Organiser,2007 Issues > April 29, 2007
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Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism
By Ravi Varma
Wherever they had spread and established themselves in the world, proponents of Christianity and Islam had first destroyed the indigenous culture, traditions and religion of the country before imposing their strange and crude religious practices on the local people, invariably by brute force or despicable methods.
Only Hindus of Bharat were able to resist and preserve their ancient civilisations, religious beliefs and traditions all these years in spite of devilish brutalities of Muslim invaders and later by organised Christian churches with the active support of their colonial armies in India.
There is a well-orchestrated propaganda mounted in India and abroad to condemn Hinduism as a religion of violence, hatred and social discrimination. And at the same time, Semitic religions of Christianity and Islam of foreign origin are glorified and publicized as divine messages of universal love, brotherhood and non-violence. This is a travesty of truth as per their own preaching and practices. Therefore, if such pernicious and scandalous utterances against Hindus and Hinduism by the high priests of Christianity and Islam and their secularist cronies of India do not stop voluntarily, resurgent Hindu youth of the country will be compelled to forcibly stop them. The new generation of Hindu youth has already shed their timidity and cowardice to some extent. It is becoming clearer to them that unless they are forcibly stopped, challenged, rebutted and exposed to the core, dark forces of the Semitic religions of foreign origin and their mercenary secularist friends here will not only vulgarize Hinduism, but will also play havoc in the country by destroying social amity, integrity, traditions and cultural unity of Hindus in India and even Indian nationality. Purpose of this short article, which is based on widely known and documented historical events, is intended not only to rebut the above pernicious propaganda against Hindus and Hindustan but also to show the ugly faces of the exponents of Christianity and Islam to Hindus.
It is through the preachings and practices of their priests and their devout co-religionists that values, principles and philosophical contents of the religion and social culture concerned can be properly assessed. In short, social behaviours and personal habits of a person are sufficient to indicate his cultural background and social status of his family also. Therefore, more emphasis is given to the preachings and practices of the high priests of Christianity and Islam so that we will be able to better understand the philosophy and basic principles of the above Semitic religions.
Strange philosophy that is Mlechhatvam
Both Christianity and Islam are offshoots of the original Semitic religion, viz. Judaism. It is interesting to note here that the high priest of these two derivative religions, i.e. Christianity & Islam, openly advocate and encourage their followers to attack, torture and even murder all those who refuse to accept or get converted to their faiths. These religious teachers also assert and declare that Christians and Muslims have a divine mandate to subjugate and convert the entire humanity to their respective faiths by any means?fair or foul. Therefore both fundamentalist Christian priests and Islamic mullahs have no hesitation to glorify and justify even despicable acts such as murder, genocide, torture, rape and abduction against other religionists as part of their holy wars of religious conversion and conquest?Christians call it by the name ?crusades? and Islamists as ?jehad?. In addition, those who die or are killed during the course of these ?holy? wars are hailed as saints and shaheeds (martyrs.) Apparently all these violent devilish acts are sanctioned and even encouraged by their religious leaders most often swearing by or referring to their holy book?the Bible and the Quran. The above short sketches of the religious leaders of Christianity and Islam are sufficient to understand the basic principles of Christianity and Islam. It is their paid agents and cronies in India who praise and appease Christians and Islamists as vanguards of divine religions, committed to preaching and practicing universal love, brotherhood, peace, tolerance and non-violence. Some of these admirers are unfortunately Hindus. It would have been better if they had voluntarily converted themselves to Christianity or Islam along with their families. That would be very good riddance.
The strange or Mlechha philosophy of both Semitic religions seems to the civilised people of India, the Hindus, as judged from their preachings and practices in the country, as mutually exclusive, mutually destructive and violently intolerant. They do not believe in practising co-existence with other faiths, nor do they tolerate dissent or dissidence from within their own religious communities. Their hostile intolerance and exclusiveness can best be assessed by the behaviour of different religious groups known as denominations, sects or social castes within the Christian and Muslim communities worldwide. For example, Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Jacobites, Suriyanis, Marthomas, Pulaya or Dalit Christians, who are Christians by heredity or conversion having blind faith in their holy Bible, will never allow another caste group even to perform prayers, baptisms, weddings or burials in their exclusive churches because they are all mutually exclusive and inimical to one another. And these Christians want Hindus to believe and admire them as the most tolerant religious community committed to non-violence and coexistence in the world. In the medieval periods, skirmishes, battles, and wars were very frequent between these mutually exclusive, intolerant and destructive Christian castes.
Similarly among Muslims also, there are dozens of mutually exclusive inimical and intolerant religious sub-castes within their community such as Sunnis, Shias, Kurdish, Bohras, Khojas, Aga Khanis, Druse, Ahmadiyas, besides others of African and tribal variants who do not even recognise everyone else as true Muslims. And therefore, they do not socially inter-mingle or allow one another to conduct prayers, marriages, sunnat or burials in their separate and exclusive mosques or by their imams. Unfortunately, even after long contacts and tragic experience with them for centuries, the Hindus in India have not fully and properly understood their strange customs and philosophies because of the persistent propaganda and inducement by their Hindu ?secularists? of various colours.
It should not be forgotten that wherever they had spread and established themselves in the world, proponents of Christianity and Islam had first destroyed the indigenous culture, traditions and religion of the country before imposing their strange and crude religious practices on the local people, invariably by brute force or despicable methods. This is true throughout the world as revealed in all historical records pertaining to different countries, whether in Palestine (old Jerusalem) Arabia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Europe or Asia, and even in the Americas. See the plight of Jews during the Second World War in Christian Europe right under the nose of the Pope in the Vatican. Nobody condemned effectively the Holocaust against Jews in the Christian world! Conquest and destruction of Persia having an ancient civilisation by the vanguards of Arabian Islam and their brutalities there resulted in wiping out of their religion, cultural values and heritage in Iran as later by Christians in the Americas, where there was a flourishing ancient civilisation and culture. Same was the fate of Buddhists in Islamic Afghanistan even recently and Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists in other Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia even today. What happened to the Red Indians in the Americas and the Aborigines in New Zealand and Australia when European Christians migrated there in their thousands is well known. In the African continent also, victims of Islamic and Christian brutalities were poor indigenous people during their religious wars of conversion and conquest there for spreading Islam or Christianity. Only Hindus of Bharat were able to resist and preserve their ancient civilisations, religious beliefs and traditions all these years in spite of devilish brutalities of Muslim invaders and later by organised Christian churches with the active support of their colonial armies in India. That is the wellknown philosophy and background of both Islam and Christianity and also the experience of the entire world, more so of Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs of India till today. That is the short and real history of Christianity and Islam, which Hindu ?secularists? praise and glorify as divine messages of universal love, brotherhood, peace and non-violence!
