María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University[1][2] as of October 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests include Latin American and Latinx Studies, Indigenous Studies, colonization and comparative race in the Americas, globalization and immigration studies, development studies and revolutionary thought, hemispheric literary and cultural studies.
According to her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva and the Indian Government.
In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the following allegation:
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo page on New York University accessed October 1, 2022
- ↑ María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo page on Academia accessed October 1, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022