![]() ![]() Hindu groups have accused the conference of being an attack on Hinduism. have, and are, contributing to this climate of violence.”Īn email received by one organizer said: “If this event will take place, then I will become Osama bin Laden and will kill all the speakers, don’t blame me.” The rightwing media frenzy in India and the attacks on the conference launched by right-wing Hindu Organizations in the U.S. These hateful messages include threats of death and sexual violence to the individuals in question and to their families. ![]() “There have been direct threats of violence sent by phone, email and on social media to specific individuals associated with the conference. The threats and harassment have been “relentless and unimaginable in their scale and scope,” said Chopra. I am certain the threats are coming from members of those groups,” she told VOA. ![]() While the death threat to Kandasamy was apparently from an individual, “Only right wing groups are officially targeting me through tweets, conferences, posters, articles and mass trolling. Indian poet and activist Meena Kandasamy, a conference speaker, told VOA September 18 she had received an online death threat, while Rohit Chopra, an associate professor at Santa Clara University in California and conference organizer, said several participants had received death threats. FILE - India's Meena Kandasamy, one of the shortlisted authors for the Women's Prize for Fiction poses in London, June 6, 2018. ![]()
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