Students face anti-Hindu hate, pressure to rework, says report on UK schools

By India Today News Desk: A report by an neutral assume tank based in London has revealed the extent of discrimination and bullying confronted by Hindu faculty college students in UK schools.

The report from the London-based Henry Jackson Society, authored by evaluation fellow Charlotte Littlewood, education specialist Rishi Handa and Baroness Verma, is doubtless one of many first into the discrimination confronted by Hindu kids in UK schools.

The report surveyed 988 Hindu dad and mother and positioned that 51 per cent of them reported that their youngsters had confronted religious discrimination in school.

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‘CLASSMATES THREW BEEF AT GIRL’

The report finds that 51 per cent of Hindu dad and mother who’ve been surveyed said their teen had expert anti-Hindu hate in schools, whereas decrease than 1 per cent of faculties reported any hate incidents throughout the ultimate 5 years. Additionally, solely 19 per cent of Hindu dad and mother surveyed believed that schools have been able to set up anti-Hindu hate.

The report reveals distressing accounts of anti-Hindu hate in opposition to kids, which was the vital factor theme of the analysis. It talked about anti-Hindu slurs with one mom or father revealing that her “daughter was bullied at school and had beef thrown at her by classmates as she is a Hindu”.

While one different mom or father said, “My child went to school with a religious symbol on his forehead. He was bullied until he no longer wanted to attend school. Over the years, we have had to change his school three times within East London”.

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‘BULLYING INCREASED POST-370 REVOCATION’

Not solely anti-Hindu slurs, nonetheless kids have confronted xenophobic and racist slurs in schools as correctly. Students have been referred to as out for casteism in Hinduism. Some of them have been referred to as “Paki” by completely different kids. The hint of bullying confronted by these kids was uncovered when dad and mother revealed how British kids ganged up and sidelined Hindu kids.

The report quotes one mom or father as saying, “My child has faced bullying from other children on many occasions specifically after PM Modi’s rise in India and after article 370 was revoked. More to that, they were labelled as ‘Qafir’ & ‘disbelievers’, and calls to convert or go to hell were made.”

The harassment that Hindu kids in Britain face worsens as Islamist extremism comes into the picture, in accordance with the report. One mom or father talked about the extent of its presence when kids have been suggested that they are not going to survive very prolonged. “If you want to go to paradise, you’ll have to come to Islam… Hindus are the herbivores at the bottom of the food chain, we will eat you up.”

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ARE INSTITUTIONS CAPABLE OF IDENTIFYING, RECORDING THESE CRIMES?

Only 19 per cent of Hindu dad and mother take into account schools are able to set up anti-Hindu hate. In the UK, schools are anticipated to take care of right data of any incidents of bullying that occur, along with particulars of the incident itself, the oldsters involved, and any movement taken by the varsity.

But nearly 15 per cent of the universities failed to provide any data for this particular survey. The schools that did reply to the report’s FoI (Freedom of Information) request each did not preserve data of faith-based hate incidents or appeared to report just a few incidents.

URGENT NEED FOR AWARENESS

The findings of the analysis underscore the urgent need for higher consciousness and understanding of the experience of Hindu kids in schools and extra evaluation into completely different lesser-known kinds of prejudices which can be manifesting in Britain’s faculty rooms. It highlights the need for further explicit and proper reporting mechanisms to grab such incidents.

(With inputs from Neha Suryavanshi)

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