IndraD wrote:@Agnimitra
Your analogy is based on assumption that Indians will be get differential (superior?) treatment by US racist attackers if they could carve a separate identity out, this is perhaps not correct as discussed many times gut level racism will never differentiate between an Indian and a Pakistani.
Also Su Swamy has tweeted that Pk ISI could be playing mischief in US by mobilising assets to target Indians. No idea how far true.
Do White christians not differentiate between a Euro and a white Turk or Chechen? I have seen Turkish Islamist outreach in the US, and believe me the "white skin advantage" they have does not outlast all the other factors in play. In today's world Westerners also differentiate Japanese from the Chinese. SWOT propaganda trickles down. There is definitely plenty of space for differentiation, and Indians need to build on that. Instead, we continuously identify with "brown" peoples, even among the immigrant community. We do not differentiate ourselves.
Secondly, Muslim immigrants are particularly well-organized, and their organization is not just social/cultural, but political. They are keen propagandists. Hindu Indian immigrants are particularly apolitical, with very little social outreach
as Hindu/Indian-Americans. (If anything, most Indo-American propaganda orgs are hard Left, from university campuses to the media). As a result, Indian immigrants are routinely
used by Muslim immigrant organizations to mobilize against "white racism" which they fear. Hindus will come out on social media and on the streets if need be in support of Muslims being targeted, because they think "first them, next it will be us". This only reinforces the popular local perception of us being essentially the same as Muslims. It is fine to support innocent victims of bigotry, but it should be done as Hindu/Indian organizations - not mobilized like sheep by Islamist organizations that have no actual sympathy for Hindus/Indians (and actually has parallel anti-Hindu agendas - it is not inconceivable that these types in league with certain sections of the Left will use Indians as
bali ka bakras including shootings to create a further divide).
The need is to put out the message that Hindus/Indians are:
- a distinct identity
- not a threat to the West, but a synergetic civilizational dynamic
- an ALLY against Islamic and Communist subversion, with centuries long experience fighting the former running into present times
- in religious terms, Hindus have been far more appreciative of the persona of Jesus than Muhammad, and there's no harm emphasizing that, as most gurus do.
While continuously putting out the above message, we can express sympathy with those unfairly targeted, including our Muslim neighbors.
