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#WATCH | Washington, DC | On what the Americans get wrong about the RSS, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale says, "Americans' misunderstanding is not only about the RSS... America's misunderstanding about India is that it is overpopulated, full of slums, poverty, and is the land of snakes, slums and...

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This is very OMINOUS because that is how a witch-hunt begins. An accusation becomes a label, the label becomes a list, and the list becomes exclusion. Where is the comparable pledge for Americans “linked” to Hezbollah or Hamas? Hamas and Hezbollah are actually designated by the U.S. government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The RSS IS NOT. Yet ~100 politicians are pledging to reject or return donations supposedly “linked” to the RSS all of a sudden because Mohan bhagwat came for an event in New York. Before even debating RSS, there is a scarier question? Who gets put on this list/and who gets to decide? We should be extremely wary of any political movement that starts compiling lists of people based on religion, ethnicity or alleged ideological association. History-including the history of antisemitism-shows how dangerous it is when an entire community is reduced to a presumed collective affiliation and then treated as suspect. If “RSS-linked” has no clear, objective definition, what stops someone who is openly HINDUPHOBIC from making the allegation against an Indian-American donor? >Attended a Hindu event? RSS-linked. >Donated to a Hindu organization? RSS-linked. >Know someone in RSS? RSS-linked. >Hold the “wrong” political views on X? RSS-linked. Are campaigns actually maintaining lists of Americans based on alleged ideological associations? What evidence is required? Who verifies it? Can someone challenge being labeled? This hodgepodge letter has not passed through Congress or an Executive Order neither. And what is the supposed terrorist basis? Some supporters point to Nathuram Godse and Gandhi’s 1948 assassination. Using one disputed historical association to justify treating an entire organization- and potentially individual Americans- as terrorist-linked today is an astonishingly broad leap. USCIRF has criticized RSS and can recommend sanctions, but USCIRF does not designate Foreign Terrorist Organizations. RSS is not on the U.S. FTO list. I repeat, the RSS is NOT on the U.S. FTO list. If it isn’t, then Americans have a right to ask why Indian-Americans, particularly Hindu-Americans are being subjected to a special standard based on an undefined allegation of association. This isn’t about protecting RSS from criticism. It’s about protecting Americans from collective guilt. Criticize organizations. Investigate actual misconduct. Punish actual crimes. But creating an ominous political blacklist of Americans based on an undefined religious/ideological association is not a trivial matter. It threatens the basic democratic principle that citizens are judged as individuals-not as members of a suspect community.

Rajeev Sharma

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