But if a group of people have been practicing a particular belief system for millenia, its natural for some of them to resent a new belief system appearing in their midst.
This would not be an issue in most Islamic Nations as they simply do not allow religions other than Islam to be practiced there or the missionaries are simply killed or deported.
This situation has to be viewed in historical context.
If you want to get angry at something, get angry at the fact that our government has expended lives and money to install a regime in Baghdad which is far less tolerant of Christians than the military dictatorship we removed. Be angry at the fact that our government, regardless of which party is in office, panders to a lunatic state which allows NO other religion but Islam to be practiced there, and then only the most virulent form of that religion - Wahhabism (Saudi Arabia). Be angry at the fact that when people were being massacred in the Sudan on the basis of the fact they were Christians, it was not an issue, but when it became a matter of religion, it was considered a world tragedy.
ISLAM is the enemy threatening Christianity, NOT Hinduism. Hinduism never was and Islam has been since the moment of its conception.
What I am trying to emphasize is that Christianity is anything but a new belief system in their midst, and does not account for the current persecution there, which has come up only within the last 30 years or so. Christianity has been there since the first century persecution of Rome, and has grown organically from within. I’m not mad at anyone but I often find that peoples perception of Christianity in India is inaccurate, to say the least.
I certainly have no quibble with you about Islam, or our governments wrong headed accomodations to them. They’re dangerous to anyone who is not Islam.
According to Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana,Papal Nuncio to India,Christians in the eastern India state of Orissa were terrorized by Hindu radicals in a violent attempt to eliminate the Christian presence there. 60,000 Christians fled to the forests,hiding in fear. Priests were assaulted,nuns raped. Some Christians had their throats cut or were buried alive. 4,000 homes,300 villages and 400 churches have been torched or destroyed,orphanages,schools and other church-run institutions attacked.
He went on to say that Hindu radicals are "trying to impose a Hindu state on the entire population using and ideology with a Nazi totalitarian foundation".
I had attended a party Saturday after the Mumbai terrorism and spent some time with a physician who was born in India. He spent time in Mumbai every two years on his way to visit his mother,stayed at both the Taj and the other place. He said,at that point it was far too early to claim with any degree of certainty that any one group was responsible for the event. I think there is much more intrigue in India than we can imagine,ranging from rivalry between groups that predated Christianity through current power struggles between Indians to organized crime imported from outside. And all that before we even introduce religion into the equation.