Evangelical Carpet bombing

Evangelical Carpet bombing

....Beneath the polished exterior of Christian educational
institutions lies a burgeoning political and cultural war machine that
strikes at the traditional spiritual values of India...

http://greathindu.com/2008/02/
The battle for the Hindu mind
February 24, 2008 Author: Deepak Kamat

Evangelical Carpet bombing Although Hindus constitute 85 percent of
population, it is the mullah, padre, comrade, corporate brigade which
has a free run in India.

The leftists are in control of the media and they are aided by the
other three in consonance with Stalin's idea of a common front. As for
academia, it is the Christian missionaries with their large network of
educational institutions who are dictating terms. As for the Corporate
brigade, their entry into several sectors has raised the shackles of
the unorganized business and industries of India. Regarding the
Islamic incursions, the less said the better. When the US – with less
then one percent of Muslim population – could feel the heat, the
Indian situation with Arab petro-dollars is not difficult to imagine.
It is as if all the four are ticking time bombs – waiting to explode.
There are several dimensions to the war. While jehad and Communist
violence (Naxalites) are downright physical, the Corporate-evangelical
war is more or less cultural or financial.
It is a culture war, a paradigm conflict. It is a political invasion
from within. It is a bloodless war for the minds, hearts, and souls of
Hindus. It is being waged with force, foreign fund and deception in
television, in the class rooms, in the media and in the political
fields. It is a constant and continuing war on the spiritual tradition
of India. It is a war for the Hindu mind. It is a war, which is meant
to dominate.

The evangelical incursions: Christian missionaries in India enjoyed
much support from European Christian colonial masters who controlled
the political, economic and educational institutions for centuries, to
1947. With the active support of the European Christian colonialists,
missionaries founded churches, large scale political organizations,
and educational institution. Even after independence, political
parties handed over to Christians an influential position in India.
Leaders of the Church became key advisers and also exercised
political, economic, and educational functions as government leaders.
The missionaries have created fronts in the press, economic
institutions, commercial enterprises, as well as grabbed urban and
forestland, established non-governmental organizations, schools,
colleges and formed political parties.

Thanks to minority rights, the Hindus could scarcely match the
missionaries in education, media and commerce. Political Christianity
formed a special clique, finding their ideal in real estate,
education, health industry, media, plantation and commerce. Their
ulterior motive was that Christians should be strategically placed in
policy decision bodies. Political Christianity in India is naturally
averse to Hindu consolidation and likes to divide Hindu society for
practical purposes. That is why these missionaries support caste based
organizations and regional political parties. Then Hindus would
continue their class division and the Church would accomplish their
goal. Christians make it a point to dismiss Hindu spiritual and
cultural traditions. The Church had a clear mission to liberate Hindus
from their cultural roots and enslave them with rigid, closed,
divisive and linear Christian dogma.

Missionaries with the closed, rigid and uncompromising dogma are
obsessed with the idea of converting Hindus who believe in pluralism,
tolerance and the all inclusive Vedic philosophy. Spiritual vedic
thought has always posed a serious challenge and dilemma for the
Christian Church. For centuries, unable to challenge the broader and
systemic Hindu philosophy, Christian missionaries have resorted to
deceptive mind manipulation strategies to trap and convert Hindus.
Political parties and secular leaders allowed Christians not only to
influence government policies, but also tolerated their attack on
Hindu spiritual practices. This political patronage enabled Christians
to exercise an influential anti Hindu role in public life and in
government.

The power of the Church in India is enormous. Massive inflow of
foreign fund helped the Church to influence the media, own large
tracts of urban and forestland, control political parties, as well as
own commercial and educational institutions. Their explicit purpose,
among other things, is to stop Hindu consolidation and get them to
fight on caste lines. In order to solidify their growing hegemony,
Christians have made alliance with the Congress party, the Marxists,
and regional parties as well as with parochial organizations.The
explosive effect of this unholy alliance can be gauged by the
emergence of Christian power in central and several state governments.
Control of educational institutions, trade, plantation and real estate
brought wealth to Christians in ways Christians had never known. All
the while, Christian organizations received massive amounts from
abroad for conversion activities. Christian conquests are more and
more commercial and less spiritual. Well-established business, trade
and commerce proved better, more wealth producing mode of occupation
than spirituality. Concurrent with commercial success, the Church with
the help of foreign fund elevated the role of political interference
with absolute control of government in many states. Political
influence of Christians in India marked the modern scene to an extent
unknown before.

