The Source of Bias against Hindus

The Source of Bias against Hindus:
by George Thundiparambil, Germany

This article was written as a response to the many reports of an obvious bias exercised by various "secular" agencies against Hindus, the recent instance being the half-hearted response of the Amnesty International when many Hindus were murdered in cold blood in Kashmir. As an Indian and an old student of religions, it has become very disturbing for me ever since I moved to Germany in 1997, to see or hear of injustice being done to my majority compatriots whose religion I have begun to look upon not only as my very own, but as the heritage of whole humanity. It is most disturbing because the conflict arises not only because of utter ignorance of Hinduism, but also due to stubborn reluctance on the part of the perpetrators to recognise, or to know, what real religion is. It is my contention that the western collective psyche is incapable of achieving objectivity, or true secularism, due to the fundamental flaw in their religious foundation.

The bias of western agencies against Hindus is also shared by the western mainstream media as well as the Muslim media who act in a similar way as the Amnesty International. The obvious reason is that religion plays a big role in the western psyche, despite its professed secular ideology, as much as it does in the Muslim psyche which at least have no false pretensions. The roots of modern western culture are still embedded in Christianity, whereas its secular ideals of human rights and democracy form the superficial skin that have been shaped by the French Revolution and Napoleonic reforms. The problem for the so-called "secular" western psyche is that it has not been able to replace its fundamental belief (which is Christian belief) with anything else. And Christianity as a religion is fundamentally flawed for the reason that it is not based on experience and knowledge. Therefore when it comes to making an instinctual judgement, the western psyche cannot escape its prejudicial response, like the Amnesty, like many other agencies.