Arvin Valmuci

White House yanks petition to reassess Obama’s hero Gandhi

Washington, DC, (February 14, 2013): Early Thursday afternoon, the Obama administration removed from its “We the People” website a petition asking the president to reassess Gandhi. South Asian American community leaders who endorsed the petition said they were deeply disappointed in the administration’s resort to censoring free speech.

Petition urge Obama to reject his hero Gandhi for supporting “fundamental divisions” of caste

San Francisco, United States (February 12, 2013): It is learnt that a new petition to the Obama administration says Gandhi spent his life spreading racial hatred and praising the “fundamental divisions” of the caste system.