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muslimbhagawat 7 hours ago


Protest the anti-Hindu 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence
Bill, 2011'


By Francois Gautier

I am a westerner and a born Christian. I was mainly brought up in catholic
schools, my uncle, Father Guy Gautier, a gem of a man, was the parish head of
the beautiful Saint Jean de Montmartre church in Paris ; my father, Jacques
Gautier, a famous artist in France, and a truly good person if there ever was
one, was a fervent catholic all his life, went to church nearly every day and
lived by his Christian values.

There are certain concepts in Christianity I am proud of : charity for others,
the equality of system in many western countries, Christ’s message of love and
compassion….Yet, I am a
little uneasy when I see how much Christianity is taking over India under the
reign of Sonia Gandhi :

According to a 2001
census, there are about 2.34 million Christians in India,not even 2.5% of the
nation, a negligible amount. Yet there are today five Christian Chief ministers
in Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

One should add that the
majority of politicians in Sonia Gandhi’s closed circle are either Christians
or Muslims. She seems to have no confidence in Hindus.


1.Ambika Soni, a Christian, is General
Secretary of the Congress and a very powerful person, with close access to
Sonia Gandhi.


2.Oscar Fernandez is Union Programme
Implementation Minister. Margaret Alwa is the eminence grise of Maharashtra.


3.Karnataka is virtually controlled by
AK Anthony, whose secretaries are all from the Southern Christian association.


4.Valson Thampu, a Hindu hater, is
Chairman NCERT curriculum Review Committee.


5.John Dayal, another known Hindu
baiter, has been named by Sonia Gandhi in the National Integration Council ;
and


Kancha Ilaya, who hates Hindus, is
being allowed by the Indian Government to lobby with the UN and US Congress so
that caste discrimination in India is taken-up by these bodies. (One can also
add to list Ajit jogi, and Digvijay Singh both Christian converts & also
Prannoy Roy, his niece Arundhati ‘Suzanna’ Roy )


I have nothing
personally against Sonia Gandhi, in fact she probably is a good person to win
the allegiance of so many and certainly a loving mother. I share with her a
love for India, like her I have lived in this country for over 30 years and
like her I have married an Indian.








But nevertheless,
since she is at the top, Christian conversions in India seem to have gone in
overdrive.More than 4,000 foreign Christian missionaries are involved in
conversion activities across different states.


In Tripura, there were no Christians
at independence; there are 120.000 today, a 90% increase since 1991.


The figures are even more striking in
Arunachal Pradesh, where there were only 1710 Christians in 1961, but 1.2
million today, as well as 780 churches!


In Andhra Pradesh, churches are
coming-up every day in far flung villages and there was even an attempt to
set-up one near Tirupati. Many of the North-East separatist movements, such as
the Mizo or the Bodos, are not only Christian dominated, but also sometimes
function with the covert backing of the missionaries.


In Kerala, particularly in the poor
coastal districts, you find “miracle boxes” put in local churches: the gullible
villager writes out a paper mentioning his wish: a fishing boat, a loan for a
pukka house, fees for the son’s schooling… And lo, a few weeks later, the
miracle happens ! And of course the whole family converts, making others in the
village follow suit. During the Tsunami, entire dalit villages in Tamil Nadu
were converted to Christianity with the lure of money.


It is true that there have been a few
backlashes against missionaries and nuns, particularly the gruesome murder of
Staines and his two sons. But Belgium
historian Konenraad Elst laments that "When over a thousand Hindus are
killed and a quarter million Hindus ethnically cleansed in Kashmir, the world
media doesn’t even notice, but watch the worldwide hue and cry when a few local
riots take place and a few missionaries are killed by unidentified tribal
miscreants. Christian Naga terrorists have been killing non-Christians for
decades on end, and this has never been an issue with the world media, except
to bewail the “oppression” of the Nagas by “Hindu India” .

More than 20,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Assam and
Manipur in the past two decades. As recently as last week, four paramilitary
Assam Rifles soldiers were killed in an ambush yesterday by the outlawed United
National Liberation Front (UNLF).

The other day I was at the Madras Medical center, the foremost heart hospital
in Madras. Right when you enter the lobby, you find a chapel, inviting
everybody to pray, there are pictures and quotations of Christ everywhere and a
priest visits all the patients, without being invited at all.


Educational
institutes and orphanages run by Christian organisations have become big
business in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and other states.

In Pondicherry, where I am often, schools run by Adventists force their pupils,
mostly Hindus, to say Christian prayers every day and attend mass. They are
constantly fed anti Hindu slogans and biases under different forms, whether it
is in history books, or discourses by priests during religious classes. Even in
the elite schools or colleges, such as Saint Stephen in Delhi, Saint Xavier in
Calcutta or Loyola college in Madras, where no direct proletization is
attempted, Hindu pupils
are subtly encouraged towards scepticism of their own religion, and admiration
of whatever is Western.

One should also say that it’s a one way traffic: remember the furore when MM
Joshi wanted the Saraswati hymn to be sung at a Chief Ministers’ meet on education?
And imagine the uproar in secular India if portions of the Bhagavad Gita, this
Bible for all humanity, were read at the beginning of the day in public schools?