Deceptive practices: One of the more alarming trends in India in
recent years is the growing number of evangelical Christian
organizations. This growth has been accompanied by an astonishing
increase in Christian missionary activities, which target Hindus for
conversion. Well over 3,000 missionary groups spend over a billion
dollar each year for conversion work in India. Evangelical Christian
groups sponsor hundreds of full-time missionaries. They also sponsor
television and radio programs. Missionaries have sponsored thousands
of non-governmental organizations for overt and covert activities for
furthering Christian causes. These evangelical Christians use
deceptive tactics to attract secular Hindus, journalists, academicians
and westernized intellectuals. Evangelical missionary groups use Hindu
names for their organizations to attract and trap innocent Hindus.
They frequently misquote, mistranslate and misrepresent Hindu
scripture and texts in order to use it as a bait and switch game.
Evangelical missionaries are specially trained in human psychology.
They know well how to conceal, camouflage, and distort reality. They
use sophisticated psycho programming for softening people up for the
kill. Like most power plays, softening people up for the kill is
dangerous. It is not transparent enough for Hindus to see through and
choose to stay out.

Missionary Agenda through other means: Evangelical Christian
organizations advertise under the garb of Human Rights, dalit
organizations, solidarity movements of the oppressed, Environmental
Protection groups and social service agencies. Their goal is to
mislead Hindus, to fabricate false reality, erase memory, and soften
them for "thought implant". Pamphleteering and misleading
advertisement of evangelist Christians are on the increase. There is
an upsurge in Christian pamphlets being distributed at Hindu
festivals, temples and sacred places of pilgrimage. Missionary groups
aggressively distribute Christian publications to denigrate Hindu
deities at Sabarimala, Thirupathi, Guruvayoor, Ujjain, Benares,
Palani, Uduppi, and Sivagiri where Hindus congregate in large
numbers.In addition, missionary groups employ scare tactics,
intimidation and violence to discourage and prevent Hindus from
organizing protest against deceptive conversion tactics. Evangelical
missionary groups engage in a variety of relatively benign deceptions
intent to leave secular Hindus with a more positive impression on
them. The real purpose for engaging in hidden agenda power plays is
conversion of innocent Hindus. Hidden agendas, psycho programming and
mind manipulation techniques are used to entice unsuspecting Hindus.
Beneath the polished exterior of Christian educational institutions
lies a burgeoning political and cultural war machine that strikes at
the traditional spiritual values of India.

The Evangelical Carpet bombing : Most of these NGOs display signs of
"messiah madness" and manifest a great sense of urgency to convert as
many Hindus as possible for creating a Christian vote bank. Recent
Christian violence in Orissa, Bihar, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are perfect
example of the deceptive practices used by evangelical proselytizing
groups. There are at least 500 Christian proselytizing organizations
that operate with foreign fund in Orissa and Bihar alone, which are
actively targeting Hindus for conversion. Recently deceptive and
aggressive conversion efforts have led to escalating tension
throughout Bihar.

Putting an end to conversion activities: Conversion is an attack on
the basic dignity of human beings. The Missionaries use the
desperation of the masses to lure them into their faith. This fact
goes unrepresented in the Indian media, which seems to receive the
Christian largesse.
There has been an ominously deafening silence from secular political
leadership at all levels. This silence itself is complicit in creating
a favorable atmosphere for Christian conversion groups. Phony secular
leaders engage in ineffective maneuvers to maintain the status quo and
avoid unpleasant thoughts because reporting on deceptive missionary
conversion practices only makes matters worse.

A REPEAT OF EUROPE: Hindus must exercise constant vigilance and
educate the masses about the true nature of the hidden agendas of
Christian groups and foreign funded NGOs. The value of free speech and
the basic right to free expression is not absolute under the Indian
constitution. Hindus have the right to oppose Christian hate speech
and deceptive practices that may be deemed offensive. Awareness,
education and assertive protest seem to be the best way of confronting
conversion. In a way, the Hindu society faces the same problem, which
Europe faced in the 18th century. The Europeans rejected the Church
during the renaissance and chose progress. Even the founding fathers
of the US Constitution were aware of this problem. Thomas Jefferson
had chosen to create riders that kept the missionaries at bay. The
Hindus should do likewise – reject Christianity and choose progress
while retaining the best of Hindu spiritual traditions.

