why are christians persecuted in india inspite india being secular?

Answer 1

They are not percecuted in India at all.

According to Dr. Koenraad Elst "Christianity in India is not the toothless, softened Christianity, but has retained the aggressiveness and self-righteousness of the colonial period; and even the European Churches become a little bit aggressive again when advertising their work among the wretched Pagans of India."

(source: Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar By Koenraad Elst

Christian missionary like Cooper comes in India calls ourdeities names, rapes minors and leaves country unharmed.

You really know what percecution is? That is Christian speciality. for last 500 years evangelists are smearing Hinduism with false information about its culture and religion.

They changed history called everything Indian barbearic and propogated Aryan invasion theory in an attempt to steal cedit of Indian civilisation.

Still they keep on false propoganda about christian percecution.

For convinience of conversion tribals are called non hindu annimists by them . But whenver converted tribals attack rival groups even converted tribals are quickly called Hindus.

Note:

IN SRILANKA LITTE is christian and in typically christian style poses as if working for Hindus.


PRABHAKARAN and all his associates are CHRISTIANS.

North east India:

On December 4th, 2000, Christians converts under the direction of Missionaries, desecrated an ashram (Hindu religious retreat) set up by murdered Hindu leader Shanti Kumar Tripura. . They desecrated Hindu idols and destroyed photos of the slain religious leader revered by both Hindu tribals and Bengalis. The Christian converts also raped two female devotees and brutally attacked two men who had come to the ashram for puja (religious rituals).

The next day, Christian converts brutally desecrated another ashram at Jirania Khola and forced the inmates to stop all Hindu rituals and practices at gunpoint. A group of seven armed converted Christian terrorists barged into the ashram and threatened the 150 Hindus with dire consequences if they continued to perform Hindu rites at the ashram. The terrorists fled only after a large group of locals rushed to the ashram.

Due to threats by violent Missionaries and their Christian converts, altogether 11 ashrams, schools and orphanages set up by the murdered Hindu leader in various parts of the state have been forcibly closed down by the Christian fundamentalist terrorist organization known as “National Liberation Front of Tripura” (NLFT).

In early October the same Christian fundamentalists had issued a diktat ordering the indigenous tribal Hindus to stay away from Durga Puja celebrations (Hindu Festival) and warned that any tribal members seen taking part in the festival would be instantly killed. In its official public statement, the NLFT said it wanted all tribals in Tripura to become Christians. They also stated that salvation for Tripura lies only in Christianity and would eliminate anyone who dared to come in the way of their plans to forcibly convert all of Tripura to Christianity.

NFLT is still an active and powerful terrorist organization that operates in Northeast India. They have converted many Hindus and tribals forcibly at gunpoint, and are involved in rapes, and assassinations. They continue to receive arms as well as moral and financial support from Western Christian organizations and Missionaries.

The Persecution of Hindus has existed throughout history. ..in Bangladesh ..from the partition of India in 1947 until today. Hindus who initially ... 30% of the population there have now dwindled to around 10%. Almost all of those driven out are now refugees in the North Eastern states in India. This ethnic cleansing has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.

...report documents the long history of anti-Hindu atrocities in Bangladesh..... including targeted attacks against temples, open theft of Hindu property, and rape of young Hindu women and enticements to convert to Islam, have increased sharply in recent years ...

But that is only the latest chapter ....estimated loss of 20 million Bangladeshi Hindus is because of an ongoing genocide and forced exodus....

Hindus in Pakistan have declined from 23 % of the total population in 1947 to less than 2% today.........state-sponsored religious discrimination against Hindus through bigoted "anti-blasphemy" laws.. millions of Hindus being held as "bonded laborers" ...in rural Pakistan, something repeatedly ignored by the Pakistani government. Pakistan aggressively portrays its struggle against India as a Hindu-Muslim conflict, making it clear that its own Hindu minority is fair game for persecution.

