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'Conversion, reconversion led to Kandhamal riots'

Bhubaneswar: Conversion and re-conversion were among the major factors which led to the riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district last year, a judicial commission probing the violence has said. "Sources of the violence were deeply rooted in land disputes, conversion and re-conversion and fake certificate issues, ....Read more

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Any elections are won by 2-3 % margins..By: Chandra SG | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 2:04:26 AM Reply | Forward The minority vote consolidation is easier.. by spreading fear and hatred among them against a political class... thereby polarising them... this is what all so called secular parties are doing.. thereby creating rift between people.. on the basis of religion.Miorities with more than 27% population.. for critical factor in deciding.. the fate of any electoral battle.It is fact that... today... COngress is benefitting by spreading venom against its politcal opponent... and exploiting the minorites support.Certain minority groups on other hand are happy enjoing the appeasement attitude of Govt. as it is working in their favour.. although it is against the interest of nation and its people.... whether it is church spreading conversions... or Madrasaas spreading islamic terror...Both of them are ravaging the country for their own.. selfish ends... and the innocent minorities are following them blindly... out of fear pshycosis created by Congress against BJP and RSS.

@ Charan Gill and Brahm UpadhyayBy: Chandra SG | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 1:56:57 AM Reply | Forward I think the opnion given by Charan Gill saying that people who took objection to Mr. Williams words... as "poisoned minds" is completely un-called for and un-becoming..!!This shows.. what type of tolerance and sense of unity our friend carries for his fellow countrymen. You cannot neglect the feelings of people and justify it based on electrol victory.Please understand that Indian electrote.. voted at only 55% of total 71 Crores... means only say 39 odd crores... of that.. 28% voted for Congress... means.. around 11 Crores... out of this Congress got more than...4 crores votes from 4 states... AP, TN, WB and Kerala in which BJP is literally non-existent..BJP on other hand got 19% vote.. reflecting...around 8 crores of votes.So cummulatively BJP and COngress are neck to neck.. and in one to one fight BJP had upper hand..It is only because the left and the third front... had failed and offered all their seats... on platter to Congress.. that Congress won..

JN Mahanty: Ban Conversion in KandhamalBy: Vinod Kumar Mahanti | Friday , 3 Jul '09 23:50:59 PM Reply | Forward JN Mahanti, Im a Kali Mahanti myself and a proffesing Christian. What you stated in ur comments is totally baseless. Christianity does not believe in Communism. For 5000 years, Higher castes have looted, and discriminated against the tribals. Their problems and their plight sought solace in the arms of Christ and His servants because Christianity does not preach division as Brahmans and Tribals as you emphasize "tribals" in ur comments. Everyone is created equal and all humans have equal rights on the land, plants and animals to survive. Hinduiam has categorised people and society into 4 groups where you treat them like animals. Peace will only come when you thugs stop politicising common man's issues and get on with ur sorry lives. Where was the Hindutva when Hindu women were offered as Satis. That is demonic. Would you offer ur mother like that and shave her head and ostrasize her from family functions? How would you react when Hindu women according to Hindutva were not allowed to go to schools for education? How about tribals and SC's and Lower castes who were supposedly unclean and that they couldnt even draw water from their own wells in the villages they lived in. How about marriages? Would you give your girls to low caste boys or tribals? How about job occupations? You made them wear brooms behind their backs to clean their footprints as they walked because according to ur Hindutva, it is unholy to ur higher castes. STOP THE BULL CRAP! All this non-sense stopped when Christians came and alleviated their lot. My friend-you write in English and comment here in English. Why would you prefer that instead of your "DEAD" Sanskrit crap?

Kali MahantiBy: Truetalk | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 9:02:40 AM Reply | Forward Klai Mahanti, you need immediate psychiatric treatement my friend........someoene taught few things for their own benefit that has no meaning. You need education, big time.

mahantiBy: ntd | Saturday , 4 Jul '09 8:07:54 AM Reply | Forward you only talk about ills in India. WHy do not you go read about the history of your favourite religion? Why were women burnt on the stake? Why were black people treated like slaves until recently? What was the your favourite religion doing during the Holocaust? You cannot cherry pick like this to make your case. First look inwards before blaming others.