Magnanimity of Hindus of Bharat
As all historians and Hindus know, Kerala had long traditional trade contacts with the outside world?Africa, Mesopotamia, Rome and China even before the birth of Christ and Prophet Mohammed. Therefore, traders from those countries very well knew the peaceful nature and universality and high principles of Hindu religion and civilised Hindu society. Under those circumstances, in keeping with the traditions, customs and cultures of Hindus, the Hindu kings of Kerala had no difficulty in allowing traders from those countries of different customs and cultures to continue their trade and also to settle down in the Hindu country of Kerala and live there peacefully without disturbing the local customs and religious practices even after their change of religious faith to Islam or Christianity. They were all treated only as another caste group like Nairs, Ezhavas and other of the broad amorphous Hindu society, but with foreign affiliations. It is interesting to note that Christianity reached Kerala much before the arrival of Islam.
In such a civilised Hindu country of Kerala, it was not surprising that an ordinary but loyal and capable Muslim trader from the fishermen community was raised to the status of a local chieftain and naval chief, viz. Kunjali Marakkar, by the Zamorin Rajas of Kozhikode. (It is another matter that the last Kunjali Marakkar revolted against and betrayed the benevolent Zamorin family decades later, mainly due to his Islamic ambitions.) On another occasion, the Raja of Chirakkal near Kannur willingly gave his daughter in marriage to a Muslim youth, who had saved her from drowning. Besides, the Raja blessed the couple not only with substantial properties from her Arackal Nambiar family (now extinct), but also conferred on his daughter the title of ?Arackal Bibi?. Her consort, who was from an ordinary Muslim family, was honoured with the title of ?Arackal Ali Raja? in traditional Kerala Hindu customs following matrilineal system of inheritance. Even today, family of the Arackal Bibi follows the matriarchal system of inheritance; the senior-most female member of the family is respected as the Arackal Bibi and the senior-most male member as the Arackal Ali Raja (and not the consort of the Bibi.) Such was the cultural influence of Kerala Hindu society on local Muslims who were then peace loving and socially absorbed within Kerala society. Then again, during the reign of Rama Varma Sakthan Thampuran of Kochi, a capable Muslim youth was appointed as his personal bodyguard and conferred with the title Nettur Thangal with authority over the local Muslim community. Till recently, the senior-most member of the family enjoyed the privilege of attending on the King of Kochi as his personal bodyguard, and entitled to participate as an honoured guest in all state events of the Kochi kingdom, including the most important annual Athachamayam procession.
(To be continued)
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism-II
Organiser,2007 Issues > May 06, 2007
Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism-II
Christian and Muslim colonialism
By Ravi Varma
The present successful integration of the Parsi community into the Indian mainstream would not have been possible without the magnanimity extended to them by the local Hindu communities and by the Hindu rulers of Gujarat. That is another shining example of Hinduism in action.
The situation changed dramatically after the entry of European colonial Christianity and the murderous Muslim armies from Mysore led by Hyder Ali and his fanatical son Tipu Sultan into Kerala. This intrusion of hostile outsiders eventually resulted in the degeneration of the mindset and social outlook of the local Christian and Muslim communities.
It should be noted here that both Christians and Muslims in the Hindu kingdoms of Kerala were culturally assimilated with the local traditions and social customs. As such they used to actively participate in the major festivals of the Hindus, even abstaining from cow-slaughter and beef-eating. During the most important occasion of Onam celebrations in Kerala, the Muslims used to visit Hindu homes in the locality wearing Arab costumes and participating in the festivities by performing their traditional dances, with rhythmic beating of hand drums and singing songs in praise of the legendary God Mahabali, locally known as Vairavi Kali. Similarly, the local Christians were also equally active in their participation in Hindu festivals. For instance, during the ceremonial processions of the temple deity at Tripunithura around the surrounding communities for public worship, the Christians of the locality around Karingachira Church in Tripunithura, led by their church, used to light traditional lamps in front of the Church and offer measures of paddy and rice, similar to the practice of Hindus in front of their houses, to honour the deity. A spirit of mutual respect and social amity marked relations between the Hindus and members of the other religions, attesting to the magnanimity of the Hindu community, not by any compulsion or inducement as is the case today. That was Hinduism in action, i.e., Hindutva. However, the situation changed dramatically after the entry of European colonial Christianity and the murderous Muslim armies from Mysore led by Hyder Ali and his fanatical son Tipu Sultan into Kerala. This intrusion of hostile outsiders eventually resulted in the degeneration of the mindsets and social outlook of the local Christian and Muslim communities.
Universality of Hinduism as opposed to narrowness of Islam and Christianity
When Christianity became dominant in the Jewish country of Jerusalem, the neo-Christians began a process of hunting down and chasing out the earlier inhabitants, the generally peace-loving Jewish communities. This, in itself, is an indication that Christianity does not and cannot tolerate other religionists, and, in fact, Christianity has never been committed to universal peace and brotherhood with members of other faiths. Fleeing form the clutches of fanatic Christians, there were many who tried to escape to other countries. One group of Jews fleeing from Jerusalem landed in South India, on the Kerala coast, seeking asylum. The local king at that time, known as the Perumal gave them protection and extended land grants as well as other facilities for their settlement. This was in the first century AD. Since then, Jews have lived in the Hindu state of Kerala, with full freedom to follow their own religion and customs, without any interference from the local Hindu communities. It should be noted here that nowhere in the history of the Jews has there been a similar place in the world where the members of the community were enabled to live free without persecution from the state and local communities. This was to be found only in India, that too in the then Hindu state of Kerala. That is the spirit and practice of Hindutva?Hinduism in action.
