Indian parliament uproar over conversions by Hindu groups
Modi in the firing line
Opposition MPs accused Modi of doing little to stop his hardline supporters from forcibly converting Muslims and Christians.
The protesters forced the upper house of parliament to adjourn after shouting matches led to chaos.
Conversions are legal if they do not involve force, fraud or inducement.
But in recent weeks, a number of religious ceremonies have been organised in different parts of India by Hindu hardline groups, close to Mr Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and there has clearly been infringements of the law on force, fraud or inducement.
Earlier this month, more than 50 Muslim families were reportedly converted to Hinduism against their will in the town of Agra.
At the weekend, it was reported that about 100 Christians had converted to Hinduism in the western state of Gujarat while 30 Christians were converted in the southern state of Kerala.
Hardline Hindu groups like the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), Bajrang Dal, VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and others rationalise this by saying that Indian Muslims and Christians were all Hindus who have converted to other faiths over the last few centuries.
These groups regularly hold ceremonies which they call “ghar vapasi” – or returning home – to allow Christians and Muslims to return to their “original religion”.
At the weekend, the head of India’s most powerful Hindu group, the RSS, vowed to continue with the conversions.
“We will bring back those who have lost their way. They did not go on their own… They were lured into leaving,” he said.
Critics say Hindu hardline groups are flexing their muscles under Mr Modi and undermining India’s unity and secular nature.
Just a few weeks ago another BJP MP was forced to apologise in parliament after praising the murderer of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as a “patriot”. This shows where this Modi party is really coming from.
Yeah, awful stuff…
Still, those guys have been self-torturing for years, then no wonder they’re now looking for poverty-stricken Muslim scapegoats to abuse, it’s part of a long line of traditional core values…abuse, self-abuse, female abuse, internecine abuse – you name it, these f *k*rs have been scandalously abusing since this pair started off the trend. (Still, just wait till the boot is on the other foot…history is full of those reversals of fortune..).
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=10713
This is the bravery of Sannyas intellectuals, they can take pot shots at Modi, Merkel, Obama, Cameron or Putin; not just taking pot shots, sannyasins can even do the consultancy work for their governments, for example: how to improve education, how to bring meritocracy, how to add meditation in the psychiatric clinics, how to create equal and just society as it was in Rajneeshpuram, and so on.
But can they dare to tell to their chairman Jayesh to listen the call of his fellow disciples?
No.
Here they are all mum, including the person who has created the above string.
Now about the string…
India does not look to have rosy future. These few incidents of reverse conversion will turn into a major powerball of conflict. Modi won the elections on the issue of development. In an atmosphere of religious bigotry, foreign investors will ignore India.
India´s loss is China´s gain.
Modi does not deserve the attention of “Sannyas intellectuals”, save for one reason, Mr Shantam, that many of your allies seem to want to kiss his ass.
The reason why SN wants to keep track of him is the virtual adulation that people like Arun and the Delhi lot poured on him when he became elected.
He is a religious bigot, dedicated to blowing apart secular India.
It certainly needs the banshee ghosts of Mahavir and Buddha to come back in the flesh and disturb this fanaticism. Those two ‘rebelled’ when alive, against Hinduism, and one cannot believe that religion still carries on with its caste system, etc., thousands of years after those two magnificent souls found it so deficient.
I can only think that your allies believe that by sucking up to Modi he will assist in ‘throwing out’ the reigning foreigners from the Pune Resort, otherwise they have shown absolutely no political nous.
Your single-minded obsession with Jayesh is nonsense. If he were replaced the problems would be the same. It is the institution, of which you are a part, that has to dissolve.
Beloved Friends of SN caravanserai,
Please take a (Tea) break in the Samasati Recreations Resort.
Love, not blind, yet there -
Madhu
Festive News…
North Korea and Indian Nationalists to Collaborate, Shock
In a further twist to recent events unfolding this Xmas, western civilization is on full-alert following reports that Indian BJP fanatics will join forces with the evil noodle-eating state run by the Swiss-educated dictator, Monsieur Kim IL Jung, so as to curry his favour in a practice-run for world domination starting in Pune, early next year, sponsored by Sony.
In a scandal which is sure to have far-reaching targets, western spy agencies have confirmed that the invective and spittle now being used to flex the coarse and disturbing Indian nationalist voice, is to be assisted by North Korea’s very own computer-nerdy-noodle eaters.
It appears that the combination of the famous early morning Indian cough, rasp and spit, often held just below one’s bedroom window, accompanied by a lurching, long-distanced spittled-gob
and a fanfare of nose-blowing, will be assisted by North Korean hackers into a combined-cacophony of noisy, hacked-off coughing, oriental, sino-sited internet attacks, starting from Shree Modi’s Internet Parlour and Coffing Shop.
SN’s own computer and blogging expert. Swami Kim ‘Lenin’ Philby, commented by phone, “Normally, at Xmas, we can expect to open presents, sit by the Xmas tree, have a large lunch and get stuffed, but this year the North Koreans have beaten us to it and sent us a real turkey just before we shut down for the holiday, by trying to spoil all our dinners.” The phone line then mysteriously went ‘click’,'whirr’ and “hurrow, Golden Dragon Oriental Restaurant, buzz-whirr, arise ye workers”, before being cut-off completely.
(This article has been generously supported by donations from the Federation & Association of Kind Internet Resourced Seekers – aka F.A.K.I.R.S).
Martyn, I am devastated to hear this terrible news. It pains me so much that I am going to take an aspirin, retire to my bedroom and re-read Irvine Welsh’s ‘Skagboys’ in an effort to alleviate my misery.
Wow, Prem Martyn,
in the world of mental fire crackers you really have always another stuff
up
your
sleeve –
you must have intimate connections, haven’t you?
“(This article has been generously supported by donations from the Federation & Association of Kind Internet Resourced Seekers – aka F.A.K.I.R.S).”
But anyway, Prem Martyn, it´s Tea Time.
Madhu
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/25/movies-embraced-hinduism
Thanks for the link, Arpana.