Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR)

The Rutgers CSRR is an academic center at Rutgers Law School that describes itself as the first U.S. law school center focused on the civil and human rights of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities. Its 2025 report — Hindutva in America — carries the institutional weight of a major public university, which makes its methodology gaps harder to spot and more consequential when they exist. The CID scored it at 3.7, Advocacy-Grade. The report uses terms like 'supremacist' and 'ethnonationalist' hundreds of times without ever publishing criteria for what qualifies — a reader cannot apply the same standard and check whether the label fits. Of 261 sources cited, 188 are advocacy organizations with adversarial relationships to the people and groups being investigated. The report's authors are not individually named, which means no one is personally accountable for the characterizations it makes. Multiple organizations and scholars publicly identified these methodology gaps after publication. The center responded with social media promotion and press statements but has not addressed a single one of the specific methodological criticisms — not the missing definitional criteria, not the sourcing imbalance, not the anonymity of authorship.