Similarly, when the Islamic hordes invaded Persia, which had a great civilisation, heritage and culture, the peaceful followers of Iranian Zoroastrianism were persecuted mercilessly, tortured and massacred, and their fire-temple destroyed, simply in order to eradicate the local traditions and civilisation. This destruction of the local Persian traditions was so complete that only a few thousands of them were able to survive this onslaught. This is Islam in action, an experience that has been repeated worldwide, whether in Pakistan or Bangladesh or Afghanistan, as well as in many other countries. One group of Persians, who did, however, managed to flee from these armies, arrived at the shores of the then Hindu kingdom of Gujarat on the West coast of India and were granted asylum by the local king. These were the forerunners of the present Parsi community in India, a peace-loving and highly enterprising community, who still retain their own customs and traditions. The present successful integration of the Parsi community into the Indian mainstream would not have been possible without the magnanimity extended to them by the local Hindu communities and by the Hindu rulers of Gujarat. That is another shining example of Hinduism in action?Hindutva, which the present-day Christians and Muslims and their mercenary secularist cronies condemn as inhuman!
During the late tenth century, Mahmud of Ghazni invaded India with a large Muslim army and vandalised Hindu Gujarat, destroying many temples and pilgrimage centers. With a view to demoralising the local Hindu communities, he targeted important temples such as the one in Somnath, and in fact, destroyed the temple a number of times, even after the temple was rebuilt by the local communities after his departure. In order to further assert their superiority, the Muslims also erected Islamic structures such as mosques on the very spots where temples used to stand, as in the case of Ayodhya, Kashi, Mathura and Delhi. This is Islam in action?intolerant towards all other faiths and traditions and even vengeful on dissidents within its folds!
On similar lines, when Portuguese colonialists invaded Goa and established themselves there in the 16th century, one of their priorities was to spread the European version of Christianity, and with the use of force, engaged in widespread conversions throughout the land. The local temples were destroyed, the Hindus were harassed and humiliated, and Christianity was established. The Pope in the Vatican specially sent to Goa, Francis Xavier, a Jesuit Priest mainly to lead the conversion drive in Goa. Francis Xavier was instrumental in laying waste innumerable Hindu temples, looting and destroying them, and imposing severe restrictions on the local Hindus community by the use of force. His campaign of forcible conversion forced the Brahmins to flee Goa, thereby enabling Francis Xavier to confiscate their properties and enriching the Church. It was his habit to drive local villagers to open public grounds with the help of his band of military ?volunteers? and there to declare them as having been converted to Christianity, irrespective of whether the people gathered there wished to or not! This ?glorious service? to Christianity by Francis Xavier in the name of the Holy Church was acknowledged by the leaders of the Christian Church, albeit posthumously, by conferring ?Sainthood? on him. Thus Francis Xavier became St. Francis Xavier! In this fashion, a Christian saint was specially created for the emancipation of Hindu India, a fitting example of the spirit of Semitic Christianity in action. On similar lines was the creation of a Christian saint specially for the Chinese nation, from among the missionaries that were killed there during the opium wars in China.
When the conversion drive intensified and grew oppressive, thousands of Hindus fled Goa and settled in different parts of what is now known as Karnataka and Maharashtra. One group of Gaud Sarswat Brahmins and Kutumbis from Goa reached the Hindu kingdom of Kochi in present-day Kerala as refugees. In the true spirit of Hinduism, the local King gave them protection and patronage, extending to them land grants as well as facilities for them to engage in trade and other professions. Today, like the Jews in the past, this small community of Konkanis (so-called due to their origins) plays a significant role in the socio-economic life of Kerala. That is the spirit of Hinduism.
Originally, in Malabar (now known as Kerala), it was the members of the poor fishermen community that were converted to Christianity, due to the influence of the earliest Christian missionaries that arrived from the shores of Syria. These Syrian Christians were followers of the Patriarch of Antioch. Not surprisingly, these Christians were assimilated into the local society and there were no communal divides. However, in later years, when the Portuguese discovered that not only were there Christians in Kerala, but also that they were followers of another Christian Church, the Christian missionaries accompanying the Portuguese colonialists decided to use all means to convert these Christians into followers of the Catholic Church headed by the Pope in the Vatican. For this purpose, a Jesuit priest Don Menezes, was specially deputed to Kerala by the Pope in the Vatican. As part of his mission, Don Menezes first tried persuasion and cajoling tactics, but when these proved unsuccessful, he decided to use force. He called for a Synod (a religious gathering of Christians) to held in Udayamperoor near the town of present-day Kochi to be attended by the local Christians. This was resisted by a majority of the local Syrian Christian community, leading to frequent skirmishes and armed conflicts between the two sections of Christians. This gradually escalated to such an extent that priests sent to Kerala from Antioch were even abducted and murdered by members of the Catholic Christian community, at the instigation of the Catholic missionaries. Undaunted, the members of the local and generally peaceful Syrian Christian community took a vow to unitedly oppose the forcible and dubious methods of conversions by the Catholic Christians, at a Christian chapel situated in Mattanchery. This significant event in the history of Syrian Christians in Kerala is known as the Kunam Kurissu Sathyam. Thus the Kunam Kurissu Sathyam is in itself a glaring example of the intolerance of the Catholic Christian Church, and stands, as a stark reminder of a time when conversion drives were forcibly carried out by one Christian community even against another Christian community.
(To be concluded)
Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism-II
Christian and Muslim colonialism
By Ravi Varma
The present successful integration of the Parsi community into the Indian mainstream would not have been possible without the magnanimity extended to them by the local Hindu communities and by the Hindu rulers of Gujarat. That is another shining example of Hinduism in action.
The situation changed dramatically after the entry of European colonial Christianity and the murderous Muslim armies from Mysore led by Hyder Ali and his fanatical son Tipu Sultan into Kerala. This intrusion of hostile outsiders eventually resulted in the degeneration of the mindset and social outlook of the local Christian and Muslim communities.
It should be noted here that both Christians and Muslims in the Hindu kingdoms of Kerala were culturally assimilated with the local traditions and social customs. As such they used to actively participate in the major festivals of the Hindus, even abstaining from cow-slaughter and beef-eating. During the most important occasion of Onam celebrations in Kerala, the Muslims used to visit Hindu homes in the locality wearing Arab costumes and participating in the festivities by performing their traditional dances, with rhythmic beating of hand drums and singing songs in praise of the legendary God Mahabali, locally known as Vairavi Kali. Similarly, the local Christians were also equally active in their participation in Hindu festivals. For instance, during the ceremonial processions of the temple deity at Tripunithura around the surrounding communities for public worship, the Christians of the locality around Karingachira Church in Tripunithura, led by their church, used to light traditional lamps in front of the Church and offer measures of paddy and rice, similar to the practice of Hindus in front of their houses, to honour the deity. A spirit of mutual respect and social amity marked relations between the Hindus and members of the other religions, attesting to the magnanimity of the Hindu community, not by any compulsion or inducement as is the case today. That was Hinduism in action, i.e., Hindutva. However, the situation changed dramatically after the entry of European colonial Christianity and the murderous Muslim armies from Mysore led by Hyder Ali and his fanatical son Tipu Sultan into Kerala. This intrusion of hostile outsiders eventually resulted in the degeneration of the mindsets and social outlook of the local Christian and Muslim communities.
