Tulsi Gabbard does not belong to a weird homophobic cult, and people should really stop repeating those unfounded rumors and lies. That narrative was spawned out of revenge, bears all the hallmarks of a hate movement, and has already inspired acts of persecution and violence against Tulsi Gabbard and other Hindu Yogi. To spread that narrative, is to participate that hate movement.

Hawaii Democratic and Republican parties disavow bigoted politicians and campaigns attacking Tulsi Gabbard’s religious beliefs.

Tulsi Gabbard has ties to Chris Butler and his Science of Identity Foundation… So what?

Tulsi Gabbard would be our first Hindu president and she is not ashamed.

Tulsi does not deny her connections to Chris Butler or his Science of Identity Foundation (SIF). She is a Hindu practitioner of Karma Yoga, and has described Chris Butler as the lineage holder of her Sadhanas (ancient mantras), which would explain why she refers to him as her Guru Dev. But this does not make him her Master or Living-GOD, as IGNORANT people who know little about Eastern religions would have people believe.

Furthermore, SIF is not even a membership organization. It is a production company that once broadcast a local television show, and now sells books and videos. THERE IS NO ASHRAM, AND THEY DO NOT HAVE A CONGREGATION. There is no such thing as a SIF cult, let alone a homophobic one. The stories about cult abuses are complete fabrications, and I can prove it.

Those stories were concocted by a wealthy sicko who lives in Tulsi’s hometown, in an attempt to dismiss, as homophobic tropes, valid accusations of pedophilia lodged against him. These stories were further amplified by irresponsible journalists and political smear artists… including DNC operatives who are so determined to see Tulsi Gabbard fail that they would stoop to religious bigotry, and would coordinate with hatemongers and MAGA propagandists to accomplish their goals.

How I accidentally discovered who is behind the vicious smear that has haunted Tulsi Gabbard’s entire political career.



Screen capture (w/ added propaganda warning) taken from Christine Gralow’s website.

Previously, I had a Twitter confrontation with a guy who claimed he’s lived near the Gabbard family since the 80’s, and that he was persecuted by their culty homophobia. Since Hawaii is only the most liberal state, and has always been gay-friendly (as most Polynesian cultures are), I started asking around to see if this guy was for real. I asked my cousins who live on East Oahu, and none were familiar with the name he used. But recently, I started showing his picture…

The reason I did, was because I noticed he had scrubbed his Twitter profile of personal images after I asked, “How come none of my cousins know who you are if you live there?”

The Bad Neighbor

My cousins thought that the pic looked a lot like someone who actually lives in Kailua — an extremely wealthy man known as Nick BREDIMUS. Everyone who has lived on that side of the island for a while knows who BREDIMUS is… ever since the Gabbards exposed him to their neighbors as a pedophile and child pornographer, convicted of molesting boys as young as 11 years old.

Read more about this man’s heinous crimes here if you have the stomach for it.

Search engines led me to a website (above) that detailed his crimes, and associated BREDIMUS with FlashlightOnRoaches… which happens to be a website that many journalists have used as a source for their hit-pieces against Tulsi. It featured a blog that portrayed the Science of Identity Foundation as a cult, and claimed that Tulsi Gabbard was a secret member.

In November 2016, Paste Magazine published that FlashlightOnRoaches was the only source they could find connecting Tulsi with the “Butler Cult” — alleging that the Gabbards somehow managed to “scrub” the internet.

FlashlightOnRoaches also led discussions in the message forum referenced in this Civil Beat article, from which journalists were/are getting their “Butler Cult” info… a forum where many posts were transferred from FlashlightOnRoaches. In 2012, when Tulsi first ran for congress, the forum evolved into being less about SIF, and more about how SIF could be used against Tulsi — with great encouragement from FlashlightOnRoaches (BREDIMUS).

Building the Culty-Tulsi Myth

BREDIMUS stated his goal in early 2012:

“It is impossible for a candidate like Tulsi Gabbard to be elected to Congress without the support of influential people. However, few influential people want their name associated with an alleged member of a secretive cult and who, it is claimed, was actually raised within a cult. My aim here is to post enough details so people Googling themselves or Tulsi will be confronted with the association.”

Most forum members who posted about the Gabbards admitted they were never members of “the cult” — they were there to find, or to help dig for Tulsi dirt. They were quite active in “research” and “doxing” of everything and everyone remotely associated with the Gabbards, shared he-said-she-said rumors, and collaborated on shaping narratives that they hoped would destroy Tulsi’s career.

These narratives were previously used against Tulsi by a bigoted opponent in a congressional race, prompting an inquiry. The Civil Beat investigated claims made on the forum about SIF, Butler, and the Gabbards. None of what they were able to verify included anything salacious or nefarious. They found that the rest could be dismissed as baseless “rumors and innuendo — even patently false”.

