Ref.#VHP/331/2007 Date: May 28Mon, 2007
HIS EXCELLENCY
PRESIDENT OF BHARAT
RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN
NEW DELHI.
Subject: Ground Reality about allegations of
so-called assaults on Christian Missionaries.
MAHAMAHIM RASHTRAPATIJI,
With humble respects and compliments, we wish
to approach your highest offices with the following
submission.
(2) For some days now a misinformation campaign
is on the go about alleged attacks on Christian
missionaries. Unfortunately, some vested interests
have been conspiring to haul the names of Hindu
organizations into these episodes. Whenever
any such incident comes to notice, even earlier
than the actuality verified by the process of
law comes to the fore, the Christian clergy,
clerics, bishops and nuns hit the streets along
with hundreds of students studying in missionary
schools and make postures calling Hindu organizations
names. A section of the media, with an eye on
escalating their TRP and enhancing their 'secular
image', acts hawk in putting these incidents
under the nose of the world. In the process,
they not only bring disrepute to the Hindu society
that has a glorious tradition of tolerance and
respect for all schools of religion, but also
immensely damage the image of their own great
country in the eyes of the world, and unwittingly
allow themselves to be taken for a ride by the
anti-India forces. In great anguish, we have
to draw Your Excellency's kind attention to
the ground realities and relevant facts &
figures in this matter, so that the atmosphere
and the celebrated tradition of religious tolerance
in Bharat is not unsettled and communal rancour
is not aggravated due to these elements that
carry in their bosom an attitude of intolerance
and prejudice in the context of other religions.
(3) Your Excellency, it is a universally acknowledged
fact that the Christian Missionaries do function
under the garb of innocuous looking fronts but
with the offensive, aggressive and imperialist
design and agenda to Christianize the whole
of humanity. The denigration, dishonoring and
undermining of other religions is the fundamental
premise that only can ensure 'conversion'. This
crazy approach results in the proliferation
of unrest and hostility in the whole world and
even has caused skirmishes and turbulence many
a time. Their strategic approach of character
assassination of followers of other religions
has always been considered a masterstroke in
their plan of action. When, due to the influence
of Swami Vivekananda, attraction for Christianity
began to ebb among the intelligentsia the world
over, then also they had carried out a character
assassination campaign against him the world
over. In the present-day context, many western
countries and many of their organizations make
available to Christian missionaries immeasurable
capital through various means to promote their
conversion activities. Millions of dollars are
pumped into Bharat for conversion purposes.
According to the record and report of the Ministry
of Home Affairs, GOI, the statistics about the
foreign aid being received by Indian NGOs shows
that 80% of it is meant only for the Christian
organizations that have been buying their ways
into the Indian society and converting unsuspecting
people from behind their fronts of service activities.
Statistics of accounts received from different
Christian organizations shake off one's mind.
There are five major aid-giving countries, viz.,
USA, Germany, Britain, Italy and The Netherlands.
According to the available data, in the last
decade alone, these organizations received more
than 10,000 crores (100 Billion) of rupees.
This is only official statistics. The actual
amount received by bypassing the government
route is much much more than this.
(4) The missionaries of Bharat engaged in a
conversion overdrive have been projecting their
aggressive designs and using antagonistic idioms
and jargons on the strength of foreign money
and following signals from foreign missionaries
and foreign paymasters. In 1999 CE, on the eve
of Deepavali, the Pope had set and avowed the
target to Christianise the whole of Asia in
the third millennium. For this an overdrive
started to recruit Crusaders ( Annexure-1).
Publications dishonouring Hindu Dharma were
brought out (Annexure-2). According to 'Joshua
2000' or 'Mission Mandate 2000', they set a
target to plant a Church in every village of
Bharat by the year 2000 CE. They took a vow
to spread their network down to every PIN code
post.
(5) Aggressive idioms like "Harvesting
the Crop of Souls" came to be widely used.
Consequently tensions spread and some unpleasant
incidents came to the fore. Mr John Stock, a
media reporter of The Daily Telegraph, wrote,
"Communal tension won't be there if the
missionaries muscled with foreign money would
let the Indians live with their religion."
