FHA condemns Harvard University dropping Dr. Swamy’s courses !

December 9, 2011

Mārgashīrsh Shukla Chaturdashī, Kaliyug Varsha 5113

In India a lot of "vote bank" politics, often unconstitutional,are going on to appease the Muslim minority. For example, the demands made by the Sachar Committee to provide preferential treatment to Muslims in the Indian Army, which undermines the secular nature of the Indian Armed forces. To curb such vote bank politics malpractices, Dr. Swamy's article has merely made recommendations regarding voting policy for Muslims in India.

In India Muslims are often known to support pro-Pakistan, anti-Hindu agenda, and oppose decisions like construction of a temple for Hindu's revered Incarnation ShreeRama at the Incarnation's birth place, Ayodhya. Dr. Swamy's article, has urged Indian Muslims to realise that they were not  immigrants from the Middle East, but a few centuries ago their ancestors were Hindus themselves.
In an interview with Karan Thapar about his article, Dr.Swamy has well clarified that he is not against Islam or Muslims, if it was so, he would not have accepted his daughter's marriage to a Muslim man !

It is clear from these examples that views expressed in Dr. Swamy's article are often distorted in the media. In India some anti-Hindu political figures tried to sue Dr. Swamy over this article, but the cases were not even accepted in the Indian courts of law. Only after some political pressure has a case been entered in a high court in India recently, but the court has yet to rule for or against Dr. Swamy. In such a case, how can Harvard University declare Dr. Swamy guilty of hate speech ?

In the name of freedom of speech, Universities like Harvard are known to hold conferences that have an anti-Hindu, anti-India agenda, such as the pro 'Kashmir cessation/freedom' conferences held by the organization of Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has now confessed in US courts about the source of his funding being Pakistan's ISI, to influence US policy on Kashmir. This has promoted policies that have virtually enabled genocide of Hindus in Kashmir ! Don't such conferences demonise an entire religious community, namely the Hindu community and aren't they allowed in the universities in the name of freedom of expression ? It smacks of double standard that Harvard University should feel justified to brush aside this very freedom of speech to cancel Dr. Swamy's courses, citing some imaginary distinction between unpopular and unwelcome political views ! In light of this and in the name of democratic principles, Forum for Hindu Awakening condemns Harvard University's decision to cancel Dr. Swamy's courses on Economics.