Even within India, the pattern is the same. The combination of Pakistani-sponsored violence and local anti-Hindu sentiment has led to a similar "religious cleansing" of the Kashmir valley, where almost all the Hindus have fled.

Much like the Bangladeshi Hindu refugees in India, the Kashmiri Hindus are an unpalatable subject for many Indians, an ideological embarrassment for some people who feel uneasy about discussing the persecution of Hindus by Muslims. ... ignoring the campaign launched by various Muslim groups to use public threats and violence, including murder, to terrify the local Hindus into leaving.

Some Indians ... do not want to be reminded about the problems of Hindus outside their milieu. And for some in the Indian intelligentsia, it is a badge of honour to distance themselves from these pogroms as a mark of their supposed enlightenment, oddly trashing their own ethos in the process. Many more Indians are reluctant to speak out against atrocities committed against Hindus for fear of being labeled "communal". Merely speaking about human rights for Hindus is for them a form of communalism.

........ Human rights activists in Bangladesh and Pakistan, many of whom are not Hindus, have painstakingly documented the violations of basic human rights of Hindus in their country."

Answer 2

India is not secular at all. The majority of its citizens (800 million or so) are Hindu, and another 200 million are Moslems. Only about 26 million are Christians; that's a very small minority by comparison. There are fundamentalist Hindu movements in India like the ones in Sri Lanka, trying to kick all the non-Hindus out.

Answer 3

India is not a secular nation. The religion of India is Hinduism. Hindus are thier own religion and christians dont have enough sense to respect thier religion and leave them alone.

Answer 4

Persecuted ? Ha Ha ha

Hindus are being terrorised in their own country.

Missionaries are converting poor tribals by bribing, and raping their kids

muslims are killing innocent hindus in Kashmir and other places in the name of Allaha

And our government is seeing all this helplessly

People should know if the Hindu lion wakes up........

Answer 5

India? Secular?!? India is about as secular as South Carolina.

Answer 6

why are christian missionaries killing hindus in india? you can cry persecution all you want but in all reality christians deserve a kick in the head for all the times they have killed in the name of god for the past 2000 years i think its your karma coming back to you all...get a reality check christianity is in deserving love of being attacked and stomped on for all the bigotiry and hate it has spread through out the ages. and for another thing to you christians who say i need to read the bible.. I HAVE READ THE BIBLE AND I STILL DONT BELIEVE IN ITS B.S.

Answer 7

probably for the same reason that Christians there persecute the Hindus

Answer 8

And Muslims are persecuted there and in China.

Answer 9

there will always be religious perscution

Answer 10

Missionaries in India are using their age-old tactic
of posing as victims to camouflage their aggression

Dr. David Frawley

*Background: Christianity and intolerance*
Christianity does not have a notable reputation for tolerance and respect
for other religions. The Christian need to convert the entire world has been
an historical obsession that continues in major Christian groups today, both
Protestant and Catholic. The Christian failure to honor other religions,
particularly non-biblical traditions, is well known, with Christians still
denigrating the sophisticated yogic traditions of Asia as mere superstition,
idolatry and polytheism. Christian missionaries have had a reputation for
using methods to promote conversion that are not always honest, including
employing military and political force during the colonial era. Their
targeting of the poor and illiterate for conversion, shows that they don't
like open debates in the light of day. Yet Christians like to ignore such
inconvenient facts while posing as peaceful people concerned with human
welfare, not with conversion. They are surprised if members of other
religions are suspicious of them, even if they look at these religions and
condemn them as works of the Devil. They feel easily hurt and insulted
should anyone question their motives or their actions that they would
certainly not allow other religious groups to practice in their own
Christian communities.


In the modern secular world Christians now demand conversion as a democratic
right, even though their religion is authoritarian, not democratic,
accepting only one way, and not honoring pluralism in approaching the
Divine. Christianity and its Churches have always been despotic
institutions. They offer no freedom of choice about the savior, the book or
the creed that can bring salvation and there is little tolerance for those
who chose another way outside their faith. Europe had to reject the church
and Christian dogma in order to become democratic over the past several
centuries. So Christian churches are the last people on earth who should be
talking about 'democratic rights'. It is merely a smokescreen for promoting
their own agendas, spreading their authoritarian and exclusivist beliefs,
recklessly eliminating other cultures and religions along the way.


