DEVINE PUNISHMENT FOR CHRISTIAN HATERS
It is indeed hurting to know that Christians in India are still harassed. India externally looked very tolerant country but internally and actually it is not. Indian Hindus by nature should be tolerant but in reality they are not, at least many of them. Though small percentage of the Hindus are creating terror in India for the peace loving Christian community yet the overwhelming majority are not vocal in their condemnation of their Hindu brothers who are turned barbarians. By turning barbarians they give very bad image of their community and Hindusim as a whole. The overwhelming majority of Hindus who are silent on this subject should have in unison marched towards all the places where Christians are persecuted and given protection to them, thus creating a very good image of Hinduism as a whole. The situation is such now in India, the minorities are living in fear. Who will eradicate this fear?
Though Mahatma Gandhi was afraid that Hinduism may get liquidated from its birth place and asked his Hindu brothers to make all out efforts to protect it from liquidation from this planet yet he never told his Hindu brothers to liquidate other communities in order to protect Hinduism. In one of his statements he said “If Christianity and Islam are uprooted from India, they will still flourish elsewhere but if Hinduism is uprooted from India, it will disappear from this planet”. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto the former premier of Pakistan, quoting this statement of Ghandiji, mockingly laughed at Ghandiji by saying “and yet, we call him Mahatma”.
During his involvement in freedom movement, Ghandiji was very much shocked to see so many Harijans in Orissa were burnt alive by the Brahmins. Soon after this gruesome incident, Orissa experienced terrible flood in which so many people died including many Brahmins. Immediately Ghandiji issued a statement saying “This is the devine punishment for killing innocent Harijans”. Nature takes its own course but surely. We cannot upset natural laws. By killing, torturing, harassing and disgracing Christians in Orissa by the Hindu fanatics they took residence law into their own hands by upsetting the natural law which forbids unnatural actions. Harassing and torturing Christians is an unnatural action for this reason nature took control of Orissa and punished it with flood where thousands and thousands are marooned and harassed not by Christians but by the fury of nature. If Gandhiji was alive now, he would issue a statement saying “the current flood situation in Orissa is a devine punishment for Orissa for killing, harassing and torturing Christians”. Nature does not leave anyone unpunished for his bad actions.
While the situation is very panicky for Christians in India especially in Orissa and other places in the northern belt and Karnataka especially in Mangalore, the authorities in India do not seem to be taking care of the situation. Indian leadership looked still in dormant state neglecting the security of the Christians. Those Hindus who are after the blood of Christians with false allegations of conversion are turned into wild animals. Human attributes are gone from their hearts and minds. There is nobody amongst them to silence them because almost every Hindu is become a silent spectator in their midst and also outside. Christians cannot be retaliatory because ultimately Hindus will win by sheer of their brute majority backed by the immoral and illegal support they get from the authorities concerned who are equally communal.
Now the time is come for Christians especially living in the Western World to demonstrate their feelings to the United Nations and to World Human Rights Organisation. They got access to these world organizations by being in the West. The world is dominated by Christians. Chriatians from Indian origin settled in the West must raise their voice very forcefully in the countries of their domicile. In Canada they have already shown some signs of their disapproval. If possible, they must meet some of the world leaders to put pressure on Indian leadership to act appropriately against Hindu fanatics who are the real terrorists. The cruelty of these terrorists is more severe and painful than the cruelty of Muslim terrorists who bombs Indian cities.
What Christians have done for India inspite of being a miniscule in their number, no other community did. If India is come to this high level today, it is, in the words of former president of India, Dr. Radakrishnan, partly because of the tremendous contribution of Christians and their missionary work in the fields of education, health, social work etc”. It is a pity that even those who enjoyed the benefits of Christian largesse are become mum now. “Ingratitude is your hallmark my friends”. Where are all those great Hindus who enjoyed the benefits of Christian Schools, Colleges, Christian Health Care, Christian Social Work, Christian Welfare and Chrisatian Discipline gone now? Why they cannot openly and loudly raise their voices against their brute Hindu brothers? Are they taking pleasure silently over the massacre of Christians and desecration of their holy places? Why they are not fighting for justice? And where are my Muslim brothers gone now? Why are they silent? When Babri Masjid was demolished, I as a Christian was the first person in Kuwait, thru Kuwait Times to condemn this unwarranted act of Hindu fanatics. When Prophet Mohammed was once asked “when there will be justice in this world?” came the reply within a split of a second saying “When everyone of us will gather courage to fight against the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice is committed on to us only, then only there will be justice in this word”.
India has created gigantic Christian figures, they are now in India and outside too. They have done yeomen services for the benefit of India and Indians irrespective of their creed. They must come out openly and loudly against this harassment of Christians in India. India is in dire need of evangelization and not conversion. To silence the harshness in human behaviour especially in religious fanatics only evangelization is the need of the hour. At this hour the message of Christ is very essential and that message is of love, peace, brotherhood and not of conversion. Christians are not forcibly converting poor, tribals and low castes. Forcible conversion is against Christianity and as such it is not a conversion. The Christians are only converting the grades of the people from low to medium and high so that Indian citizens are become fit to be equal on par with any top person. Hinduism is based on social barriers which is against the principle of Christinaity. Hinduism makes some Hindus as sub-human beings which is against God’s principle because God created human beings as equals. In the eyes of God there is no discrimination as it is in Hinduism. By eradicating caste barriers Christianity is giving equality to the lowest born in Hindu religion. Why Christian missionaries only, even Dr. Ambedkar did this when he revolted against his own Hinduism and converted into Buddhism along with millions of his low caste Hindus. His anger against non-egaliterian and suppressive system of Hinduism was such that once he said “if any conflict arises between my community of low caste and Bharat, I will turn my back to my Bharat and support the interest of my community” of Dhalits. To purify Hinduism from its discriminatory system and to change Hindu fanatics into genuine human beings, India needs evangelization, Ghandijism, Budhism and Ambedkarism .
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
