25 September 2008
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The chairman of the UPA Co-ordination Committee Sonia Gandhi has succeeded in converting India into a banana republic. Ever since the minority UPA anti-Hindu Government came to power in New Delhi with the outside support of known fifth columnists from the days of Quit India Movement in 1942�I am referring to the Communists of all grades and shades�the sovereignty of India has been on sale in the International market under the malignant umbrella of �National Soul Destroying Secularism�.
When Swamy Laksmanananda was brutally murdered by Christian missionaries in Orissa on Krishna Jayanthi day on 23 August 2008, the Hindus of Orissa rose in revolt in Kandhamal District. At that time the Italian Government had the temerity to summon the Indian Ambassador in Rome to take �decisive action to curb anti-Christian violence in Orissa�. Even a first year graduate student of international relations will declare without much ado that the 62nd Government in Italy after the end of Second World War in May 1945 (almost at the rate of one new Government every Calendar year!) breached all known canons of diplomatic propriety, resulting in a public relations disaster of enormous magnitude, when it summoned the Indian Ambassador. The UPA Government, maintained an indifferent attitude of cold, neutral, and secular silence without even lodging a protest with the Government of Italy for brazenly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign country like India.
The fascist Italian Government�s poor diplomacy followed the Pope�s condemnation of bloodletting in Orissa. As the head of a denominational commercial enterprise, which is what the Vatican is, Pope Benedict XVI is perhaps justified in raising questions about the security of Christians everywhere. However, in the immediate context of India, he chose to look at the issue only selectively. The fact of the matter is that in Orissa, like elsewhere in India, Christian evangelists � largely from Pentecostal and Baptist groups in the United States but sometimes from Catholic orders as well � look upon local populations as a viable market, and converts as �market share�. Their known business is �The Harvest of Pagan/Heathen Souls�.
Following the Government of Italy and the Pope in Rome, it is now the turn of the US Government to interfere in the internal affairs of India. The disgraceful track record of blatant interference of American Government in the internal affairs of countries in Asia after the Second World War is too well known. The American Government has been functioning as the self declared �Head Constable of the World�. The US State Department issues two significant reports annually�one on International Religious Freedom and the other on Global terrorism. The report on terrorism is titled �Patterns on Global Terrorism� and is issued normally in the first week of May. The report on Inernational Religious Freedom is issued in September of each year by the Office of International Religious Freedom of the US State Department�s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour. This report is besides the other report on International Religious Freedom issued by the more infamous USCIRF in May of every year. Both the USCIRF and the Office of International Religious Freedom were constituted by an Act of Congress, the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
Two days ago, the US Government has condemned violence against Christians in India during the last two months. Ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom Thomas Hanford, has said: �We urge all parties to refrain from violence and urge government officials to protect religious freedom throughout India and thus preserve India�s longstanding tradition of religious tolerance.� Our External Affairs Minister, perhaps awaits his instructions not from South Block (which he can ignore without any detriment to the safety of his (In!)- glorious �PUBLIC OFFICE�) but from No 10, Janpath, New Delhi. For all our Union Cabinet Ministers and more so for our Prime Minister, the Sovereignty of India can be compromised at any time, anywhere in any part of the world!. What can never be compromised at any cost is the Sovereignty of Sonia Gandhi.
The political inspiration for Thomas Hanford�s uncalled for interference in the internal affairs of India stems from White House in Washington. President Bush has politically chased two things like an American Bull Dog during the last eight years�the first being Saddam Hussain and his �Weapons of Mass Destruction� in Iraq and the second being Faith Based Social Service Initiative emanating from a White House Office to promote Government aid to Churches and Christian faith-based Organizations.
