New Hinduphobia Tracker aims to record, document, and raise awareness about anti-Hindu hate.
Key Points:
Hinduphobia Tracker documents 1,314 hate crimes since Jan 2023.
Developed by Gavishti Foundation, led by OpIndia’s Nupur Sharma and Rahul Roushan.
Divides crimes into eight categories, using international standards.
NEW DELHI – A groundbreaking initiative has been launched to document religiously motivated hate crimes against Hindus globally.
The Hinduphobia Tracker, available on hinduphobiatracker.org, is the brainchild of the Gavishti Foundation, headed by Nupur J Sharma and Rahul Roushan, who also helm the digital platform OpIndia.
Documenting Hate Crimes
This tracker aims to spotlight anti-Hindu hate crimes by providing a transparent and categorized database, shedding light on ongoing persecution and advocating for human rights.
Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of @republic, reviews Hinduphobia Tracker ahead of launch.
— Hinduphobia Tracker (@hinduphobia_tr) December 4, 2024
Listen to what he has to say and stay tuned for the launch on 6th December. pic.twitter.com/1nAwCpyyFY
The Hinduphobia Tracker’s database has recorded 1,314 verified hate crimes against Hindus since January 2023, alongside 191 undecided cases and 589 pending reviews.
It employs eight detailed categories for classification, including attacks on religious symbols, hate speech, and incidents resulting in death.
Less than a day to go for the launch of the Hinduphobia Tracker.
— Hinduphobia Tracker (@hinduphobia_tr) December 5, 2024
Here is what @Vishnu_Jain1 said after reviewing the website. pic.twitter.com/to1Y58ewcb
Community Involvement and Tools
The portal is designed for public collaboration, allowing users to submit and dispute cases, ensuring a comprehensive representation of hate crimes.
The website features an interactive hate crime map embedded with Google Maps, where crimes are categorized using clickable symbols.
Each symbol links to a summary and detailed case report, offering transparency and accessibility.
“Hinduphobia is not just prejudice but a systematic dehumanization rooted in cultural and religious hostility,” remarked an expert familiar with the initiative.
As Hinduphobia Tracker is set to launch in just a couple of days, watch what @ARanganathan72 has to say about the project after reviewing the upcoming website and the database pic.twitter.com/T5S5wJNo0u
— Hinduphobia Tracker (@hinduphobia_tr) December 4, 2024
Comprehensive Definition of Hinduphobia
The Hinduphobia Tracker also defines Hinduphobia extensively, encapsulating biases, violence, and derogatory actions aimed at Hindus or their symbols, practices, and institutions.
This initiative marks a critical step in recognizing and addressing crimes driven by religious animosity against Hindus.
Promoters say that anybody can now report any crime against Hindus for archiving purposes and to keep the general masses aware about the scale of violence being perpetrated against Hindu community world over.
Defining Hinduphobia
The definition of Hinduphobia given on Hinduphobiatracker.org is as below:
“Hinduphobia is any action and/or speech, written or spoken (academic, institutional, political and/or random), violence and/or discriminatory action/attitude, which is born out of hatred, fear, prejudice, animosity, hostility and/or bias against Hindus (people following Sanatan Dharma and/or various sampradayas of Hindus and/or various Panths under the Dharmic fold), as individuals, groups of a class of people, the faith they profess (Hinduism), their cultures, traditions, forms and methods of worship, scriptures, tenets and civilizational values and beliefs.
Hinduphobia can be directed towards individuals and/or their property, toward the Hindu community as a whole, Hindu institutions, Hindu religious facilities (including temples and temporary religious structures), symbols of the Hindu faith, the native and civilizational land of Hindus conceived as a Hindu collectively owing to religious prejudice, animosity, hostility and hatred.
Hinduphobia includes any kind of communication in speech, writing or behaviour that attacks or uses pejorative, discriminatory or violent language with reference to Hindus, Hinduism, elements of the religious identity of Hindus as individuals or as a religious, ethnic group, stemming from bias, prejudice and/or religious and/or cultural animosity leading to dehumanization, stigmatization, scapegoating, stereotyping, calls to violence and in many cases, violence.
Hate speech against Hindus often includes the denial and/or mocking of historical and/or ongoing persecution, subversion of scriptures, promotion of and/or call for direct/indirect violence, support for targeted and directed violence, calls for the eradication of sections of Hindus using ideological euphemisms, glorification of perpetrators of religiously targeted hate crimes against Hindus, dog-whistling against Hindus – individuals or groups of Hindus, doxxing based on religious identity and/or opinions, caricaturing groups and/or sects of Hindus to legitimize their stigmatization/dehumanization/large scare violence, mocking and/or denigrating symbols and/or representatives of faith, fake news targeted against Hindus with the aim to stigmatise Hindus, misrepresentation/fake news to paint Hindus as the perpetrators/aggressors based on bias and/or prejudice and more. “
