Hindu teams in UK slam SOAS-led report into 2022 Leicester unrest

LONDON: Hindu teams have rejected a brand new SOAS-led report into the 2022 Hindu-Muslim Leicester riots which seeks in charge Hindus and “Hindutva” for a lot of the violence, saying they’ve severe considerations about its impartiality, funding and panel composition.The Hindu Group Organisations Group (HCOG) Leicester, which represents over 50,000 Hindus, mentioned the overwhelming majority of Hindu teams had boycotted the “Impartial Fee of Inquiry”, led by SOAS College of London, LSE and the Monitoring Group, which printed its report, titled “Higher Collectively”, on Monday. The report states itself that it acquired funding from the Open Society Foundations.

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HCOG mentioned the inquiry was funded with a £620,000 grant from George Soros, “identified for his vital stance on India and Hindus”, and mentioned it doesn’t replicate the true image of what occurred. “The Leicester violence in 2022 noticed focused assaults on Hindu houses, temples and people, with clear anti-Hindu sentiments evidenced in acts such because the vandalism of a Hindu temple and assaults on Hindu youth. But the SOAS inquiry appears to downplay these incidents whereas amplifying unverified claims,” it mentioned.Though the SOAS inquiry, chaired by human rights knowledgeable Prof Juan Méndez, discovered there was no single group in charge, it then went on to largely blame the riots on Hindus and “Hindutva”, with an entire chapter devoted to Hindutva. That is in sharp distinction to the Henry Jackson Society report. The SOAS report’s suggestions embody a “political will to confront Hindu extremism” and recognise Hindutva as a type of extremism on the identical stage as political Islamism.