09/22/2019
>> ‘Howdy Modi’, while being celebrated as a non-partisan, cultural event, is very much a political one. “It is an event organized by U.S. affiliates of the RSS and the BJP,” said Pieter Friedrich, a South Asian affairs analyst who made a speech earlier this week at Houston City Council hoping to stop the rally. “These organizations push a regressive, ethno-nationalist agenda of turning India into a Hindu nation where non-Hindus are treated as foreigners and cleansed from society. Ideologically, they have much in common with the white supremacy that motivates people like the El Paso shooter,” he added.
When the NRG stadium in Houston opens its doors Sunday morning to welcome Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his estimated 50,000 supporters, about 8 million Kashmiris will have spent 48 days in captivity, nearly 2 million people in India’s …