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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200810111823.htm

Govt. to issue coin in honour of Sister Alphonsa

New Delhi (PTI) The government on Saturday said it has decided to
issue a commemorative coin in the honour of Sister Alphonsa, who will
be canonized as a saint by the Pope tomorrow in the Vatican City.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced that the coin will be
released on August 19, 2009 in Kerala. Sister Alphonsa is the first
Indian who will be canonized as a saint by the catholic church, an
official release said. Born in 1910, she belonged to the poor
Franciscan Clarist Congregation in Kerala. Her centenary year will
commence on August 19, 2009 and will be celebrated for a year, it
added.

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Speak out and say yes to unity

Tarun Vijay - TOI

Do we get bad leaders in spite of having good people?

If our people are great, why do we have leaders who fail?

Where are the people if the leaders are not doing what we think they
should be doing?

A people so intensely under attack by the terrorists can't claim to be
brave by sitting silently and petitioning state clerks. Those who fear
get what they fear.

While China, having superbly completed the Olympics, sent a man for a
space walk and Sarah Palin "delighted" our PM in the US with a
handshake, India seems to be descending dangerously into communal
polarisation, reinforced and powered by a secular lobby.

In the process, the morale of the police and other security forces is
being affected for they are facing the brunt from terrorists as well
as the secularists in the government and the media who are running
them down, doubting their intentions and integrity.

Suddenly yardsticks for our judgment have changed. Opinions, morphed
as judgments, are passed not on merit or weighing its consequences for
the society, but by the yardstick of the colour events wear.

The Nanavati Commission's report is to be discarded even before its
pages are browsed because the Narendra Modi government instituted it
and it shows Hindus as victims. The Bannerjee report is to be trusted
because the secular Lalu Yadav instituted it and shows Hindus as
aggressors. Strange logic.

Who speaks for the Indian?

Inspector M.C.Sharma's funeral is not to be attended because he shot
at Muslims. When the men in khaki arrested the Kanchi Shankaracharya,
not a single secular channel or newspaper cast any doubt on the police
reports and statements. But when the men in khaki arrested a few from
Jamia Milia, doubts were raised immediately and investigative
journalism flowered.

Anything written about patriotism, even a good word about Inspector
Sharma, is sought to be embarrassed under a general head – Hindu
media. I read this term being used first time in the aftermath of the
Jamia controversy. Anything that Muslims show as a sign of solidarity
with the rest of the India and condemnation of terrorism is either
blacked out or shown apologetically.

Last week, 21st September to be exact, a few hundred young
professional Muslim youth from Okhla and Jamia Nagar organized a
silent procession at India Gate in New Delhi. They were condemning
terrorism, asking for the harshest punishment for terrorists who use
Islam for their crimes, and they wanted to be recognized as patriots.
I didn't see the coverage it deserved. Why?

Who is speaking for the Indians who were killed in the Delhi blasts?
Why did they have to be turned lifeless in a sudden stroke?

Suddenly a blast occurs and their life is changed. You are going to
see a movie, and next moment found dead. Someone bringing his daughter
home from school – suddenly both are dead in a blast. Gone to market
for shopping – minutes later a phone call at home says 'Please come to
claim the dead body'.

Terrorism has changed our lives, our behaviour, our language and
relations. Yet we feel hesitant to speak out.

What happens to those who were dependent on the terror-struck victim
nobody knows. They are not news. Can't we speak about Simran – whose
father and grandfather were killed in the previous blast – and about
Santosh, the sweet little kid who got killed in Mehrauli blast on
Saturday?

"Son, what's your religion?" – should that be our first query and
decide what is said next?

Hard law is bad, because it was "used" against a particular community.
Police is bad because it's arresting and targeting a particular
community.

Terror is secular, khaki is suspect.

While the nation and her security forces – that includes the police
too, stand firm to combat terrorism, the state power and the seculars
are providing focused support to terrorists and enhancing their morale
through statements and casting doubt on the motives of the anti-terror
action.

India's secular cabinet ministers demanded lifting of a ban on a
terrorist organization, proposed Indian citizenship to millions of
illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators, refused to say a word of
encouragement to the security forces fighting terrorists but publicly
assured help to the accused whom police, a part of the government,
arrested for blasting Delhi and killing citizens.

All these secular statements had just one consideration – religion of
the groups they want to support or oppose. The seculars have become
the worst kind of communal hate spreaders, with their extreme
one-sided postures and acidic language. In a way these rabble-rousing
seculars have become a security threat affecting the societal fabric
and the morale of the policemen and soldiers.

