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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>
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		<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>Islamization of Northeast India no Coincidence</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2010/07/05/islamization-of-northeast-india-no-coincidence/</link>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<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>Islamists Gaining under Awami Leage in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/10/04/islamists-gaining-under-awami-leage-in-bangladesh/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/10/04/islamists-gaining-under-awami-leage-in-bangladesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Awami League&#8217;s ascension to power in Bangladesh, there has been a regular cottage industry of apologists claiming that the left-center government will navigate the country away from patronizing Islamists and oppression minorities. If anything, things have worsened under Sheikh Hasina and her cronies. Violence against minorities is not only increasing but becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh?</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/07/27/why-this-silence-on-organised-anti-hindu-violence-in-bangladesh/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/07/27/why-this-silence-on-organised-anti-hindu-violence-in-bangladesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu violence in the heart of its capital carried out in three stages: March 30, April 17, and April 29. A community of approximately 400 Hindus was reportedly going about its business when “hundreds of Muslims” suddenly descended on them and demanded they quit the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fawning Media will Ignore Obama&#8217;s Pakistan Disaster</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/05/13/fawning-media-will-ignore-obama%e2%80%99s-pakistan-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/05/13/fawning-media-will-ignore-obama%e2%80%99s-pakistan-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 08:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration continues to say all the â€œcorrectâ€ things about Pakistan and its fight against the Taliban.Â  Yet, knowledgeable observers in South Asia give the country no more than twelve months to stave off the terror groupâ€™s inevitable takeover of that nuclear Islamic Republic.Â  In a New York Times piece in early April, David [...]]]></description>
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