FBI agents raided a Robbinsville, New Jersey, Hindu temple over allegations of forced labor. The lawsuit says hundreds of workers from India suffered torturous treatment. This was also a PR disaster because the Government has no business breaking up families when it was actually after the sex criminals Warren Jeffs and his inner circle. Hicks also defended his departments soaring overtime costs before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, OFFICIALS STRUGGLE TO INTRODUCE NEW JERSEYANS TO NOVEL CONCEPT OF BRIBERY With NJ COVID vaccine goal at risk, 'bribe people' an option to get more shots in arms, by The Records Scott Fallon and Kristie Kattafi: New Jersey's daily rate of COVID vaccinations has plummeted so much in recent weeks that it's casting doubt on whether Gov. 1.47 MASTROS Pro-Murphy group details $13.2M in spending, by POLITICOs Matt Friedman: A nonprofit run by Gov. The workers, who lived in trailers hidden from view, had been promised jobs helping to build the temple in rural Robbinsville, N.J., with standard work hours and ample time off, according to the lawsuit, a wage claim filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. The LDS leadership will not give its members any relief. I respectfully disagree with the wage claim, Kanu Patel, the chief executive of BAPS, told The New York Times, while noting he was not in charge of day-to-day operations at the site. 7. Karan Deep Singh contributed reporting from New Delhi. These elected officials are, in turn, beholden to these voting blocs on issues of abortion, race, immigration, guns, education, and every other issue. Instead Fulop had his spokesman blame the media for reporting his foolishness [Wetsuit wholesaler] Conrad Ferla cut to the heart of the matter. 2021 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3. VIDEO: Finally, Scientific Proof that Scientologys Body Thetans Cannot Exist! 1. They didnt think they would be treated like animals, or like machines that arent going to get sick, said Swati Sawant, an immigration lawyer in New Jersey who is also Dalit and said she first learned of the mens plight last year. Religious workers in America are exempt from secular workplace protections as they are classed as volunteers and not employees. In 2017, a 17-year-old boy who was among the groups of religious volunteers who have helped on the construction project died after a fall. NEW JERSEY (Diya TV) Federal authorities in New Jersey are accusing the highly influential Hindu organization BAPS of human trafficking and wage violations. STEP INSIDE THE WEST WING: What's really happening in West Wing offices? The FBI has also raided the building, from which they removed about 90 workers who were allegedly paid less than $1 USD per hour. Duke has admitted using the pseudonym Konrad. QUOTE OF THE DAY: This lady simply introduced me because she knew me because of my role in the Legislature. In a statement to NBC News on Tuesday evening, Matthew Frankel, a spokesperson for BAPS in New Jersey said, "We were first made aware of the accusations early this morning, we are taking them very seriously and are thoroughly reviewing the issues raised.". Kanu Patel, the chief executive of BAPS, who is named as a defendant, told The New York Times, "I respectfully disagree with the wage claim." DOWNLOAD FOR iOS DOWNLOAD FOR ANDROID. In fact, these groups do not file for IRS 501(c)(3) religious tax exemption as they consider that formal tax-exempt status places them in servitude to the US Government. Her firm describes this as one of the largest forced labor cases in decades and seeks back wages in accordance to New Jersey's minimum wage. BJU sued the IRS. The lawsuit says hundreds of workers from India suffered torturous treatment. I would not be surprised to see money laundering in the mix. These people get nothing except what a particular ministry decides they may get. Instead of changing gun ownership laws, the US Government deemed the Branch Davidians fully legal exercise of US gun laws to be terroristic in nature. Bullets of all calibers are in high demand and manufacturers are hard-pressed to keep up with the demand. The BAPS temple opened in Robbinsville, N.J., in 2014 and is still under construction. I dont want to put words in your mouth, but it seems like [your testimony is saying] we couldnt have done better in New Jersey, said state Sen. Mike Testa (R-Cumberland), a former Trump campaign surrogate who harangued Persichilli for her refusal to testify before a Republican panel earlier this year. The US Governments indifferent and laissez-faire approach to the intrinsic religious racism in America was challenged in the 1982 court case Bob Jones University v. The United States. To explore the site, enjoy the video below. A "masterpiece of exquisite Indian design and workmanship" is how the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is described on its website. