Bhandare Wrote >While violence of any kind needs to be deplored it is
>time that anti hindu activities of the foreign >sponsored missioanries need to be curtailed if peace >is to be maintained. Dear Chinmay Religious conversion of Hindus is threatening individuals, families, communities and the nation. Coercive religious conversion of Hindus contains a threat to spiritual tradition and the freedom of choice. If carried unchecked, coercive religious conversion would threaten the very existence of India as a nation. Armed with a rigid dogma, and a load of foreign money, missionaries are on a warpath to forcefully convert hundreds and thousands of innocent tribal Hindus. If unchecked, coercive religious conversion will have a cataclysmic impact on our freedom. In Goa the Portuguese perpetrated some of the worst atrocities ever committed in Asia by Christianity upon another religion. Ultimately, the Portuguese had to be kicked out of India, when all other colonizers had already left. The entire chunks of territories in the East India where the poverty and ignorance of the resident tribals made them easy prey to be converted to Christianity by the Christian missionaries during the British regime. These missionaries made the people to separate from their roots and tradition, made them look towards a alien western culture and a way of life which was not theirs. Missionary propaganda is chauvinist who believes in superiority / supremacy of their religion over others. Their ideological pretensions are smokescreens to destroy other religions and faiths. Freedom of religion is to practice ones' own religion different from other religions. Hindus have every right to expect that they will not be proselytized away from their own faith. Every citizen should be free from foreign sponsored missionary groups. An individual converting under psychological duress is loosing his very freewill and freedom of choice and conscience. Vinay Natekar
