Islamabad, 13 Oct 2023: The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the World Sikh Organization of Canada have raised alarms about the influence of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an extremist Hindu outfit, within Canadian borders, warning of its prejudiced actions against Muslims, Christians, and other minority groups. A report relayed by Kashmir Media Service (KMS) underscores a stark admonition to the Canadian government, urging vigilance against allowing any movement that propagates hate and victimization of religious minority groups, originating from India, to establish itself in Canada. The RSS, which maintains close ties with India’s BJP government, is recognized for promoting discrimination against minority religious groups both domestically and abroad, and its growing influence is now sparking concern amidst Canadian entities committed to human rights and multiculturalism.
The report elucidates the expansive global outreach of the RSS, extending its influence and propagating far-right views in multiple countries, including Canada. It is alleged to be a significant challenge to Canadian principles, such as commitments to human rights, tolerance, and multiculturalism, due to its hostile activities and strategies aimed at shrinking space for Muslims and other minorities in Western nations. The RSS’s network, which has established roots in Canada, also allegedly caused law and order situations in the UK and other countries through its network.
Furthermore, the RSS, through its elements, reportedly spreads hatred against Muslims in the UK under the guise of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) organization. The presence and entrenchment of RSS and its affiliates in Canada have allegedly precipitated a series of Islamophobia and anti-Sikh incidents that bear similarities to the communal tensions being exploited and exacerbated by the RSS in India.
In a broader context, the RSS and its substantial network of affiliates, identified as Sangh Parivar, are attempting to portray its agenda as being representative of all global Hindus – a notion the report dismisses as both implausible and patently false. The electoral success of the BJP, and its deep ties with the RSS, has reportedly facilitated the smuggling of Hindutva’s discriminatory vision from the margins to the mainstream of the world’s diverse religions with devastating results.
The report maintains that the antagonism exhibited by the RSS against Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and Dalits has become socially legitimized and emboldened, now posing a threat to destabilize India’s extensive Diaspora in Canada and other regions.
In closing, the document posits a firm stance that Canadian leaders should prevent individuals or organizations, which push a Hindutva vision of India – a supremacist view that discriminates against minorities and has led to mass bloodshed – from entrenching themselves within the nation. The presence of such extremist outfits, it contends, will perpetuate supremacist ideologies and antagonize relations between large faith-based communities in Canada.