RSS urges Christian leaders to desist from false and malicious propaganda

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>Tue, 16 May 2000 14:17:07 -0400 (EDT)

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>Title: RSS urges Christian leaders to desist from false and malicious

>propaganda

>Publication: The Pioneer News

>May 16, 2000

>

> The Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh on Sunday urged the

> Church leaders and Christian MPs to desist from

> indulging in false and malicious propaganda against

> Parivar outfits and cautioned them to refrain from going

> public with any allegation against the Parivar outfits

> without prior verification of the facts.

>

> Upset by false allegations of involvement of Sangh

> Parivar outfits in the incidents of recent attacks on

> Christian community across the country, `Prajna Pravah',

> the intellectual wing of RSS, has shot off an open

> letter to all members of Parliament exposing the

> "intentions" of the Church and accusing it of "making an

> issue out of non-existing events".

>

> The letter, coming in the wake of the formation of

> Christian MPs Forum, quotes extensively from "Church

> publications" to prove the RSS charge that missionaries

> were engaged in mass-scale conversions.

>

> The Christian MPs Forum had expressed serious concern

> over the recent spate of attacks on minorities and "free

> distribution of hate literature" by Hindu organisations.

> "The Church leaders should realise that this cannot go

> on. They must verify facts before going public, if, of

> course, their intentions are clear. They should also

> look into the Church propaganda and literature, which is

> often derogatory to non-Christians to the point of being

> offensive," says the letter written by Rajendra Chadha,

> joint co-ordinator of the RSS Intellectual wing.

>

> "The Church and its leaders have been using all means,

> fair and foul, to sell their gospel and falsehood about

> India and Hindus.... They are in the habit of making an

> issue out of a non-existent event," the letter says.

>

> To buttress its point, the letter cites the case of two

> nuns, who were hit by a scooter in Rewari district of

> Haryana, but "the United Chirstian Forum for Human

> Rights alleged and raised a hue and cry that militant

> Hindu miscreants attacked the nuns in a planned and

> systematic manner.

> "Later, even the nuns and local Christian leaders too

> were surprised as to how such an incident could be

> converted into an attack on Christians," the letter

> said.

>

> Referring to the recent attack on Christian missionaries

> in Nagala Ajita near Agra, it said, "the fact is that

> the local population mainly consisting of scheduled

> caste `Kanjar community' opposed the move of some

> Christians who landed in that village that morning and

> entered their temple with their shoes. However, the

> event was portrayed as an attack on Christianity."

>

> "Even a small theft in a Christian house these days is

> being claimed to be part of the anti-Christian drive,"

> it said, adding "why they (Christians) are not raising

> their voice against rape and attack on religious

> institutions of other communities. Why do not they cry

> on religious atrocities in Kashmir Valley".

>

> The RSS letter refers to several "Church publications"

> and the report of the Justice Wadhwa Commission, which

> probed the killing of Australian missionary Graham

> Staines, to substantiate its charge of "mass

> conversions" being carried out by Christian

> missionaries.

>

> The publications include Delhi Catholic Directory and

> World Christian Encyclopaedia published by Oxford

> University Press.

>

>

>

 

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