BAN CONVERSION IN KANDHMAL By: J.N.Mahanty | Friday , 3 Jul '09 22:19:35 PM Reply | Forward Tha major root cause is "Conversion" by Christian Missionaries ( funded by foreign agencies) behind the unrest in Kandhmal. The missionaries are engaging the Converts against the Kandhas and other tribal population, on a "Divide and Rule" policy.Swami Laxamananda started the reconversion campaign to unite both sections for peace and harmony. Consequently, the Missionaries thru Christian Maoists hatched cnospiracy and murdered the Swami and his disciples, in their sleep. And this led to riot and unrest in Kandhmal.Once conversion is banned, the Missionaries ( the outsiders) will be out of job and will be forced to leave the area and there shall be NO threat to lasting peace.So may I urge the Central and State Governments to immediately ban Conversion in Tribal and Backward Districts( every body knows how Conversion is engineered by the Missionaries) of the Country for the sake of PEACE.ADDRESS THE CAUSES TO PREVENT EFFECTS.

KANDHAMALBy: N.V.SANKARAN | Friday , 3 Jul '09 21:50:10 PM Reply | Forward So, conversion and re-conversion were amongst the main causes of the Kandhamal conflicts. Had there been no conversion, there would have been no re-conversion. That was exactly the communal Sangh Parivaar had been telling; stop conversions, there will be no re-conversion. This will not solve the problem completely; but, surely it will lessen the intensity of the conflicts. But, look at what our Home Minister had done! He went to Kandhamal and exhorted the people to construct churches wherever they wanted, indirectly advocating conversion. He did not have even a single sympathetic word for the slain Swami and his disciples. So much for Indian secularism. And, it was not because majority Hindus voted for the secular parties, but they did not vote for anybody so that the Congress and other secular parties won on the strength of the minority votes.

conversion and reconversionBy: subbarao | Friday , 3 Jul '09 20:48:08 PM Reply | Forward Dear Sir: Any one who loves the country will recognize that there was no person as John or Khan in India until invaders came and ruined us. All because of sad history of India. Mr. McAuley wrote: A series of ferocious invaders had descended through western passes of India in Kabul to prey upon the defenseless and wealthy natives and highly civilized people of India, the hindoos. Persian conqueror crossed the Indus, marched through the gates of Delhi and bore away in triumph those treasures of which the magnificient has astounded Roe and Bernier.They had reared cities larger and fairer than Saragossa or Toledo and their buildings were more beautiful and costly than the cathedral of Seville. They could show bankers richer than the richer firms of Barcelona or Cadiz..We, the people of europe could not vaquish the people of India the hindoos the way we did to the natives of America in American Continent, because their number was numerous. This should explain about what happened to hindus.

Christian Dalit is an oxymoron - Reservation benefits is only for Hindu DalitsBy: asha | Friday , 3 Jul '09 20:38:04 PM Reply | Forward Reservations are only for Dalit Hindus. Dalit Christian is an oxymoron. But missionaries like to have their cake (more converts) and eat it too (get reservation benefits). The governments and politicians especially the Congress side with the Christians and the powerful missionaries and their foreign masters.

Orissa and the BJPBy: Balaji | Friday , 3 Jul '09 20:35:40 PM Reply | Forward Election victory by BJD does not mean that the problem is over. The Commission has rightly pointed out that the core issue is conversion.

Christian Missionary in OrissaBy: PK Mohanty | Friday , 3 Jul '09 20:22:12 PM Reply | Forward I am from Orissa, and know very well the cause of the problems - the Christianity and their somany odd sects. The politicians will never be able to speak agains them on account of vote bank politics. People alone can teach these Christian missionaries a lesson. They should be stamped out of Orissa and India. They are anti-Hindus and anti-Indians. Long live Hindu unity.

Mr. William and ConversionBy: K.S.Rao | Friday , 3 Jul '09 20:20:23 PM Reply | Forward Dear Sir: Conversion is one of the other ways conquering India by western

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