The US government appointment of an Indian-American Hindu nationalist leader to the Interfaith Council of the Department of Homeland security speaks volumes. This shows that the US government have a total disregard to the views and concerns of American Muslims who have repeatedly called for the US government to call the anti-Muslim extremist government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to account but to no avail. Muslim-American groups have also protested this appointment. Chandru Acharya, who was appointed by the DHS in late September to advise the US government on domestic issues, is a director of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS-USA), a group that has repeatedly defended the policies of India’s right-wing PM Modi. Hindu extremists have called on many public occasions for the killing all Indian Muslims to make India a wholly Hindu state. Read the report in full in the MEE here
US Department of Homeland Security appoint Islamophobic Hindu nationalist
