HATE SUNAMI AGAINST
RELIGIOUS MINORITIES REACHES USA: COURTESY RSS
On October 11, 2026, a
horrible attempt on lives of innocent Hindu worshippers at one of the largest
Hindu temples in USA, Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple in Aurora,
Illinois State, got aborted due to jamming of AR-style rifle (a lightweight,
magazine-fed, semi-automatic firearm available freely in USA) of the
conspirator. The temple is around 40 miles west of downtown Chicago. According
to prosecutors, ALEXANDROS PAPORAKIS a 19-year-old US citizen, allegedly
planned a mass shooting at the Aurora Temple. Police found a rifle without a
serial number, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a tactical vest (a kind of
bullet-proof jacket) and a patch depicting Nazi symbolism at his home.
According to Associated
Press Palatine Police Chief William Nord disclosed that a red Acura RDX
registered to Paporakis entered the parking lot of the Temple around 12:25 pm
on Sunday, October 11, and left less than 15 minutes later. Why no massacre
could be executed, Paporakis told his office colleague that his gun had jammed
and that he had left the scene quickly, but intended to “retry”. He also sent to
the same co-worker a video showing an AR-style rifle and a photograph of
himself wearing a tactical vest. It was this real hero who passed this
information to the police which in quick response arrested the would-be mass
killer.
Though the conspiracy was
exposed on October 11 and Paporakis arrested the same day, local police did not
share the details immediately so that no panic would spread as it was festival
time for Hindus in USA, celebrating Navratri, a nine-day long Hindu festival.
Indian media as well as Indian external affairs ministry reported it only on
October 15.
In the meantime, more
shocking details emerged after further investigations by the police. The
Associated Press reported that prosecutors disclosed that Paporakis had shared
a document titled “Why I Fought: A.K.A.: (Aurora Shooter’s Manifesto)”
consisting of eight-pages.
Indian Ministry of
External Affairs in a lengthy statement condemned this targeting of Hindu
temple as ‘racist hostility’ and ‘anti-India hate’ in US. Randhir Jaiswal, MEA
spokesperson, at the ministry’s media briefing stated that the incident
highlighted growing concerns about hate crimes and racial discrimination
against Indian communities in the United States. He demanded that US
authorities should “thoroughly investigate the matter, bring those responsible
to justice, and take all necessary measures to prevent such incidents”.
This conspiracy was
widely condemned by several US lawmakers and advocacy groups warning that anti-Indian and anti-Hindu rhetoric
could contribute to violence against minority communities. It is to be noted
that RSS in India or its more than 20 tributaries in USA like Hindu Swayamsevak
Sangh did not react to the alleged plot. Imagine if it had happened in Pakistan
or Bangladesh and perpetrator had been a Muslim by now the High Commissions of these
countries would have been reduced to ashes and countless Indian Muslims
lynched.
How White Supremacists
and Neo-Nazis of the world are emulating RSS
Paporakis coinciding with
his plan to massacre Hindus at Temple in Aurora issued a manifesto titled “Why
I Fought: A.K.A.: (Aurora Shooter’s Manifesto)”. It is an eight-page document
in which he denigrated all non-white using Racist slurs and outlined a plan to
kill as many of them as possible. The document also described him as a white
supremacist and neo-Nazi who fantasised about mass murder.
[‘Police say Chicago
suburb suspect in alleged mass shooting plot had white supremacy manifesto’,
Reuters, October 15, 2026. Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-say-chicago-suburb-suspect-alleged-mass-shooting-plot-had-white-supremacy-2026-10-15/]
The victims of Paporakis’ hatred for
multi-culturalism, non-white communities and religious minorities were going to
be Hindus of USA but a crucial dimension should not be overlooked that he
represented an ideology akin to what RSS stands for, cleansing of minorities
like Muslims and Christians from India. The founder of RSS, KB Hedgewar parted
from Indian National Congress led by MK Gandhi in 1925 because it believed that
Hindus and Muslims were not two nations but part of inclusive Indian nation.
For Hedgewar India was an exclusive Hindu nation who were Aryans. The most
prominent ideologue of RSS MS Golwalkar who led RSS after Hedgewar’s demise
(1940) wrote a book, We or Our Nationhood Defined (1939), a Bible for RSS
cadres which declared that India was for Hindus only. According to him “Hindusthan is the land of the Hindus and is the terra
firma for the Hindu nation alone to flourish upon…” [Golwalkar,
MS, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Nagpur, 1939, p. 45]
Then
what was going to be the fate of Muslims and Christians who followed foreign
religions? Golwalkar was unambiguous in holding that it would be like the Jews
under Hitler and Mussolini. Golwalkar glorified the Holocaust in the following
words:
Golwalkar in 1960s penned a long chapter
titled as ‘Internal Threats’ in which Indian Muslims and Christians were
declared to be threat number one and two respectively. [Golwalkar, Bunch of
Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu (RSS publication house), Bangalore, 1996, p. 193.] This
hatred for Muslims and Christians continues to be the main ideological plank
known as Hindutva even today. When Narender Modi, a senior RSS cadre became PM
of India in 2014 it was declared that “Our
target is to make India a Hindu Rashtra by 2021. The Muslims and Christians
don’t have any right to stay here…So they would either be converted to Hinduism
or forced to run away from here”. [Leading RSS office-bearer, Rajeshwar Singh
‘We will free India of Muslims and Christians by 2021’, Mail Today, 19
December 2014.]
