Prof. Arvind Sharma, McGill University MONTREAL, CANADA, July 15, 2007: (HPI note: Dr. Sharma submitted this article in response to the outburst of Christian fundamentalists in the US Senate protesting the Hindu prayer as polytheistic.) One distinct and very visible feature of Hinduism is the presence of numerous deities and divinities within it. These are both male and female and…
www.azcentral.com CHANDLER CITY, ARIZONA, USA, June 30, 2007 The Chandler City Council approved the construction of a Hindu temple in the central part of town, but only after listening for more than an hour to 25 speakers divided on the issue. James Mowbray expressed the views of many of the neighborhood residents during Thursday night’s meeting. “It will be detrimental…
HPI WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2007: In HPI of July 12, the 7th item, “Hindu-American Foundation Comments on Senate Prayer” misidentified the American Family Association as the American Family Institute, which is a different organization. The American Family Association condemned the protest, as reported above.
www.hafsite.org WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2007: (HPI note: Following is a press release.) The Hindu American Foundation (HAF), the leading U.S.-based Hindu human rights group, released its third annual report today on the discrimination against Hindus in countries across the world. The report was released today at the foundation’s Washington, D.C., area offices. The expansive, two-hundred page report documenting abuses…
RNS WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2007: (HPI note: We include here excerpts from a few more reports on the disrupted Hindu prayer in the US Senate. The only other non-Christian or non-Jew to give a Senate prayer was Wallace Mohammed, a Muslim who recited a prayer in 1992.) Conservative Christian groups protested the first appearance of a guest Hindu chaplain…
electioncentral.tpmcafe.com USA, July 12, 2007: (HPI note: electioncentral.tpmcafe.com is a wide-ranging blog site which posted the following item by Eric Kleefeld.) As we reported earlier today, a religious and political milestone of sorts took place early today when a Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber — only to find the ceremony disrupted by three activists from the…
www.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2007: (HPI note — We present today a series of articles on the opening of the United States Senate with a Hindu prayer by Rajan Zed of Nevada. Leaders of various religions have delivered the Senate prayer, but this was the first by a Hindu. Astoundingly, it was interrupted by shouting Christian protesters from the…
www.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2007: (HPI note: This Reuters report contains some additional information, given below in excerpts.) Capitol police said two women and one man were arrested and charged with causing a disruption in the public gallery of the Senate. The three started shouting when guest Chaplain Rajan Zed, a Hindu from Nevada, began his prayer. They shouted…
www.christiannewswire.com WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2007: (HPI note: Following is the report by the Christian Newswire on the Hindu prayer.) Ante Pavkovic, Kathy Pavkovic, and Kristen Sugar were all arrested in the chambers of the United States Senate as that chamber was violated by a false Hindu god. The Senate was opened with a Hindu prayer placing the false god…
www.commondreams.org WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2007: (HPI note: This is a press release.) Americans United for Separation of Church and State today deplored the disruption by Religious Right activists of a Hindu chaplain’s prayer to open the U.S. Senate. “This shows the intolerance of many Religious Right activists,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director. “They say…