And I share your outrage that these criminals abuse the special trust and vulnerability that exists in a belief-based (religious or otherwise) relationship. They allegethat they werepaid $1 per hour for their work when the minimum wage in New Jersey is$12 per hour. We have reached out to Carstarphen numerous times in the interest of having him speak on behalf of his candidacy, put his own vigorous explanation point on his vision for the city, and engage the same forum of ideas as those largely written-off anti-establishment alternatives in the mayoral contest. About 90 workers were removed from the site, according to a person familiar with the matter. The FBI has also raided the building, from which they removed about 90 workers who were allegedly paid less than $1 USD per hour. They were given $450 a month $50 in hand and $400 deposited to their bank accounts in India. Duke even used the pseudonym Dorothy Vanderbilt to write a self-help book for women: Finders-Keepers: Finding and Keeping the Man You Want. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that the children were not in any immediate danger. 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. 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! Ltd. All rights reserved. You would not get much argument from me about the ones you have listed as examples. ***** Mr. Kumar, who is named in the federal lawsuit, said in an interview with The New York Times that BAPSs response to the illness and death of his co-worker prompted him and others to come forward. Robert Tilton and his ministry were investigated by the IRS but was never charged with anything. They thought they would have a good job and see America. 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. Similar abuses or even outright atrocities abound in political systems, business, government and even more so, systems repressive of religion. BAPS has close ties to Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi, according to the article. The N.J. men accused of assaulting Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick will remain in custody until trial, States won't get Johnson & Johnson vaccines next week, COLLINGSWOOD Camden-backed Democrats win by wide margin in Collingswood, by New Jersey Globes Nikita Biryukov: A slate led by longtime Mayor James Maley defeated progressive challengers by a 2-1 margin Tuesday, dealing a blow to the Democratic insurgents in the one Camden County town where they have a grip on the local Democratic party. It looks like this group has connections to both Modi and the Patels. Earlier, the organisation had comeunderthe radar of US federal agencies after a 17-year-old boy diedin 2017 followinga fallatthe construction site. However, narcissism, conceit, arrogance, and a sense of entitlement does. Did the mayor issue a graceful concession statement attesting to his willingness to work this out with the residents who like his own constituents like to go to the beach on occasion? The puritan-inclined Klan was shocked by Dukes writing. The Mormons have amassed >$150 billion in cash and there is no requirement for them to spend it. The panel told the woman it could not find any evidence to independently verify her claims of abuse by the well-known archbishop, who died five years ago. While these groups are anti-Government and racist, they nevertheless enjoy tax exemption and other religious protections. Located near Princeton, the temple draws followers from across the region. Benny Hinn can blow on people and declare that they are healed. Why is this even allowed? A case was filed againstBAPS bythe family, which was settledforan undisclosed amount, according to the NYT report. It has shrines for the deities Venkateshwara, Rama and Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman, Ganesha, and Radha Krishna. This happened when Scientology recruited her mother in Siberia. However, the US Government had went to war with the Mormons in the late 19th century over the issue of polygamy. Originally, BAPS. It seems to me that hucksterism is a phenomenon that stretches across the religious and secular realms alike. 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. The Civil Rights Cases (1883) Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. We said, We dont want to die like that, he said. Across the road is a worship center for the Sikh community. NEW JERSEY COLLEGES TO HIRE 223 FOOTBALL COACHES New Jersey colleges will get $895M from American Rescue Plan, by POLITICOs Carly Sitrin: New Jerseys colleges and universities are set to get more than $895 million from the latest pot of coronavirus rescue funds from the federal government. confirmed agents had been on the temple grounds but would not comment further. 5. Scientology Fines OTs $100,000 if They Talk About Xenu or Body Thetans! They arrived in the wake of a civil lawsuit filed against the massive Hindu temple that alleges labor and immigration law violations. Hinduism in New Jersey. 3. THE CHURCH Former Newark Archbishop sexually abused 5-year-old in church rectory, lawsuit claims, by NJ Advance Medias Kelly Heyboer: A former Newark resident went to the Archdiocese of Newark last year with an explosive claim. A spokeswoman for the F.B.I. Further, the Mormons never had to tell the US Government it had amassed that much cash. Details of the groups spending has not been previously reported. The New Jersey case, Mr. Werner said, could be compared to instances of severe worker exploitation seen overseas. 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. 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.. Good point. 