Neo-Nazi mass murderer of Norway,
Breivik’s linkages with the RSS
Even serious
researchers of criminal antecedents of RSS have missed a crucial incident in
Europe which under-scored it becoming an ideal Neo-Nazis. Neo-Nazi mass
murderer of Norway, Anders Behring Breivik who went to massacre a large number
of people in Norway on JULY 22, 2011 also released a shocking ‘manifesto’ of
1,518 pages, of which 102 pages dealt with the glorification of Hindutva
movement of India. It declared support to “Sanatana Dharma movements and Hindu
Nationalists.” He opened a Pandora’s Box when declared “Hindu Nationalist”
movement of India as a key ally in a global struggle to bring down democratic
regimes across the world. This
manifesto also laid down a plan of co-operation between Neo-Nazi movements of
Europe and “Hindu Nationalist” organizations of India. It said that it was
essential that these two “learn from each other and cooperate as much as
possible” as “Our goals are more or less identical.” This manifesto specially
mentioned the name of the fountain head of the Hindutva politics like RSS and
its subsidiaries like BJP (political wing of the RSS), ABVP (student wing of
the RSS) and VHP (RSS wing to bring the world under Hindutva hegemony) in this
regard. [‘Norwegian mass killer's
manifesto hails Hindutva: Goals of Indian Hindu nationalists were identical to
Justiciar Knights, Anders Breivik claimed’, December 4, 2021. Link: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/norwegian-mass-killers-manifesto-hails-
hindutva/article2293829.ece]
Importantly, the manifesto pledged military support
“to the nationalists in the Indian civil war and in the deportation of all
Muslims from India” as part of a larger campaign to “overthrow of all western
European multi-culturalist governments.
Even before
this there were ominous signals of RSS becoming a pivot for Neo-Nazis
The leading US newspaper the New York Times in a
startling and focused editorial titled ‘Deadly alliances against Muslims’ on October
15, 2014) stated:
“The
world has not bothered to take any notice of a new terrorist network developing
fast in India and its neighbourhood between RSS and the two ultra nationalist
Buddhist groups of Myanmar and Sri Lanka against minorities (Muslims and
Christian) in the region.
“On
his 79th birthday in July, the Dalai Lama appealed to Buddhist extremist groups
in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to stop instigating attacks against Muslim minorities
that have killed scores. Instead, in an affront to Buddhism’s core message of
compassion, leaders of those groups announced an alliance to make common cause
against Muslims.
“The time has come to ally internationally,’ Galagodaththe
Gnanasara, the leader of the radical Sri Lankan Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena,
announced at a convention held in Colombo last month. The guest of honour was
Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist radical whose picture Time magazine put on its July 1
covers as ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror. The
government of Prime Minister Mahindra Rajapaksa ignored pleas by Sri Lankan
Muslim and Christian civil groups, fearful of more anti-Muslim violence in
their country, to deny Mr. Wirathu a visa. Granting Mr. Wirathu a visa can only
reinforce the fears of many Muslims that the government—and perhaps more
powerful regional allies—back Bodu Bala Sena, which translates as Buddhist
Power Force.
“Last
week, Mr. Gnanasara claimed he was in discussions ‘at a high level’ with the
right-wing Indian Hindu group Rashtriya Swayam Sevak to form what he called a
‘Hindu-Buddhist peace zone’ in South Asia. A Rashtriya Swayam Sevak spokesman,
Ram Madhav, promptly denied that there were any such discussions. But Mr.
Madhav, now general secretary of India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party [he
is again GS of BJP in 2026], has written comments sympathetic to Bodu Bala Sena
and Mr. Wirathu’s group 969 in Myanmar on his Facebook and Twitter accounts.
“It
is folly for the governments of Mr. Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, President Thein
Sein of Myanmar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, or their political
allies, to give even the appearance of tolerating these Islamophobic groups in
a region that has too often been convulsed by religious sectarian violence.
They should condemn this mad alliance before it can spread further.”
[Editorial,
‘Deadly Alliances Against Muslims’, Oct. 15, 2014. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/opinion/deadly-alliances-against-muslims.html]
It is no hidden fact that RSS hates
concepts like equality, justice, democracy, socialism, gender justice and Casteless
(another form of Racism) society. It claims as the largest Hindu organization
to be working for establishing a Hindu nation in India where there would be no
place for minorities like Muslims and Christians. All those who stand for
egalitarianism are denigrated as Wokes as is done by neo-Nazis and Supremacists
the world over.
The current Supremo of RSS, Mohan Bhagwat expressed
the same hatred towards them. “RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat used his annual
Vijayadashami speech on October 24 (2023) to launch a scathing attack on ‘cultural
Marxists or woke’ people. Terming them ‘selfish, discriminatory and deceitful
forces’, the RSS chief said such people were plunging the nation into a state
of ‘confusion, chaos, and corruption’ to fulfil their sectarian interests after
taking control of the media and academia.” [Why RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called
out 'woke' people, India Today, October 26, 2023. Link: ‘https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/why-rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-called-out-woke-people-2454076-2023-10-26’]
PM Modi has described woke people with many
other nomenclatures like Urban Naxals, Dimaghee Naxal, Cultural Marxists, Cockroaches
and anti-national. RSS is active at anti-woke international forums. According
to the Guardian “National Conservatism (NatCon) conferences and the Alliance for
Responsible Citizenship (ARC)—have increasingly integrated Hindu nationalist
figures from India's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) into a broader global
coalition of cultural nationalists.”
[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/18/leading-figures-eton-college-attend-rightwing-london-summit-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship]
It is true that target of
ALEXANDROS PAPORAKIS aborted attempt were Hindus in USA but his hatred for
minorities or ‘others’ is a direct borrowing from RSS’ fundamental heinous principle
(both in theory and practice) of cleansing of minorities like Muslims and
Christians from India. Fight against ALEXANDROS PAPORAKIS or other Neo-Nazis of
the world can not succeed unless the world centre of terrorism against
minorities is dismantled in India.
Shamsul Islam
October 21, 2026
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