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
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