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. Scientology has some beautiful real estate and yet the Cult is infamous for hiding malicious conduct behind its guarded doors. SCOTUS ruled in favor of the IRS. Along with its temples, BAPS publicizes its good works. The trail of permits and inspections is evidence along with what the workers will testify. They were paid $50 in cash, with the rest deposited in accounts in India, the complaint said. ", CLOSE CALL Swift action kept outbreak of COVID variant in NJ facility from spreading into community, by The Records Lindy Washburn: The Hackensack Meridian Health system squelched an outbreak of COVID-19 late last year that infected 81 staff and patients at the Carrier Clinic, a behavioral health facility it owns in Somerset County and prevented the virus from spreading further. According to the complaint, the workers wereallegedlybrought to the US on R-1 Visas that are applicable for clergy and religious workers like missionaries. wont support eminent domain, wants to negotiate BMC deal with HRH. New Jersey temple, Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu sect known as BAPS, underpaid and exploited its workers . If one is interested in exploring the rich Hindu culture without actually visiting India, then consider visiting this new and intricate temple. Does any court have the right to tell religious people that they may not have religious-based racist beliefs? The complaint further said the workers were made to sign several documents, often in English, and tell US embassy staffers that they were skilled workers or decorative painters. 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. Stafford school board will not renew contract of nurse who rebelled against mask mandate, A year living in a hotel with 3 kids. You further agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. Robert Tilton existed and got rich because the system allowed him to do exactly what he did. 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. This construct of law by White people is what creates and perpetuates White Supremacy as defined by CRT. 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. 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. 11. Federal workplace safety inspectors determined it had been an accident. FBI agents raided the sprawling site of a Hindu temple Tuesday morning in Robbinsville, just east of Trenton. 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. Religious workers can be legally subjected to harsh ecclesiastical disciplines. A Hindu temple in the US 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 report. 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. 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. Crader cited legal restrictions barring the disclosure of any discipline, but made plain the district did not look the other way. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, one component of the campus, was inaugurated and opened to the public on August 10, 2014 as the world's largest Hindu temple outside India. The teachers in the kindergarten to 6th grade district got sick after attending an event catered by an outside vendor, Harring said., CROWNED VIC A Camden question for mayoral candidate Victor Carstarphen, by InsiderNJs Max Pizarro: Certainly, we know the unseen circuitries of power sustaining public imagery in Camden through rapid-fire press releases deriving from the political infrastructure otherwise known as the Camden County Democratic Committee, resoundingly want him to be mayor. cult are more than just a coincidence. 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. The incident took place at Shri Omkarnath Temple in the Brazos Valley, Texas on January 11, KBTX-TV reported on Friday. Mukesh Kumar,37,was among the 200 construction workers flownoutto the US by BAPS in 2018. In a good week the pay might be $50 which is still only 50 cents per hour. But what happens when White Supremacists claim religious status, i.e. Deal public beach access: Would new parking rules keep out those who don't live here? These people get nothing except what a particular ministry decides they may get. There are so many intractable problems created by the First and Second Amendments. However, the lawyers for the workers say the men were forced to do manual labour on the site and made to work for more than 13 hours a day. She had no one but her mother. 3,664,496 fully vaccinated, or about 39.4 percent of the population. Sawant, aDalit herself, organised the temple workers and arranged legal teams to takeupthe case, according toNYT. Kishangarh marble dumping yard is a health hazard. 10. 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. ', Murphy appoints three to Corrections ombudspersons advisory board, Assembly panel to weigh bill allowing 17-year-olds to vote in primaries Wednesday, NJ asks Facebook to abandon harmful tween version of Instagram, How historic judge shortage could overwhelm states judicial system, NJ considers $10M to manage lakes, including algal bloom fight. He even worked in conspiracy theories and Holocaust Denials. Scientology is also willing to spend enormous amounts of parishioner money to fight it out in court. A majority of the workers were Dalits, said the report. 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. Matt Friedman's must-read briefing on the Garden State's important news of the day. New Jersey needs to administer 280,000 first doses each week in May to reach that goal, which is key to ushering in a return to normalcy this summer, said Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli. A few examples illustrate this point: The stunningly beautiful Swaminarayan Akshardham Hindu temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey the largest Hindu temple in the US was raided this week by the authorities. Over the years, the organization has grown into a global enterprise made up of both for-profit and nonprofit entities. He can take in tax-exempt donations for doing this. 6. Chidiac did not immediately return messages. The Biden Administration wants to define these groups as White Supremacist terrorist groups. The federal raid comes as a lawsuit claims workers were lured there from India. 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. 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. In a surprise to some, these funds cant be used for debt payments, a potential complication for fiscally stressed governments that had already etched out plans to pay off loans The rule could also affect New Jersey, which sold nearly $3.7 billion of bonds last year to cover its shortfall during the pandemic. The New Jersey temple, or mandir, is itself a multimillion-dollar operation, public records show. Sea Org members from outside the US have their passports taken from them and locked in a safe. These White religious groups form powerful and wealthy voting blocs that keep White elected officials in power. Wray responds to FBI critiques over Hunter laptop, Trump raid, Jan 6: We're 'on the American people's side' Wray also responded to criticisms over the arrest of a pro-life activist recently . Eyewitness News received a statement from the communications firm working with BAPS Robbinsville: "We were first made aware of the accusations this morning. