[Buddha-l] The religious practice of going after someone's job--India/USA

[jkirk]

This suggests to me why I have the impression that Buddhists in India 
maintain a low profile except when they are having gigantic meetings with 
the aim of converting dalits, etc.
Also, I don't know to what extent members of the FWBO in India are actively 
working for social justice, either--activity that is getting daily more 
dangerous. But one new twist is that Indian Hindutva organizations are big 
in the USA, and so they can pursue people to the extent of trying to get 
them fired from their jobs, as noted in this article (and see following 
article for a quote from her institution's head). They have learned what 
kinds of charges go down well with certain US religio-political groups, 
too--if you get my drift:

>From news article , 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1156238.cms

...Last week, in an open letter sent to Chatterji's boss at the California 
Institute of Integral Studies, endorsed by 469 members of a newly formed 
group called Citizens Insisting on Integrity in Scholarship (a name formed 
by using the first letters of the school's name), one person wrote: "Angana 
Chatterji comes from a long line of pseudo-secularists who have learnt to 
farm the fear of minority communities for their own personal advancement."

Another called her "a hate-mongering communist," while yet another said: 
"The California Institute of Integral Studies has been the center of 
political propaganda in the name of 'anthropological activism' for quite 
some time."  ...
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/23/MNG7ADDAE11.DTL
...At the California Institute of Integral Studies, on Mission Street near 
Civic Center, Joseph Subbiondo, the school's president, called Chatterji "an 
amazing teacher whose students deeply respect her.''
He said he was concerned about her security.
"She could be here in cool San Francisco, but she's over there in hot India 
really pushing for the people," he said. ........
Joanna