tides is involved in financing several anti-India and anti-Hindu organisations, pushing narratives that distort India’s human rights record and defame Hindu cultural symbols and practices. Their funding of pro-Hamas rallies in US universities further highlights the dubious nature of their agenda. That HfHR receives financial backing from such a source is a clear sign of the broader anti-Hindu nexus being formed in the name of ‘human rights’.
Interestingly, Tides Foundation has links with Progressive International, an entity known to be a part of Chinese Communist Party stooge Neville Roy Singham’s transnational propaganda network ‘House of Singham’.
Progressive International has a pro-Hamas group, the Arab Resource and Organising Centre, as one of its members, which is sponsored by the Tides Foundation. Now, the Tides Foundation has a Roy Singham-funded NewsClick connection.
Tides Foundation is notorious for funding several anti-Hindu, anti-India organisations and elements. The Foundation gave grants to Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), which has links to Islamists and Khalistanis, and was formed in 2019 by two Islamist advocacy groups, the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) athe nd Organisation for Minorities of India (OFMI).
Tides also funded AMAN Public Charitable Trust (AMAN). This trust is connected to the NewsClick-China funding scandal, where it is alleged that Chinese entities funded NewsClick to disrupt Indian sovereignty.
More recently, Hindus for Human Rights has been organising ground protests in the US against imaginary ‘vote chori’ or vote theft in India. During the protests on 2nd October 2026, HfHR members raised slogans created and amplified by anti-BJP political parties, particularly the Congress party in India.
