Bhadrapad Krushna Ashtami
By B D Narayankar
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.
Source: Merinews