Universality of Hinduism as opposed to narrowness of Islam and Christianity
When Christianity became dominant in the Jewish country of Jerusalem, the neo-Christians began a process of hunting down and chasing out the earlier inhabitants, the generally peace-loving Jewish communities. This, in itself, is an indication that Christianity does not and cannot tolerate other religionists, and, in fact, Christianity has never been committed to universal peace and brotherhood with members of other faiths. Fleeing form the clutches of fanatic Christians, there were many who tried to escape to other countries. One group of Jews fleeing from Jerusalem landed in South India, on the Kerala coast, seeking asylum. The local king at that time, known as the Perumal gave them protection and extended land grants as well as other facilities for their settlement. This was in the first century AD. Since then, Jews have lived in the Hindu state of Kerala, with full freedom to follow their own religion and customs, without any interference from the local Hindu communities. It should be noted here that nowhere in the history of the Jews has there been a similar place in the world where the members of the community were enabled to live free without persecution from the state and local communities. This was to be found only in India, that too in the then Hindu state of Kerala. That is the spirit and practice of Hindutva?Hinduism in action.
Similarly, when the Islamic hordes invaded Persia, which had a great civilisation, heritage and culture, the peaceful followers of Iranian Zoroastrianism were persecuted mercilessly, tortured and massacred, and their fire-temple destroyed, simply in order to eradicate the local traditions and civilisation. This destruction of the local Persian traditions was so complete that only a few thousands of them were able to survive this onslaught. This is Islam in action, an experience that has been repeated worldwide, whether in Pakistan or Bangladesh or Afghanistan, as well as in many other countries. One group of Persians, who did, however, managed to flee from these armies, arrived at the shores of the then Hindu kingdom of Gujarat on the West coast of India and were granted asylum by the local king. These were the forerunners of the present Parsi community in India, a peace-loving and highly enterprising community, who still retain their own customs and traditions. The present successful integration of the Parsi community into the Indian mainstream would not have been possible without the magnanimity extended to them by the local Hindu communities and by the Hindu rulers of Gujarat. That is another shining example of Hinduism in action?Hindutva, which the present-day Christians and Muslims and their mercenary secularist cronies condemn as inhuman!
During the late tenth century, Mahmud of Ghazni invaded India with a large Muslim army and vandalised Hindu Gujarat, destroying many temples and pilgrimage centers. With a view to demoralising the local Hindu communities, he targeted important temples such as the one in Somnath, and in fact, destroyed the temple a number of times, even after the temple was rebuilt by the local communities after his departure. In order to further assert their superiority, the Muslims also erected Islamic structures such as mosques on the very spots where temples used to stand, as in the case of Ayodhya, Kashi, Mathura and Delhi. This is Islam in action?intolerant towards all other faiths and traditions and even vengeful on dissidents within its folds!
On similar lines, when Portuguese colonialists invaded Goa and established themselves there in the 16th century, one of their priorities was to spread the European version of Christianity, and with the use of force, engaged in widespread conversions throughout the land. The local temples were destroyed, the Hindus were harassed and humiliated, and Christianity was established. The Pope in the Vatican specially sent to Goa, Francis Xavier, a Jesuit Priest mainly to lead the conversion drive in Goa. Francis Xavier was instrumental in laying waste innumerable Hindu temples, looting and destroying them, and imposing severe restrictions on the local Hindus community by the use of force. His campaign of forcible conversion forced the Brahmins to flee Goa, thereby enabling Francis Xavier to confiscate their properties and enriching the Church. It was his habit to drive local villagers to open public grounds with the help of his band of military ?volunteers? and there to declare them as having been converted to Christianity, irrespective of whether the people gathered there wished to or not! This ?glorious service? to Christianity by Francis Xavier in the name of the Holy Church was acknowledged by the leaders of the Christian Church, albeit posthumously, by conferring ?Sainthood? on him. Thus Francis Xavier became St. Francis Xavier! In this fashion, a Christian saint was specially created for the emancipation of Hindu India, a fitting example of the spirit of Semitic Christianity in action. On similar lines was the creation of a Christian saint specially for the Chinese nation, from among the missionaries that were killed there during the opium wars in China.
When the conversion drive intensified and grew oppressive, thousands of Hindus fled Goa and settled in different parts of what is now known as Karnataka and Maharashtra. One group of Gaud Sarswat Brahmins and Kutumbis from Goa reached the Hindu kingdom of Kochi in present-day Kerala as refugees. In the true spirit of Hinduism, the local King gave them protection and patronage, extending to them land grants as well as facilities for them to engage in trade and other professions. Today, like the Jews in the past, this small community of Konkanis (so-called due to their origins) plays a significant role in the socio-economic life of Kerala. That is the spirit of Hinduism.
Originally, in Malabar (now known as Kerala), it was the members of the poor fishermen community that were converted to Christianity, due to the influence of the earliest Christian missionaries that arrived from the shores of Syria. These Syrian Christians were followers of the Patriarch of Antioch. Not surprisingly, these Christians were assimilated into the local society and there were no communal divides. However, in later years, when the Portuguese discovered that not only were there Christians in Kerala, but also that they were followers of another Christian Church, the Christian missionaries accompanying the Portuguese colonialists decided to use all means to convert these Christians into followers of the Catholic Church headed by the Pope in the Vatican. For this purpose, a Jesuit priest Don Menezes, was specially deputed to Kerala by the Pope in the Vatican. As part of his mission, Don Menezes first tried persuasion and cajoling tactics, but when these proved unsuccessful, he decided to use force. He called for a Synod (a religious gathering of Christians) to held in Udayamperoor near the town of present-day Kochi to be attended by the local Christians. This was resisted by a majority of the local Syrian Christian community, leading to frequent skirmishes and armed conflicts between the two sections of Christians. This gradually escalated to such an extent that priests sent to Kerala from Antioch were even abducted and murdered by members of the Catholic Christian community, at the instigation of the Catholic missionaries. Undaunted, the members of the local and generally peaceful Syrian Christian community took a vow to unitedly oppose the forcible and dubious methods of conversions by the Catholic Christians, at a Christian chapel situated in Mattanchery. This significant event in the history of Syrian Christians in Kerala is known as the Kunam Kurissu Sathyam. Thus the Kunam Kurissu Sathyam is in itself a glaring example of the intolerance of the Catholic Christian Church, and stands, as a stark reminder of a time when conversion drives were forcibly carried out by one Christian community even against another Christian community.