Father George Palakkapillai, a top Christian
clergy of Kerala, himself admitted, "The
demeaning comments against Hindu gods and goddesses
that are made by Christians for conversion purposes,
that is the basic reason of conflict between
the two communities." (Satyadeep, Christian
magazine, Oct. 1999). These belligerent efforts
at conversion brought at various places in society
survival instincts to the fore and natural reflex
protests and objections were manifest. In order
to hide their sins, the conversionists used
the Hindu organizations as shields. Accusations
were routinely heaped on Hindu organizations
for every incident. A section of the media with
vested interest kept projecting farfetched conclusions
without even waiting for the judgment of the
process of law. The unfortunate part was that,
when the truth came out as against their propaganda,
none of them had the courtesy to beg pardon
or say sorry. In this regard, we compiled a
list of the real facts exposing the false allegations
and sent the same to the then Prime Minister,
the Chairman - Minority Commission and the Chairman
- Human Rights Commission with the request to
verify the truth and demanded to set up an Inquiry
Commission to investigate into the misdeeds
of the Christian missionaries (Annexures 3,
4, 5, 6). After investigations, the National
Minority Commission said: "The mishaps
with the Christian community are not communal."
(Dainik Jagaran, April 29, 2001). George Fernandes,
the then Defence Minister of Bharat, who is
himself a patriotic Christian, said on the floor
of the Lok Sabha, "False propaganda is
being carried out about these so-called atrocities.
The involvement of Hindu hand was not proved
in any such violence."
(6) Excellency, in spite of this strong protest
of the society, the missionaries have greatly
accelerated their aggressive conversion activities
being propelled by foreign money and fortified
by their foreign masters and by cooperation
of pseudo-secular politicians and a section
of the media. Now their goal is articulated
in a new manner. Abenejer Sundar Raj, general
secretary of India Mission Association has said,
"To begin with we want Churches within
the bicycle range, then within the walking range
and finally within the hearing range."
"George Bush has conversion plans on a
wider scale in India." (Tehelka, 7.2.2004).
(7) To the conversion overdrive by the Christian
missionaries and the denigration of Hindu Dharma
in their hands, reaction of the Hindu society
has started manifesting at places. In some places
in states like Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh,
etc., the society has displayed reflex action
and instinctive reaction, and as always, the
offense of heaping of abuses in hostile and
unparliamentary language on Hindu organizations
is continuing by the missionaries and a section
of the media. In the context of the Kolhapur
incident, in spite of presentation of the certificates
by the Hindu victims that were issued to them
after illegally converting them and in spite
of there being no VHP worker among the persons
arrested under the pressure by media, the language
being used for these organizations in no way
comes within the limits of civic behaviour and
cultural taste. Can it be acceptable and right
in democracy to carry out misinformation campaign
about any allegation without any knowledge of
truth and facts and then not even say sorry
for propaganda of untruth after the truth is
uncovered? Can the work of the judiciary now
be entrusted to a section of the media that
unilaterally charge sheets and even passes judgment
without taking note of the say of the opposite
side?
(8) Excellency, the Christian missionaries
have been functioning in Bharat like the Talibans.
Wherever they are powerful, they are finishing
the non-Christians by use of force. In the Northeast
Bharat, they are tormenting Hindus through crimes
like terrorism, murder, kidnapping, etc. Their
relation with terrorist organizations there
is widely known. The then Union Minister of
State for Home Affairs in 1996 had said on the
floor of the Lok Sabha, "A Christian clergy
was apprehended with RDX. It is true."
Even the Leftist Government of Tripura, in its
report sent to the Union Home Ministry, had
written, "The terrorists and the Church
have deep relations" (The Telegraph, 22.3.1999).
In Tripura they got killed a Hindu saint HH
Shantikali Ji Maharaj and have many a time forcefully
stopped performance of Hindu way of worship,
rituals and traditions. When in Mizoram the
Riang tribe refused to give up their Bauddha
Dharma, they were persecuted and 40,000 Riangs
were compelled to flee and become refugees in
Tripura. Where the missionaries are not as powerful
as in the Northeast, they keep the Hindus terrorized
by use of weapons like fraud, allurement, misinformation
campaigns, etc. They use the provisions of the
Constitution in an arbitrary and licentious
manner and openly make mockery of the Constitutional
provisions and measures. Article 25(1) gives
the right to practice and propagate religion,
and not to convert. The Hon'ble Supreme Court
had clarified in the Staineslas case in 1977
that: "The right to propagate religion
does not mean the right to convert... Conversion
done under allurement, use of force and fraud
in which the poverty or ignorance of the individual
is taken advantage of, is not only undemocratic
but also unconstitutional...Respect for all
religions is the foundation of secularism whereas
the seeds of conversion lie in religious intolerance."
In spite of clear orders, they are engaged in
anti-constitutional conversion activities with
great fanfare. Due to such transgressions on
their part, communal hostility is created. That
is why, after Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal
Pradesh, Chhattishgarh, Gujarat, now even in
Himachal Pradesh laws have been passed in order
to ban the crime of conversion.
