Posted on 10/26/2016 11:48:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One strange US election fact is becoming clear: Donald Trump has become the favoured presidential candidate of some American Hindus. How and why are more complex questions.
In June, I wrote about a small gathering of the Hindu Sena (Hindu Army) in Delhi performing a havan puja (religious offering) to Donald Trump. The erstwhile relatively unknown group attracted widespread media attention with its highly vocalised support of the Republican presidential candidate, in particular emphasising Trump’s views on combating “Islamic terrorism”.
While the Hindu Sena remains a fringe phenomenon within India, I pointed then to the growing influence of Hindus for Trump, a small movement based in the US.
The emergence of Trump support among some Hindus makes sense. As the newest “model minority“, Indian Americans enjoy high socioeconomic status. This was originally due to a specific US immigration policy that encouraged highly skilled labour from India. And although roughly half of Indian Americans are Hindus who mostly lean towards the Democratic Party, there are prominent members of the diaspora, particularly in the US and UK, who are strong proponents of key issues on Trump’s platform.
At the Republican Hindu Coalition event in New Jersey, the “Humanity United Against Terror Charity Event“ featured a “family fun” programme with Bollywood performances and keynote speaker Donald Trump. Arriving on stage, the Republican presidential candidate proceeded to symbolically light a diya (oil lamp traditionally found in Hindu temples) before taking the podium....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Hindus! not Dindus!
The Muslim invasion of India and subsequent purges turned Buddhism into a worldwide faith through the spread of refugees and killed an estimated hundred million people.
Hindus know that Islamic violence has been a problem for centuries, well before the West was a world power.
Islam’s War Against Buddhism By: Dhammajarat
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, April 04, 2007
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26040
Hindus welcome.
Hindus have been in a life-and-death struggle with Islam for the last 800 years. Historian Will Durant called the Muslim conquest of South Asia by far the bloodiest conquest ever in the history of the world.
They understand the whole immigration thing.
Trump has learned to curry favor with those who favor curry.
(Ba-Doomp-Ba!)
;^)
And those who flavor curry.
Because he is the real deal.
He tells it like it is and people are sick of the establishment.
The West once knew that Islamic violence was the source of nearly all the strife in the world, but after 1400 it was mostly forgotten.
I’m in IT and 2/3 of my team are from India including my Manager. I’ve worked with him for 15years when he first got here as a contractor. Became employee, a citizen, and eventually my boss (I stayed technical, no interest in Mgt tract). Earlier this primary season, he asked me about voting procedure, as he hasn’t done it before. But this time he felt compelled to vote. He mentioned with and grin that he was voting for the “shake it up candidate”, as he never had a high opinion of the usual characters on either side. I gave him the details of what to expect voting and the procedure.. We parted with me saying that I’d be voting after work too...to make america great again.. He replies with a big grin and nod, YEP!
I am an American Indian who with many of my friends will vote TRUMP !!!
Looks bad enough, but imagine if she had her dentures out. . . .
I was born in a Hindu family in India. Came to United States as a grad student in engineering at age 20 (I was a bit of a genius at that age haha) with the intention of acquiring a master’s degree, work for 18 months (max time allowed for foreign students by law in 1960’s) and return home to pursue a career. During my 18 month job at a large industrial corporation, I was fascinated with the difference in attitudes of my American colleagues and the equivalent in India. Here I was, a foreign national, and my co-workers accepted me like a long lost brother! The company sponsored me for permanent visa and here I am after 5 decades! It has been a great journey.
Back to Trump...he was the first candidate in my observation who was openly America first as his main agenda. As soon as I heard that, I was sold!
“What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is a rebellion against the inner-circle of no-skin in the game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, orsimilar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us what to do, what to eat, how to speak, how to think and who to vote for.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author “BLACK SWAN”
TRUMP 2016 !!!1
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