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A Californian Hindu writes .. "SB403 poses an existential threat to myself, my family and the Hindu community and if passed into law, will herald the beginning of a conflict between California's faith communities, since SB403 was sculpted and deployed by politicians with anti-Hindu religious ideologies, between ethnic groups since it was passed by overwhelmingly, non-Hindu origin politicians and indeed between the Hindu community and the Democratic party who have chosen to adopt this bill in the absence of any credible evidence, community consultation or due process. 1. I write to you Governor Newsom as an American citizen with freedoms protected by the Constitution and by international and American Human Rights laws. 2. I write to you Governor Newsom as a citizen 'innocent until proven guilty' and I deny the hate-inspired allegations levelled at myself, my family and my community. 3. I write to you Governor Newsom as a taxpaying resident of California aware and proud of the unblemished reputation of my community in terms of our contribution to the public purse, our under representation in criminal statistics, and of our contribution as Doctors, Educators and Technologists. 4. I write to you Governor Newsom as a resident of California denied due process and subjected to humiliation and dehumanisation by a hate campaign created and deployed by the notorious anti-Hindu Tanmozhi Sounderrajan and Equality Labs, 5. I write as a Hindu, historically persecuted in my own ancestral homeland by the same European Christians from whom the founding fathers of this nation fled, the same colonial oppressors who created and deployed 'Caste Consciousness' in India exactly as they created 'Race Consciousness' in this country, as 'divide and conquer' hate infused state strategies. 6. I write as a Hindu religiously targeted by the ancient hate tropes of 'infidel' and 'kuffar' by extremists of both religious traditions for over a millennium, extremist representatives of these traditions being overly present in the deployment and conveyance of this thinly veiled hate bill on its journey so far. 7. I write as a Californian Hindu who has been labelled as an ideological rapist by Sen Aisha Wahab, (amongst other reprehensible 'Caste Hindu characteristics') 8. I write as a Hindu aware of the millennia old Islamist anti-Hindu agenda, from Afghan Mahmud Ghazni who razed hundreds of Hindu temples as he slaughtered his way across Hindu India, to Nadar Shah who built hills of Hindu skulls to celebrate his Delhi Sultanate and the defeat of the Kuffar, to Afghan Bhaktiyar Khilji who killed 6,000 Hindu scholars, burned 9 million infidel books at the ancient Nalanda university, which was then also burned to the ground. 9. I write as a Hindu whose ancestors witnessed the beheading and immolation of Sikh Guru Teg for refusing to convert to Islam. Three of his colleagues were tortured to death in front of him, Bhai Mati Das was sawn into pieces, Bhai Dayal Das was thrown into a cauldron of boiling water, and Bhai Sati Das was burned alive. On 11th November, Tegh Bahadur himself was then publicly beheaded in Delhi, for the crime of being an infidel. 10. I write as a Hindu targeted by Christian extremists of colonial times who brought the Roman Catholic Inquisition to India with its horrific Papal Pear and the Auto Da Fe, which burned Hindus alive for being Hindus, in their ancestral Homeland. 11. I write as a Hindu from India, the Jewel in the Crown of colonial Great Britain, during whose illegal occupation, 165 million Indians died and $45 trillion was extracted and taken to Britain, by Anglican Christians. 12. I write as a Hindu person of colour whose family came to this country seeking refuge from 1400 years of persecution for being non-White, non-Christian, non-Muslim and find myself being targeted by an undisputedly un-necessary piece of legislation introduced by an Afghan Muslim, supported by Islamist organisations and ..