Overview
Alliance to Save and Protect America from Infiltration by Religious Extremists (ASPAIRE) founded by Dr. Shaik Ubaid is an America based propagandist organization of particular concern. With Hinduphobic undertones it targets pro-India lawmakers in USA by spreading misinformation and acrimony against them. Its objective is to prevent Hindu immigration into USA in the name of “preventing infiltration of religious extremists”.
Under the garb of protection of American values it specifically targets individuals and organizations which do not toe its anti-India and Hinduphobic ideology.
Why it is an Organization of concern
It is another offshoot of ISI orchestrated web of organizations which include Justice For ALL (JFA) and Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC)
Its founder Sheik Ubaid is a known radical islamist who is behind numerous organisations engaged in anti-India activities.
But what’s more concerning is its peculiar way of operating: It targets pro-India and Hindu community lawmakers in USA and subdue their voice and delegitimize them in the civic spaces and power centers of the US.
It also targets Hindu advocacy groups and targets their each and every public engagement
Modus Operandi
It identifies the pro-India and secular lawmakers of Hindu community as a potential threats to their anti-India agenda.
Then it portray these lawmakers as being associated with BJP and RSS in India. And thereby falsely concluding that these lawmakers having Hindutva ideology rather than being followers of Hinduism.
Once associating them with RSS- Hindutva these lawmakers are projected as having an extremist and fascist ideology.
The bogus storyline starts with claiming that RSS is a Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization, inspired by Nazis.
And by conclusion any direct indirect link with BJP or RSS of any individual makes them an extremist with fascist ideology.
Motive
Disenfranchise and demean the Hindu community in USA by portraying their leaders as having questionable character. Garnering the support of same community for the puppets of Pak ISI and anti-India leaders terming them as secular leaders. And ultimately countering the growing influence of Indian Americans in the power circles of USA.
Targeting Indian Origin US Lawmakers
Right now they have created fake propaganda against:
Sri Kulkarni (US Texas), Padma Kuppa (MI Representative), Niraj Antani(Ohio), Manga Anantatmula (Virginia). They future targets are Raja Krishnamoorthy (Illinois), Ritesh Tandon (California), Rishi Kumar (California).
Attack on Tulsi Gabbard:
Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician and recently announced her candidature for upcoming US Presidential Election. She was the first Hindu member of Congress in USA, who served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021.
Being proud of her Hindu identity and Indian roots makes her an automatic target of the organized cabal of Islamist groups in USA.
They have targeted Tulsi by providing a sham donor list to portray her as being RSS funded and branding it as hate funder. They themselves make mockery of their claim by citing the information from a purported link belonging to the website of Pieter Friedrich who is a known associate of the ISI and their Khalistan playbook. Further this itself is a dead link and so is another link provided for some hypothetical “Islamophobia Network”. The web archive of the Pieter Friedrich website led to a routine list of Hindu donors from 2012-14.
Coalition Against Genocide
This authentic sounding website was actually launched in 2005 to spread fake propaganda against PM Modi (then CM of Gujarat) before his scheduled visit to US. It again became active when Modi became PM of India in 2014.
Under a series titled spotlight series, Coalition against Genocide released two reports targeting Hindu advocacy groups in USA. Aspaire uses these reports as a tool for corroborate its propaganda from its own sister organization. It is pertinent to mention that Coalition against genocide has been inactive since 2014. It raises suspicion of a possible future use of this website to push the fake narrative of minority in danger in India, as coming from an authentic sounding publication.
Project MATHS
It is another project of Aspaire group to target parents and school going children with their Hindu-phobic agenda by claiming Hindu supremacist as the main threat to USA. They deceptively spread false information about Hindu especially in the education system. Their work is mainly focused on the younger generation who are in still in school and are being fed hateful lies that breed hatred towards Hindus.
Aspaire: Other details
The website has been created in 2020 as another front in the plethora of websites launched by this cabal. The idea is to create a complex web of websites which uses references and reports of websites amongst themselves and present them as a proof of their false claims.
Also, each website has a targets a particular part of the civil society, like a religious denomination (IAMC, Hindus For Human Rights), Human Rights groups (Justice For All, Coalition Against Genocide, Human Rights Watch), targeting Parents and School Children (Project MATHS) etc.
This one has been created to target Hindu lawmakers and disenfranchise Hindu community in USA.
Address: 595 New Loudon Road, Suite 142, Latham, NY 12110
Phone: 202-993-9540
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AspaireUSA
Dr.Shaik Ubaid (Founder)
He is a radical Islamist and Hindu hating bigot. He has been instrumental in forming various anti-Hindu and anti-India organizations in the United States.
He was former President of IAMC (Indian American Muslim Council – formerly Indian Muslim Council), founder of CAG (Coalition Against Genocide), founder-president of IAMNNET ( Indian Minorities Advocacy Network), founder of CDCD (Coalition for the Defense of the Constitution and Democracy), founder AIM (Association of Indian Muslims of America), co-founder Indian American Coalition for Pluralism (IAPC), co-founder Burma Task Force, co-founder Muslims Peace Coalition USA, founder AJA (Alliance for Justice and Accountability), and more recently founder of ASPAIRE USA (Alliance to Save & Protect America from Infiltration by Religious Extremists).
He works closely with CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations) and was also associated with Consultative Committee of Indian Muslims, Chicago and ISNA (Islamic Society of North America). Both CCIM Chicago and ISNA were accused in providing financial and material support to banned terror outfit SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) in 2008. He is a strong supporter of Islamic invaders and had many times tweeted in favour of Taimur Lang and Babur. He has also many times white-washed the butchery, desecration and killings of cows by the Islamic invaders.
In an article in an Islamic propaganda news portal Calrion.net, America Has Learnt No Lessons from 9/11, Ubaid twists the anniversary of 9/11 to make baseless allegations against Hindus, and RSS. He blames Hindus for all extremism.
In an article to CalrionIndia.net titled Hindutva Driving Fascism in India, Islamophobia in the US, Ubaid openly threatens Hindus coming to American shores and says “Every year tens of thousands of Hindutva supporters come to the United States as students and IT professionals. They have been so emboldened as to be openly forming alliances with American Islamophobes.” He goes to list Hindu groups in the US and uses terms such as “evil”, “hateful ideology” “racist Hindutva forces” to describe them.
Organizational Web