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. FBI raids Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in New Jersey, BAPS accused of forced labour TV9 Telugu Website: https://tv9telugu.com/Watch LIVE: https://goo.gl/w3aQdeTo. Id imagine that theyve closed the temple to the public and have goon guards around the entrance. No one seemed put out by the dopey white folk. The former friends and colleagues are split over Johnson, with Paul accusing Huttle of using her experience with Johnson for her own political leverage, trying to undermine the off-the-line contenders campaign. But at rsted, we want to go further. From The New York Times we learn that federal agents raided a massive Hindu temple in Robbinsville of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) sect, which appears to be related to a lawsuit accusing it of using low-caste laborers from India and paying them about $1 a day for grueling labor. The FLDS filed an emergency Writ of Mandamus appealing the State of Texas illegally seizing its children and won. He reaped huge financial returns until Ole Anthony and others exposed him as a fraud and a con artist preying on the poor, the sick, and the desperate. A prominent Hindu sect that operates a New Jersey temple raided by federal authorities earlier this year is facing new accusations that it forced hundreds of low-caste workers to labor. According to the complaint, the workers wereallegedlybrought to the US on R-1 Visas that are applicable for clergy and religious workers like missionaries. Hindu Sect Is Accused of Using Forced Labor to Build N.J. Temple, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/nyregion/nj-hindu-temple-india-baps.html. The Mormons excluded Black men from its Priesthood until 1978. This is why the religious hypocrites that benefit from human suffering fight to maintain the status quo. As of 2021, only 2% of Utah is Black. It says such R-1 visas are religious visas available to "those who minister or work in religious vocations or occupations" and are members of the religious denomination sponsoring the visa holders. Owning an arsenal in America is not illegal because the Second Amendment says it is legal. His family filed a lawsuit against BAPS, which it settled for an undisclosed amount. A Sea Org recruiting piece shows why Scientology needs a slave labor pool of ~2,000 people to run its series of hotels and other operations in Clearwater. Xenu Who? Federal law enforcement agents descended on a massive temple in New Jersey on Tuesday after workers accused a prominent Hindu sect of luring them from India, confining them to the temple grounds and paying them the equivalent of about $1 an hour to perform grueling labor in near servitude. Sikander Ranu says his religion differs widely from the BAPS sect of Hinduism, including that Sikhism does not recognize the caste system, which he feels may have made these workers more vulnerable. Originally, BAPS. And you are using your skills to tell TRUTH. The funds are intended to help states and local governments make up for lost revenue, curb the pandemic, bolster economic recoveries, and support industries hit by Covid-19 restrictions. But I cant be the only one who thought this statement odd coming on the heels of months of domestic terror from the far left that we were supposed to accept or even embrace as mostly peaceful protests. Peaceful assemblies which somehow destroyed countless livelihoods, cost over $2 billion and resulted in numerous injuries and deaths? The trail of permits and inspections is evidence along with what the workers will testify. Further, the Mormons never had to tell the US Government it had amassed that much cash. This racist ban was not illegal in any way whatsoever nor could the matter be heard before any secular court. CNN Six Indian men filed suit against a large Hindu temple in New Jersey on Tuesday, alleging that the prominent sect in charge of the facility lured them halfway around the world with. Moreover, religious leaders have no legal obligations to make any financial disclosures to their own rank and file membership. How can a young couple support, say, seven children and still be expected to pay 10% of their weekly gross income to a church that has over $150 billion in cash reserves? The problem is not the system but unscrupulous bad actors. Its a politically influential sect. They were brought to the United States on religious visas, or R-1 visas temporary visas used for clergy and lay religious workers such as missionaries and presented to the U.S. government as volunteers, according to the claim. United States v. Thind (1923) Extending CRT, one could argue that First Amendment religious protections are part and parcel of White Supremacy as they chiefly benefit White American Evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons, Baptists, and other mainstream Christian denominations that are primarily White. The New York Times: The workers, who lived in trailers hidden from view, had been promised jobs helping to build the temple in rural Robbinsville, N.J., with standard work hours and ample time off, according to the lawsuit, a wage claim filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. These White religious groups form powerful and wealthy voting blocs that keep White elected officials in power. The largest Hindu temple in North America is reported to be the massive Swaminarayan Akshardham, located in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Lawyers for the men, however, said they did manual labor on the site, working nearly 13 hours a day lifting large stones, operating cranes and other heavy machinery, building roads and storm sewers, digging ditches and shoveling snow, all for the equivalent of about $450 per month. FBI agents swarmed the site and tonight an attorney is calling the labor lawsuit against them one of the largest in decades.Tune into the @cwphilly at 10 and @CBSPhilly at 11 pic.twitter.com/62V95pNA21. This is our secret. The New Jersey Independent Victim Compensation Program, a board created by the Catholic Church to settle abuse claims out of court, reviewed the womans allegations last year, her attorney said. None of this is religious work; it is all manual labor for pennies an hour. There are so many intractable problems created by the