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email along with 7129 other subscribers. The Texas Supreme Court stuck down the lower court that had authorized Texas Child Protective Services to take the children. DOWNLOAD FOR iOS DOWNLOAD FOR ANDROID. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Senate Democrats Jack Barnes, former U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, NJAIJ's Viri Martinez. The complaintadded thatthe workers passports had been confiscated, theywere givenlentils and potatoesfor mealsand that their paywas cutfor thesmallestof violations such as being seen without a helmet. Murphy visited the Robbinsville temple which aims to be the biggest Hindu temple in the U.S. when he was running in 2017 and visited one of its temples during a 2019 trip to India. 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. One of the lawyers in the wage claim suit has said this could be the first forced labour casein the USsince 1995. 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. The department on Monday released guidance on how state and local governments can use $350 billion in funding from President Joe Bidens $1.9 trillion rescue package. The foundation has close ties with theBharatiya Janata Party, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed the spiritual head of the organisation Pramukh Swami Maharaj as his mentor. Please enter valid email address to continue. I would not be surprised to see money laundering in the mix. To further illustrate this point, when one looks at the blessings promised by the likes of Osteen, typical televangelists or scientology even, these blessings are invariably material and self-centered. A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses the leaders of the Hindu sect known as . The backlash caused the Government to back off conducting raids on religious groups for fifteen years. "There was a sense of invasion, that sense of loss of privacy when something like this happened to us," Srinivasa Sunkari, a Board member for the Brazos Valley Shri Omkarnath Temple said. The achievement took on added significance when researchers discovered that the outbreak had been sparked by a new, highly transmissible variant of the virus never previously identified in New Jersey. Waterfords 900 or so students wont return to their three buildings until May 24, Superintendent Brenda Harring said in a letter to the school community. FBI vehicles during the raid on the Hindu Temple. India needs fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism, packed with on-ground reporting. 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. Bob Jumbojets: The Dalit workers did virtually all the work including pouring the foundations, masonry, heavy equipment, etc. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. The ministry keeps the money they donated and is under no legal obligation to return the money. The lawsuit, filed by six named workers in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, says at least 200 Indian nationals who work or have worked at the temple in Robbinsville would be part of the class. 8. A spokesman for the department did not respond to a request for comment. Religions are not held to account for taking cash donations in exchange for claims that miracle healings, wealth, abundance, and happiness will flow if one sews a seed faith offering. Representatives of BAPS denied these allegations in interviews to the New York Times. I would also argue that grifters are by no means a specifically religious phenomenon. 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. The political will to curb criminal transgressions, whether it be scientology or blm (and others like them, of course) seems to be entirely absent. Swaminarayan temple in US raided, workers taken from India treated as forced Somnath, Akshardham & now Ram Mandir Gujarat family designing temples for 15 generations. The organization has strong ties with Narendra Modi, Indias prime minister, and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. These abuses are compounded, in some instances, by Second Amendment protections whereby ideologically-driven religious zealots can own assault weapons and private arsenals. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata. 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. But whats striking is that this is in the United States, he said. The FBI was at a massive Hindu temple in New Jersey on Tuesday that has been accused in a lawsuit of luring Indian men from marginalized communities to the U.S. and forcing them to work nearly 90 hours a week for around $1 an hour. But chipping away at Constitutional guarantees, and trusting our govt aparatchiks to do so with unselfish motives is a bridge too far for me. The current ombudsman said he would retire on Aug. 1, but he is on an extended leave until then, using up paid time off. US federal agents on Tuesday launched an investigation into a Hindu temple in New Jersey after workers alleged they were lured and forced to work more than 12 hours per day at slave wages to help build the temple. First Amendment religious rights and Second Amendment gun ownership rights exist simultaneously. 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. Without having gotten into the lawsuit much, my initial impression is that if they did any masonry/cement (as opposed to just manual labor) theyre going to have major Joy-zee problem. We called, sent emails, text messages, engaged subordinates, and tried to find him in person. The lawsuit says hundreds of workers from India suffered torturous treatment. Inside Newarks affordable housing crisis, $15M in rent, utilities assistance coming to [Essex Countys] tenants, Bayonne council pres. "It was just an extremely traumatic and isolating experience," said Patricia Kakalec, an attorney representing the workers. 