(To be concluded)
Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism-III
Organiser,2007 Issues > May 13, 2007
Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism-III
?Casteism? in semitic religions
By Ravi Varma
The origin of the obnoxious word ?caste? can itself be attributed to British colonial scholars, who use the term to derisively describe the Indian term jati, which signified various occupational and social characteristics that were peculiar to different social groups, which together made up the diverse and heterogeneous Hindu society. The term has since then been used widely and repeatedly to denigrate and scandalise Hindu society in general, and the so-called upper castes in particular. However, a close study of the definition in the Oxford English Dictionary reveals that the term (and the derogatory sense in which it is applied to Hindu society) seems to be more fitting when applied to the various Christian and Muslim religious sects. The Oxford Dictionary defines ?castes? as hereditary social groups with no social contacts or interactions with other such ?castes?, mainly within the same religious community. In many cases, this mutual exclusiveness also results in intolerance and hostility between the separate social groups. By this definition, the various sects of the Christian community such as Catholics, Syrian Christians, Jacobites, Pentecostal Christians, etc. as well as sects such as the Shias, Sunnis, Aga Khanis, Ahmadiyas, Bohras etc. among the Muslims may also be termed as ?caste? groups, since these groups do not inter-mingle or permit inter-marriages, and positively bar the celebration of religious events such as communion, sunnat, marriage ceremonies and funerals of members from one of these groups to be held in the religious place of the other groups.
However, it can be very well seen that Hindu jatis such as Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Patels, Yadavs, etc. are not the same as their social relations and interactions were quite frequent and acceptable, and followed certain well laid-out patterns, from time immemorial. It is a different matter, however, that in recent times, there have been several instances of inter-caste clashes and conflagrations; but most of these may be attributed to the instigators of caste wars as a political ideology, aided and abetted by communal elements aiming to cause social disruption within the country for their own nefarious purposes. Unlike within the intolerant Islamic and Christian communities, most of the so-called ?castes? within the Hindu community were indeed permitted to enter temples, hold religious ceremonies, etc. and interact openly with members of other ?castes? including inter-caste marriages in Kerala Hindu society. It is very clear that it is in fact the Christian and Islamic communities that are caste-ridden and even patronize mutually exclusiveness and mistrust between social groups within their folds, an accusation that has been forced unfairly on the largely tolerant Hindu community.
Untouchability among Indian Christians
The early converts to Christianity in Kerala were originally from fishermen stock; however, the influx of subsequent streams of Christians has led to several social strata being formed within that community, depending on the influence and money from different European Church groups in India, with each group claiming superiority over the others. A certain group of such Christian converts even claim that they are descendants from the highly respected Namboodiri Brahmins of the past. These ?upper caste? Christians generally look down upon later converts to Christianity, usually from ?lower castes? such as Pulayas and Dalits, treating them as socially inferior and ensuring that they are kept out of the Christian mainstream. Often, these ?lower caste? converts were encouraged to establish and worship in their own churches, mainly in bid to keep them out of the ?upper caste? Christian places of worship. Of course, it is well known that during the times of colonial rule, European churches were ?out-of-bounds? even to the ?native? Christians, a clear indication of the deep rifts and fissures within the so-called ?caste-less? Christian church and community!
Later Developments
It should not be forgotten here that no Christian country in Europe or America, nor even the Pope in the Vatican, had condemned the torture and massacre of millions of Jews by Christians in a major Christian country, viz. Germany. Similarly, in Communist Russia, the ?Christian? dictator Joseph Stalin ensured the systematic liquidation of Jews as well as dissidents opposed to the autocratic regime and eulogized proletarian system of the Soviet Union. This is not surprising because Communism is the illegitimate child born of the semitic religions of Christianity and Islam, from whom they inherited the ideology of mutual hatred, intolerance, exclusiveness and violence. Therefore, nothing better could be expected under the diabolical Marxism and Communism who dogmatically believe in permanent class-war between segregated social groups and in utopian bliss on earth. Like Christianity and Islam, Communism is also of foreign origin and hence anti-Hindu and anti-national everywhere. Founded by a German Jew, Karl Marx, the holy book of the Communists is the Das Kapital. Like its parents, it preaches and practices mutual hatred and intolerance, and professes a state of permanent class-war between the so-called ?haves? and ?have-nots?. Dissidents within its folds are also systematically liquidated, just as the ?no-believers? within Islam and Christianity are eliminated. The only difference is that they differ in their approach to the concept of God. They are all international movements, not confined to any national boundaries. On similar lines, the Nazi movement made famous by Adolf Hitler could also be termed as the spoilt brother of Marxism due to its similarity of character and broad principles, with its prophet in Adolf Hitler, holy book in Mein Kampf, and an underlying ideology of hatred and destruction.
