![]() ![]() “She obviously did not wish to face a similarly humiliating situation in the UK.” “Just prior to her planned visit to the UK, she was disinvited from speaking in a church in the US, thanks to the campaigning by progressive groups in America,” noted British journalist Amrit Wilson. Within days, her entire UK tour was scrapped. In letters to the Home Minister, MPs denounced her “xenophobic” and “Islamophobic” rhetoric, warning that it could stoke communal tensions in their constituencies. She was still in America when British Members of Parliament launched demands to deny her entry to the UK. After completing her US tour in mid-September, she was scheduled for a multi-city tour of the UK. The most recent victory started in the small village of Ridgewood, but it soon took on international dimensions. Throughout the Summer of 2022, from New Jersey to California, organized resistance against the influence of Hindutva (that is, Hindu nationalist) politics in the US resulted in multiple victories. ![]() New Jersey marks ground zero for growing US resistance to Hindutva | Recommended ReadĪfter the Old Paramus Reformed Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey cancelled a 10 September 2022 speech by infamous Hindu nationalist demagogue Sadhvi Ritambhara, it sent shockwaves felt on the other side of the Atlantic.
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