(9) The missionaries are so reassured due to
political shielding that now they try to force
their way into Hindu places of worship and effect
conversions. We would like to give only two
of the instances of this aggressive attempt:
Propagation of Christianity in Tirupati temple
by missionaries in illegal manner under government
protection - society agitated (New India Express,
19.7.2006)
Conversion related posters pasted after forcing
way into temple on Hanuman Jayanti - society
aggrieved (Enadu, 24.5.2006 )
(10) They use every means for conversion. The
much publicized service activities are misused
for conversion purposes only. We would surely
like to give here some examples of it:
Hindu employees of Church were threatened to
be given balance salary only after they get
converted (Dainik Aaj, 17.3.2000 )
Minor students tortured for conversion (Rajasthan
Patrika, 05.02.2000)
Hoodwinked to convert against job offer (Amar
Ujala, 27.5.2004)
Rashtravadi Congress workers in Maharashtra
took out a procession putting a Missionary School
director on a donkey back who had engaged in
conversion activities and sexually exploited
girl students (Tarun Bharat, 08.8.2000)
Officer of National Film Development Corporation
converts candidates to Christianity before giving
jobs (Hindustan, 23.12.2003 )
Allegation of forceful conversion of tribal
children in Madhya Pradesh - Clergy absconding
(Rashtriya Sahara, 4.2.2000)
Caned the palms of girl students at Ramgarh
(M.P.) that came to school wearing Mehndi (henna
dye) on hands (R. Sahara, 16.8.1988 )
(11) Besides conversion activities, the Christian
Missionaries work in Bharat also with a political
and imperialist agenda. Bringing to power the
political parties of their choice that could
be helpful in their conversion agenda, is one
of their important goals. That is why their
conversion manual titled "Operation World"
clearly brands Hindu organizations as extremist
organizations and called upon voters to prevent
Bharatiya Janata Party from coming to power.
When in Andhra Pradesh there was a bomb explosion
in a Church, the Christian clergies had met
Chandrababu Naidu and demanded to withdraw support
from the NDA government. Later on the hand of
'Deendar Anjuman' was found in this blast.
(12) A few examples of politicking and issuing
Fatwas under the garb of religion would be enough:
Christian missionaries proactive in Jharkhand
to make Congress victorious (Ranchi Express,
10.5.1999)
Christian missionaries opened front to defeat
BJP (R. Sahara, 17.5.1999)
Interference of Church increasing in Kerala
politics (R. Sahara, 08.9.2004)
(13) Due to their political interference and
every manner of support provided to the political
parties of their choice, the clergies have started
to consider themselves above the Indian Constitution
and any process of Indian law. Some political
parties remain ever ready to hide the misdeeds
of the Christian missionaries with a view to
receiving their help, brightening their 'secular
image' by opposing the Hindu organizations and
to encash the vote bank. They don't care for
the law. In spite of these, the law has penalized
the missionaries on many occasions for their
misdeeds and sins:
Six months jail to two clergies for conversion
activities - Sarguja, Chhattishgarh (18.7.2002)
Foreign clergy expelled (Ranchi Exp., 21.8.1988)
11 clergies nabbed in Chhattishgarh while distributing
money for conversion (Patheya Kan, 16.01.2007)
Christian institution guilty of conversion activities
(H.T. 01.6.2004)
National Women's Commission took cognizance
of conversion of woman by clergy, illegal relation
with her and abortion (R. Sahara, 03.02.2004)
Missionary illegally working in Kashmir Valley
ordered to quit country (Nav Bharat, 29.4.2004)
Husband arrested who forcefully made his wife
Christian and kept her in captivity in Church
(Hindustan, 28.12.1999)
High Court upholds penalty on clergy for committing
sin with girl student (Dainik Jagaran, 24.02.2007)
Foreign Christian engaged in sexual exploitation
with Indian children nabbed (R. Sahara, 08.9.2004)
(14) In spite of political patronage of every
sort and sympathy of the 'secular' fraternity,
these people continue to be penalized by law
again and again. The said examples are not even
10% of such incidents. Some days ago the director
of a Missionary school was apprehended in Muzaffarnagar
District for prefixing and suffixing Christian
names with the names of innocent students. There
are hundreds of such incidents that have been
taken cognizance of by law. Besides these, there
are thousands of such incidents in the whole
country that escape the attention of the society
and law and the clergies have been continuing
to do their conversion work in their own way.