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. One laborer died from an apparent illness last autumn, prompting a backlash among the workers, according to the complaint and another worker. Eyewitness News. wont support eminent domain, wants to negotiate BMC deal with HRH, Former Newark Archbishop sexually abused 5-year-old in church rectory, lawsuit claims, Swift action kept outbreak of COVID variant in NJ facility from spreading into community, How the closed pipeline and truck driver shortages could affect N.J. gas pumps, N.J.s famous Delaware River hot dog man, Greg Crance, dead at 56 from COVID, View all our political and policy newsletters, View the Full New Jersey Playbook Archives . 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. 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. Kakaleck represents six previous temple workers in a suit that involves at least 200 low-caste men allegedly lured from India to New Jersey. The temple is located at 112 North Main Street, Robbinsville. 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. Is there any way we could have done something better in New Jersey?, EDNA MAHAN Despite law, NJ prison oversight on hold, by NJ Spotlights Colleen ODea: To ensure some level of dignity to the incarcerated, legislators last year passed a reform law that gave broad powers to the corrections ombudsman and created an advisory board to assist those efforts. Quoting a source, theNYTreport said 90 labourers were removed from the site byUS federal agencies after Tuesdays raid. It builds temples around the world that draw visitors with awe-inspiring white stone spires, intricate carvings, gurgling fountains and wandering peacocks. The Mormons abandoned polygamy as a result. The largest Hindu temple in North America is reported to be the massive Swaminarayan Akshardham, located in Robbinsville, New Jersey. This is an egregious abuse of the system that has been used by Scientology and other religions that want First Amendment protections to keep all abuse hidden and to strip victims of their rights to seek justice in secular courts. Arguing from exceptions/abuses, one could posit that the govt should take more strenuous efforts at domestic surveillance or should apply less scruple to what constitutes lawful search and seizure to curb the evils that are enabled by these Constitutional protections. 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." This creates the formidable legal quicksand in which White Supremacist religious groups can exist. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. The Church of Scientology stands out because it exploits the system and its Sea Org members more brutally than any other cultic group. This sent the message that polygamy is unacceptable whereas racism is not. Phil Murphys Covid-19 response, using the bulk of their time during a 2 1/2-hour budget hearing to tear into the administrations management of outbreaks at nursing homes, its economic reopening guidance and limited public transparency. We are not alone in arguing that here is a pervasive and widespread abuse of the First Amendment religious protections. Phil Murphys closest allies spent nearly $13.2 million during most of his first term to boost the Democrats agenda. Pace v. Alabama (1883) 4. How can the US Government outlaw these groups without violating their First and Second Amendment protections? Cumming v. Richmond (1899) These constructed religious legal protections amount to an unfair advantage which benefits monotheists, polytheists, and other religionists while excluding secular persons. Phil Murphy will meet his goal to fully vaccinate 4.7 million adults by the end of June. The majority are Dalit, the lowest rung in Indias caste system. hindu temple in new jersey raided. Jesus rebuked the scribes and the Pharisees of his day for the same conduct we see in the Swaminarayan Akshardham Hindu temple in 2021: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! The sleek and navigable design offers a convenient way to access POLITICO's scoops and groundbreaking reporting. The evidence is all there. These Sea Org members are not free to call home when they want. However, Jeffs still leads FLDS from prison. TRANSGRESSION 'Action' taken against Neptune vice principal involved in transphobic rant, by The Asbury Park Press Joe Strupp: School district officials have taken 'swift and serious action' against the middle school vice principal who threw a beer at fellow diners during a videotaped transphobic meltdown last month that went viral, according to a district notice. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! This person objected to the LDS demanding a 10% weekly tithe from young LDS couples with the large numbers of children the LDS also demands of them. Conversely, there is zero accountability for how religious leaders at the top spend tax-exempt dollars. Instead Fulop had his spokesman blame the media for reporting his foolishness [Wetsuit wholesaler] Conrad Ferla cut to the heart of the matter. 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. 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. Her protest centered around what she called the ineffectiveness of face masks in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and their harm to children. Them next, please. In 1976, Newark Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety befriended her family and sexually abused her on multiple times in his bedroom in the church rectory when she was 5 years old, she said. Too sprawled out? Nope. 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. ***** The only hope that I have is that people will see organizations such as these two (and more) for what they are and that as a people we will unmask these frauds, deprive them of oxygen, prosecute where warranted and move on to better things. [citation needed] Most big religious leaders have private jets, live in mega-mansions, and are paid exorbitant salaries and benefits. It was, probably, 99.8 percent Hindu people there, but know this: We were made to feel incredibly welcome. ***** The majority are Dalit, the lowest rung in Indias caste system. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents raided a temple in New Jersey Tuesday after allegations that a Hindu sect lured hundreds of low-caste men from India to work on the building's construction for about $1 per hour under grueling conditions, numerous sources reported. 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