Posted on 12/30/2001 6:14:13 PM PST by Justin Raimondo
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The mob arrived armed with knives and clubs while Rev. Joy Punnose addressed the 120 missionaries gathered in the small town of Dohad in northern Gujarat, an Indian state where Christians have become almost daily targets for Hindu mobs.
The kicks, punches and slaps that followed were not unusual in the northern part of this country, the so-called Hindu belt, where dozens of Christian churches went up in smoke this year, an Australian missionary and his two sons were burned alive, another priest was beaten to death, nuns have been gang-raped, congregations terrorized and priests made to walk naked through village streets.
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Ok. Attacks on Christians.. By whom?!?! Maybe its the muslims doing the attacking? This doesn't say.
What's even more interesting is that these statistics are counter productive to your point. Let's break it down:
216 attacks in a nation with a population of over 1 billion, out of whom there are over 30 million christians. Not a day. That's in a year! Let's put these numbers in perspective. Accord to FBI's report on Hate crimes in USA in the year of 1997 there were 1,586 victims of anti-Jewish crimes - IN THAT YEAR ALONE. Let's do the math.
1,586 victims in USA is roughly 7 times more then 216 attacks on Christians in India. There are over 30 million christians in India and about 6 million Jews In USA. That's 5 times more christians in India then Jews in USA. What does that mean? 5 * 7 = 35. Ok, now lets put the 216 Christian attacks in perspective. If Christians were as persecuted in India as Jews are in USA, then instead of 216 attacks, it should have been 216 * 35 = 7,560... Things look quite interesting when you put them in perspective.
Justin, you Jihad lover, while there were 1,586 Jewish victims of hate crimes in 1997, there were only _32_ victims of hate crimes who were Muslims.
Yea. Muslims got their own Islamic state in Pakistan, while Indians got screwed. They got a secular state of Indian as to not to offend muslims who live in India.
Our Correspondent in Hyderabad
The All-India Christian Council holds the Sangh Parivar and the Indian government directly responsible for the attacks on churches and Christians. It has rejected claims by Bharatiya Janata Party and Sangh Parivar leaders that external agencies were responsible for these incidents.
In a strongly worded statement, the Council said, "Christian leaders do not accept the theory of external agencies being involved in the attacks on churches and Christians in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa in the last two months.
"The same theory was put forward by a Union minister after the murder of Graham Staines and his two sons. The Indian Christian community is sick of such statements and is not fooled by them. The Sangh Parivar and the central government are directly responsible for the attacks," the statement said.
The council said the five bomb explosions at four churches in three states -- Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa -- on June 8 had vindicated the community's apprehensions.
The statement comes in the wake of those by BJP politicians and Vishwa Hindu Parishad officials, including BJP vice-president Jagdish Prasad Mathur, general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Ministers of State Ch Vidyasagar Rao and Bandaru Dattatreya and the VHP's Giriraj Kishore, blaming Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence for the blasts.
"It is the silence of the central leaders and their prolonged fudging of the issue of identifying and dealing with the culprits behind communal violence that has made the country unsafe for one of the most peaceful communities in the nation," the council said.
"It is extremely sad that in an era of globalisation, sections of the Indian community are bent upon taking the nation into the dark ages," it said.
It added, "The time has come for AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and other National Democratic Alliance partners to keep their promise of protecting the minorities in the country."
The council has convened an emergency meeting of its leaders from across the country on June 15 and 16 at Madras to discuss the issue.
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The group discussed above is a bunch of stormtroopres who delight in their "Aryan" heritage and have vowed to ethnically cleanse all minorities from Indian soil, including such "subversives" as Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, and others. They rampage across India, with the complicity of the police and the government, which look the other way when Christian, Muslim and Sikh homes are burned, women are raped, and people are killed. Now I know that a nice boy like, living in safety and comfort in Brooklyn, you wouldn't want to endorse any of this if he knew about it.
The Christian Council is not complaining for nothing. If the Jewish Council were doing the complaining, I'll bet your little ears would prick up. So now you know how and why Christians are being persecuted in India. Now shut up about how wonderful they are, and remember that the ends do not justify the means.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/jun/10chris.htm
Sure, I know. Your friend tex-amo provided us with concrete numbers, and they speak strongly against the "ethnical cleansing" case that you are trying to build. Read my above post where I break down the statistics there and in US.
What are you talking about? You have problems reading and comprehending. 1997 is the year I used for USA statistics. I used the year 2000 for the number of attacks on christians in India (216).
I'm suuuuuure that you wouldn't want to see Christians persecuted anywhere, for any reason -- right? -- so I just know you'll join me in condemning it.
That's right. I condemn persecution of Christians anywhere and everywhere. I also condemn you singling out India when its not even on the top of the list of countries which persecute Christians. In a country of over 1 billion you will find that there are a number of attacks against everyone. Christians, Muslms and even Hindus. I put the things into perspective for you. If Hindus persecuted Christians as bad as Jews are being persecuted in US then there would be 7,560 attacks on Christians in India per year instead of 216. As you see, the difference is great. yet I don't see you beating the drum that US is a fascist state, etc. If you were genuinely concerned with persecution of Christians you would want to talk about pakistan, bangladesh, syria, and the rest of your jihad states. But you don't. So there's your anti Indian agenda.
Where? You are short on evidence and facts. You dont' address any of the facts that are pointed out to you, and what's more you can't even read right. You must be a liberal.
Regime? You must be talking about Pakistan.
Sure I did. I pointed out the numbers and put them in perspective as compared to the amount of hate crimes in US.
Are you an American or an Indian or WHAT? Jeez, you people are CRAZY! You read that article I linked like it you WANTED to minimize the atrocities these people are committing! What kind of person would do such a thing?
What kind of a person would want to MINIMIZE the atrocities? You are right, my kind.
Especially when they've painted a big nuclear bullseye on the Americans in Pakistan!
Oh? You have evidence that they targeting americans in pakistan? They painted a bulls eye on the americans? Not hte pakis? You are beginning to sound more and more like your friend - the drama queen Justin.
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