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Muslims should leave India and take the

Christians along with them


Christians are told to make disciples of all nations, but missionaries have done this so
aggressively in recent years that churches now want a code of conduct to spread their
faith without antagonizing any others.

A missionary boom in developing countries, funded by United States evangelical and


Pentecostal Protestants, has brought Christianity into total conflicts with majority
populations that follow faiths such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Overzealous and highly paid preachers stand accused of linking humanitarian aid with
baptism and insulting local faiths. Some local Christian minorities, who lived in peace
before the boom, now feel a backlash as suspicion mounts against all Christians.

Representatives from the main sects of christianity met in Geneva in January 2007 to
discuss guidelines to curb aggressive evangelists. Presently Christian missionaries are
out to convert using money, fake miracles, outright dirty books that discredit deities of
other religions and even political and even violent methods. "Due to increased
proselytism even using violent methods in some parts of the Christian groups, the fiber of
living together is jeopardized," said the Rev. Hans Ucko, a Swedish Lutheran in charge of
inter religious dialogue at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC).

Christian leaders at the meeting, part of a three-year effort aiming to produce a code of
conduct by 2009, sought a balance that would let them continue spreading their faith
without discrediting it and antagonizing other religions. The meeting brought together an
unusually broad spectrum of Christianity, from Roman Catholics and the WCC - which
groups mainline Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox - to the World Evangelical Alliance
and Pentecostal leaders.

Tensions over missionary work have flared up over the past decade or so in several
regions, most notably in Africa, India and in the Muslim world, as globalization opened
up new avenues for religions to spread their views. "India and Sri Lanka are two
countries that have become very sensitive to this issue," said Monsignor Felix Machado,
the Vatican's representative in the discussion.

Hindu nationalists in India have passed anti-conversion laws in some states to stop the
fraudulent conversion methods using money and fake miracles. Missionaries are bribing
poor people to get converted to chrisitanity. In Sri Lanka, Buddhist nationalists have
campaigned for some control on these fraud conversions. Politicians and the lawmakers
were bribed by the Americans to prevent enactment of such laws in Sri Lanka. Political
pressure from president Bush himself, have finally stopped Sri Lankans from enacting
protective laws from the predatory Christian missionaries with deep pockets. The
tsunami disaster unleashed the largest wave of donations in history. Worldwide more than
12 billion Dollars have been collected from state funds as well as from private purses.
The biggest part of this money was in the hands of NGOs of all provenience, among them
were many Christian organizations. This has created what is known as AID
EVANGELIZATION or conversion to Christianity for receiving relief aid.

Aid evangelization was seen in South Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and
Kerala and the same were widely reported by the local media. The stealing of Tsunami
Aid money, which was party meant for conversion, by some of the Christian bishops in
Tamil Nadu and their subsequent arrest and jailing were widely reported in the local and
English media. Hindus are now convinced that the Christian wife of former Indian Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Italian born Antonia Maino now known as Sonia Gandhi was
planted in the family of Nehru, to help evangelization of India. The appointment of the
central ministers of the Congress led Government in India, is decided by Sonia Gandhi,
and almost all are chistians or married to christians, even though the Christian community
in India is just 2.3%. This has led to consolidate the planting theory about Sonia Gandhi
by Rome in India. In private conversations Indian leaders express that Christians in India
are more a threat to India, with Christian terrorism in North east and fraudulent
conversions in Hindu temple towns, than the terrorist threat from the muslims.

The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has the world’s highest rate of churches per capita.
Though only a small minority of people call themselves Christians, there are 1500
independent Christian churches. Several cases of betrayal have been registered against
Christian priests and bishops in 2006, who pretended to build houses for Tsunami victims
and poor people and thereby cheated the public of huge amounts. At least four bishops
have been accused of cheating the public of Rs 40 crores in the name of charity.
While two bishops of the Moulin Mission Trust in Mahabalipuram and the Calvari
Mission Trust in Vellore have been arrested the police is hunting the other two. They
collected huge deposits from contractors after promising them orders for house
construction for tsunami victims. Some other bishops, who used the same trick, have so
far escaped arrest by absconding. Many of the churches are still collecting money for
house construction for tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The houses, if
they have constructed any, are often not up to the needs of the victims. The Evangelical
church of India (ECI), for example, constructed without official permission 70 one-room
hutments in Cuddalore that could not be used and had immediately to be sealed by the
police as they were in danger to collapse. These ruins had obviously only one purpose: to
carry shiny big boards with the proud inscription: "This house is a gift of the Providence
Baptist Church, NC, USA, through ECI Relief Team". Similarly World Vision, the largest
evangelical recipient of US state grants, donated a fleet of new and colorful fishing boats
to the fishermen of Nagapattinam that turned out to be completely unfit for use in the sea
and were after some days abandoned by the disappointed recipients. These are only two
out of 160,000 cases that have been collected by the lawyers of the Tsunami Committee
Legal Action. Only a small part of them have so far been brought to court.

In Indonesia, instead of helping disaster victims, they were asked to become Christian
converts to get the disaster relief. This has become a serious issue in post-tsunami
Indonesia. This has led the government in Jakarta to block a US evangelical group from
placing orphaned Muslim children into a Christian-run home. The post-tsunami aid rush
to Indonesia showed not only Christians help the poor with a possible double agenda.
Radical Islamic groups also turned up in mostly Muslim Aceh province.

Many Christian sects have long accused well-financed evangelical and Pentecostal
missionaries of angering majority faiths in the developing world. By discussing the issue
for the first time, both sides saw this problem was less pressing than the tensions created
by fire and brimstone sermons broadcast over satellite television, said Thomas
Schirrmacher of the World Evangelical Alliance.

"The main problem is the international, almost exclusively American media," he said.
"They are not linked to local churches and have no idea what effect their broadcasts have.
"I was in India when Pat Robertson said all Muslims should leave the United
States," he said, referring to a prominent US televangelist. "The Hindus said they
agreed that Muslims should leave India too and take the Christians with them."

A spokesperson for Robertson said "The 700 Club," where Robertson has made his most
controversial comments about Islam, was only a small part of his satellite broadcasting
and most of it was "both culturally sensitive and relevant."

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