The events titled “The Weaponization of Hinduism in Northern Carolina and India and the Relationships to Global Religious Nationalisms” are being co-organised by the Islamist group IAMC. The additional sponsorship for these anti-Hindu events comes from the White Christian Nationalisms Task Force of the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church.
American conservative media outlet 'The Blaze' has recently hired Matt Forney, the man who has made a career out of racist bigotry. By employing Forney, The Blaze hasn’t hired a reporter, it’s hired a professional Hinduphobe with an archive of online hate.
This is not the only time that the Sahitya Akademi is embroiled in controversy for offending Hindu sentiments. The institution is notorious for providing platform to Hinduphobic ideologies.
As reported earlier, Mahua Moitra replied, “I agree”, on a post that encouraged racist hate towards Hindus and described Diwali as ‘ret*rded’. “Just like that, we’ve let braindead fucking Indians turn our beautiful Western countries into total shitholes with their retarded Diwali garbage that has zero to do with us,” a Christian extremist account had tweeted on which Moitra responded.
Another 'America First' activist called the Trump administration a “joke” as US President Donald Trump celebrated Diwali in the White House along with prominent Hindu Americans.
The Republican leaders referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people”. They also discussed putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery, POLITICO reported.
On 5th October 2025, Mamdani visited two of the oldest Hindu temples in New York’s Flushing, the Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapathy Temple and the Hindu Temple Society of North America. Visuals of him receiving a warm welcome at the temple wearing garland and scarf surfaced online. The people around him were seen holding placards reading “Hindus for Zohran for New York City”.
Rutgers University’s ‘Hindutva in America’ discussion projected Hindu groups as extremists while legitimising Khalistani and Islamist propaganda, using academic platforms to distort facts and attack legitimate Hindu advocacy organisations working for community rights and interfaith harmony in the United States.