It has been a few months for Hindu nationalists who eagerly awaited Trump’s return to the White House.
There were several wins.
Strategic and defensive connections between India and now For now, it seems stable, after visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House. Modi claimed that, like Trump’s search to “make America again,” (Maga), he also tried to “make India a big big” (Miga). He added, “When America and India work together, when it’s Magus Plus Miga, it becomes a mega – mega partnership for prosperity.”
It was confirmed that Kash Patel was led by the Federal Investigation Office (FBI). Born to Gujarati’s parents, was loudly about his Hindu identity and even expressed support for Construction of Ram mandir In Ayodhya 2024, on the ruins of the 16th -century mosque, she demolished the Hindu nationalist mob back in 1992.
Still, Trump’s return also exposed the background of anti -cept racism in Magi-Verse.
At the end of December, an obvious “civil war” broke out in the center. The trigger was the appointment of Donald Trump to Indian American risky capital, Sriram Krishna, as a senior advisor to politics at the White House for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Krishna’s appointment coincided with the Maga Discussions on the H1B Visa Scheme, which brings in qualified foreign workers to the US. Many have long insisted on the Trump camp that its users – mostly Indians – underestimate US workforce.
Many Trump loyalists, such as the “extremely right -wing provocation” by Laura Loomer, were outraged for their appointment. Loomer has published on X: “It is alarming to see the number of left -wing careers now appointed to serve in the Trump administrator when sharing attitudes that are directly opposed by Trump’s US first agenda.”
On the X he posted on the X to X that people like Krishnan look at “Western Nations as economic zones and nothing more” and have a “business posture of power position in the US Government.” Another agreed and invited President Trump and Vice President Vance to “interview technical workers born in America instead and get their opinion!”
More recently, Elon Musk employee of the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge), Marko Elez, was forced to resign when he was associated with racist posts on social media. One of his posts was “normalizing Indian hatred.” Still, Vice President JD Vance, whose wife and mother of his children is the daughter of Indian immigrants, invited him to rearrange him back. He said that even though he did not agree with Elez’s posts, he did not think “stupid social media activity should ruin the child’s life.” President Trump agreed with his vice president, and Elez was again.
All this is not surprising.
Racism and xenophobia were the central pillar of Trump’s “First” policy. His goals are unfathomrated migrants who have arrived from the US southern borders; refugees and migrants from the Muslim majority countries such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen; and immigrants from what he called “S *** Land Hole” in Africa is Haiti and El Salvador who entered the US through the “Lottery Visa System”. Why “can’t I have more immigrants from Norway” now? Trump wondered.
So, it is hardly wrong that the loyalists of Mag-Koji have been promised a draconian suppression of immigration in Trump’s second mandate-it is uncomfortable with the executive director with brown skin, which advocated lifting caps on green tickets, in the White House. After all, in their eyes, Krishnan points to the old trop of an insidious stranger who takes a job belonging to honest, diligent Americans.
But instead of calling it racism, Hindu groups cry “HinduPhobia”! Why?
Partly, because Trump’s racism and xenophobia have long supported Hindu groups. Generally, Trump considers “good for work” when it comes to Hindu nationalist policy.
Trump and fashion have indeed nurtured a longtime boat. But Trump’s group is not just about this affinity between the two leaders. These are values.
Trump’s contempt for the Dei policy and the affirmative action goes well with Hindu nationalists’ scorn For any liberal conversation on discrimination against Caste, affirmative measures or legislation that protect the rights of marginalized communities, whether at home in India or diaspora. Magar Maga Islamophobia is also the one that Hindu nationalists can be lagging behind. After all, the violence and discrimination of Indian Muslims were a feature of the Hindu nationalist brand of management of the Hindu nationalist brand.
Similarly, Trump’s xenophobia is not considered incompatible with Hindu nationalist conversations. For them, the demonization of unfathomrated migrants or the securitization of Muslim immigrants is only a amplifier to characterize Indian Hindus in the United States as a “model of migrants” that contributes to the American economy and society positively.
But this turning of the tide against the Indian immigrant model is not something they planned. They supported Trump’s racism and xenophobia, hoping that it would spare them appropriately as an exception.
So, incapable of calling him racism – not to expose it to the permission of Trump’s approval – Hindu groups cry “Hinduphobia”.
The policy of charges of “Hinduphobia” is very problematic in this context.
Violence and discrimination are really a reality for Hindus in many places in the world. However, arguing that the attacks on Krishnan and Magi-Verse’s outraction due to the visa scheme H1B is the growth of systemic discrimination of Hindus incorrect.
In fact, the recent study of the Study Hate Studying Center reveals that, although the social media platforms such as X were really full of “anti -indial hatred against the Indians and Indians-American”, these attacks were “not exclusively directed at Hindus.” Instead, they aimed “everyone considering they were Indian origin,” which included Sikha. Generally, according to the statistics of crime from the hatred of the FBI, Hindus are one of the least targeted religious groups in the country.
Nevertheless, the accusation of “Hinduphobia” – the one that is “popularized among Hindu nationalist groups in the United States” – serves a political plan in two ways.
First, it feeds on a longtime Hindu nationalist claim that Indian is synonymous with Hinduism. This argument deliberately overlooks the diversity of religious and ethnic identities that make up the sociocultural tissue of India.
Also false painting Hindus as a system marginalized group – a claim that then surpasses the weapon against academics and activists who criticize Hindu nationalist policy, often leading to threats and rapes to such individuals and their families. It is also used to avoid and delegate any criticism of caste discrimination in India or diaspora and Hindu nationalist speech of hatred and violence against Indian Muslims and Christians.
Unfortunately, the vocabulary of “Hinduphobia” is not just a conversation of Hindu nationalist groups. That could soon become legislation. Congressmen Shri Thannedar introduced a resolution in April 2024, celebrating Hindu contributing to the United States and condemns “Hinduphobia and Bigotia against Hindu”. A year before, the Georgia Assembly also brought a resolution that condemns Hindupobi.
Under Trump 2.0, racism, clearness and discrimination will be a constant feature of everyday life and politics. And false claims of “Hindupobia” only distract us from the actual suffering of the marginalized communities in the country.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeere.