*Posing as 'victims'
* The Christians of India continue to harbor attitudes hostile to the other
religions of their country. They want a freedom to convert others but they
are not willing to accept the other religions of the land as valid. They
have abused Hindu tolerance and respect.


for all religions, which allows Hindus to honor Christ and Christian
mystics, and used it as a pretext to promote Christian superiority, not to
reciprocate with honoring Hinduism and its great sages and yogis. They say
Christ must be great because Hindus honor him. They don't honor Hindu
teachers in return.


Today Christians in India are highlighting minor attacks on Christians done
by unidentified groups as a concerted Hindu campaign against them, while
they themselves are actively working to change Hindu India into a Christian
nation by all available means. While Christians have a long history of
aggression against other faiths that certainly has not come to an end, they
are quite offended if their religion faces minor obstructions or even
criticism from the groups they have long maligned and, not long ago,
actively oppressed. In all this they assume an aggrieved posture and claim
to be victims of the very type of persecution that they themselves have
historically practiced.


This came to the fore soon after the arrest of the members of a Muslim
organization showing it to be responsible for serial church bombings in
South India. It proved that the charges made by Christian leaders against
Hindu organizations for the bombings were unfounded, if not malicious.
However, instead of admitting their mistake Christian leaders and
organizations started a propaganda campaign, again blaming the Hindu
organizations for 'creating an atmosphere' that led to these crimes!


Recent arrests in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have shown that, Deendal
Anjuman, a Muslim organization led by a Pakistani national was behind most
of the bomb blasts and attacks on Christian groups in South India. The
Christian response has been to ignore or deny the report, though it is quite
well documented and occurred in states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, not
ruled by the so-called Hindu BJP party. (See 'Church Blasts: Truth and
Propaganda' by S.Y. Seshagiri Rao, in this volume.) In fact many Christians
in India - especially its so-called 'leaders' - are defending the ISI, the
Pakistani intelligence agency that has long tried to destabilize India, by
absolving it of responsibility in the affair even without any investigation.
This would be like an American religious minority defending the KGB during
the Cold War. Whether the ISI is directly involved in such efforts to cause
communal conflicts in India, we must recognize that it is a project it would
certainly support and would be likely to promote. To dismiss their
involvement out of hand, as Christian leaders in India are doing, is highly
suspicious. Christians are publicly blaming Hindu organizations for attacks
for which they have no evidence, let alone proof, and which no court has
found them guilty of. (The latest evidence does suggest official Pakistani
involvement, possibly of the ISI.)


Christians in India exaggerate such minor incidents into a national and even
an international anti-Hindu propaganda campaign. More churches have been
burnt in America in recent years than in India. Several dozen black American
churches were burnt to the ground, not merely slightly damaged like the few
Indian churches that have been attacked. Christian priests and ministers are
also robbed, assaulted and sometimes killed in all Western countries in
numbers not unlike what occurs in India. We should also note that many more
priests in America have been arrested for sexual molestation of children
than have priests been assaulted in India. Should we use that to make
conclusions about the nature of Christianity?


That a few priests or ministers have been harmed in a country of one billion
over a period of several years is not surprising even if we only consider
ordinary crimes like robbery. Such things are law and order problems not an
attack on one religion in particular. Many more Hindu religious workers are
killed in India each year than Christians are in many years. That Christian
missionaries have run into difficulties in sensitive tribal areas where
there is not much government or police control is also not surprising,
particularly given their hostility to tribal culture and tribal religions.
The main purpose in all this drama is to whip up a propaganda campaign in
order to bring international pressure on India to give Christians more
freedom in their conversion efforts. Many Christians seem to prefer this to
dealing with the Hindus in a spirit of give and take.


