Conservative Comedian’s Anti-Hindu Mockery of ‘Cow Urine’ Highlights Growing Anti-Indian Sentiment in Texas

Conservative comedian and YouTuber Alex Stein sparked outrage at a Plano City Council meeting last week when he appeared in traditional Indian attire and delivered a mocking speech ridiculing Hindu beliefs, adding fuel to a growing wave of anti-Indian sentiment across Texas and other parts of the United States.

Stein appeared before the council dressed in a yellow kurta, black shorts, slippers and a red tilak. He introduced himself in a caricatured accent as a “young Indian boy” from the “holy land of India far, far away,” before launching into a string of insults targeting Hindu traditions.

“Cow is divine mother… her urine, gomutra is the purest form of medicine… and her dung, gobar, is holy gold,” he said mockingly, referring to the Hindu tradition of regarding the cow as holy. Several Indian Americans walked out of the council in protest.

Stein also mentioned FBI Director Kash Patel and his relationship with country singer Alexis Wilkins, mockingly stating his wish for an “authentic Indian marriage.” Critics said the remark reduced Indian identity to stereotypes and cheap punchlines.

He also mentioned the Muslim Brotherhood, saying it was “eating and drinking things that in Western culture are not respected but are revered in the Indian culture for having a lot of healing properties,” American Bazaar reported.

Several videos of the incident circulated online, prompting widespread criticism.

Who is Alex Stein?

Alex Stein, who brands himself as a comedian and satirist, has built a career disrupting local government meetings and confronting politicians across the country.

According to Wikipedia, Stein became known for disrupting local government meetings, sometimes virtually, during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has said he began the disruptions after being frustrated by Dallas government unresponsiveness.

His disruption of various local government meetings including New York City and Las Vegas has included rapping about vaccines and other topics, Wikipedia reported. He rapped about the Russo-Ukrainian War at a city council meeting in Plano, Texas.

In 2022, D Magazine described Stein’s city council pranks as “mostly harmless, if at times in poor taste.” However, the publication later wrote that Stein was “exploiting municipal government meeting rules in a novel way to gain access to larger right-wing platforms where he can spread misinformation, transphobia, and conspiracy theories.”

Stein’s performance comes amid a documented surge in anti-Indian racism and hostility across the United States, particularly in Texas, tied largely to debates over H-1B visas and immigration.

In June 2022, Stein began confronting politicians including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw, Beto O’Rourke, Adam Kinzinger and Eric Swalwell, according to Wikipedia. He was described as sexually harassing Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in July 2022 by calling her a “big booty Latina” and accusing her of wanting to “kill babies.”

Surge in Anti-Indian Sentiment

Stein’s performance comes amid a documented surge in anti-Indian racism and hostility across the United States, particularly in Texas, tied largely to debates over H-1B visas and immigration.

According to the AAPI Equity Alliance’s Stop AAPI Hate Report, more than 75 percent of anti-Asian slurs targeted South Asians between December 2024 and January 2025, according to Newsweek.

Moonshot, a group that targets online terrorism, found more than 44,000 slurs targeting South Asians in extremist online spaces during May and June 2025, Newsweek reported.

The Center for the Study of Organized Hate documented a spike in anti-Indian content on X over the past year, according to CNN. The center recorded nearly 2,700 posts in October 2025 that promoted racism or xenophobia against Indians and Indian Americans.

A report from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate analyzing posts on X between July 1 and Sept. 7, 2025, found that narratives framing Indians as “invaders” and “job thieves,” alongside calls to deport Indians, accounted for 474 posts and 111.8 million views. Activity peaked in August 2025 with 381 posts and 189.9 million views.

Texas Becomes Epicenter of Tensions

Texas has emerged as a particular flashpoint for anti-Indian sentiment, with several high-profile incidents in recent months.

In early February 2026, a Frisco City Council meeting became a soapbox for residents to speak about H-1B visas, immigration and belonging to a packed house, according to The Dallas Morning News. The uncharacteristic turnout was prompted by social media posts urging people to address an “Indian takeover” of the city.

Marc Palasciano, a Richardson activist who posted about the council meeting on X, is a critic of H-1B visas, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Dylan Law told the Frisco council that immigrants moving to North Texas on H-1B visas have caused schools to be overcrowded and are changing the character of the region, The Dallas Morning News reported.

“When lifelong residents voice concern, we’re told our discomfort is bigotry,” Law said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “Temporary visas are only temporary until loopholes like birthright citizenship are exploited and roots take hold through chain migration.”

However, Shanthan Toodi, a veteran and Indian American who was previously deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, said it hurt to have to defend his right to belong in the city, The Dallas Morning News reported.

“When entire ethnic communities are spoken about as a problem … we stop talking about policy and we start drifting into collective blame,” Toodi said, according to The Dallas Morning News.

In Irving, Texas, a Dallas suburb home to thousands of Indian tech professionals, three masked men staged a roadside protest carrying signs that read “Don’t India My Texas,” “Deport H-1B Visa Scammers” and “Reject Foreign Demons,” according to CNN.

The H-1B Visa Debate

The increased scrutiny against the South Asian population seeking employment in America, specifically those of Indian nationality applying for the H-1B visa program, has led to increased political hostility and racism against Indian people in the United States, experts told Newsweek.

The recent appointment of Sriram Krishnan as the White House’s senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence brought a wave of anti-Indian rhetoric from MAGA supporters, particularly after he voiced his support of H-1B visas and the removal of country-cap quotas on green cards, Newsweek reported.

Far-right accounts and actors now routinely frame Indian immigrants as scammers who are depriving Americans of high-paying jobs and call to deport them, CNN reported.

Stephanie Chan, Stop AAPI Hate’s director of data and research, recounted a recent conversation with a South Asian community leader in Texas who told her white supremacist groups were harassing people outside Hindu temples, according to CNN.

The Stein incident at Plano City Council represents just one visible manifestation of a broader pattern of anti-Indian sentiment that has been building across the United States, particularly in states like Texas with large Indian-American populations. While Stein has built a career on controversial stunts at government meetings, his latest performance crossed into explicit mockery of religious and cultural traditions, adding to a climate of hostility that Indian Americans say has become increasingly difficult to ignore.

This story was aggregated by AI from several news reports and edited by American Kahani’s News Desk.