One poster, confessing no knowledge of Tulsi’s religious beliefs, suggested it wouldn’t be a surprise if SIF were anti-gay, since Hare Krishnas forbade sex except for pro-creation.

Another poster announced ditching a project to portray Tulsi as a lesbian. Someone else commented about how she was “too hot” to be gay.

Others kicked around ideas for framing Tulsi’s brother as gay, and “sent away” to Australia to spare the family of shame… a story that was ditched when a profile of the young man was discovered, which made the narrative impossible.

Some posters carried on about how Tulsi’s religion was Satanic, and about how she and all who practiced such idolatry would burn in hell. They were particularly bothered by the use of the Gita to swear her into office, and referred to all Hindus involved in Hawaii politics as “groomed” for office by “the cult”.

Death Meditations

In one post, BREDIMUS presented forum members with a long list of talking points titled, Death Meditations. As a whole, these Death Meditations formulate an extremist doctrine of Anti-Tulsi hate, and provide a methodology for persecuting her. Primarily, these talking points focus on:

Associating everything about Mike Gabbard with the “homophobic cult”, so people would forget (or never realize) that he’s actually a devout Christian and that his former advocacy for DOMA was motivated by his Catholic beliefs.

Using Hindu-phobic tropes to liken “the cult” experience to mind-controlled slavery… in the service of Butler’s power and profit.

Explaining away the lack of evidence that would actually prove that SIF is a cult, and that would actually tie Tulsi to cultish activities, as being the result of “secret” worship.

Scapegoating her for the persecution of gays.

Providing negative proof fallacies to harass and confront her with.

Butler’s feet and toenails, sprinkled throughout, as an added ick-factor.

Radicalizing Minions of Hate

In one post, BREDIMUS writes about “examples of courage in the battle to expose Tulsi Gabbard”. These “examples” of behavior, combined with the forum’s list of Death Meditations, have already led to radicalizing at least one person into committing violence against Tulsi.

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He praised a YouTube vlogger, who he called one of “our own”… for producing “powerful videos” which spread “the truth” about “the cult” being a danger to society… the same forum member mentioned above who had been playing around with the lesbian smear. This vlogger, who now lives in Canada, has been successfully sued by Hawaii residents that he has defamed in his “SIF Cult Exposés”.

A forum visitor described as a political activist with “a deep hatred” for the Gabbards was also named by BREDIMUS in his list of “courageous heroes”. He was praised for his activism and publications which kept people focused on ideas of how ingrained cultish homophobic views are, and he was congratulated for ensuring that this sowed distrust in Tulsi’s social “evolution” and “change of heart”. That person was Bart Dame… who happens to be Bernie’s point-man in Hawaii.

Another forum visitor who BREDIMUS praised at length for confronting (harassing) Tulsi in person was Aniruddha SHERBOW. A little more than a year after receiving this praise and encouragement, SHERBOW was convicted on felony stalking charges… when he attempted to hunt her down to sever her head from her body.

New York Man Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Making Threats Against Member of Congress

False Prophets

In 2016, BREDIMUS was exposed as a pedophile to the forum, and he ceased his online activities. Soon after his online disappearance, Christine Gralow (also a resident of Kailua at the time) joined the forum and became the new champion in the group’s effort against Tulsi Gabbard. She came armed with her own blog (Meanwhile in Hawaii) dedicated to exposing the “Butler Web”.

One named witness in GRALOW’s work recently approached me online to corroborate her story. He showed me his blog, in which he claims “the cult” may be a CIA MK Ultra Op. He didn’t answer when I asked him if he has met or knows Butler.

During our conversation, he repeated Death Meditations… including one about Butler’s toenails.

He admitted that he knew BREDIMUS, and confirmed him as FlashlightOnRoaches. He sent me a document he wrote about BREDIMUS in 2016, in which he described him as “our leader”, and an extremely dangerous man who is obsessed with destroying the Science of Identity Foundation, even though he has never been a member and doesn’t actually know anything about their religious practices. His Twitter feed confirms this timeline.

He confessed that he doesn’t actually know Tulsi, and that he has “never heard anything bad or weird about her or her family”.

I was also approached by GRALOW’s one other named witness, who also intended to corroborate her cult narrative.

[01 June 2019: It was previously published here that the second witness did not know Butler. This was based on a previous statement of his about how “Butler was never around.” The witness now says that he has met Butler, and the statement has thus been retracted.]

He also repeated Death Meditations, until I made it clear that I knew what those were.

Like the first witness, he confessed that he didn’t know Tulsi when he was growing up. He admitted that he knows the first witness, and that they were both part of the “truth-seeking clan” that BREDIMUS once led.

