Far-right wingnuts storm Diwali fest in Seattle after lights go out on MAGA

NewsWorld NewsUS NewsFar-right wingnuts storm Diwali fest in Seattle after lights go out on MAGA Far-right wingnuts storm Diwali fest in Seattle after lights go out on MAGA Chidanand Rajghatta / TNN / Updated: Nov 08, 2026, 19:27 IST Far-right activist Jake Lang disrupts Seattle Diwali celebrations with anti-Hindu placards TOI correspondent from Washington: A celebration of light, colour, diversity, and religious pluralism in Seattle turned into a brief demonstration of America's darker side when two far-right activists gate-crashed the festivities carrying placards demanding the deportation of "dot heads" and warning of a “Hindu takeover of Christian America.”Jake Lang and Thomas Allen apparently didn't get the memo that Diwali is a celebration of the triumph of good over evil.

They turned up at a local Diwali celebration with American flags determined to underscore the evil part. They were eventually escorted out of the Seattle Center Armory after a scuffle, but not before Lang, who seems to have a particular talent for turning provocation into publicity, claimed that he and Allen had been assaulted by "Antifa and Hindus," while blaming Hindus for the Republicans' electoral disaster in Texas.

""Hindus flipped Texas blue. F**k them," he complained, planting the idea in some heads that they should now be celebrating Krishna Jayanti in Texas.Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, whose Congressional district includes Seattle, condemned the disruption, saying she is beyond disgusted by this vile and racist display.

“Diwali is an important holiday and our community should feel safe to celebrate it. This hateful display has no place in our city or this country,” the lawmaker, who has herself faced racist attacks asking her to go back to India, said.

Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation, said she’d “laugh these losers off as clowns looking for some instagram likes if their fellow white nationalist hadn’t almost shot up a Hindu temple in Chicago.” You use AI every day.

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