The Situation Today
The above discussion clearly indicates that all these foreign ideologies and religious philosophies are intolerant, and are therefore, not surprisingly anti-Hindu within India. As such, one should not be taken in by their occasionally friendly attitudes and supposedly socially useful activities, which are, in most instances, merely facades and deceptive. Resurgent Hindu youth of today are increasingly aware of this aspect of the semitic religions and are, therefore, organising themselves to resist them. Whether in remote regions of Orissa or in communally sensitive localities such as Bhiwandi in Maharashtra or as exemplified after the massacre of karsevaks in Godhra, Hindu youths of today are quick to react, venting their anger and frustrations against the culprits. Such incidents are an indication of the severe crisis that the country faces. Repeated actions and decisions aimed at appeasement of the religious minorities by the so-called ?secular? government, aided and abetted by openly pro-minority legislature and executive branches of government, have disillusioned the Hindu youth of the country. As part of the appeasement policy followed by successive ?secular? governments, the minority communities in the country enjoy many special privileges and constitutional rights, all at the expense of the majority Hindu community. There are various statutory bodies such as the Muslim Personal Law Board, Waqf Boards, Minority Commission, etc. all conferred with wide-ranging powers, and generally unaccountable to anyone but themselves. In continuation of this policy of appeasement, these religious minorities are also enabled to set up and administer, to the exclusive benefit of their community members, educational institutions imparting higher technical education. In Kerala, they collectively own over 80 per cent of educational institutions. It goes without saying that most, if not all, religious institutions (as well as their vast landed properties and financial assets) of the religious minorities are exempt from government control and supervision. But, in direct contrast, all religious institutions of the Hindu community fall under the control of the ?secular? government, and in many instances, mismanagement and misappropriation of resources belonging to these establishments is rampant. As a direct result of this policy, in the 50 years since Independence, only around 30 Hindu temples have been constructed or renovated while during the same period, over 3000 mosques and Christian churches have been constructed in Kerala alone. It is indeed shameful that, while non-interference by government in the affairs of minority religious institutions is carried to an extreme under ?secular? principles governing the Constitution, exactly the reverse is the case when it comes to Hindu religious institutions. There have been instances of appointments where members from the minority communities have been appointed by the ?secular? governments to boards responsible for the administration of Hindu temples. Well-known examples of this are that of the Muslim Antulay in Maharashtra, who was once appointed to the Trustee Board of the famous Siddhi Vinayak Temple in Mumbai, as well as that of a Christian named Baby who was inducted by the then Communist-led government of Kerala into the Administrative Board of the world-famous Guruvayoor temple. In short, in the name of secularism, interference in the affairs of Hindu temples and religious institutions is considered proper by the so-called ?secularists?, who, at the same time, are convinced that such interference by government in the affairs of minority religious institutions is non-secular and hence illegal and anti-constitutional.
Conclusion
It cannot be denied that India, being a predominantly Hindu country, needs to be treated as a Hindu country, just as countries with Christian majorities such as USA, Britain, France, etc. are Christian countries and those with Muslim majorities such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Malaysia, etc. are Islamic countries. Going by the principles of democracy underlying Indian nationhood, any democratic government in the country must be for the Hindu majority, by the Hindu majority, and of the Hindu community, and not for, by and of the minority communities that make up only 15 per cent of the population. Unfortunately, right from the days of Independence, all governments of India, from the negationist and western-educated Pandit Nehru right down to his family members supported by all anti-Hindu secular parties including Communists and Socialists are committed only to the welfare and prosperity of the religious minorities in India, and never that of the majority. Therefore, the country may be said to be having a minority-oriented or minocratic government. The Hindu majority has been, right throughout recent decades, neglected and harassed by the fake democratic and ?secular? governments of India. Under the circumstances, the frustrated and harassed Hindu youth have started realising, albeit at this late hour, that they have nowhere to look for justice. There is a limit to the patience of Hindus. They are consciously getting organised and alert to strongly react or retaliate against any anti-Hindu act or activities anywhere in the country, whether in urban, rural or even remote tribal areas.
The frequent but at the same time isolated Hindu violence in certain Hindu localities during the last decade or so are summarised and cautioned by the visionary Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul as the building up of total and widespread Hindu revolution from the lower and frustrated state of the long-neglected Hindu majority of India. It will have serious consequences in the entire country, specially to the appeased and patronize religious minority communities in the country. To paraphrase the prophet of the (now-discredited) religion of Communism, let us repeat to the long-neglected and humiliated Hindu majority of India, that is Bharat, ?You have nothing to lose but the shackles of slavery and humiliation and sufferings under the regime of your discredited political system and community leaders. This type of sham socialism, secularism and discriminatory democracy should go or be booted out of the country.?
It is only in the light of the above sentiments that the great visionary of modern India and inspiration of resurgent Hindu youth, Swami Vivekananda gave the clarion call to the proud Hindu majority, ?Arise! Awake!! And stop not till your goals are achieved in this Hindu rashtra.? Mind you, Hindus have nowhere to go. India is ours and we are proud of being and living in Hindu India.
(Concluded)
Stop politics of anti-Hindu minorityism-III
?Casteism? in semitic religions
By Ravi Varma
The origin of the obnoxious word ?caste? can itself be attributed to British colonial scholars, who use the term to derisively describe the Indian term jati, which signified various occupational and social characteristics that were peculiar to different social groups, which together made up the diverse and heterogeneous Hindu society. The term has since then been used widely and repeatedly to denigrate and scandalise Hindu society in general, and the so-called upper castes in particular. However, a close study of the definition in the Oxford English Dictionary reveals that the term (and the derogatory sense in which it is applied to Hindu society) seems to be more fitting when applied to the various Christian and Muslim religious sects. The Oxford Dictionary defines ?castes? as hereditary social groups with no social contacts or interactions with other such ?castes?, mainly within the same religious community. In many cases, this mutual exclusiveness also results in intolerance and hostility between the separate social groups. By this definition, the various sects of the Christian community such as Catholics, Syrian Christians, Jacobites, Pentecostal Christians, etc. as well as sects such as the Shias, Sunnis, Aga Khanis, Ahmadiyas, Bohras etc. among the Muslims may also be termed as ?caste? groups, since these groups do not inter-mingle or permit inter-marriages, and positively bar the celebration of religious events such as communion, sunnat, marriage ceremonies and funerals of members from one of these groups to be held in the religious place of the other groups.
However, it can be very well seen that Hindu jatis such as Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Patels, Yadavs, etc. are not the same as their social relations and interactions were quite frequent and acceptable, and followed certain well laid-out patterns, from time immemorial. It is a different matter, however, that in recent times, there have been several instances of inter-caste clashes and conflagrations; but most of these may be attributed to the instigators of caste wars as a political ideology, aided and abetted by communal elements aiming to cause social disruption within the country for their own nefarious purposes. Unlike within the intolerant Islamic and Christian communities, most of the so-called ?castes? within the Hindu community were indeed permitted to enter temples, hold religious ceremonies, etc. and interact openly with members of other ?castes? including inter-caste marriages in Kerala Hindu society. It is very clear that it is in fact the Christian and Islamic communities that are caste-ridden and even patronize mutually exclusiveness and mistrust between social groups within their folds, an accusation that has been forced unfairly on the largely tolerant Hindu community.
