Missionaries on Our Watchlist

India on US religion watch list
CITHARA PAUL

New Delhi, Aug. 13: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has placed India on its watch list for the first time, specifically mentioning the attacks on Christians in Orissa last year and the Gujarat riots of 2002.

The commission, while mentioning the two specific instances of serial violence against religious minorities, also cited the Indian government’s inadequate efforts to protect their rights.

“It is extremely disappointing that India, which has a multitude of religious communities, has done so little to protect and bring justice to its religious minorities under siege,” said the annual report of the panel, a US government arm.

Any country named on the watch list is closely monitored by the US “because of the nature and extent of violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by the government” of that country.

Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Laos, Russia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Turkey and Venezuela are the other countries on the list.

“India’s democratic institutions charged with upholding the rule of law, most notably state and central judiciaries and police, have emerged as unwilling or unable to seek redress for victims of the violence. More must be done to ensure future violence does not occur and that perpetrators are held accountable,” the US panel said.

The Indian government and the US panel had been on a collision course earlier this year when Delhi denied visas to a commission team that wanted to visit the country before finalising the report.

The commission had earlier written to then President George W. Bush on the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2008 US visit asking him to “raise pressing concerns about religious freedom in India”.

The report has asked the Obama government to urge India to take measures to promote communal harmony, protect religious minorities and prevent communal violence.

Just as the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has placed India on their watch list, the people of India have place the foreign missionaries on their watch list so that they do not convert poor and illiterate Hindus, Buddhist and people of other religions to see that they do not use either threat or enticements to convert people.
Why can't the Christians keep their religions to themselves instead of converting the world and creating these tensions.
It would be much better if US Commission on International Religious Freedom put these missionaries on their watch list to see that they do not convert these poor people.
Let their be status quo.
This is a type of expansionist policy adopted by the missionaries.
Just as nobody would tolerate political expansionism, we do not tolerate religious expansionism which will change the way our civilization has been thinking for thousands of years.
Christianity is just 2000 years old.
Hinduism is more than 5000 years old.
It is Sanatan, meaning it is their since mankind has been there.
The West has destroyed The Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Chinese Civilisations.
They have destroyed the culture of the Americas.
They have destroyed the culture of the Australians.
We will not allow them to destroy the Hindu Civilization no matter what the US Commission on International Religious Freedom says.
Like the Chinese, we should tell them to mind their own business.