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[1] INDIA Anti Christian violence peaks in India, fresh attack in Haryana Nirmala Carvalho A group of RSS extremists attack and threaten two young Baptists in Bhiwani accusing them of forced conversions. John Dayal President of the All India Catholic Union warns: Hindu fundamentalists have orchestrated an out and out campaign against minorities with precise ideological and political ends. There has been an average of 4 cases a week since summer. Mumbai (AsiaNews) ? Beaten and threatened by a group of Hindu fundamentalists, two young Christians saw their books and religious set alight. According to their aggressors they were trying to convert the local population. A refrain long used to justify all kinds of violence carried out on India's Christian minority. The event took place on November 14th in Naya Bazar, Bhiwani, Haryana State. Catholics human rights activists warn that the situation is worsening: between the summer and autumn of 2007 there has been a sharp rise in cases of abuse against Christians in particular in States governed by the fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Bhiwani '"incident" is the latest in a long list. The two young Baptist Christians were in a shop where they were showing their books to the owner, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [Rss, Hindu fundamentalist paramilitary group ed]. The shopkeeper immediately mobilised he group and told other activists that the boys were distributing Christian's books with an aim to convert. The youths were thrashed and taken in procession through city roads to the local Baptist Church where later their religious literature was burnt and the community threatened. The Civil police registered a case in connection with this episode against eight RSS members who were later arrested. Speaking to AsiaNews John Dayal president of the All India Catholic Union, warns that Harayana is not the only state witnessing an increase in these kind of attacks. "The summer and autumn of 2007 have seen another peaking of violence against Christians. I am being informed of three to four terrible cases every week from across the country. Many of these cases are taking place in states ruled by the BJP and its allies, (Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Punjab), but others are also taking place in Congress ruled states such as such as Himachal and Haryana". According to Dayal, it is an out and out campaign of violence which the fundamentalists with the support of their political leaders have orchestrated with precise intent: firstly to pressurise and coerce the minorities, specially the Christians, at a time when they are seeking redress in the supreme court of India for human rights; the second has to be seen in the context of the announcements by various governments that they want to bring forward laws to prevent conversions, obviously to Christianity. The skirmishes and violence will help them prove that Christian activity leads to social tensions. And finally to politically consolidate the xenophobic amongst the population on a Hindutva platform. Print this page Copyright (c) 2003 AsiaNews C. F. 00889190153 All rights reserved. Content on this site is made available for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not reproduce, republish, sell or otherwise distribute the content or any modified or altered versions of it without the express written permission of the editor. Photos on AsiaNews. it are largely taken from the internet and thus considered to be in the public domain. Anyone contrary to their publication need only contact the editorial office which will immediately proceed to remove the photos. http://groups.google.com/group/hindutva-watch --------------- [2] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Fri Nov 16, 2007 Subject: Muslim families make stoves for Hindu festival Muslim families make stoves for Hindu festival http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=8825&Itemid=8\ 8 By Imran Khan Patna, Nov 16: Many Muslim families in Bihar are currently busy making 'chulhas', or earthen stoves, used to prepare the holy offering for the Chhath festival of the Hindus, in yet another example of communal amity in India. Mohammad Nizam, along with his wife and children, has made the special stoves for Hindu devotees who use it during the four-day Chhath that began Wednesday. His family is one of a dozen Muslim families engaged in making earthen chulhas in Patna and elsewhere. Read more: http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=8825&Itemid=8\ 8 -------------- [3] Disconnected And Depoliticized In Pakistan: Elite Inaction In Emergency Times By Mahnoor Khan http://www.countercurrents.org/khan161107.htm There are overt and subtle ways in which the emergency is effectively legitimized by the Pakistani elite. In the following piece, I have attempted to articulate my own stance on the issue, and address some of these arguments Children In Kashmir Conflict By Tawseef Kashoo http://www.countercurrents.org/kashoo161107.htm In state of Jammu and Kashmir state children suffer day and night. They suffer because they are subjected to frisking like every individual of the state. They are subjected to torture and molestation. They suffer because parents of so many children remain in jail, remain absconding because security agencies are looking for them and in order to force them to surrender their children are subjected to torture ------------ [4] PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN GIRL RAPED, FORCED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM Source: Voice of the Martyrs An 18-year-old Pakistani Christian woman named Raiza was recently abducted for 10 days by a Muslim man who repeatedly raped her and forced her to convert to Islam. According to a report from AsiaNews, Raiza went missing after visiting her aunt in Faisalabad on Sunday, Oct. 21. Her family contacted a Muslim man named Sajid who had harassed Raiza in the past but he claimed to know nothing of her whereabouts. On Wednesday, Oct. 31, Raiza returned home and told her parents that Sajid had abducted her, assaulted her and pressured her into converting to Islam. Raiza?s father filed a complaint with the police, but no action has been taken to apprehend her abuser. ------- [5] VHP goons allegedly beat up 25 priests in Maharashtra Kanhaiya Singh / CNN-IBN Mumbai: With broken ribs and a fractured leg, Father Victor Pareira is just one of the 25 victims, who were brutally beaten up allegedly by members of Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad, an oraganisation affiliated to the VHP. ?My rib is fractured and my leg is broken. I am undergoing a lot of pain,? Pareira said. What is even more shocking is that the injured priest had to travel over 30 kilometers to meet the Director General of Police to demand justice as the local police station failed to act on his complaint. ?They (victims) have complained that the police did not take enough action. Therefore, I have instructed them to submit a report to me,? Director General of Police, Maharashtra, PS Pasricha said. But this contingent of victims, which is led by the Vice-Chairman of the State Minorities Commission Abrahim Mathai raises a much bigger issue. In the last one month there has been five such instances. All of them in Thane rural areas adjoining the Gujarat border, which include the tribal areas of Wada, Manor, Vikramgarh and Mokhada. ?People from Gujarat come frequently to this part of Maharashtra and create problem in these tribal areas,? Mathai said. However, this is a charge the VHP leaders deny, but they are also quick to raise the contentious conversion issue, which clearly is an attempt to defend the culprits. ?It was done by the village sarpanch (head) and the people. VHP has nothing to do with it,? VHP Secretary Arun Handa said. But even as these tribals walk out of the office of the Director General of Police with an assurance that they will not be attacked, the fear of being harassed is etched on their faces. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/vhp-goons-allegedly-beat-up-25-priests-in-maharashtra/52089-3-1.html? xml |
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