Campaign
to Stop Funding Hate
17362 Boston Road, Hayward, CA 94541,
hsctruthout@gmail.com
Campus Hindu Organization Conclusively Linked
to the Sangh Parivar in North America and India
"Desi-American
Students Deceived by the Hindu Student Council"
says New Report
For More Info: Samip Mallick–917
279 4923 • Raja Swamy–512
786 1862 • hsctruthout@gmail.com
New York , Friday,
April 13, 2007: The Campaign to Stop
Funding Hate (CSFH) will release a new report,
Lying Religiously: The Hindu Students
Council and the Politics of Deception,
on Sunday, April 15, 2007. The report brings
together evidence from multiple sources to demonstrate
a web of connections between the Hindu Students
Council (HSC) and the violent, hindu ultra-right
Sangh Parivar, and exposes the deliberate efforts
of the HSC leadership to conceal its links with
the Sangh Parivar in order to deceive Hindu-American
college students. The report provides the first
comprehensive documentation of the origins,
methods and practices of the HSC.
Similar to " The
Foreign Exchange of Hate," the 2003
report documenting the flow of money from the
United States into the coffers of the Sangh
Parivar in India, almost all of the documentation
used to construct the current report comes from
the archives of the HSC itself and from the
publications of the Sangh Parivar in North America
and elsewhere. Starting with the origin of the
HSC in 1991, when Ajay Shah, the first president
of the HSC, proudly declared that the HSC was
part of the VHP of America, the report documents
the rise of early HSC leaders into the ranks
of Sangh Parivar leadership in North America,
the detailed family connections between a significant
section of the HSC leadership and the Sangh
Parivar, and the central role played by the
HSC in the creation and maintenance of the Sangh
Parivar's internet infrastructure, including
the web infrastructure of the Sangh Parivar's
parent organization, the RSS.
"Most of the young desi
Americans who join the HSC have no clue as to
the connections between the HSC and the militant
and violent Hindu right wing in India"
says Samip Mallick, one of the campaign coordinators
for CSFH. "We fully support the creation
and existence of Hindu student organizations
on college campuses, but we are unable to condone
the Hindu Student Council's continued misleading
of college students regarding its ties to the
Sangh Parivar," he continued. With the
launch of the report, CSFH announces its six-month
"Truth Out on HSCs" information campaign
aimed at informing every desi American student
of the two-faced methods of the HSC and the
Sangh Parivar.
The report will be released
on Sunday, April 15 at 3:30 PM at a press conference
hosted by the Youth Solidarity Summer at 451
West Street (@ Bank), New York, NY 10014. For
more information on the press conference write
to: hsctruthout@gmail.com
or call 917 232 8437. Summary and full versions
of the report will be available at the press
conference. The report will also be available
online at www.stopfundinghate.org
after 3 PM on Sunday April 15.
