Given the totality of the facts and the circumstances, determined that religious freedom concerns in India do not warrant a country of particular concern designation or placement on a special watch list.

12 countries including China, Pakistan, Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia are on US State Department's 'Countries of Particular Concern' (CPC) list this year.

“The truth is that a Hindu family that was celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi was attacked.” 

Activist narratives are often expanded and amplified as they are passed up the journalistic food chain from initial reports to the New York Times.

"PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts have been working covertly to increase the radicalisation of one community by promoting a sense of insecurity in the country, which is substantiated by the fact that some PFI cadres have joined international terrorist organisations."

India says there "has been a sharp increase in incidents of hate crimes, sectarian violence and anti-India activities in Canada."

The violent hysteria engendered by Rushdie’s magical treatment of Muhammad in The Satanic Verses was ultimately limited to a small minority.

Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) their Australian supporters and collaborative organisations are spreading the malicious narrative of Muslim persecution in India.

“This event looks like a road map to radicalisation. I am absolutely disgusted that any organisation in Australia would provide a platform to the Taliban and their primitive views.”

The report notes that at present Twitter hashtag trend is the single biggest instrument for information warfare and Twitter doesn’t seem to have any measure or even care about such fake anti-India propaganda.