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Christian terrorism in India

http://ssksurya.blogspot.com/2005/11/christian-terrorism-in-india.html

Very few people know about and our media too maintains a terrible silence on it.

All the news one can possbily get is either from Hindu sites or from some international news agencies like BBC, which are realatively better than our highly anti-Hindu biased media. Some news clippings:

‘Church backing Tripura rebels"
18 April, 2000, BBC

The government in India"s north-eastern state of Tripura says it has evidence that the state"s Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebels.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said state police had uncovered details of the alleged link after questioning a church leader.

Nagmanlal Halam, secretary of the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura, was arrested late on Monday with a large quantity of explosives.

Mr Sarkar said that allegations about the close links between the state"s Baptist Church and the rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have long been made by political parties and police.

Now for the first time, he said, hard evidence supporting the allegations had been found.

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The NLFT is accused of forcing Tripura"s indigenous tribes to become Christians and give up Hindu forms of worship in areas under their control.

Last year, they issued a ban on the Hindu festivals of Durga Puja and Saraswati Puja.

The NLFT manifesto says that they want to expand what they describe as the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura.

The Baptist Church in Tripura was set up by missionaries from New Zealand 60 years ago.

It won only a few thousand converts until 1980 when in the aftermath, of the state"s worst ethnic riot, the number of conversions grew.

Separatist group bans Hindu festivities
2 October, 2000, BBC

The leading separatist group in the north-east Indian state of Tripura has ordered indigenous tribespeople to stay away from celebrations of the Hindu festival Durga Puja.

The outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura warned that any tribal members seen taking part in the festival would be killed.

In a statement, the NLFT said it wanted all tribespeople in Tripura to become Christians because the practice of Hinduism has led to them being marginalised by people of Bengali origin living in the state.

Analysis: Tripura"s tribal strife
21 May, 2000, BBC

Like many other states in India"s insurgency hit north-east, the people of Tripura have over the last five years endured thousands of abductions and hundreds of killings.

Most of this violence has been carried out by the two main separatist rebel groups, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF).

Tripura is one of India"s seven north-eastern states, sometimes known as the seven sisters…

The NLFT is larger and better armed. It says it is fighting not only for the removal of Bengali immigrants from the tribal areas, but also for the tribal areas of the state to become overtly Christian.

The NLFT has warned members of the tribal community that they may be attacked if they do not accept its Christian agenda.

It is estimated that around half of Tripura"s 200,000 tribal community are Christian and support the NLFT.

Religious Fervor May Dominate Emerging Indian State of Nagalim
October, 2003, The Washington Diplomat
(an interview with Isak Chishi Swu, chairman of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim )

…It was clear after only a few minutes that Swu’s main preoccupation will be with creating a Christian state, which comes higher on his list of priorities than socialism, nationalism or even democracy.

Overflowing with evangelical zeal, Swu explained that Nagalim will send out 10,000 missionaries around the world when it achieves independence. “Our intention is that Nagalim is for Christ. We have proclaimed it. Nagalim is for Christ… God has got his plan for Nagalim,” he said. “We were evangelized by the American Baptist missionaries back in 1839, and we don’t have the adequate words to thank the American missionaries.”

On a different note, but issue connected to Missionaries:

Counting Sheep?
28 January 2005, Outlook India

The proselytising zeal of American missionaries knows no slack even in tsunami aid

Are American Christian evangelists using the devastation wreaked by the tsunami to spread the word of God—their God? Disturbing stories from the region and fund-raising appeals from religious leaders in the US who want to “plant Christian principles as early as possible" in the orphans of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India have raised profound questions about proselytisation of vulnerable people in times of tragedy… By lacing help with questions of faith, however delicately, evangelical groups can deepen religious
faultlines at a time when talk of civilisational wars rages in e-chat rooms.

… From India surfaced a story about Samanthapettai, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu hit by the tsunami, where some Christian missionaries reportedly refused to distribute biscuits and water unless the Hindu recipients agreed to change their faith. When TV reporters approached the nuns, they refused to comment and left.

Local missionaries in India and other non-Christian countries are funded to a large extent by resource-rich American groups—powerful multi-million dollar corporations complete with TV channels and private planes. The websites, updated with fervent appeals for funds and tearful photos of tsunami survivors, are a window to their incredible organisation and explicit agendas for touching the “unreached people" or non-Christians with the hand of God. They look at India and Indonesia as “opportunities" for spreading the gospel. India is often described as a land of darkness, of idol worshippers and an area ripe for redemption.

… This January, World Help is sending a mission to India “where God is overcoming hundreds of years of false religions and idol worship…

…Graham sees India as a “vast subcontinent" where Samaritan"s Purse projects are “helping bring the gospel to thousands living in spiritual darkness".

…"This kind of proselytisation demeans the idea of religious conversion, for it uses helplessness to spread a religion," says Ashutosh Varshney, political science professor at Michigan University.

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