By B D Narayankar
While there were millions of bytes and words flying around, castigating Hindus
for being violent, no channel has thought of highlighting the atrocities
perpetrated against them in Kandhamal by the state administration and Christian
missionaries.
IT’S BECOME a trend with the news channels to pounce upon a Hindu on rampage,
ignoring the very cause of retaliation. I am referring to Orissa violence,
where Christians were targeted and brutally assaulted. At many places even
their homes were set on fire.
While there were millions of bytes and words flying around, castigating Hindus
for being violent, no channel has thought of highlighting the atrocities
perpetrated against the Hindus in Kandhamal by the state administration and the
Christian missionaries, especially following the murder of Swami Laxmananda
Saraswati. They have been targeted; their families have been threatened by
other communities. They have no shelter and no food to feed their families.
Their houses were burnt by the criminals, who did not even allow them to earn
their bread and butter.
These conditions of the innocent Hindus were recorded by a high-level
delegation led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), MP, Jual Oram, which
visited Kandhamal district on September 4, to assess the situation after Swami
Laxmananda Saraswati’s murder.
Always the Indian media, especially the electronic media, represents the Hindus
as militants and persecutors that is really disturbing and sad. These news
channels behave in most unpatriotic manner and report the stories like most of
the foreign correspondents do, who lack understanding of India.
A peep into the history books will reveal how different religions profess
militancy. It is necessary for the Indian media to bring forward a more
balanced view of the sensitive problems. The gory past of Christian atrocities
is forgotten now but history will never forgive culprits like Alfonso de
Albuquerque who carried out the persecutions of Hindus in 1510. He burnt
’heretics’, crucified Brahmins, used false theories to forcibly convert lower
castes and razed the temples to build churches upon them.
How can one forget one of the most fiery communal statements ever made against
the Hindus. Claudius Buccchanan, a chaplain attached to East India Company,
said, “Neither truth, nor honesty, honour, gratitude, nor charity, is to be
found in the breast of a Hindu”. What a comment on a nation, that had welcomed
these merchants because of the Hindu philosophy of universal brotherhood. This
communal agenda of Claudius paved the way for British to trap the poor and
simple tribals for conversion and bury their cultural identities for ever.
Coming to the recent violence in Orissa, the police, even before it could visit
the spot where Swami Laxmananda Saraswati was killed, claimed that the murder
was committed by the Naxals. Even media played up the story. The fact of the
matter, however, is that there is a lot of enmity between the converts and the
non-converts. The non-converts are furious over the Christian missionaries
hogging up their lands to propagate Christianity and converting them through
cash inducements and other ugly means. Missionaries, on the other hand, are
frustrated over the hurdle created by Swami Laxmananda Saraswasti’s movement of
bringing back the converts to the Hindu fold. Swamiji’s murder was a result of
the simmering emotions between the converts and non-converts.
Sometimes back, it was claimed by the media that the burning of churches in
Andhra Pradesh was the design of ’fanatic’ Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, but
later it was proved that it was the handiwork of ISI to foment hatred between
the Christians and the Hindus. Yet, the Indian media that went berserk at the
time of the burnings, mostly kept quiet when the true nature of the
perpetrators was revealed.
Missionaries, especially, the Indian priests, would like us to believe that
democracy includes the freedom to convert by any means. But in France, a
Christian nation, has a minister who hunts down non-Christian sects. The system
is so ruthless that even the Scientology Church, favoured by some Hollywood
stars such as John Travolta, is mercilessly hounded out.
And what America, which is recognised as the largest democracy in the world,
did to Osho movement in Arizona, or how innocent children and women were burnt
down by FBI in Waco Texas, because they belonged to a dangerous sect?
Isn’t it surprising that India had been invaded by so many sects around the
world, yet it did not lose its cultural identity. In fact, the aggressors had
imbibed some of the cultural aspects of this great nation, which was deeply
engrossed in spiritual philosophy and universal brotherhood. But will it
survive the present Christian offensive? Many Hindu religious leaders feel that
Christianity is a real threat today. It is therefore, necessary that Indians
themselves become more aware of the danger that their culture and unique
civilisation is facing at the hands of missionaries sponsored by foreign money.
It is also necessary that they stop surfing and reading the Marxist-influenced
English media, who defend the rights of the Christian missionaries to convert
the innocent Hindus.
Laluram Salvi
Bicholim Goa
Source : http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=141707
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