This Month in Hinduphobia — September 2022
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The report below is generated from data collected in the month of September 2022.
| Top 15 Prominent Handles Promoting Hinduphobia |
Note: Handles were selected based on validated content.
| Topics/Events that triggered Hinduphobia |
Hinduphobic tweets this month have revolved around a number of issues: Caste-based abuse of Hindus and Brahmins; usual abuse of Hindus as cow worshipers and cow-piss drinkers; calling Hindus as “infiltrators” in Western countries; calling Hindus as a “radicalized majority”; equating Hindutva with crime, thuggery and casteism; irrational fear of “Hindutva supremacy”; equating common practices of Hindus with those of the Taliban and Nazis; anti-Hindu riots in Leicester UK; and abuse and slurs against Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh following India’s defeat in the Asia Cup 2022 cricket tournament. These were a major part of the toxic discourse on Twitter in the month of September 2022.
| Tweets from Prominent Handles |
| Twitter Handle | Tweet URL |
| @AudreyTruschke | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1569835702069624832 |
| @cjwerleman | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1567667704123002881 |
| @cjwerleman | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1566916501071769601 |
| @cjwerleman | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1572030882558668802 |
| @AudreyTruschke | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1565780680847622146 |
| @IAMCouncil | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1567543281508286466 |
| @KhaledBeydoun | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1571925108494860288 |
| @vsirnate | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1571423997312524289 |
| @IAMCouncil | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1565821879436431362 |
| @IAMCouncil | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1565821879436431362 |
| @khan_zafarul | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1574976297037885441 |
| @SaveIndiaOrg | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1570124117579374596 |
| @Hindus4HR | https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1572296013699858434 |
| Egregious Tweets from other Handles |
| Select Entities/Persons Targeted by Hate Mongers |
| Entity/Person | Reason |
| Sadhvi Ritambhara | Sadhvi Ritambhara’s lectures in various in UK/USA were used as a pretext to attack Hindus in Leicester. |
| Rishi Sunak | Rishi Sunak’s candidature for the post of UK’s Prime Ministership. |
| 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 in Social Media.
A Word of Caution
If the Hinduphobic tweets do not have any Likes or 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 ProcessingTwitter data is sourced live 24×7 and sampled based on relevant topicsSampled Tweets are run through an AI model that flags them as anti-HinduDataset is reviewed and validated prior to inclusion in this report |
Questions about the AI Model: 
| Contact |
| Author | Editor | |
| Name | Nishant Limbachia | Prof. Ramesh N Rao |
|
@indiancatch22 | @RameshNRao |
| Questions about the Report: editor.indiafacts@gmail.com |