What makes this affair is especially distasteful is that even when there is
a systematic cleansing of Christians in Pakistan, Indian Christian leaders
are prepared to ignore their plight for their propaganda purposes against
the Hindus. Even the Pope, while condemning Indonesia and India, refused to
mention the atrocities against Christians in Pakistan. His equating of
Indonesia where hundreds of Christians have been killed in recent months to
India, where only a few have died over several years, also highlights the
propaganda urge behind his statements. It was as though Christians wanted
the situation in India to be worse and are trying to promote communal
disharmony to highlight their presence in the country. Christians almost
seem desperate to make a scene in India to highlight to the world media.


All this is enough to make one wonder if Christians are staging some of
these attacks to pose as victims of persecution. Whether or not this proves
to be the case, certainly they are exaggerating such incidents out of all
proportion. Christianity has had a long history of using victimization in
order to promote conversion. We know of the stories of Christians being fed
to the lions in Rome. We are not told that many more pagans were killed by
Christians, and thousands of pagan temples were destroyed throughout Europe.
The great Greek (Neo-Platonic) Academy in Alexandria was destroyed and its
scholars like Hypatia killed by 'Saint' Cyril and his followers. The number
of native Americans killed or forcibly converted by Catholics was also in
the many millions, and yet the Catholics emphasize a few priests martyred by
the native Americans as being the real victims.


Such stories of Christian oppression are good ploys to gain donations in
Western countries. India as a pagan country, where image worship is common,
is an easy target for such conversion sentiments.


*The Indian scene
*Mother Teresa's successor, Sister Nirmala, claims that Hindu fears that
conversion is being done by force, deception or propaganda are not true and
are ridiculous. But she should well know that 'such devices have long been
used in Christianity' We can find native peoples all over the world whose
cultures have been destroyed and even whose populations have been decimated
by the missionaries and by the colonial armies that they supported. The
Indian public is by and large unaware of the magnitude of destruction caused
by Christianity, which may. exceed the destruction due to Islam and its
Jihads. Until recently, any discussion of even the Goa Inquisition was
taboo, and it is still barely mentioned in Indian history books. This is due
to the fact that Christian (colonial) institutions practically control the
education agenda in India, especially in history and other humanities. In
fact Christianity in India is much more conservative than that in the West
where most Catholics violate the main tenets of the church about
contraception and divorce and fail to attend church and take its rituals in
any regular way. Christianity in India is still projecting a medieval view
of the church triumphant that has long been discarded in the West.


Even if the Hindu fear of missionary mischief is exaggerated, it is entirely
understandable. We should remember that the Pope in his recent visit to
India himself threw down the gauntlet, stating a renewed church policy to
convert Asia to Christianity in the coming years. To dismiss the Hindu fear
as baseless only shows that it is not. If Christians were really sincere
they would acknowledge that missionary activity has used such questionable
methods in the past and work to insure that it does not do so in the future,
and not simply ignore the issue. In the circumstances, it is prudent and
proper for Hindus to view Christian. activities and statements with
suspicion.


The missionaries have altered their tactics to what is possible in the
post-colonial era, but that is not a change of heart. They have not opened
to Hindus, dialogued with them sincerely, or sought a common ground with
them for social harmony or for seeking true knowledge of God. They have
aimed at the poor and displaced of Hindu society to promote a conversion
effort that has failed with the educated and affluent of the country. They
are striking below the belt and then complain of unfairness if their efforts
are exposed.


*Politics, not spirituality
*What is most surprising is that Christian missionaries have more freedom of
operation in India than in the rest of Asia. They are banned in Islamic
countries, including Pakistan, and strictly monitored in China, which has
its own nationalist Catholic Church apart from Rome. Even Russia under Putin
has recently come out against Christian missionaries as causing mischief in
the country and often being agents of the American government. Christians
are under direct attack in Indonesia where thousands of Christians have been
killed in recent years. Neighboring Pakistan does not allow the missionaries
the freedom they have in India and routinely oppresses its Christians. A few
years ago a Catholic Bishop committed suicide in a Pakistan court to protest
the issue. But it is India that being called to task in the world forum for
its oppression of Christians!


