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"Nithyananda and his community was persecuted since March 2, 2010 sarting with a deep fake video leading to multiple assassination attempts against him.[1]
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Pg 78: "We summarize this with one historical example of the infamous Goa Inquisition authorized by Francis Xavier, which ran for 292 years from 1516 to 1812, with troops sent from Portugal and the persecution faced by Nithyananda Paramashivam in modern times"
From page 81: "All this made Nithyananda Paramashivam and science a target of some camps with power and vested interests. What followed was an unprecedented but well-documented series of events that resulted in numerous assassination attempts. It escalated when on March 2, 2010, a fake and morphed video of His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda was released on a Tamil TV channel. The fabricated video was replayed thousands of times by many TV channels. In a well-orchestrated campaign, the persecution followed by law fare in which multiple legal cases were filed without basis, the press relentlessly churned out misinformation, and attacks on the monks of the Adi-Shaiva order continued unabated. Female monks were molested, and male monks were assaulted. Children studying in the traditional Gurukul were exposed to pornographic material. The relentless systemic assault and continuous assaults on property, people, and programs continued unabated until Nithyananda Paramashivam removed himself from bodily harm."
Pg 81: "Finally, his life itself was threatened where several hired assassins attempted in various ways to brutally kill, poison, or burn alive Nithyananda Paramashivam" Ik.Kaluha (talk) 01:35, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not a chance. This is the same "spirituality connected to climate change" WP:FRINGE mumbo-jumbo source cited above, which is not reliable for anything but one offshoot of Hinduism's religious beliefs about the environment (if even that; it could well be something written by someone with no current connection to that group). The claims are vague ("some camps with power"? What camps where? What power? "Vested interests"? In what?) If something is "well-documented" then there will be documentation, and there is not. This is like saying "lots of scientific studies show that ...", but there being no scientific studies anywhere that anyone can find. Even one single assassination attempt would be an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary sourcing. How can anything "escalate" from alleged assassination attempts? The possibly faked video is already covered in our article. The fact that this book refers to him as "His Divine Holiness" and "Paramashivam" (avatar of Paramashiva) clearly indicates it is promotional/worship material. There is no evidence findable anywhere of any persecution of him or anyone connected to him; only a claim he made to the UN, which they did not take seriously, and various claims in bad sources that are obviously written from his own organization's press releases. Same with the attacks on monks claims, etc. This narrative that Nithyananda fled India to escape "bodily harm" instead of prosecution is not supportable with any independent reliable source material of any kind, and all the sources say the opposite. If you keep posting nonsense from this book or anything like it, your comments will likely just be deleted as proselytization/promotion spam. — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 06:00, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The book cited above is a Routledge publication. There is no evidence that Routledge does any kind of peer review - in other words, the publisher in this case could've been Penguin, Puffin, Bloomsbury, or whatever - it doesn't make a difference. The content matters, and the content seems inconsistent with other RSes. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (talk to me!/my edits) 04:48, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have the text of the book, but I find it very interesting that 35 of the 199 citations in the book are works produced by Nithyananda himself (making him the most-cited author in the work). And the section on "persecution on his divine holiness" is seemingly cited to "nithyanandatruth dot org" which, if I'm not mistaken, has already been discussed here and deprecated. The book does not appear to be sufficiently independent of the subject. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (talk to me!/my edits) 05:37, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In what context has the citation been used in the book? Does it matter if nithyanandatruth dot org is used as along as it has been vetted by independent author and academic publisher meant for academia? Ik.Kaluha (talk) 03:40, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please remove:
"A forensic sciences laboratory in Bengaluru confirmed that the video appeared to be that of Nithyananda and Ranjitha" The citation used doesn't back this statement. This was discussed is detail earlier, the title of the article is misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ik.Kaluha (talk • contribs) 03:41, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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