First and Second Amendments. It is not illegal. Other ideologies have their Rev Jackson, Rev Sharpton, blm and anti- fa. The Huttle campaign attacked Johnson in more than one statement, while not specifically mentioning Paul in those exact statements, but referring to the incident in some detail and demanding the assemblyman 'come clean. From The New York Times we learn that federal agents raided a massive Hindu temple in Robbinsville of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha . The Nation of Islam has incurred severe criticism for these beliefs, but it has never faced any legal challenges over its religious right to embrace these core beliefs. The organization also pledged the equivalent of about $290,000 to Mr. Modis most important election promise: building a temple in the city of Ayodhya, where a mosque had stood before Hindu devotees destroyed it in 1992. Awe-inspiring Hindu temple in New Jersey The temple complex sits off Route 130 in Robbinsville, intended as a pillar of the large Hindu population in New Jersey. Federal agents descended on the massive temple in Robbinsville, N.J., as a lawsuit charged that low-caste men had been lured from India to work for about $1 an hour. Scientology is also willing to spend enormous amounts of parishioner money to fight it out in court. I appreciate you bringing something to our attention that would otherwise quickly sink in the din of news noise. Kakalec said that the situation was a "labor trafficking" case" and that the workers were "constantly monitored" with dozens of cameras and threatened with fines for breaking rules. Too sprawled out? The US Congress and the IRS created a bit of sophistry for use by American religions called intangible spiritual benefits. This allows televangelists to send people a prayer cloth or a vial of water from the Holy Land in exchange for people sending them tax-exempt cash. In the complaint,sixmen have come forward with the allegations saying they were brought to theUSin 2018 and were made to worklong hours often under dangerous conditions. AS LONG AS THEY DIDNT TRY TO INTRODUCE HER Senate Republicans spar with Persichilli over pandemic response, reopenings, by POLITICOs Sam Sutton: Senate Republicans didnt waste their opportunity to grill state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli on Tuesday over Gov. Or that a sizable proportion of religions abuses the system. Hindu Temple Listings ISKCON of Central New Jersey 1020 W 7th St, Plainfield, Plainfield , New Jersey 7063 Hindu Temple. The fusion of First Amendment religious protections and American using secular arbitration law creates a virtually unassailable barrier to accountability for the malicious conduct of any religious group. Where I differ from you is in the conclusion that This is all part of the corrupt system of religion in America. This seems to suggest that our system is to blame for these abuses. Our argument is that in America Religion can be seen as a legal construct in which any groups subjective set of religious beliefs is automatically deemed sacred and therefore rendered impervious from examination by the courts or the State. Tilton poured his budget to buy television time into these communities he targeted. The Mormons changed their doctrine and allowed Black men into the LDS priesthood due to enormous external pressures from culture. It looks like this group has connections to both Modi and the Patels. FBI agents and other law enforcement officials raided the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville, NJ, following a lawsuit by several workers accusing the temple of exploiting them and paying the equivalent of roughly $1.20 an hour. The parallels to scientology are stunning. Feds raid New Jersey BAPS temple, face forced labor chargesFederal authorities in New Jersey are accusing the highly influential Hindu organization BAPS of h. The old ban on excess capital accumulation by religions seems to have disappeared due to the inaction of the IRS and the US Congress. Joel Osteen owns all of his intellectual property (sermons, speeches, books) and makes the money from it. FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4325293. This is some damn good writing, Jeff . Excellent point on David Duke. One of President Obamas answers was to have the US government purchase as much ammunition as possible form manufacturers and thereby cut off the supply of bullets to these groups. They also issued astatementsaying, We were first made aware of the accusations this morning, we are taking them very seriously and are thoroughly reviewing the issues raised., Also read: Somnath, Akshardham & now Ram Mandir Gujarat family designing temples for 15 generations, Subscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram. In fact, I would argue that as the US increasingly secularizes so do the hucksters. You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. Even more is the fact that authorities would gladly go after the Hindus while leaving scientology to do the same if not worse. Thank you. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. New Jerseys 78 higher education institutions will be splitting the the states share federal grant money between all public four-year universities, private colleges, county colleges, vocational technical school districts and degree-granting religious institutions. Shortly after, Kumar contacted Swati Sawant in 2020, an immigration lawyer who then began investigating these claims. ***** Together, we have helped New Jersey progress towards its ambitious renewable energy goals and plant the seeds of green growth. Eyewitness News. So that's nice. She had no one but her mother. Over the years, the organization has grown into a global enterprise made up of both for-profit and nonprofit entities. FBI agents raided the sprawling site of a Hindu temple Tuesday morning in Robbinsville, just east of Trenton. 