Posted on 12/29/2005 4:24:45 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The campaign against the alleged harassment of Hindus in Russia by the Orthodox Church and the Mayor of Moscow is getting more intense in Britain.
Ashok Kumar, MP is launching the "Defend Russian Hindus Campaign" at the House of Commons in January.
There was umbrage here when it was learnt that Archbishop Nikon wrote a letter to the Mayor of Moscow urging him not to allow the construction of a Hindu temple in Moscow because according to him, Lord Krishna who is worshipped by the Hindu community was an "evil demon".
"Such untenable words in an age where interfaith harmony is the need of the day are nothing but an attempt to malign and persecute a faith community that teaches respect and freedom for every other faith community, " commented Ramesh Kallidai, Secretary General Hindu Forum of Britain, an umbrella organisation of most community groups in Britain.
The Defend Russian Hindus Campaign, launched by the Hindu Forum of Britain, Hindu Council UK, National Council of Hindu Temples UK, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Vishwa Hindu Parishad UK, Hindu Council of Australia, Hindu American Foundation and many other worldwide Hindu organisations, aims to build awareness about the alleged persecution and discrimination against Russian Hindus by a corpus of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Mayor of Moscow, despite support from the Central Government.
There are over 100,000 Hindus in Russia. In Moscow alone, there are 5,000 Hindus of Indian origin and over 10,000 Hindus of Russian origin.
Two years ago the Mayor of Russia asked Hindus to vacate their temple in exchange for a piece of land on which they could build a bigger temple. After land was allocated to the Hindu temple, the original temple was demolished. The Russian Orthodox Church orchestrated mass protests against the allocation of land and started a misinformation campaign against Hindus in the media.
On October 30, 2005, after bowing down to pressure from the Orthodox Church, the Mayor of Moscow cancelled the land order and took away the piece of land given for the construction of the Hindu temple. Now, the 15,000 Hindus in Moscow have no place to worship. The consecrated Deities of Radha and Krishna will have no home, say the Hindu leaders.
Kallidai said around the time of India Prime Minister's state visit to Moscow to meet Russian President Putin, Archbishop Nikon, a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, called the Hindu God, Lord Krishna an "evil demon, the personified power of hell opposing God", and "a livid lascivious youth".
Any person that believes your "reasons" needs to study up on their Chruch History....The Council of Chalcedon would be a good place to start.
That is a ridiculous statement. The truth is the truth.
He believes it.
So do I.
If you don't, then that is your sad misfortune.
You don't EVEN want to get me started on Latin Heresy...
Don't even go there......
Brother:
I don't believe Hindus should be persecuted. However this Pagan must be answered....
His moniker: "Ghengis Khan" says it all.....
The Mongols were ancient enemies of Holy Mother Russia.
Seems they still are :)
How do you figure? Saint Thomas, the Apostle, brought Christianity to India, however by that time it was also in Rome and the other centers of the Roman Empire.
His religion does not make him our enemy. While I would like nothing better then to have him convert, the fire and brimestone approach doesn't work for the protestants and sure as hell isn't going to work for us.
The enemy here is a bunch of British socialists and the TGJ crew who want all of us fighting so we don't pay attention to their cheerleading of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
As for the spew here, it is better (for me) to just ignore it. Some people truly don't want to know or understand. They purposefully choose ignorance.
"I don't believe Hindus should be persecuted. However this Pagan must be answered...."
Oh, I agree. I suppose I'd just do it a different way and its important to recognize that what we call "sporoi" in Greek, that is to say, seeds of The Truth, can be found in many beliefs, even those of pagans. I suspect that my overweaning Greek chauvinism is peeking through in my comments on this thread. Unlike the excerable Mohammedans, the Hindus have seldom (if ever) done anything to hurt Orthodoxy and never anything to hurt Greece.
"His moniker: "Ghengis Khan" says it all.....
The Mongols were ancient enemies of Holy Mother Russia.
Seems they still are :)"
Now THAT I did fail to notice...its that Greek chauvinism thing again! :)
Well, I disagree.
If you substituted "Jew" for "Hindu" in your sick and twisted posts, you would be labeled a rabid anti-semite. God have mercy on your hellish soul.
So then why not tell the Jews to go to Israel, you racist bastard?
What a bunch of uneducated pieces of sh*t.
Free Republic sure has changes since I started posting here 7 years ago.
It's good to see you again dennisw from 4 years ago.
Surely they still exist too.
Russia is Jewish. Get over yourself.
But judging from the imbeciles posting here at FR with their vitriolic anti-Indian rhetoric, I really have to wonder what the purpose was.
Thank god none of you anti-Indian venemous haters have any real say or power in the way our government is run.
Finally a voice of reason.
Who made a greater civilization progress since 1683? I dare to say that the Turks. Today they are more democratic that Russia ever was and this is just a beginning. I don’t even mention which above country is more friendly towards us, you know that very well.
Btw Putting the Turks in the same line as the Saudis is just stupid.
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