Untouchability among Indian Christians
The early converts to Christianity in Kerala were originally from fishermen stock; however, the influx of subsequent streams of Christians has led to several social strata being formed within that community, depending on the influence and money from different European Church groups in India, with each group claiming superiority over the others. A certain group of such Christian converts even claim that they are descendants from the highly respected Namboodiri Brahmins of the past. These ?upper caste? Christians generally look down upon later converts to Christianity, usually from ?lower castes? such as Pulayas and Dalits, treating them as socially inferior and ensuring that they are kept out of the Christian mainstream. Often, these ?lower caste? converts were encouraged to establish and worship in their own churches, mainly in bid to keep them out of the ?upper caste? Christian places of worship. Of course, it is well known that during the times of colonial rule, European churches were ?out-of-bounds? even to the ?native? Christians, a clear indication of the deep rifts and fissures within the so-called ?caste-less? Christian church and community!
Later Developments
It should not be forgotten here that no Christian country in Europe or America, nor even the Pope in the Vatican, had condemned the torture and massacre of millions of Jews by Christians in a major Christian country, viz. Germany. Similarly, in Communist Russia, the ?Christian? dictator Joseph Stalin ensured the systematic liquidation of Jews as well as dissidents opposed to the autocratic regime and eulogized proletarian system of the Soviet Union. This is not surprising because Communism is the illegitimate child born of the semitic religions of Christianity and Islam, from whom they inherited the ideology of mutual hatred, intolerance, exclusiveness and violence. Therefore, nothing better could be expected under the diabolical Marxism and Communism who dogmatically believe in permanent class-war between segregated social groups and in utopian bliss on earth. Like Christianity and Islam, Communism is also of foreign origin and hence anti-Hindu and anti-national everywhere. Founded by a German Jew, Karl Marx, the holy book of the Communists is the Das Kapital. Like its parents, it preaches and practices mutual hatred and intolerance, and professes a state of permanent class-war between the so-called ?haves? and ?have-nots?. Dissidents within its folds are also systematically liquidated, just as the ?no-believers? within Islam and Christianity are eliminated. The only difference is that they differ in their approach to the concept of God. They are all international movements, not confined to any national boundaries. On similar lines, the Nazi movement made famous by Adolf Hitler could also be termed as the spoilt brother of Marxism due to its similarity of character and broad principles, with its prophet in Adolf Hitler, holy book in Mein Kampf, and an underlying ideology of hatred and destruction.
The Situation Today
The above discussion clearly indicates that all these foreign ideologies and religious philosophies are intolerant, and are therefore, not surprisingly anti-Hindu within India. As such, one should not be taken in by their occasionally friendly attitudes and supposedly socially useful activities, which are, in most instances, merely facades and deceptive. Resurgent Hindu youth of today are increasingly aware of this aspect of the semitic religions and are, therefore, organising themselves to resist them. Whether in remote regions of Orissa or in communally sensitive localities such as Bhiwandi in Maharashtra or as exemplified after the massacre of karsevaks in Godhra, Hindu youths of today are quick to react, venting their anger and frustrations against the culprits. Such incidents are an indication of the severe crisis that the country faces. Repeated actions and decisions aimed at appeasement of the religious minorities by the so-called ?secular? government, aided and abetted by openly pro-minority legislature and executive branches of government, have disillusioned the Hindu youth of the country. As part of the appeasement policy followed by successive ?secular? governments, the minority communities in the country enjoy many special privileges and constitutional rights, all at the expense of the majority Hindu community. There are various statutory bodies such as the Muslim Personal Law Board, Waqf Boards, Minority Commission, etc. all conferred with wide-ranging powers, and generally unaccountable to anyone but themselves. In continuation of this policy of appeasement, these religious minorities are also enabled to set up and administer, to the exclusive benefit of their community members, educational institutions imparting higher technical education. In Kerala, they collectively own over 80 per cent of educational institutions. It goes without saying that most, if not all, religious institutions (as well as their vast landed properties and financial assets) of the religious minorities are exempt from government control and supervision. But, in direct contrast, all religious institutions of the Hindu community fall under the control of the ?secular? government, and in many instances, mismanagement and misappropriation of resources belonging to these establishments is rampant. As a direct result of this policy, in the 50 years since Independence, only around 30 Hindu temples have been constructed or renovated while during the same period, over 3000 mosques and Christian churches have been constructed in Kerala alone. It is indeed shameful that, while non-interference by government in the affairs of minority religious institutions is carried to an extreme under ?secular? principles governing the Constitution, exactly the reverse is the case when it comes to Hindu religious institutions. There have been instances of appointments where members from the minority communities have been appointed by the ?secular? governments to boards responsible for the administration of Hindu temples. Well-known examples of this are that of the Muslim Antulay in Maharashtra, who was once appointed to the Trustee Board of the famous Siddhi Vinayak Temple in Mumbai, as well as that of a Christian named Baby who was inducted by the then Communist-led government of Kerala into the Administrative Board of the world-famous Guruvayoor temple. In short, in the name of secularism, interference in the affairs of Hindu temples and religious institutions is considered proper by the so-called ?secularists?, who, at the same time, are convinced that such interference by government in the affairs of minority religious institutions is non-secular and hence illegal and anti-constitutional.
Conclusion
It cannot be denied that India, being a predominantly Hindu country, needs to be treated as a Hindu country, just as countries with Christian majorities such as USA, Britain, France, etc. are Christian countries and those with Muslim majorities such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Malaysia, etc. are Islamic countries. Going by the principles of democracy underlying Indian nationhood, any democratic government in the country must be for the Hindu majority, by the Hindu majority, and of the Hindu community, and not for, by and of the minority communities that make up only 15 per cent of the population. Unfortunately, right from the days of Independence, all governments of India, from the negationist and western-educated Pandit Nehru right down to his family members supported by all anti-Hindu secular parties including Communists and Socialists are committed only to the welfare and prosperity of the religious minorities in India, and never that of the majority. Therefore, the country may be said to be having a minority-oriented or minocratic government. The Hindu majority has been, right throughout recent decades, neglected and harassed by the fake democratic and ?secular? governments of India. Under the circumstances, the frustrated and harassed Hindu youth have started realising, albeit at this late hour, that they have nowhere to look for justice. There is a limit to the patience of Hindus. They are consciously getting organised and alert to strongly react or retaliate against any anti-Hindu act or activities anywhere in the country, whether in urban, rural or even remote tribal areas.
