Hinduphobia Quotes

“This project - of placing the West's pathologies, exotica, weirdness, self-images of greatness and peculiar guilt and other complexes- is what I have previously called "Westology", and have called for such a discipline to run parallel to Indology.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Academic Hinduphobia: A critique of Wendy Doniger's erotic school of Indology

“To take Christianity as an example, biblical scholars, using a sophisticated hermeneutics, extract a 'universal' Pauline theology from the social context of Paul's letters that presumed slavery, the subjugation of women, etc. Pauline statements that seem to support this social order are reinterpreted in light of passages that are deemed to reflect more universal values”
― dave freedholm

“But, look at it from the Hindu angle: Hindus had the good grace to give asylum to the Christian refugees in AD 345, allowing them to maintain their separate identity in full freedom for seven centuries, and now the thanks they get for it is that visitors of the Saint Thome cathedral are told about fanatical Brahmins murdering the noble founder of Indian Christianity. And then the secularist establishment makes it worse by blocking the public's access to the scholarly vire and continuing to instil the blood-libel legend. It is highly significant for the power equation in India that this state of affairs is possible at all.”
― Koenraad Elst, Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism

“The Pope could not go and make his statement in Teheran or Beijing. as long as Islam and Communism(and in some countries, Buddhism) prevent Christian proselytizing in their domains, the conversion of Asia essentially means the conversion of India, which may then function as a base for further expansion once the rest of Asia becomes more accommodating.”
― Koenraad Elst, Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism