Hindus Under Siege: The Way Out

The author suggests that siege against Hinduism today is visible in four dimensions:

1. Religious, in the denigration of Hindu icons:

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2. Psychological; -e.g. in the foisting of a fraudulent version of our history;

3. Physical- e.g. the Islamic terrorist-driven ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir and nBangladesh, and the money-induced conversion of Hindus to Christianity;

4. Cultural- e.g. through globalisation of tastes, dress and interpersonal morality that are determind in the Anglo-saxon white Christian world ("The West").

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