They ordered a communal head count in the army, ignored and downgraded
celebrations of Bharat Vijay Diwas, 16th December, and Kargil Vijay
Diwas, stopped observing the Pokharan test anniversary in Delhi and
failed to show due respect to Field Marshall Manekshaw. All this can't
just be exceptions; they show a trend, an attitude.

These are the same elements who represent the governance and by virtue
of being cabinet ministers, which ironically includes having taken an
oath that obliges them to be loyal to the Constitution, succeed in
facilitating comforts for the killers and create an atmosphere in
which sympathies for the terrorists are generated and police become
suspect with doubtful integrity. Words like – "they have a soft
heart", "they are our children and hence it's our duty to provide them
help", "nothing can be said till they are proven guilty", etc – are
bandied about to warn the police and reassure those whom police caught
at risk to their lives.

It's good and admirable to stick to a universal assumption that
everyone is innocent till proven guilty. But during wartime words
spoken publicly have to be weighed against their possible impact on
the elements that shoulder the responsibility to safeguard the nation.

If you start being celestially virtuous by sympathizing with the pains
and difficulties of those who have waged a war on the state, it's
bound to paralyze the enthusiasm of patriotic soldiers and civil
resistance.

They know their side

In the secular dispensation, to be objective, liberal and broadminded
and have sympathies on humanitarian grounds are reserved only for
terror groups.

Is it a secret that these seculars leave no stone unturned to create
an atmosphere where procedural mechanism to punish the guilty is
influenced and driven to believe that the arrested criminal is not the
culprit, but the victim of an incompetent state apparatus.

Remember how a vigorous campaign to release a lecturer of the same
Jamia Milia Islamia was launched in spite of Delhi police submitting a
truckload of evidence about his involvement in the attack on
Parliament? And the famous case of Abdul Mahdani, declared as the
"main accused" in the Coimbatore bomb blast case, which left 58 dead?
Karunanidhi went to see him in jail, provided all the facilities,
including a regular masseur, and finally when on purely "technical"
points he was released, Kerala's Left Front cabinet ministers came out
and accorded him a public felicitation?

The charges against Mahdani were as follows:

"Accused No. 14 Mahdani is one of the key conspirators in the
Coimbatore bomb blasts case."

"Accused of collecting and transferring explosives to the town, ripped
by a series of bomb blasts on February 14, 1998."

"Charged under Sections 302 IPC (Murder); 307 IPC (Attempt to Murder);
153-A IPC (Creating hatred among communities); Section 5 of the
Explosives Act and Section 25 of the Arms Act."

Public prosecutor Balasundarm, arguing against Mahdani, had expressed
"surprise" over the judgment to release him and said he did a good job
in assimilating the voluminous evidence of documents 1785 documents
marked as evidence, 1300 witnesses and over 15,000 pages of
investigation records. If indeed the case had been presented as
thoroughly as claimed, why did it fail?

If such incidents do not open the eyes of the people leading our
public life, then what's the course left for a law-abiding patriot?

In any other country facing such a serious serial terror assault,
those who publicly empathize with the terrorists would have been tried
along with the arrested accused of the blasts.

Speak out and say yes to unity.

It's the emergent duty of the media and political powers to help stop
the dangerous polarization taking place in our social circles and
polity post-bomb blasts and public shows of secular sympathies for the
accused killers.
While care should be taken that no educational institution gets a bad
name because of the actions of a few, it's also the duty of the
faculty and the students to show solidarity with the terror-struck
people.

Muslim leaders have to come out openly re-enforcing a citizen's
solidarity against terror. If students fail in duty and character, the
teachers will have to share the responsibility for their bad
behaviour.

It's also wrong and false that a few wronged people have taken up
guns. What wrongs and if it is indeed so, how many Kashmiri Hindus
will have to take up guns?

Rather, the goodness of the religion needs to be publicized and there
will be no dearth of other communities joining with such Muslims. So
far it's only the Hindus who are coming out openly defending the
goodness of the Indian Muslims and their religion.

Nobody generalizes the community as terrorists, unlike in Europe and
America. This difference remains unrecognized though.

Maulanas are silent, teachers do not speak out and the common men
suffer in silence. Is that the way we are going to deal with this war?
If people don't forge solidarity and revolt and keep looking to
politicians for all solutions, even god will think twice about helping
them.