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The '''Dotbusters''' was a | The '''Dotbusters''' was a [[Anti-Hindu sentiment|Hinduphobic]] [[hate group]] in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], that attacked and threatened [[Indian Americans|South Asians]], particularly Indians in the fall of 1975. The name originated from the fact that traditional [[Hindu]] women and girls wear [[Bindi (decoration)|bindis]] on their foreheads. Their members consisted of frustrated teenagers, mostly high school drop-outs and drug addicts.<ref>[https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/international/story/19871215-us-racist-dotbusters-go-berserk-in-jersey-city-799594-1987-12-15 US: Racist Dotbusters go berserk in Jersey City], India Today</ref> | ||
In July 1987, they had a letter published in ''[[The Jersey Journal]]''<ref name ="NY Times 1987">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/12/nyregion/in-jersey-city-indians-protest-violence.html|title=In Jersey City, Indians Protest Violence|last=Marriott|first=Michel|date=12 October 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]|pages=1–2|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref>{{rp|1}} stating that they would take any means necessary to drive the Indians out of Jersey City: | In July 1987, they had a letter published in ''[[The Jersey Journal]]''<ref name ="NY Times 1987">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/12/nyregion/in-jersey-city-indians-protest-violence.html|title=In Jersey City, Indians Protest Violence|last=Marriott|first=Michel|date=12 October 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]|pages=1–2|accessdate=20 March 2011}}</ref>{{rp|1}} stating that they would take any means necessary to drive the Indians out of Jersey City: | ||
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"I'm writing about your article during July about the abuse of Indian People. Well I'm here to state the other side. I hate them, if you had to live near them you would also. We are an organization called the Dotbusters. We have been around for 2 {{sic}} years. We will go to any extreme to get Indians to move out of Jersey City. If I'm walking down the street and I see a Hindu and the setting is right, I will hit him or her. We plan some of our most extreme attacks such as breaking windows, breaking car windows, and crashing family parties. We use the phone books and look up the name Patel. Have you seen how many of them there are? Do you even live in Jersey City? Do you walk down Central avenue and experience what {{sic|nolink=y|its}} like to be near them: we have and we just don't want it anymore. You said that they will have to start protecting themselves because the police cannot always be there. They will never do anything. They are a {{sic|nolink=y| | "I'm writing about your article during July about the abuse of Indian People. Well I'm here to state the other side. I hate them, if you had to live near them you would also. We are an organization called the Dotbusters. We have been around for 2 {{sic}} years. We will go to any extreme to get Indians to move out of Jersey City. If I'm walking down the street and I see a Hindu and the setting is right, I will hit him or her. We plan some of our most extreme attacks such as breaking windows, breaking car windows, and crashing family parties. We use the phone books and look up the name Patel. Have you seen how many of them there are? Do you even live in Jersey City? Do you walk down Central avenue and experience what {{sic|nolink=y|its}} like to be near them: we have and we just don't want it anymore. You said that they will have to start protecting themselves because the police cannot always be there. They will never do anything. They are a {{sic|nolink=y|weak}} race {{sic|nolink=y|Physically}} and mentally. We are going to continue our way. We will never be stopped."<ref name="pluralism">{{cite web|url=http://www.pluralism.org/ocg/CDROM_files/hinduism/dot_busters.php |title=Dot Busters in New Jersey|publisher=The Pluralism Project at Harvard University |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211040741/http://pluralism.org/ocg/CDROM_files/hinduism/dot_busters.php |archivedate=2009-02-11}}</ref> | ||
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