Mexico, which used to be part of the 'Catholic Empire of Spain', does not
allow missionaries the kind of freedom they enjoy in India. Only in some
so-called 'Banana Republics' of Latin America do we find missionaries being
so powerful. Even this, as has been revealed by recent hearings in the US
Congress, was often financed by the CIA, with priests serving as CIA agents.


Such information suggests that Christian leaders have given up most
countries of the world as beyond their reach but concentrated on India as
the US did on the Banana Republics.


. Missionaries and Christian organizations are very much on the defensive in
most of the world today, where they are simply trying to hold their ground.
The West continues to discard Christianity. The Islamic world will not let
it in and China is keeping it at a safe distance. In America such missionary
groups, which would still like to ban the teaching of evolution in the
schools, complain how the country has all but abandoned real Christianity.
But in India the missionaries remain aggressive. The reason is simple. India
allows missionary activity and so is a soft target. Islamic countries and
China are hard targets. The missionaries are targeting India because they
feel they can make headway in India, not because India is a place where they
are particularly under siege!


The hypocrisy of the whole thing is easy to see. It shows the condescending
attitude that missionaries have towards Hindus, thinking that they can bully
them or appeal to their tolerance by a feigned persecution. It ollly proves
that Christians are still promoting a medieval religion that will not honor
other religions and is still seeking world domination by any means, fair or
foul. If we count the victims of Christian aggression on one side and the
Christians themselves who have been victimized we will find that the victims
of Christianity are overwhelmingly in the majority. While some Christians
have apologized to African and Native American groups for such missionary
misdeeds, the Hindus have so far not received any such apology, though they
have suffered from the same methods. The reason is that the missionaries
have not yet triumphed in India. The apology, like crocodile tears, comes
only after the victim is dead.


In the nineteenth and the early twentieth century, Christian colonial
governments used their influence to promote conversion in the countries they
ruled. Now Christians want to use freedom and democracy, which they didn't
allow under their rulership, to continue the conversion process. And all
without an apology or explanation for this about face! If Christians want to
be honored and respected let them first proclaim that Christianity is not
the only true religion and Jesus is not the Only Son of God. Let them say
that Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, J ainism, Zoroastrianism and other Indian
religions are as good as Christianity. Let Christians say clearly that
members of other religions will not go to hell but will gain immortality in
the presence of God by following what is good in their own teachings.


Major Christian groups, however, will certainly not make such statements,
though they may cover over their exclusivism with platitudes about human
peace, brotherhood and Divine love. Their,failure to honor other religions
shows an intolerance that naturally breeds conflict and inevitably leads to
communal tension. Christians wouldn't even accept a Mahatma Gandhi and
worked to convert him, while the Mahatma described missionary activity as a
great danger and as spiritually and ethically flawed.


As a former Catholic I know in what little esteem the Church holds Hinduism
and Buddhism with all their great sages and yogis. Christianity, like Islam,
sees tolerance not as a virtue to be emulated but as a weakness to be
exploited. Were Christians to really honor Hinduism as a valid religion all
Hindu-Christian hostility could easily come to an end. As long as Christians
hold that theirs alone is the True Faith and are working to convert the
members of other religions in one way or another, they should not be
surprised if members of other religions do not welcome their presence.


It is only a matter of time before missionary Christianity is seen for what
it is-imperialism in the name of God and Christ, the proverbial wolf in
sheep's clothing. It is a political, worldly movement with little
spirituality in it. Unfortunately such Christians confuse the real Divine
work, which is improving ourselves through introspection, with the
institutional work of imposing a single belief upon all humanity. This
political view of religion has no place in the global age of consciousness
that is dawning in enlightened minds all over the world today. The quicker
it comes to an end, the better it will be for all humanity.