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This Month in Hinduphobia — July 2022

This Month in Hinduphobia — July 2022

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Introduction

This monthly report is based on data culled from Hindumisia.ai that enables readers, commentators, scholars, and the media to understand the trends in Hinduphobic chatter in the Twitter sphere. We offer the data using simple descriptive statistics and in the form of graphics, diagrams, as well as text. We offer screen grabs to highlight the most egregious of tweets as well as identify the most prolific Hinduphobic Twitter handles.

The report below is generated from data collected in July 2022.

Top 10 Handles Promoting Hinduphobia

Note: Handles were selected based on validated handles. The above handles may or may not have large followership, and their tweets may or may not have active engagement. Some of the handles may have been suspended by the time this report is published.

Topics/Events that triggered Hinduphobic Tweets

Hinduphobic tweets this month have revolved around a number of issues: the Nupur Sharma episode and the Udaipur killings; attacks on Nambi Narayanan and actor Madhavan for having portrayed Hindu characters in the movie “Rocketry”; attacks on the judiciary/Supreme Court over their handling of Mohammed Zubair’s arrest; the usual abuse of Hindus as cow worshipers and piss drinkers; and in a few cases justifying the beheading of the Hindu tailor in Udaipur and extending dire physical threats of similar nature. The caste-based abuse of Hindus and attacks on Brahmins were also a major part of the toxic discourse on Twitter in July 2022.

Most Egregious of Tweets

Twitter Handle Tweet URL
@NazEmpire https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1542922484193693697
@KinduBoy https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547239958498357253
@engrwasimkhan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547653828241002505
@happyoye https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547145019038961664
@Hussain_is_h3re https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547208146024022016
@Neel737 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1543005310767472641

A Selection of Prominent Handles Promoting Hinduphobia

Twitter Handle Tweet URL
@IAMCouncil https://twitter.com/IAMCouncil/status/1550567606884503553
@KhaledBeydoun https://twitter.com/KhaledBeydoun/status/1549480129323311104
@cjwerleman https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547899064255401985
@HindutvaWatchIn https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547597160958414849
@KhaledBeydoun https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1548158994669219841
@DalitChef https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1553430042398449664
@Thaiyaan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1542964643378765826
@The_NewArab https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1546872518258073603
@ashoswai https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1548732476234891265

Select Entities/Persons Targeted by Hate Mongers

Entity/Person Reason
@geertwilderspvv Dutch politician for supporting Hindus
@ActorMadhavan For highlighting Hindu qualities in his directorial debut in “Rocketry”
@NambiNOfficial For being portrayed as a staunch Hindu in the movie “Rocketry”

Call for Action

● Report tweets for hateful conduct (Use Twitter’s feature to report the tweet/handle).
● Tag important social media personalities, think tanks, Twitter, law enforcement or Government handles on Twitter with this report.
● Share this report with local lawmakers in your constituency electronically.
● Please share this report widely on social media.

A Word of Caution

If the Hinduphobic tweets do not have any “Likes,” or “Retweets” (RTs), or comments, do not give agency by commenting. Report them using Twitter’s own mechanism.

Methodology

Data Sourced from hindumisia.ai enables an analytical approach to countering anti-Hindu hate on Twitter leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
● Twitter data is sourced live 24×7 and sampled based on relevant topics
● Sampled tweets are run through an AI model that flags them as anti-Hindu
● Dataset is reviewed and validated prior to inclusion in this report

Questions about the AI Model? contact@hindumisia.ai or @hindumisia

Nishant Limbachia

Nishant Limbachia holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from M S University, Vadodara and an MBA from IIT Chicago. Nishant is involved in the local Hindu community as a volunteer.