4. Eyewitness News is told that there are still workers on the property Tuesday night, but that many did leave when offered by federal agents when they arrived this morning. This is the only Hindu temple in . A Hindu temple in the U.S. State of Texas has been raided by burglars who stole some of the valuables from the premises, leaving the Indian community in a state of shock, according to a media. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. Stafford school board will not renew contract of nurse who rebelled against mask mandate, A year living in a hotel with 3 kids. Rabid Cult: Scientology Bites Dog Food Company; Attacks Cream Cheese; and Screams at Rolling Stone Magazine, Podcast with Aaron Smith-Levin: Grant Cardone Lawsuit Update & David Gentile Criminal Case, Scientologys Celebrity Centre in Hollywood was involved in covering up the alleged multiple forcible rapes committed by Danny Masterson. The outer beauty of the temple conceals the evil within perpetrated by the leaders. A massive Hindu temple in New Jersey brought some 200 workers from India to the US on R-1 visas as religious volunteers, but forced them to work on illegally low wages, a class action. This is why Martha Stewart cannot serve on the Board of her own company. As such, they do not have to be paid any money at all. This sent the message that polygamy is unacceptable whereas racism is not. The Church of Scientology stands out because it exploits the system and its Sea Org members more brutally than any other cultic group. You further agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. We are naturally shaken by this turn of events and are sure that once the full facts come out, we will be able to provide answers and show that these accusations and allegations are without merit, Mr. Joshi said. BAPS has beenbehind scores of temples built around the world. Hence, White Supremacist churches are still tax-exempt. This creates the formidable legal quicksand in which White Supremacist religious groups can exist. The contradiction here is insane. Pace v. Alabama (1883) Last month, the New Jersey State Department of Labor and Workforce Development ordered a construction company to stop working on the temple in Robbinsville and another in Edison, N.J., after determining the firm was paying laborers off the books and did not carry workers compensation insurance. The woman turned down the churchs offer and filed a $50 million lawsuit in March alleging Geretys sexual abuse led to a lifetime of mental health issues. Religions use all of the social services police, fire, roads, and infrastructure and pay no taxes for these services. It is allowed because First Amendment religious protections allow a convicted sex felon to run his White-only polygamist church from a prison cell. Spokesmen for the other two departments declined to comment. Nope. They were given $450 a month $50 in hand and $400 deposited to their bank accounts in India. In any event, while my conclusion may differ from yours in this case, I am most thankful that youre putting the facts out there and following the money. Always good to read your blog! We are taking them very seriously and are thoroughly reviewing the issues raised.". At the moment, New Jersey has neither. The majority are Dalit, the lowest rung in Indias caste system. The raid wasfirst reported by the local outlet NJ105, which said the agents showed up at the temple before 8 a.m. A worker at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville, N.J. have arrested a top leader of an opposition party, challenging Indias conservative attitude toward alcohol, the construction of the temple in Ayodhya, a 17-year-old boy who was among the groups of religious volunteers, the New Jersey State Department of Labor and Workforce Development ordered a construction company. Hinduism in New Jersey. ***** A federal lawsuit has accused a large Hindu temple in New. Cases cited by CRT scholars include, but are not limited to, these notorious SCOTUS rulings: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856) They allege that the . It builds temples around the world that draw visitors with awe-inspiring white stone spires, intricate carvings, gurgling fountains and wandering peacocks. A self-serving view of Karma, a sense that the lower caste Dalit slaving away in the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple or the Sea Org deserve the brutality, exploitation, and indignities they endure daily to survive is characteristic of spiritual hypocrisy. But chipping away at Constitutional guarantees, and trusting our govt aparatchiks to do so with unselfish motives is a bridge too far for me. They were asked to sign several documents, often in English, and instructed to tell U.S. embassy staffers that they were skilled carvers or decorative painters, the complaint said. The fact that this beautiful building . They subsisted on a bland diet of lentils and potatoes, and their pay was docked for minor violations, such as being seen without a helmet, according to the claim. Interior photo of the Swaminarayan Akshardham Hindu Temple. The Government raided the FLDS YFZ Ranch in Texas in 2008 and ripped the children out of the arms of their mothers in front of cameras. Does any court have the right to tell religious people that they may not have religious-based racist beliefs? It seems to me that hucksterism is a phenomenon that stretches across the religious and secular realms alike. The reality of Sea Org life quickly sets in: Forced labor, 90+ hour work weeks, sleep deprivation, and the pay can be pennies an hour or nothing. Pein said she was notified by Superintendent George Chidiac through an email following Monday night's school board meeting. confirmed agents had been on the temple grounds but would not comment further. But what happens when First Amendment religious protections and Second Amendment gun protections collide with the Government wanting to impose a terrorist definition on a religious group? It opened in 2014 but is still under construction as BAPS has tried to fulfill its aim of building the largest Hindu temple in the country. 