hinduwoman

Recently, some protestant missionaries were beaten up in South India. Turned out some of them had case registered against them for abducting and abusing a young girl, and offering her to foerign missionaries who came there. they had been hiding, but when they came out the locals attacked them.

Priests sure get around, don't they?

Do any of Western newsmedia carry this item , or is it all about hindu zealots beating up innocent missionaries?

Boro Nut

I haven't seen anything published personally, but if you're ever unsure in cases like this I find you wont go far wrong sticking to the missionary positon.

Boro Nut

Toto

Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00/20000515c.htm

Are you sure that the sex charges were not invented by the Hindu extremist groups?

Sabine Grant

Thanks for the link Toto. I mostly noticed that the article mentions various acts of violence against the Christian community in the last two years which indicate to me that it may not have been an isolated event as part of retaliation for the so called charges against those missionaries.

Hinduwoman : can you provide a link which supports those allegations?

wade-w

I notice that the source you linked to, Toto, is a christian journal. I have to wonder how biased their reporting is.

beyelzu

wade-w

why would a christian journal be biased?

hinduwoman

sorry I should have been clearer. I am referring to the attack on Joseph Cooper, an American Missionary.

Here is an extract:


Author: Arun Lakshman/ Thiruvananthapuram
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: January 21, 2003

The real story behind the attack on US Missionary Joseph Cooper, who was injured and operated upon, is somewhat different from what was reported.

The attack was made by the relatives of a Dalit woman Sali who was raped by one Benson Sam and his close relatives some months back at a Bible college at Sreekaryam, some 10 km from here.

Unable to bear the pressure at Sreekaryam, Benson Sam has come here at Kilimanoor and the attack was actually meant on him. The Missionary however bore the brunt of the attack. The areas in and around south Kerala are a hub of missionary activities and some eight months ago another foreign missionary was attacked by the locals for allegedly passing derogatory remarks about Lord Ayyappa.

As for Joseph Cooper, according to the local people who inhabit areas in and around this dalit hamlet at Kilimanoor, he was reported to have talked of Lord Krishna as the one who had spread AIDS. This may have provoked the locals against Cooper.

This dalit colony is highly religious. Just after their Bhajans and other religious ceremonies, the Missionaries had allegedly made derogatory remarks against the Gods that the locals worship, which might be another reason for the attack on the missionary.
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Attacks on missionaries have increased of late; some might be political, but a number of times they bring it on themselves. In two instances they encouraged the local Christians to urinate on the local idol --- serves them right for being beaten up and I am not impressed by the whining that they were only carrying out Lord's work.
Other times, ordinary attacks from robberies, personal feuds, or even being harrassed for sexual abuse of local boys and girls, get labeled as attacks on missionaries.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2...s/0410211z.htm

The National Minority Commission member, Mr. John Joseph, has alleged that certain quarters in the Christian community itself are torpedoing the Commission's efforts to end the attacks on the Christians in various parts of the country.

Talking to The Hindu here today, Mr. John Joseph said that the NMC had taken the reported attacks on the Christians in all its seriousness and had been trying to initiate a dialogue between the leaders of the Christian community and the Hindu community to resolve the issue.

Besides some political motives, certain Christian quarters in the country wanted to keep the pot boiling, the NMC member alleged. He alleged that these quarters wanted flow of foreign funds by keeping alive the tension between the Christians and the Hindus in different parts of the country.



http://www.freeindiamedia.com/curren...nt_affairs.htm

The Americans are playing a leading role in building a world coalition against terrorism. This is the best time to remind the Americans that Baptist Christian terrorists are active in India's North-East and they derive their financial support from the southern parts of the USA where the Baptist Church has a strong following. Funds are collected in the form of donations in various church establishments in the name of evangelical work.
The most prominent among the terrorist outfits of Tripura is the NLFT (National Liberation Front of Tripura). It employs terror tactics to effect mass conversion to Christianity (The Statesman 1999, 2000; Ghosh 1999) and is a predominantly Baptist (Protestant) organisation. Whatever token non-Christian representation it had, it has lost recently. Nayanbashi Jamatiya, a Hindu leader, led a revolt against the policy of forcible conversion of the NLFT and left a rebel camp in neighbouring Bangladesh with his followers. On April 8, 2001, while his party was moving towards the Indian border, it was attacked by the main group; seven activists were killed and he himself was seriously injured and taken to a government hospital in Bangladesh. (The Statesman 2001a, 2001b).
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The sectarian nature of the Baptist terrorists has come to the fore. They killed a Catholic priest called Father Victor Crasta on July 25, 2000. In protest the Catholic Church of Tripura called a bandh (closure) in all Catholic run institutions on August 10, 2000. (The Telegraph 2000)

On August 6, 1999, four RSS (Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh) workers of Tripura, named Shyamal Kanti Sen Gupta, Sudhamoy Dutta, Dinendranath Dey, Shubhankar Chakraborti, were kidnapped by the NLFT, taken to a camp in the jungles of Bangladesh and a ransom of Rs 2 crores was demanded from their parent organisation. The RSS refused to pay and they were done to death sometime in the month of December 2000 or January 2001. The news of their killing was confirmed by the Central Government in July 2001 and carried by all prominent national dailies. Their "guilt" was that they were preaching among the tribals to preserve Hinduism. Our Consti-tution permits propagation of a faith by legitimate means. If that is so then work for the preservation of a faith too is surely permissible. However, the kidnap and murder of these Hindu pracharaks of the RSS by Christian terrorists did not create a media sensation.
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In North East several tribals have complained of such things including Hindus being killed for failing to convert. Unfortunately, these affairs are never given as much space in Western media as beating up of white men/Christians do.
The reaction of Christians in USA is usually no, missionaries are good loving people, they do not do things like that. Point out the history of Christianity and anti-abortionist bombers, they go in denial.
I wrote whole page on that
here