Sonia Gandhi said during the last National Integration Council meeting : “We are
committed to ideological battle against communal forces which seek to destroy
our diversity and polarise us. Certain parties promote polarisation and
confrontation. And there are certain regimes in India which promote
communalism.

But is not actually the
Congress under Mrs Gandhi, which is promoting communalism, by insidiously
installing Christians and Muslims (and Marxists) everywhere, propping up
Christian states, allowing a free hand too missionnaries and pressing for
reservations for Christian Dalits and Muslims, as recently done in AP, in a
nation of 850 million Hindus ?

In my country, France, a
Christian majority nation , it would be unthinkable to have Hindus – or even
Indian born French for that matter – in so many positions of power. Impossible
also to find a non-elected, non French, non-Christian person being the absolute
ruler of the country behind the scene as Sonia Gandhi is in India.

Indians like
to say that the greatness of India is that it accepts a foreigner and a
Christian like Sonia Gandhi.But is’nt it rather a weakness and an aberration?

Can’t we find a worthy leader amongst one billion Indians? This is an India
where you see today Swami Avimukteshwarananda Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth, made
to disembark from an Indian Airlines flight for carrying his holy dand, a thin
bamboo stick which is a symbol of their spiritual designation, inside the
aircraft cabin.

Are we heading
then towards a Christian India under Sonia Gandhi’s helm? It would be a
tremendous loss not only to India, but also to the world. For in India, you
find the only living spirituality left on this planet.

Another black day-What are IB and RAW doing? Cannot they mingle with the terrorists and kill them or at least know when they are going to strike and w

Another black day-What are IB and RAW doing? Cannot they mingle with the terrorists and kill them or at least know when they are going to strike and where so that the terrorists could be defeated? And what is the use of keeping Afzal Guru and Kasab alive when they have already been sentenced to death? Are we waiting for another Kandhar episode?

This is another black day for all of us. Form hereon there will be more candle light marches, even more dossiers exchanged, the Government will continue to play passing the parcel with our neighbours endlessly, the Government will stage a dramatic halt in the peace talk initiatives and then reinitiate them (like we always do in a few months), they will play every single game that there is to play, from dumb charade to blind man’s buff, but we will never ever pin the donkey’s tail. This is reality and we the resilient citizens are expected to go with the flow. We will continue to do what we do best, we will move on with our lives, just as we did in the past, allowing our short term memories to dissolve in the frothy wake of our own helplessness while the Government will cower and hide tying to find every single reason that there probably is to not take a more aggressive stand on the issue.

I also believe that the Chief Minister of Maharashtra was not at the blast sites instantly, why? I would have expected him to be taking stock of the situation first hand and extending support. Is it because of the fear of undetonated explosives in the vicinity? Of course! What about the safety of all the nameless and faceless multitudes who scrambled back to their homes on crowded public transports last evening not knowing when the next explosion will be triggered? I can only but imagine the fear that would have been instilled in them at that surreal time. The Home Minister has once again praised the resilience of Mumbaikars but would even one Mumbaikar proudly put his head high up in the air and pat the Home Minister or the Chief Minister or for that matter any Minister on his back and say “You are doing a good job Sir”. I cannot even remember when was the last time our Prime Minister’s voice was heard, even if there is pin drop silence I cannot hear the man in Manmohan Singh speak. Can you? Right now, the silence is deafening.

The political system reeks and it is reflective in the intelligence failure. There is little point in Delhi shuffling a pack of worn out, dirty cards and pulling out one Joker after another from the pack. It has been eternity since I have seen an Ace being pulled out and having an expectation of such would mean I am living in utopia. The innocent people who died yesterday have sacrificed their lives, like sacrificial lambs they have been slaughtered again because of the failure of the state machinery. There is no denying the fact there is indeed a lack of both intelligence failure and inadequate law enforcement measures. Post 26/11, for a few months or so, security was beefed up in critical areas across the country. But, with time, the lapse has been quite evident. In the initial days after 26/11 the security at airport terminals too ran high when a platoon of them would adequately man critical locations. I seriously doubt if this is the current situation. As recently as three days back when I flew out of Bangalore, the barracks that manned the main entrance at the airport had but a solitary security personnel chatting on his mobile phone while another was almost dozing. Yes, it is impossible to guard every nook and corner and this is where critical information from intelligence becomes a lifesaver. The United States has done extremely well on this front to ensure that there has been no repeat after 9/11. And again there is strong leadership in the United States that takes control of the nation and officials who do what they are meant to be doing unlike in our case where the Prime Minister has devoted and continues to devote almost all his time and energy on coalition politics.

My heart goes out to Mumbai, which continually faces the brunt of venom spewed by mindless maniacs over and over again. Mumbaikars are expected to be calm, they are expected to be strong and when the Government makes all these expectations on innocent citizens, it is about time we levy some major expectations on our governance as well. It is about time the Government is made accountable for every life that has been lost. No longer is silence a virtue; it is time to speak up. Our lives are not cheap like the way the Governance always makes it out to be. The longer the silence, the fatter Kasab seems to be also getting in jail."

What are IB and RAW doing? Cannot they mingle with the terrorists and kill them or at least know when they are going to strike and where so that the terrorists could be defeated? And what is the use of keeping Afzal Guru and Kasab alive when they have already been sentenced to death? Are we waiting for another Kandhar episode?

Satbir Singh Bedi