hinduwoman

The following demonstrates why religious leaders shouldnot be allowed to get their hands on any official power and that christian fundamentalist leaders have not changed over the generations:

From The Telegraph
TRIPURA REBELS BAN KIRTAN INSTRUMENTS
Agartala, April 1: After lying low for sometime, NLFT militants have started interfering in the traditional religious rites of The Church-backed militants have banned the use of traditional musical instruments for performing kirtans (devotional songs) by Hindu tribals. In pamphlets distributed among the Hindu tribals, NLFT marauders warned against the use of traditional musical instruments.

The fiat has triggered panic among the Hindu tribals living in the interior areas like Borakha, Patni, Barkathal and Snai in Sadar subdivision. Sources in the Sanatan Dharma Parishad said there are seven Hindu tribal groups, which perform kirtans with traditional musical instruments.
Over the past five years, the NLFT has been consistently attacking and killing Hindu tribals and forcing them to convert to Christianity at
gunpoint. During this period, altogether 35 Hindu tribals, including leading Hindu tribal saint Shanti Kali Maharaj or Shanti Kumar Tripura and two leading Vaishnavaite leaders Tachhidas Reang and Sanjit Reang have been killed by the NLFT.

Besides, many Hindu ashrams and religious centres run by the tribals have been destroyed by the militants. Sources said even on March 26, a group of NLFT rebels raided the Hindu Jamatya tribal-dominated Bandarghat village in Amarpur ubdivision and beat up six tribals for practising their traditional faith in violation of the groups diktat.

They also abducted the subdivisional secretary of the Jamatya Hoda (community council) in Amarpur, Nilmoni Jamatya. However, they were forced to release him under public pressure. Sources said the relentless campaign by the Jamatya Hoda Okra (head priest and community leader) Bikram Bahadur and the resistance programme organised by his followers forced the militants to lie low for sometime. But they have stepped up their activities once again. Secretary of the Jamatya Hoda Ramapda Jamatya, however, said they intensify their resistance against militancy.


Agartala, April 10: A Buddhist temple and several huts of the Chakma community were ransacked and torched by all Tripura Tiger Force insurgents in Dhalai district of Tripura, police said on Tuesday.
A group of ATTF insurgents raided Taichakma village on Sunday night and ransacked and set ablaze a thatched Buddhist temple, police said quoting delayed reports. Villagers who tried to extinguish the flames were severely beaten up by the ultras who then set ablaze 13 huts belonging to five chakma families, police said. Earlier, insurgents of National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), which had served a notice in the hill areas last year warning of stern action against villagers who practise any other religion except Christianity, had on December five ransacked a Buddhist temple and took away scriptures and the idol in Almara village of south Tripura district. (PTI)

In Nagaland, there is a terrorist outfit, which declares they want an independent state, Nagaland for Christ.

So be very vigilant. Let a Christian church gain foothold in administration, then the next thing you know, they will pass a law making atheism illegal.

Toto

The first part of the article seems to be from <a href="http://www.hvk.org/articles/0401/21.html" target="_blank">here</a>, with a date of April 1, 2001. I don't see a copyright notice. You left out the word "people" after "traditional religious rites of", so the first sentence didn't make sense.

Could you help those of us on the other side of the globe? I gather this is happening in India, and that there are some religious insurgents terrorizing Hindu "tribals"? Can you give us some background on what the basis of this insurgency is, and what the Indian government has been doing about it?

hinduwoman

Well, I did mention the newspapers. I guess a more detailed link is needed?

Tripura was more or less peaceful. in recent years however there had been clashes between ethnic Tripura people and Indians from other provinces who had settled down there. But that was political and economic which could be settled. but in the last five years, the christian baptist missionaries have got into the act. Of course this had one good effect of unifying the hindus and the buddhist tribes! What I cannot understand is how can change of relgion turn people against their culture and in many cases against their own relatives?

similary the missionaries are funding militant activites in Northeastern states of Mizoram and Nagaland. There always had been militant actitives there, because both the central and regional govt. was too busy looting the people to do any good governing. Now the missionaries have added a whole new dimension.

The government, I regret to say seems unable to do anything except to periodically attack the militants and then hold peacetalks. On the other hand, active social reform and charity are being distributed by Hindu fundamentalists, which in my view is nearly as bad, because they too are playing politics.

Toto

Who is funding these missionaries? Baptists in the US? This sounds like a major scandal.

As for religion turning people against their own culture and relatives - that is what Christianity did from the beginning in Europe.