A Hindu American Rebuttal to the Genocidal Subtext of Rutgers ‘Hindutva in America’ Report

In 2025, the assault on Hindu identity has returned—not with overt hostility, but with polished rhetoric, legal euphemisms, and the borrowed credibility of elite academia. Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race and Rights (RCSRR) has released a report titled “Hindutva in America: An Ethnonationalist Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism.” But beneath its civil rights jargon lies a deeply partisan and ideologically loaded document—one that continues the same destructive campaign unleashed by the 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva (DGH)project. Simply put, this is DGH 2.0, now sanitized for bureaucratic and academic consumption.

This is not scholarship. It is a calculated ideological offensive. Its aim is clear: to criminalize the public expression of Hindu identity, delegitimize Hindu civilizational frameworks, and brand American Hindu organizations—many engaged in education, service, and culture—as dangerous outposts of extremism. This is not an academic disagreement. It is narrative warfare, designed to stigmatize a global community’s right to exist with dignity.

Despite its academic appearance, RCSRR has faced bipartisan criticism and federal scrutiny for platforming extremist voices. Senate Republicans are investigating it for allegedly promoting anti-Semitism and supporting terrorist sympathizers.[3] In 2021, Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer condemned[4] RCSRR for hosting speakers linked to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and DAWN, groups with reported ties to Al-Qaeda and Hamas. That same apparatus is now turned against Hindus, with no acknowledgment of its own ideological baggage.

The RCSRR report follows a historical blueprint used in cultural genocide:

1. Demonize the identity – equate Hindu pride with supremacy.
2. Deconstruct the culture – dismiss sacred practices as dangerous relics.
3. Delegitimize institutions – accuse nonprofits and schools of hidden agendas.
4. Deny the right to self-definition – force Hindus to view themselves through hostile lenses.

The goal here is not dialogue—it is suppression. The message to Hindu Americans is chilling: stay silent, stay invisible, or risk being labeled a threat. Celebrate your heritage, and we will target your charities, question your loyalties, and criminalize your culture.

The Stop-Hindudvesha Rebuttal

The 30+ page rebuttal by Stop Hindudvesha (an initiative of VHPA) systematically dismantles the Rutgers RCSRR’s 2025 report, “Hindutva in America,” exposing its sweeping distortions, ideological bias, and dangerous implications. Citing over 50 sources and grounded in legal records, academic research, and historical evidence, the rebuttal reveals how the original report weaponizes civil rights language to stigmatize Hindu identity, delegitimize Hindu-American institutions, and institutionalize Hinduphobia under the guise of scholarly inquiry.

But this is more than a rebuttal—it is both a declaration and a refusal. It declares, boldly and unapologetically, that Hindus have the right to their voice, their memory, and their civilizational dignity. We will not be erased. We will not be dehumanized. And we will not allow others to define us through a vocabulary crafted to destroy us. It is also a firm refusal—a refusal to submit, a refusal to disappear, and a refusal to let our children inherit shame for a legacy they should carry with pride.