HAF & Sadhana are anti-Hindutva, and so anti-Hindu

I am kicking myself right now that I did not download and save the Houston Chronicle's article written by the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) National Leadership Council member Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria, because HAF must have changed the article in response to the negative outrage, which was deserved, and now I don't have the original quotes of issue for my blog. The original title of the article was "I'm Hindu. But not like that", and to understand this issue, that title is all you need to know. You can see above I screen captured the original title on HAF's facebook page and you will notice the URL to the article, now titled "I'm Hindu. But I'm also me" still carries the original title. If anyone has the original version of the article please send it to me. 

Origina URL
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-m-Hindu-But-not-like-that-Opinion-13958155.php

I wish I had the direct quotes, but in the article, HAF made it clear they are disparaging of and don't want to be associated with Hindutva (Hindu Nationalism); just the title, "But not like that", dehumanizing Hindus who support Hindutva. HAF has admitted in their own articles they have no staff who espouse Hindutva politics. Would any group claim to be the largest Jewish advocacy group but say they have no Zionists on their team? Would any group claim to be the premier voice of Islam in American without even one Muslim on their board who believes in Sharia Law? Would any supposedly Catholic organization ever subtly disavow the theocratic nation-state of the Vatican? Would these seemingly distance themselves from theocratic movements within the community?  Would any of these groups ever refer to any section of their coreligionists as "that"? No, they wouldn't, because not only would that be political suicide, it would also painfully reveal that said organizations did indeed absolutely not speak for all of its coreligionists and indeed looked down on many of them, working against them. 

"HAF’s current team spans both the political and religious spectrum, most of whom have a distaste for Indian politics of any sort, and none of whom espouse Hindutva politics." - Sheetal, HAF Senior Director 

"Coalition Against Reality: Deconstructing an Attack on the Hindu American Foundation" Retrieved 6/12/2019 From: https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/omsweetom/2014/01/coalition-against-reality-deconstructing-an-attack-on-the-hindu-american-foundation.html#K6YfZUVOTIKUDzEQ.99

I have called out HAF for their conspicuously and extremely suspiciously damning political statements and movements in the past. Recently I wrote a report (here) on how HAF had the audacity to go to Israel and have Hinduism defined by the Chief Rabbis of the Zionist state to be both monotheistic and "not idolatry", HAF also made it very clear in documents that they did not want Hinduism to be associated with polytheism and idolatry, thus damning Hindu polytheist idolators whom HAF obviously does not care to speak for, does not care to integrate, and indeed would even like to see eliminated. Wait, so HAF has no problem flying to a Jewish state and having religious governmental officials define Hinduism to meet Zionist expectations, but they want to distance themselves from Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism? So it is ok for Jews to fight for and have a Jewish State, but it's not ok for Hindus to do the same? How is it that HAF is able to be the so-called "largest" Hindu advocacy group in America yet they have zero apprehension about alienating huge swaths of their alleged constituency - Hindutva, polytheist, idol worshipping Hindus. Where are these people getting their money from? Do you know anyone who has not described HAF as cold, haughty, dismissive, elitist, pompous, insular and disconnected from the community? How are these people still in operation? 

Yet there is another scandal HAF is involved in and that is their alliance with the anti-Hindutva organization Sadhana (here). There has been a steady and persistent organized movement to establish Diwali as a school holiday in both NYC and New Jersey for decades now. Many of the persons and organizations which have joined this coalition are Hinduists who do support Hindutva, and no one would question this if Zionists or Islamists were involved in similar campaigns for their own community, it's only scandalous when the organizers are Hindutva. HAF was well aware of and invited to join this large coalition which spanned dozens of organizations and thousands of Hindus. However, HAF chose to quietly launch their own separate campaign for Diwali that was not only not purely Hindu (they made it an interfaith movement) but they also engaged with Sadhana, a long mistrusted and contentious anti-Hindutva organization. HAF would, of course, have known that snubbing the already establish Hindu Holidays campaign, and siding with such a scandalous organization like Sadhana, this would alienate and aggravate their Hindu support base in the regions, but again HAF just does not seem to care about their membership and donation pool, it's almost as if they don't need us, HAF even tried to poach our collaboration with the Mayor's Office away from us, whose side are they on?  

As for HAF's chosen partner Sadhana, here is what they have to say about legitimate and respectable Hindutva:

(Images may be blurry on a mobile phone, to read click on the image)

The HAF-Sadhana nexus has been accused of working for a Leftist agenda (here), here is some research which I myself did not conduct but I trust the source:

HAF has made it clear they view Hindutva Hindus as "that", things... of course they have nothing but utmost respect for Zionists and have actually pleaded with the Jewish State of Israel to officially change the definition of Hinduism so that it fits in with Jewish monotheistic and anti-idolatrous terms... a Jewish state defining Hinduism for Hindus under HAF's direction, but HAF is anti-Hindutva? Hindutva Hindus, those who do wish to see a Hindu State, just as there are Jewish States and Muslim States and Christian States, they are no small fraction of the community nor as disrespected as HAF would like all to believe, and HAF has made it clear they barely view us as humans. If Zionism is Jewish and if Sharia is Islam, then Hindutva is Hinduism and to be anti-Hinduvta is to be anti-Hindu, and that is what HAF is... HAF... HALF... half Hindu!