He also admitted that his family had been involved in so many different religious groups that he might be getting things mixed up, and that he doesn’t doubt that it may have been another group that “messed him up”.

Both witnesses told me that they cut ties with BREDIMUS in 2016, when they found out he was a pedophile… yet they continue with their mission to spread their anti-SIF message.

Neither of these witnesses have been able to produce an AUDIO copy of the alleged Butler Lecture they claim that SIF distributes to its members to indoctrinate them with Homophobia.

Both witnesses confirmed that they have been interviewed by several journalists as, “cult defectors”.

06 March 2020 update: Rama was successfully sued by his own mother, over the lies he’s been spreading.



Rama (center), casually hanging out with professional MAGA propagandist, Dylan Wheeler (right).

Spinning the Butler Web

Christine GRALOW takes the cult smear a lot further than BREDIMUS did. Her work alleges that the Butler Cult isn’t just homophobic… they also have nefarious political aims. She speaks of “Independents for a Godly Government” which she claims is Butler’s political arm, and she speaks of an international criminal conspiracy that finances Butler’s nefarious political aims. GRALOW’s claims of criminal conspiracy were repeated recently by New York Magazine, and they are currently being sued for defamation over it have retracted these claims.

Twitter notes debunking Gralow’s Butler Web (follow up article by me in progress):

1/ So… I haven't written all of this up yet, and the first article I did still needs some refinement, but here's the three part of Gralow's bullshit story about Tulsi's "cult" broken down: — Naomi Allen 🌺 🐝 🌺 (@girlyGRRRL) June 19, 2019

Campaign of Revenge

Fact: Nicholas Bredimus, who was never a member of the Science of Identity Foundation, has been waging a sophisticated smear campaign against SIF and the Gabbards for more than a decade, after they exposed him to the community for being a sicko who went to prison for sexually abusing children.

Fact: Nicholas Bredimus led discussions on an internet forum for the purpose of fabricating and spreading narratives about SIF being a dirty homophobic cult, to tarnish Tulsi Gabbard’s reputation and destroy her career.

Fact: Nicholas Bredimus influenced and encouraged the man who was convicted for plotting an attempt on Tulsi’s life.

Fact: Narratives shaped by said forum are being used by political operatives and journalists in their hit-pieces against Tulsi Gabbard.

Fact: “Witnesses” used by journalists to confirm cult narratives for their hit-pieces were actually part of the group that BREDIMUS orchestrated to create these narratives to begin with.

Fact: Christine Gralow’s attorney personally ADMITTED to me, that the documented child abuse cases that Gralow writes about have NOTHING to do with Chris Butler or SIF. He ADMITTED that those incidents were related to OTHER religious organizations, and are only connected with SIF because they are all off-shoots of Hare Krishna.

An interesting thing I discovered about the attorney Christine Gralow used in their attempt to get me to shut down this page: HE WORKS WITH THE MAGA CAMPAIGN, and has been working to spin this cult-narrative in the right-wing religious-fringe media circuit. He ADMITTED to me that he and GRALOW are friends, and that they have been researching Hindu “cults” together for YEARS.

Why is this attorney, who actively campaigned for Trump in 2016, cc'd in legal docs attempting to silence my work debunking anti-Tulsi propaganda written by Gralow? And why does he refer to "my friend Christine's research" in a 2018 pro-MAGA interview? https://t.co/R9YgyJcbj2 — Naomi Allen 🌺 🐝 🌺 (@girlyGRRRL) July 12, 2019

FACT: Michael GOLOJUCH Jr, who has been spamming social media about Tulsi’s “homophobic cult” is also a friend of GRALOW’s. Several witnesses place him with her at a local Hawaii townhall meeting that GRALOW once disrupted (the incident was recorded by many in attendance with their smartphones). GOLOJUCH previously amplified posts written by BREDIMUS on social media, and his own writings aimed to discredit Tulsi’s “evolution” and “change of heart” are strikingly similar to essays written by Bart Dame in 2012.

Opinion: Christine Gralow is a Hinduphobic Hate-Peddler.

Fact: Christine Gralow has a history of harassing Hindu Yogi, and has been charged and convicted for this.

For anti-propagandists and others who study information war: An analysis of the deceptive, xenophobic rhetorical devices used to spin the cult conspiracy theory used by pundits and political operatives to malign Tulsi Gabbard, and how what they’re doing is fomenting Anti-Hindu sentiments, can be found here.

The Truth

Tulsi Gabbard is not responsible for the persecution of gays. Religious bigotry is. The same sort of religious bigotry that she is now the target of. Please stop spreading this evil Cult Meme. These evil fuckers have been tormenting her with it for almost ten years already. Enough, is enough!