September 1st 2018, I attended the annual World Hindu Day put on by the Om Kirya Yog foundation in NJ. The guest speaker was the famous and profound Professor Konrad Elst.
Koenraad Elst (born 7 August 1959) is a Belgian orientalist and Indologist known for his writings on comparative religion, Hindu-Muslim relations and Indian history. He has contributed columns of numerous Indian and Flemish newspapers, and published in Dutch about philosophy, politics and religion. He is also known for his support of the Out of India theory which argues against the mainstream academic view that the Indo-European languages originated in the Kurgan culture of the Central Asian steppes. Elst, who has a doctorate on the subject of Hindu nationalism, is sympathetic to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist movement. - Wikipedia
The topic of most discussion in the various lectures and questions was the need for Hindus to push the current Hindu Nationalist party in India, the BJP, to take a harder line against the encroaching genocides of Hindus in West Bengal by Islamist and Leftist extremists. There is a growing discontent among the Hindu voting block in India who put Prime Minister Modi and the BJP into power, the feeling is that Modi and BJP gave many promises to Hindus for a stronger handle over the constant Islamist violence and terrorism against Hindus, as well as Leftist assassinations of Hindu activists by Leftist in Indian states such as Kerela.
The consensus was unanimous among the speakers, organizers and the crowd, Hindus must continue to support Modi and the BJP, but we must begin asking hard questions and make sure that the ruling party cannot take Hindus for granted, they must be accountable to those who put them in power, they cannot be allowed to feel as though they can ignore these issues with impunity. There was a resolve among the gathered Hindus to make it a point to create a uniform and unanimous Hindu vote bank in India which targets the BJP party alone, rather than the current fractured vote banks which are in the pockets of individual politicians and regional parties alone. The most pressing message was that if nothing is done, Hindus in India will experience yet another genocide in the long list of mass murder of our people which have been experienced regularly since the invasions of Islamic armies in the 11th century up until the Bangladesh genocide in the 1970s and the forced exodus of Hindu out of the Kashmir valley in the 1990s.
West Bengal and Kerela give but a warning, Hindus must rise now and fight back, otherwise we will bea sking 25 years from now "what happened, why didn't anyone do anything". Hindus in the West must continue to influence Indian politics from abroad. If you have not done so, please join Oversees Friends Of The BJP and get your friends and family to do the same; we must also make Hindus in India further aware of the growing support base in the West. Further, Hindus in the West must continue to seek sympathetic politicians and groups who are experiencing similar apprehension and make them realize that Hindus are their only allies. We must also make it a resolve to vote for politicians and parties who are already in the direction of the growing Hindu-Western alliance. Hindus and Westerners are in the same position, we must take advantage of this window now before India slips into chaos and the West is closed by isolationist xenophobia. The time is now, the time is now or never.
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