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From: Don Aguiar <aguiar...@gmail.com<mailto:aguiar...@gmail.com>> Good Morning, Below is an article in the latest issue of the SECULAR CITIZEN that will be on the stands this – 8th August 2016. Do comment / respond on the article – And this is Christian Persecution in India Happy Reading Don Aguiar And this is Christian Persecution in India Don Aguiar "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw How very true…… likewise the present political party with their communal ideology that has formed the government in power is indeed trying to adopt the country according to their communal ideology ……….. Therefore all progress of the country will depend on their communal ideology…….. In pushing for a Hindu India……….? First they (the present government in power) steadily increased radical Hinduism, which was already present under the previous government, and started persecution and discrimination against the Christians While intolerance has presently risen to a great extent, and Christians are constantly attacked, the central government has refused to speak out against the atrocities – thus further encouraging the radical Hindus to step up their actions. The level of impunity has gone up markedly during the pendency of the present government for those who push for a completely Hindu India. The Secularists, free thinking and minorities and likeminded people feel uncomfortable by the violence. But haven't these things been happening in India? And this is Christian Persecution in India. Then they denied Christians from constructing places of worship - Christian churches and prayer halls - and prevented them from using common burial grounds. Churches around India were bombed and church graves were desecrated and ransacked - churches were burnt or destroyed, and damaged. The secularists, free thinking and minorities and likeminded people feel uncomfortable when such violence is directed against such a good peace loving community. But haven't these things been happening in India? And this is Christian Persecution in India. Then they started attacks on churches during Sunday prayers and beat up pastors, priest and religious and vandalized the church. The pastors, priest and religious have legal freedom to preach and to proselytize. The Secularists, free thinking and minorities and likeminded people feel sympathy for their lot. They are barely represented population wise and are now being despised and humiliated because of the religion they follow and profess. The Secularists, free thinking and minorities and likeminded people feel uncomfortable when people who are peace loving and have contributed immensely to building India are attacked for the religion they profess. But, haven't these things been happening in India? And this is Christian Persecution in India. Then they denied Rations to Christian believers, chased them out of their homes and lands and started fake encounters making fake cases and arbitrary arrests against them. It seemed the communal forces are adamant and hell-bent on not allowing the freedom to practice and profess the religion of one’s choice as guaranteed by our Constitution and makes Christians out to be and treats them as anti-nationals. Their passport and Aadhar Card and driving license and electricity bill and ration card are insufficient proof of their Indianness. It is a slogan that all of them must repeat, loudly and in public, to demonstrate that they are Indian - Their food, language, clothes, faces, bodies, all the inheritance of millennia that the world identifies as Indian is also incidental. It is sad that justice and the constitution which should be the hallmark of democracy which gives one the freedom to practice and profess one’s own religion are not being followed and is being suppressed. But haven't such things been happening in India? And this is Christian Persecution in India. Then they started violence against conversion to Christianity and started a campaign aimed at claiming back Hindus who became Christians – ‘Ghar Vapasi’. The nationalists in India together with the communal forces do not judge Christians for their achievements and contribution in building India but for their worship of their God. Christian worship and spreading their Word of God are likened to conversion. But then, which Indian government is free from this attitude. Such things are happening in India and this is Christian Persecution in India. The communal forces attached to the ruling party (the government) are creating an atmosphere of fear among Christians by attacking them and their places they reside in. They accuse Christians of wanting to convert [people]. This becomes an expression of "spontaneous anger" of "vanvasis" against conversion activities. Some of the mobs threaten to murder and rape the Witnesses. On the contrary - Hindu group claims to have reconverted 2,000 tribal Christians to Hinduism Why do these communal forces not want to allow one to practice and profess the religion of their choice? We have such a good Constitution - But that is a set of rules / laws. A nation is also its people and their behavior. Look at the text above this. Why would a Christian want to be persecuted and discriminated in India? The secularists, free thinking and minorities and likeminded people are disturbed by the knowledge that their taxes are paying for the salaries of politicians who promote their ideology of a Hindu India and create communal violence and use this type of agenda which inconvenience, maim and murder men, women and children of the peace loving Christian community. But haven't such things happened in India? And this is Christian Persecution in India. Then all the above has resulted into continuous Religious motivated violence against Christians With a fundamental Hindu agenda by this present government who has not taken any action on the communal forces till date has sparked pockets of severe persecution and discrimination for Christians in India, leaving many children without parents or family and many families without their house and lands. The violence has begun to spread with Hindu radicals enjoying near complete impunity for their actions. There has been an increase in attacks because these nationalists feel emboldened with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in power and not bothering to take action against the ‘communal forces’ that create an atmosphere of fear among the Christians. Such things are happening in India. And this is Christian Persecution in India. The nationalists together with the communal forces will continue to come at the Christians and they will also be after the other minorities which lays out the agenda of hate. The nationalists and communal forces had been associated with anti-national activities and the spreading of hate since pre-Independence times. They had cooperated with the colonizers, were active in anti-Muslim violence during Partition, and later in Gandhiji’s assassination. Of our present ruling government - The legislature and the executive have lost credibility, and the Judiciary is the last bastion of hope for the nation. A disaster is unfolding on the nation. We Christians need to wake up, even if just we are a minority, and we must fight any injustice so that justice is upheld. The one niggling thought that troubles me now is: do they happen because our present government and their ideology are intolerant to other religions and their agenda is to make India an exclusive Hindu nation?
