Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Hindu Temple Ransacked In Seattle, Washington; Religious Intolerance On the Boil In the US?

Hindu Temple Ransacked In Seattle, WashingtonA Hindu temple was ransacked by some miscreants in Seattle, Washington. The incident has rung alarm bells in the US and has drawn strict remarks from India, where leaders have not misses out on reminding President Obama of what he said about religious freedom during his India trip.

The sign of Swastik and words 'Get Out' were spray painted on a wall of the temple. The temple is said be to be the biggest in the whole of North East America.  

"One Indian Brutally attacked by US Police, One Indian Shot dead, One Temple Vandalized .Martin Luther King would really be saddened by this!" twitted Sambit Patra of BJP, referencing to Obama's statement in which he had said that Gandhi would have been saddened to see the religious intolerance in India. 

The Seattle temple has been vandalized on the eve of Mahashivratri celebrations. "This kind of thing should not happen in the US. Who are you telling to get out? This is a nation of immigrants," chairman of the board of trustees of the temple, Nitya Niranjan said to the media.

A man of Indian origin was shot dead in a liquor store on 15 February in New Jersey. Last week a Gujrati old man was severely beaten up by the cops; he is in the hospital, partially paralyzed. And now this incident, the amount of religious intolerance seems to be on a boil in the US.

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