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		<title>Is Hindu-American Community Coming into its Own?</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/10/30/is-hindu-american-community-coming-into-its-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are not that many more Muslims than Hindus in the United States:  2.454 million Muslims compared to 1.478 million Hindus, according to Pew Research, the US State Department, and others.  You would not know that judging by the tremendous imbalance in attention given the former over the latter; or the power and influence imbalance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op Ed Calling India Pariah State odd Choice for Israeli Publication</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/10/14/op-ed-calling-india-pariah-state-odd-choice-for-israeli-publication/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/10/14/op-ed-calling-india-pariah-state-odd-choice-for-israeli-publication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 19, 2010, the Jerusalem Post ran an Op Ed by Rob Brown, entitled “Why Isn’t India a Pariah State?”  The piece, in essence told Israelis that the Indian “occupation” of Kashmir was characterized by human rights abuses and is responsible for 70,000 deaths.  It also included a warning that if India was not taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deganga Intifada?</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/09/28/deganga-intifada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hindu women raped]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindu- Muslim riots]]></category>
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For three days in September, anti-Hindu violence wracked the Deganga area in North 24 Parganas, only 40 kilometers from the West Bengal capital of Kolkata.  Though the violence has subsided, Hindu residents fear renewed attacks, which could have been the attackers’ intention all along.  West Bengal BJP member Tathagata Roy visited the area twice since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamization of Northeast India no Coincidence</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/07/05/islamization-of-northeast-india-no-coincidence/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/07/05/islamization-of-northeast-india-no-coincidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 15, 2010, I sat in a cab while it made its way through a traffic-clogged Kolkata to the office of Bimal Pramanik director of the Kolkata-based Centre for Research in Indo-Bangladesh Relations. Pramanik expressed serious concerns about the decades-long pattern of demographic changes in West Bengal (and Assam), and we discussed the context [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Would Anyone Want to Blow Up Times Square?</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/why-would-anyone-want-to-blow-up-times-square/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/why-would-anyone-want-to-blow-up-times-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Pipes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity. (For a quick listing of examples, see my collection at &#8220;Sudden Jihad or &#8216;Inordinate Stress&#8217; at Ft. Hood?&#8221;).
Instead, I argue, they should begin with a presumption of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s Future is with Asia, not Europe</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/america%e2%80%99s-future-is-with-asia-not-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/america%e2%80%99s-future-is-with-asia-not-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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Passage of President Barack Obama’s health care bill has not lessened Americans’ opposition to it. According to the latest Rasmussen poll, fully 56 percent not only oppose it but also want it repealed, and only 41 percent oppose repeal.  Pundits have given a multitude of reasons for American opposition:  it is unconstitutional; it will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Jewish-Hindu Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/practical-jewish-hindu-cooperation/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/practical-jewish-hindu-cooperation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=1120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, April 25, 2010, there was a large rally held in front of the Israeli embassy in New York. Its purpose was to show support for the State of Israel and protest the current US administration’s policies that demonize the Jewish State. The day before, I was among three recipients of the Vishwa Hindu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Diplomatic Offensive a No-Brainer</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/israeli-diplomatic-offensive-a-no-brainer/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/05/06/israeli-diplomatic-offensive-a-no-brainer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In late March, according to the AP, “Britain took the extraordinary step Tuesday of expelling an Israeli diplomat for the first time in more than 20 years, after concluding there was compelling evidence that Israel was responsible for the use of forged British passports in the plot to slay a senior Hamas operative in Dubai.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladeshi Hindu Abducted, Forced to Convert to Islam</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/10/07/bangladeshi-hindu-abducted-forced-to-convert-to-islam/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/10/07/bangladeshi-hindu-abducted-forced-to-convert-to-islam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=1108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) recently reported the abduction and forced conversion of a Bangladeshi Hindu girl to Islam; two human rights organizations, Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) and Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) also investigated it. At 12:45am on 13 June, Koli Goswami was asleep in her bed when five Muslims broke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu&#8217;s Quiet Success</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/10/04/netanyahus-quiet-success/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/10/04/netanyahus-quiet-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Pipes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost unnoticed, Binyamin Netanyahu won a major victory last week when Barack Obama backed down on a signature policy initiative. This about-face suggests that U.S.-Israel relations are no longer headed for the disaster I have been fearing.
 
Four months ago, the new U.S. administration unveiled a policy that suddenly placed great emphasis on stopping the growth [...]]]></description>
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