The frequent but at the same time isolated Hindu violence in certain Hindu localities during the last decade or so are summarised and cautioned by the visionary Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul as the building up of total and widespread Hindu revolution from the lower and frustrated state of the long-neglected Hindu majority of India. It will have serious consequences in the entire country, specially to the appeased and patronize religious minority communities in the country. To paraphrase the prophet of the (now-discredited) religion of Communism, let us repeat to the long-neglected and humiliated Hindu majority of India, that is Bharat, ?You have nothing to lose but the shackles of slavery and humiliation and sufferings under the regime of your discredited political system and community leaders. This type of sham socialism, secularism and discriminatory democracy should go or be booted out of the country.?
It is only in the light of the above sentiments that the great visionary of modern India and inspiration of resurgent Hindu youth, Swami Vivekananda gave the clarion call to the proud Hindu majority, ?Arise! Awake!! And stop not till your goals are achieved in this Hindu rashtra.? Mind you, Hindus have nowhere to go. India is ours and we are proud of being and living in Hindu India.
(Concluded)
Bigotry, oppression and discrimination of converted Christian dalits
Bigotry, oppression and discrimination of converted Christian dalits
By Dr Babu Suseelan; Organiser, July 5, 2009
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=298&page=25
Are Indian churches interested in social transformation? Of course not. Throughout recent Indian history, we can see, Hindu leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Gopal Krishna Goghale were engaged in social reformation and social upliftment of dalits and the socially oppressed.
The pertinent issue that needs to be discussed in the present context is the false teachings about Christian prophecy and biblical interpretations that threaten our culture, social fabric and freedom. Oppression, exploitation and discrimination of Dalits, Blacks, Red Indians, and non Christians is nothing new. It happened before, and it is still happening.
Discrimination of converted Dalit Christians by the church and oppression are converging into the precise pattern of the Christian missionaries sinister plans that brought catastrophe to the Blacks, Red Indians and Latin Americans.
Christian ideology of justice, social equality, human rights and liberty are involved in deception. The church expanion in India depends to a substantial extent on the literal and brutal deprivation of liberty, equality and social justice for thousands of forcefully and deceptively converted dalits. The goal of the church is to overspread their political power all over India. It is comparable to the earlier conquest of Christianity in Latin America, and Africa which were also motivated in part to bring Christian domination and destroy native cultures, as well as by hunger for land and resources.
In India, Christian churches are actively engaged in psychological warfare, mental misdirection and political interference to convince pseudo secularists that the church is building an empire of liberty and social justice. In reality, the ruthless and powerful church is driven by self-interest as much as or more than, by the dream of uprooting Hindus.
Are Indian churches interested in social transformation? Of course not. Throughout recent Indian history, we can see, Hindu leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Gopal Krishna Goghale were engaged in social reformation and social upliftment of dalits and the socially oppressed.
The most distinguished fact of Hinduism is the freedom of the individual to rise above their social class. Christianity in India was interested in indoctrination, land grab, deforestation, coercive religious conversion and political power. The Christian churches have a vested interest in growing inequality, poverty, social crisis and discrimination. The Christians in India enjoy extra privileges, unlimited freedom, and special status to convert Hindus only to enslave them with their rigid, mechanical, non-compromising desert dogma.
Christians in India preach ideas of social equality, liberty, social justice and human rights only to protect their self interest and economic-political power. The evangelists in India preach empty slogans of love, peace and justice. These things should be viewed with skepticism. Nothing seems quite real because the church wants to oppress dalits and discriminate lower class converted Christians. Even superficial Christian slogans and social gregariousness are illusory and false. The churches are also good in spreading despair among the dalits, arms to the Naxalites, Maoists and Naga Christian terrorists. They have a systematic plan for destabilising India and misdirecting Hindus. The sinister plans of the churches pose a great danger not only to India but to every Hindu as well.
By Dr Babu Suseelan; Organiser, July 5, 2009
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=298&page=25
Are Indian churches interested in social transformation? Of course not. Throughout recent Indian history, we can see, Hindu leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Gopal Krishna Goghale were engaged in social reformation and social upliftment of dalits and the socially oppressed.
The pertinent issue that needs to be discussed in the present context is the false teachings about Christian prophecy and biblical interpretations that threaten our culture, social fabric and freedom. Oppression, exploitation and discrimination of Dalits, Blacks, Red Indians, and non Christians is nothing new. It happened before, and it is still happening.
Discrimination of converted Dalit Christians by the church and oppression are converging into the precise pattern of the Christian missionaries sinister plans that brought catastrophe to the Blacks, Red Indians and Latin Americans.
Christian ideology of justice, social equality, human rights and liberty are involved in deception. The church expanion in India depends to a substantial extent on the literal and brutal deprivation of liberty, equality and social justice for thousands of forcefully and deceptively converted dalits. The goal of the church is to overspread their political power all over India. It is comparable to the earlier conquest of Christianity in Latin America, and Africa which were also motivated in part to bring Christian domination and destroy native cultures, as well as by hunger for land and resources.
In India, Christian churches are actively engaged in psychological warfare, mental misdirection and political interference to convince pseudo secularists that the church is building an empire of liberty and social justice. In reality, the ruthless and powerful church is driven by self-interest as much as or more than, by the dream of uprooting Hindus.
Are Indian churches interested in social transformation? Of course not. Throughout recent Indian history, we can see, Hindu leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Gopal Krishna Goghale were engaged in social reformation and social upliftment of dalits and the socially oppressed.
The most distinguished fact of Hinduism is the freedom of the individual to rise above their social class. Christianity in India was interested in indoctrination, land grab, deforestation, coercive religious conversion and political power. The Christian churches have a vested interest in growing inequality, poverty, social crisis and discrimination. The Christians in India enjoy extra privileges, unlimited freedom, and special status to convert Hindus only to enslave them with their rigid, mechanical, non-compromising desert dogma.
Christians in India preach ideas of social equality, liberty, social justice and human rights only to protect their self interest and economic-political power. The evangelists in India preach empty slogans of love, peace and justice. These things should be viewed with skepticism. Nothing seems quite real because the church wants to oppress dalits and discriminate lower class converted Christians. Even superficial Christian slogans and social gregariousness are illusory and false. The churches are also good in spreading despair among the dalits, arms to the Naxalites, Maoists and Naga Christian terrorists. They have a systematic plan for destabilising India and misdirecting Hindus. The sinister plans of the churches pose a great danger not only to India but to every Hindu as well.
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