UK: Hindu school college students discriminated in schools, reveals think-tank

A analysis carried out by the UK-based assume tank, Henry Jackson Society, has found that Hindu school college students throughout the nation are being subjected to bullying and racial discrimination in lecture rooms.

It was carried out by a evaluation fellow named Charlotte Littlewood, who interviewed 988 Hindu mom and father and surveyed higher than 1000 schools throughout the United Kingdom.

As per a report by The Telegraph, Littlewood well-known that Hindu school college students had been being bullied by their Muslim classmates and repeatedly requested to rework to Islam.

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“51% of Hindu parents surveyed reported that their child had experienced anti-Hindu hate in schools, while less than 1% of schools surveyed reported any anti-Hindu related incidents in the last 5 years,” the analysis found.

“8 physical assaults were detailed. One female Hindu pupil had beef thrown on her, a male student was reported to have to change East London schools three times on account of anti-Hindu bullying and concerns have been risen around a problematic approach to teaching Hinduism that is directly leading to bullying in the classroom,” it further added.

Charlotte Littlewood well-known that plenty of Hindu school college students had been mocked for his or her vegetarianism in lecture rooms and that their deities had been belittled in a trend paying homage to the unconventional Islamists that attacked the Hindu neighborhood in Leicester.

She moreover found that Hindus had been verbally abused by White school college students using xenophobic slurs and held accountable for political and social events, which occur in India.

51% of Hindu mom and father say their child has expert anti-Hindu hate in schools whereas < 1% of schools have reported the an identical throughout the ultimate 5 yrs.
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According to the analysis by the Henry Jackson Society, Hindus have confronted threats for benefit of their Faith by the palms of Muslim pupils. In one case, a Hindu scholar was instructed that his life will develop into ‘easier’ if he remodeled to Islam.

“You aren’t going to survive very long… If you want to go to paradise, you’ll have to come to Islam… Hindus are the herbivores at the bottom of the food chain, we will eat you up,” the sufferer was instructed by his Muslim classmates.

In one different case, Hindu school college students had been instructed to have a look at motion pictures of Islamic preachers and convert since their religion ‘made no sense’. Derogatory slurs resembling ‘Kaffir’ had been moreover hurled at them.

They moreover braced discrimination from Christian school college students who instructed them that Hindu deities might be despatched to Hell by Jesus Christ.

Religious coaching fostering discrimination in opposition to Hindus: Think-tank

The analysis moreover found that inappropriate non secular coaching, which amplified misconceptions surrounding the Indian caste system and Hindu deities, added to the mockery of Hindu pupils throughout the UK’s lecture rooms.

It obtained right here to light that Hindu school college students weren’t being given a trip on Diwali although off-days obtained to adherents of various religions all through their festivals. Charlotte Littlewood moreover observed that anti-Hindu hate incidents throughout the nation’s schools had been poorly reported.

While speaking regarding the matter to The Telegraph, Conservative Party MP Ben Everitt talked about, “The findings in this report are damning and shed light on the varying themes and forms which anti-Hindu discrimination materialises in the classroom.”

He acknowledged the problematic methodology by which Hinduism was taught in UK’s schools. “If we want to make real, sustained, long-term progress in reducing discrimination towards those of minority faiths in our schools, then we need to make sure that young people are receiving the best possible education about the many faiths which are woven into the fabric of our diverse United Kingdom,” Ben Everitt emphasised.