Take a look at this alarming claim right at the beginning of an article entitled "The Religious War against American Scholars of India" recently published in Inside Higher Education:

Highly respected professors face intimidation, threats and smear campaigns for deviating from the views of the Hindu right.

A cultural and religious war is raging in which Western academics are the enemy.
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And now at the K-12 level, the struggle over how Hinduism is taught in California public schools has be...