I am sorry I cannot respond in kind to the personal attacks and further distortions in the post appended below.
But I just want to explain that it is a matter of common sense that funds are required to conduct thousands of interviews that need to be conducted if the claims in the religious persecution report are based on real facts on the ground. The reason for this is that it costs money to travel to different places to conduct these interviews, stay in hotels or guest houses, eat in restaurants or buy groceries to cook, etc. If translators, interpreters, local interviewers, social workers, etc. are hired then they need to be compensated as well. I state once again that I "trust" that Justice Saldanha, Harsh Mander, Marshall Mendonza, etc. have conducted the interviews in the first place or to verify the authenticity of the claims made in the persecution report, given that Marshall told me to conduct my own interviews before offering my analysis of it. If my "trust" in them is ill-founded then some other trustworthy persons must have actually conducted the interviews. Now if my "trust" that these interviews were conducted at all is ill-founded then this whole persecution report is more of a sham than even I thought it was in the first place. So in order to know the truth about these interviews and their funding I would appreciate it if Marshall would kindly answer the following questions, since it was he who circulated this report and asked me to conduct the interviews myself: 1. Who conducted the interviews for the religious persecution report? 2. Did the conduct of interviews require funding from some source(s)? 3. If so, what is/are the source(s) of this funding? 4. If not, how are the religious organizations connected with the persecution report able to pay for the travel, room and board, translator expenses and other expenses associated with conducting thousands of interviews? 5. What do these religious organizations do with the funds that they receive through donations and subscriptions? I have still not received any reply from the religious organization misnamed Catholic Secular Forum regarding the report. That is why any help that Marshall could provide in answering such questions would be appreciated. Cheers, Santosh > On Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:07 AM, Marshall Mendonza > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Santosh appears to be yet another anti-christian baiter in the Barad mould. > He makes cheap, flippant, loose, sensational and irresponsible statements > and then tries to wriggle out by trying to obfuscate the issue. Here is his > statement: > > Quote: > > "So I will let you know if and when I receive a copy of the interviews > that have already been conducted with funds from various religious > organizations with a common interest in persecution theology, by those > who have released the report." > > "As regards interviewing the victims myself, I trust that Justice > Saldanha, Harsh Mander, Marshall Mendonza, etc. have already done > that, and am waiting to read their interviews in the detailed report." > Unquote: > > The above statement contains 2 main points: > 1. INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED WITH FUNDS from various religious organisations > with a common interest in persecution theology. > 2. JUSTICE SALDANHA AND HARSH MANDER HAVE ALREADY INTERVIEWED THEIR VICTIMS > and I (Santosh) am waiting to read THEIR INTERVIEWS in the detailed report > > Santosh alleges that Justice Saldanha and Harsh Mander have conducted their > interviews/ investigations with funds from questionable sources. He needs > to provide evidence: > > 1. that the interviews were conducted by Justice Saldanha and Harsh Mander, > and > 2. that these interviews were conducted with funds from religious > organisations interested in 'persecution theology' whatever that means > in > Santosh's lectionary. > > It is absolutely clear that he is smearing Justice Saldanha and Harsh > Mander and maligning their integrity and reputation while casting doubts on > the source of funds which fund their activities. > > It is sad and unfortunate that educated and intelligent people like Santosh > are so shameless that they will go to any extent to malign the integrity > and reputation of people for their narrow selfish ideological ends. > > This is nothing but a continuation of the trend set by his defence/ > justification of the rapes, murders and violence against defenceless people > in Kandhamal a few years ago. > > It is common knowledge that hindutva activists and their sympathizers/ > apologists like Santosh are very active in internet forums trolling > anything which exposes their nefarious activities. > > Regards, > > Marshall >
