Conversion VS Reconversion

The Americans take their freedom very seriously. Religious freedom or freedom of speech is protected by federal laws and the society itself. That makes the field level for all. This means that if funds and efforts from Middle East are converting poor Blacks and other minorities then that is not impeded by anyone. Of course the same goes for the reverse efforts as well. Christians can get on a pulpit and do any kind of name calling without running the risk of a fatwa. Of course Muslims can do the same. Therefore in the eyes of the law or society, all speech, religions and other basic human rights are revered and protected. The field, as they say, is level.

Now compare that with India. When Modi was the CM of Gujarat, all accusations, fair or unfair were allowed. All invectives, no matter how nasty were protected by freedom of speech. He was called “maut ka saudagar”, fascist, Nazi, mass murderer etc. with no one except the conservatives to his defence. The moment a minor campaigner from the BJP uses the kind of language used all over the country with impunity, the Rajyasabha comes to a standstill. Objections to Valentine’s Day celebration (people who want to celebrate SHOULD be allowed) are treated with extreme disdain while the VC of AMU can freely object to female students in the library. Leftists and Muslims can use any kind of language or lies to incite murderous violence and collect accolades in the English language media for their intellectual prowess. The field is far from level when it comes to speech in India.

However when it comes to religion, the field becomes even more askew if that were possible. Now ideally I would ask the RSS and others to focus on the big picture and help the PM achieve all his goals. Religion is important but in a weak nation we may not be able to protect our religion, culture and our way of life.

The problem is that so far all our governments have done nothing to stop the conversion of Hindus into Islam or Christianity. In my opinion they should not. Hindus from the weaker sections of the society should be free to convert if they think they will be treated better as Muslims or Christians. However, the aforementioned conversions have used all kinds of dirty tricks. Money, force, love jihad and deception have run amok. Even a good person like Mother Teresa and her crew used deception to convert the lepers (it is a matter of record!). They would baptize the dying lepers and tell them that they were just washing their heads. Christian missionaries would toss a wooden cross and a stone Hanumanji and tell the ignorant tribals that the stronger of the two gods is going to float. These missionaries often make their help contingent on conversions. The tricks used by Muslims is far worse. Illegal immigration encouraged by leftists, Trinamul Congress and Congress have changed the population dynamics in WB and Andhra. Now the Hindus have known about this all along and have been watching is silently. No one in the media has ever objected to all these tricks. In fact if it were not because of Christopher Hitchens, the Indians would continue to place Mother Teresa on the same level as Swami Vivekananda. No one in Rajya Sabha objected to Hindus being forced or bamboozled into converting. If the Hindu outfits have started to convert Muslims and Christians then all hell has broken loose as we can see. Even some BJP supporters have started to ask Modi to step in.

If the Muslims and Christians can convert Hindus then the Hindus should be allowed to reconvert them. If the government wants to stop this then pass a law and make all conversion illegal. The leftists and the liberals cannot have it both ways. So my appeal to the people who are so vehemently against the “Ghar Vaapsi” campaign is to please look at both sides of the coin. Be fair even if it goes against your core belief of “my way or no way”. My appeal to those BJP members who are against the reconversions is that the government needs to do their work. They are either totally separate from religious activity or totally involved with appropriate legislations. Modi cannot stop these fringe and mainstream outfits from these activities without legislation just like Angela Merkel cannot stop the right wing parties to hold peaceful rallies against Muslim immigration. In fact if you look at his record in Gujarat, he always steered clear of getting involved with such activities. He did not help Asaram Bapu despite his political heft. The government can take on multiple activities. In no way should such conversions impede development process. We as a society are fully capable of multitasking and compartmentalizing. My appeal all Indians is that please focus on the bigger picture. It is India first and everything else second. For the first time we have a capable leader at the helm. We need to help the man make India great again instead of being jerks like the ones we are seeing in Rajyasabha.

Having said that I would like to iterate that religious activity should be personal and everyone should be free to do what they want. But the law should be the same for all and the field level. Because if it is not then society will always be in chaos. Even a capable man like Modi cannot perform and deliver in chaos.

Please read some of our articles on the same topic at:
http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2011/01/religious-coversion-and-our.html
http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2012/04/future-of-india-lies-in-hindu-unity.html
http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2010/06/casteism-honour-killings-and-our.html

Will The Pakistanis Learn?

In a marketplace, a young girl runs after two men on a motorcycle, carrying a bag she thought they were forgetting. The man looked back at the girl and sped away. The bag blew up. The girl died. Imagine the cold bloodedness involved. This happened in India. The two men probably were working at the behest of some terror merchant in Pakistan. The cruelty showed by these two men resembles the cruelty demonstrated by the terrorists who gunned down all those children in Peshawar. When you talk of Pakistan, the line between terrorists and establishment i.e. the army gets really blurred. The killing that the Pakistani army carried out in Bangladesh is a matter of record. The brutality with which they snuffed dissension in the Baltistan area or Balochistan is shocking. Since early 1990s and the inception of Taliban the deaths on both sides of the border have left the sensible searching for answers.

Terrorist attacks in Pakistan are a regular occurrence. Yet another example of Frankenstein turning against it’s creator. The too clever by half Pakistanis thought that the terrorists will do all their dirty work and stay in the shadows. When the time comes they will melt their guns, forge plows out of them and lead peaceful lives. I would like to sell them the big chunk of ice floating at the South Pole. Their naiveté is flabbergasting. When the TTP or the LeJ or any of those groups were killing Indians or Balochis or Shias or just hapless Pakistanis, the Paki army was just fine with it. Now that they have killed their children, they are upset. They are carrying out serious bombings in that area. They are demanding the Afghanis extradite the man responsible for the attack on the school. I would like to remind those bastards of someone by the name of Dawood Ibrahim. We have been demanding his extradition along with another 20 odd terrorists for almost two decades now. The Paki establishment has refused us repeatedly but now they are demanding justice. Only the blind and the liberals cannot spot the hypocrisy in this behavior.

My heart really goes out to the parents of those children. Even the cruel Paki army men do not deserve to see this done to their children. Those unfortunate children ended up paying dearly for their fathers’ sins. I am not indulging in schadenfraude. I am just stating the facts. Now the Pakistanis may get the guys who did this or they may not. After all, Osama dodged the vast American war machine for close to a decade. The real question is that are the Pakistanis ready to stop using terrorism as an extension of their foreign policy? My guess is that they will not. Men like Hamid Gul and Parvez Musharraf are extremely cruel people who will, after sometime, describe even this loss as collateral damage and go on supporting the terrorists. For them the end is so precious that any and all means are acceptable to them. No loss is too great, no life too valuable. Here in India we are holding two minute silences and praying for the dead children. There in Pakistan, less than 24 hours later we have the darling of the Pakistani establishment, terror meister Hafeez Syed blaming the tragedy on India and vowing retaliation. No. Pakistanis are not going to learn from this extreme tragedy. Somehow I think that the hatred for India makes Pakistanis stupid beyond reason. Stupid enough to burn their house down. Stupid enough to kill their children.

My suggestion to my fellow Indians is that sympathize with the parents of the dead children. Pray for their departed souls. But under no circumstance, drop your guard down. Pakistan will never learn.