'Do not say anything about this because it will hurt your mother,' she recalled Gerety, then the highest ranking church official in New Jersey, saying. She said she secretly organized the temple workers and arranged legal teams to pursue both wage and immigration claims. If you study religious litigation in America, the same type of lawsuits are filed over and over and the courts almost always refuse to interfere. The PMgaveaeulogy at his funeral. WHERES MURPHY? They are not free to leave. May this be a wedge in the ongoing work to stop slave labor in religious settings. The lawsuit seeks unpaid wages for the workers and money for damages. They allegethat they werepaid $1 per hour for their work when the minimum wage in New Jersey is$12 per hour. Mandir hours are 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Mr. Modi has said that Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual head who built BAPS into the largest Hindu sect in the United States before dying in 2016, was his mentor. According to journalist Tyler Bridges, The Times-Picayune obtained a copy and traced its provenance to Duke, who compiled the content from womens self-help magazines. The lawsuit accuses the massive temple of forcing Indian men to work nearly 90 hours a week for around $1 an hour. As volunteers, religious workers can be fired for no cause, are not entitled to medical insurance, and will receive no social security when they are old as they do not pay into the system. Extending CRT, one could argue that First Amendment religious protections are part and parcel of White Supremacy as they chiefly benefit White American Evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons, Baptists, and other mainstream Christian denominations that are primarily White.. "It was just an extremely traumatic and isolating experience," said Patricia Kakalec, an attorney representing the workers. Conversely, there is zero accountability for how religious leaders at the top spend tax-exempt dollars. Benny Hinn can blow on people and declare that they are healed. Inside Newarks affordable housing crisis, $15M in rent, utilities assistance coming to [Essex Countys] tenants, Bayonne council pres. The Mormons have amassed >$150 billion in cash and there is no requirement for them to spend it. Cumming v. Richmond (1899) Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) After fleeing and a manhunt, Warren Jeffs was arrested in 2006 and later convicted for his sex crimes against the young girls in the FLDS community. Along with its temples, BAPS publicizes its good works. They were asked to sign several documents, often in English, and instructed to tell U.S. embassy staffers that they were skilled carvers or decorative painters, the complaint said. journeys reader's notebook grade 1 volume 2 pdf; new homes orlando under $200k; symbols of betrayal in dreams; hyundai santa fe console buttons; fit to fat to fit jason cause of death; another word for pick up and drop off; pratt pullman district food; stellaris star wars: fallen republic console commands He told the newspaper that he was not in charge of day-to-day operations at the site. Kakaleck says her clients worked long hours without days off between 2018 and 2020, performing hard manual labor and earned about $1.20 an hour. A majority of the workers were Dalits, said the report. Gov. Religion in America has become an inherently abusive and cruel system that just keeps getting worse. If a person donates $5,000 and God does not bless them with a 10X return, then the person had a lack of faith. New Direction New Jersey, which is organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the federal tax code, quietly disclosed all of its donations and spending to the state Election Law Enforcement Commission in February. Tony Ortega, Recruit poor people with false promises of a better life in America, Bring them into America using R1 religious worker visas, The use of religious worker visas acts to conceal human trafficking and exploitation, Do not allow them to talk to their family back home, Ensure that exploited workers only get a minimum amount of sleep, Demand enormous amounts of labor from the trafficked workers, Make these workers fear arrest and imprisonment if they try to escape, Call this forced labor and exploitation religious work, Pay the workers slave wages and justify it because they are religious volunteers. As reported by the New York Times earlier, FBI agents and other law enforcement officials raided the temple Tuesday following the lawsuit accusing the temple of exploiting them and paying the . The Akshardham Hindu Temple used American R1 religious worker visas to bring in workers from India to the temple worksite in a rural part of New Jersey. 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