In these columns on 20 February 2007, in an article titled �Bush-sponsored Evangelization of India�, I had commented as follows: �One of the early and most important major policy decisions which President Bush took on 29 January, 2001, was in regard to a �Faith Based� social service initiative that included a new White House office to promote government aid to churches and Christian faith-based organisations. This had the immediate effect of throwing the massive weight of the federal government behind religious groups and religious conversions. The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives was set up in the White House in the first week of February 2002 and a man called Jim Towey was appointed as Director. The most interesting and important point to be noted in this context is that Jim Towey was the legal counsel to Mother Teresa in the late 1980s. Thus he was fully qualified in every sense of the term to play the role of an aggressive evangelist. What is most disturbing to note is that though Bush�s initiative as a 11th century Crusader to fund �salvation and religious conversion� has been stalled in the Congress over constitutional and civil rights concerns, yet he has pushed for its implementation through his own executive orders. Consequently, new waves of aggressive evangelism have been emanating and issuing out from America and invading India, with its epicenter in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, under the control of Seventh Day Adventist Chief Minister Dr. Samuel (Rajasekhar Reddy). This White House-sponsored movement for the evangelization of India is well funded, superbly networked and backed by the highest of the land in America. This is being fully supported informally by the UPA government in New Delhi under the stranglehold of a de facto Prime Minister, tracing her spiritual and cultural roots to Italy in general and to Vatican in particular�.
I am very amused to see that Christian Leaders like Bengaluru Archbishop Dr Bernard Moras, V Devasahayam, Convenor of the Chennai Churches Fraternity, (CCF), All India Christian Council (AICC!!) President Joseph Dsouza, National Integration Council Member John Dayal, etc. etc., are crying hoarse about the persecution of Christians in the India of today. In this context I would like to invite their kind attention to what I had written in these columns on 10 July 2007 under the title �Genuine tears in Pakistan vs Hypocritical tears in India�: �Let us contrast this politically imagined situation of fictionalised atrocities against the Christians in India with what is actually happening in Pakistan today. It has been extensively reported in all forms of media during the last one week that Christian clerics in Multan District in Pakistan are being forced to convert to Islam or face death. Naveed Amer Jeeva, Pastor Joseph Daniel, Dr Elvin and Pastor Mehtab Masih, all front rank leaders of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) stated at a joint news conference on 6 July 2007 in Multan: �As many as 10 Christian Clerics have received threatening letters from unidentified people reading �Embrace Islam, Stop Preaching Christianity and quit your faith. Otherwise the count down of your life has begun�. Naveed Amer Jeeva of the APMA said: �A state of fear prevails in Shanti Nagar (Multan Town) because District and Provincial Governments have turned a deaf ear to our problems. We are feeling insecure and unsafe today because of these threatening letters from Muslim fanatics. Pastor Mukhtar Barkat had received a similar threatening letter from Muslim fanatics in 2004 and was assassinated on 5 January 2004 in Khurrampura Khanewal. The minorities in general and the Christians in particular are not safe in Pakistan. Recently, Christians in Charsadda also received threatening letters warning them to shut their Churches and convert to Islam... Even a petition has been filed against the appointment of Justice Bhagawan Das as acting Chief Justice of Pakistan on the ground that he is a non-Muslim (a Hindu)�.
When a Church in Cochin near Nedumbassery International Airport was attacked recently, in an orchestrated Anti-Hindu chorus, many Christian Leaders unconscionably attacked the Sangh Parivar. Now I have received the report that the Kerala Police have arrested a Christian named Elias in connection with this attack. The pseudo-secular mafia of mass media in India�both print and electronic�which ran �sensational� stories to link Hindu organisations with the attack along with Pinarai Vijayan is not uttering a word since the arrest of Elias � A laity of the Jacobite church!
Last year Swamy Dayanand Saraswati told me in Chennai that three leading Rabbis who met the Swamiji in New Delhi had told him that India is the only country in the world where the Jews have never been persecuted at any point of time in the last 2000 years. Our hypocritical Christian leaders should also take their lessons from them, if not from the fanatic Muslims of Multan District in Pakistan today. In this context, I cannot help quoting the brilliant words of VOLTAIRE (1694-1778):
�Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world- - -Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?� (LETTERS TO FREDRICK THE GREAT, 1767)�.
(Concluded)
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
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vsundaram@newstodaynet.com
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