[Reader-list] Many Christians forced to embrace Hinduism

[kirdar singh]

Dear friends at Sarai
I am forwarding this frank response from someone who must be on Sarai,
but didn't post to everyone. Look at the kind of language our
countrymen (or women) use...


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Real Unreal <hiddenbuthere at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeh christian
> to harami hai hi, saath mein hum saab ko bawakoof bana rahan hain
> paisa hai hi asi cheez, kisi ko be dado, who ganth dikhaya ga
>
> bura kay hai, magar in haramiyoon nay america aur australia mein sab
> ko saaf hi kiya,
>
> accha to nahi hai, magar kay karay yeh garib log, kuch to mil raha
> hai, dharam ko chatna hai kay
>
> cross ko ganth mein lanay say agar do roti mil jaya to bura kay hai
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:36 PM, kirdar singh <kirdarsingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Many Christians forced to embrace Hinduism"
>>
>> Staff Reporter
>>
>> NEW DELHI: Janhastakshep has expressed concern over "organised
>> violence perpetrated by Hindutva forces on Christians in Orissa and
>> Karnataka and on minorities in other States".
>>
>> At a meeting on "Attacks on minorities: Challenges before the
>> democratic movement" here earlier this week, Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty,
>> who went as a member of a fact-finding team to Orissa, said
>> large-scale attacks were carried out against Christians: "Many
>> Christians were forced to embrace Hinduism to escape physical
>> elimination. What was shocking was the indifferent attitude of the
>> police and State officials. They looked the other way when violent
>> attacks were carried out."
>>
>> Calling upon civil liberty and human rights groups to jointly condemn
>> such attacks on minorities, Prof. Mohanty said: "The attacks on
>> minorities are not a minority issue but an issue of minority rights
>> that are essential to democracy."
>>
>> Human rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan said the police helped by the
>> media had served to project Muslims as terrorists.
>>
>> "Indiscriminate arrests of educated Muslims are being carried out,"
>> said Mr. Bhushan, adding that even the Supreme Court and the National
>> Human Rights Commission's guidelines on arrest were not followed.
>> Resolution
>>
>> The meeting adopted a resolution demanding that those responsible for
>> attacks on minorities and their institutions be dealt with in
>> accordance with the rule of law. It also demanded a time-bound
>> judicial inquiry by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court into the
>> Jamia Nagar encounter.
>>
>> The resolution also sought an end to "indiscriminate harassment" and
>> arrest of educated Muslim youths and their families.
>>
>> http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/18/stories/2008101856330400.htm
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