Hindus worldwide are highly concerned after reports of frequent desecration & Hinduphobic hate-crimes against Hindu temples in Malaysia recently. According to reports, vandals damaged the statue of a Hindu deity at Dewa Sri Mathurai Veeran Hindu Temple in Bayan Baru (Penang) on July two evening. A statue at the Sri Veera Muniswarar Alayam Hindu temple […]
Rights Group Decries Ruling in Malaysian Kids Conversion Case, Demands Intervention by Government
American Human Rights and Hindu Rights Advocacy group, Hindu American Foundation (HAF) expressed serious concern today over a court ruling in the case of M. Indira Gandhi, a Hindu teacher in Malaysia, whose three children were unilaterally converted from Hinduism to Islam by her ex-husband, without her consent. A Court of Appeals decision found that the validity […]
Malaysian Govt Wants to Block a Hindu Temple with a Wall So Hinduphobic Drivers Don’t See It
One of the largest minority human rights organizations in Malaysia has slammed the Malaysian government’s plan to construct a 700m wide wall so adjacent highway drivers are blocked from seeing it. Hindus are a minority group in majority-Muslim Malaysia, but have roots in the nation pre-independence. Malaysia is a majority Muslim nation where a dual-justice system […]
Too Bad Hindus Don’t Consider Cupcakes as Sacred, Or They’d Get Lots of Desserts Delivered to Their Temples
India and nations with large Hindu populations have seen a number of their temples attacked, vandalized and destroyed for centuries, but a growing trend of decapitated cow heads and beef (all living animals are considered sacred in Hinduism and meat is widely not allowed on temple premises) are being found left at temples by miscreants wanting […]
Human Rights Struggles of Malaysian Hindus and Other Minorities
(CHAKRA) Continuing to generate awareness of the human rights violations faced by Hindus, Christians, and other ethnic minority groups in Malaysia, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) sponsored a Congressional briefing, Institutionalized Racism and Religious Discrimination in Malaysia, yesterday, featuring exiled Malaysian Hindu civil rights leader, Waytha Moorthy, and Dr. Ramesh Rao, HAF’s Human Rights Coordinator. […]