In order to hide the misdeeds of their conversion,
they even show false data about the Christian
demography. The truth about it has been made
clear in their own conversion manual titled
"Operation World". While focusing
on the Christian demography of India, the book
writes:
"Christians (official - 2.61) probably
- 4%
Affiliated - 3.94% (Operation World, p. 274)
"
Further, it is written in page 275 -
"Census figures are artificially low because
only the religion of the head of house was recorded.
Also many backward classes and scheduled caste
Christians registered as Hindu" (out of
fear of loosing their privileges. - These words
are those of the author of this letter, so that
the comments and fraud of these people are made
clear. )
(15) Excellency, Bharat is a religious country.
Hindu is tolerant by nature, but he loves his
Dharma. He respects other religions, but when
someone hurts his Dharma, in that case he readies
himself to sacrifice everything to defend his
Dharma. History is replete with lakhs of examples
of this fact. Now the country is celebrating
the 150 th year of the "1857 First War
of Independence". The British by aiding
and abetting the Christian missionaries had
let loose a huge wave of conversions between
1757 and 1857. Besides this, they had planned
to distort the religious sensibilities of Hindus
and Muslims by introducing fat of cow and pig
in cartridges of guns. Bharatiyas love their
Dharma very much. They could not tolerate the
conspiracy to distort their Dharma. The result
was the 1857 uprising. It has also other reasons,
but the cause of saving Dharma is an important
one. Conversion cannot be tolerated on the soil
of Bharat. Mahatma Gandhiji had said, "In
my opinion, converting people in the garb of
service is harmful. The people of the country
see it resentfully." Due to conversion,
resentment spreads in the country. The Government
of Madhya Pradesh had appointed a Committee
under the chairmanship of Justice Niyogi in
order to study as to what could be the bad consequences
of the anti-social and anti-country activities
of Christian missionaries and suggest ways and
means to arrest such activities. There was also
a Christian member on this Committee. Their
purpose was to free independent Bharat from
the curse of conversion activities. After thorough
surveys, this Committee had submitted its report
in the year 1956. This report is still relevant
and that much meaningful and useful. The recommendations
and the summary of the findings of this Committee
are enclosed hereby (Annexure-7).
(16) In this age of science, conversion through
miracles or by denigrating other religions,
is not only unscientific but also inhuman, undemocratic
and unconstitutional. This also triggers spread
of religious intolerance. The conversion conspiracy
in Bharat can never be successful due to the
patriotic people whose life-breath is also Dharma.
You would be aware that in the year 2004 a clergy
Benny Hinn by name from America had landed in
Bharat with millions of dollars with a vow to
convert 1 lakh Hindus. But in spite of government
protection, there was tremendous social protest
and as a result he could not convert even 10
people and had to flee in the dark of the night.
The people of Bharat cannot now be fooled by
fraudulent means such as "Changai Sabha",
etc. They would have succeeded in converting
Europe in the 1st millennium and Africa in the
2nd millennium, but the people of Bharat won't
let their dream of converting Asia in the 3
rd millennium to be fulfilled.
(17) We peaceful citizens want peace and communal
amity in Bharat. It is the great fortune of
our country that a great scientist and spiritualist
is now adorning the top job of the country as
the Mahamahim President of Bharat. We are all
following your able guidance to solve the problems
of the country and fulfill the dream of development
of the nation and its reconstruction. We humbly
request you to use your good offices to urge
the Government of Bharat to take appropriate
steps in this direction and consider our following
demands and ensure their implementation for
the good of the country:-
1. Only the citizens of India have the Constitutionally
given right to propagate religion, therefore,
all foreign missionaries should be asked to
quit the country.
2. Foreign money meant for the foreign missionaries
should be banned.
3. Let an Enquiry Commission be set up in order
to investigate into the activities of the missionaries
and their related NGOs.
4. Let Orders be passed to seize and destroy
all literature that denigrate Hindu gods-goddesses
and Dharma.
5. Let a Central Law be made to prohibit conversions
by force, allurement and fraudulent means presently
going on in Bharat.
Ever ready and proactive for the cause of welfare
of country,
Yours in the service of Maa Bhaarati,
(ASHOK SINGHAL) (DR. SURENDRA JAIN)
President Central Secretary
VISHVA HINDU PARISHAD
Sankat Mochan Ashram,
Sector-VI, Ramakrishna Puram, New Delhi-110
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Encl.: Annexures - 1 to 7
(N.B.: The hard copies were submitted to President
of Bharat. They are not being used for soft
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