After Muslims RSS now brands Christians as Terrorists

RSS booklet blames 'Christian terrorists' for Saraswati murder

Fri, Sep 12 02:32 AM

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has published a booklet blaming "Christian terrorists" for the killing of senior VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his associates on August 23.

The 40-page booklet, titled The Truth Behind Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati's Murder, has been published by the Viswa Sambad Kendra, a publicity unit of the RSS. It will be distributed to bureaucrats, police officials, journalists and intellectuals to "give them the true picture of the reasons behind the murder".  Read

Violent religiosity - How Rajesh was killed

Rajesh, 27, and a Hindu friend, Tunguru Mallick, worked in Chennai, a southern Indian city. The two came back to Orissa for holidays and arrived at G. Udayagiri, a small town, on Aug. 24, not realizing Hindu groups had called for a statewide strike that day to protest Swami Saraswati's murder.
The town 220 kilometers west of Bhubaneswar, the state capital, is in Kandhamal. Bhubaneswar lies 1,745 kilometers southeast of New Delhi.
As no transport was available, Rajesh and Tunguru decided to walk to Bataguda, their native village, about 60 kilometers further west from G. Udayagiri. However, a mob accosted the duo when they reached Paburia, about 12 kilometers into their journey, and demanded they identify themselves. As the two tried to talk, someone pulled a bible from Rajesh's bag.
The mob then began beating Rajesh, who fell down to the ground. While some continued to beat him, others dug a pit in a nearby field. As they dragged Rajesh toward it, he asked the attackers why they were burying him when he was still alive. They retorted, "Call your Jesus. He will save you." They then tied Rajesh, dumped him into the pit and covered it with mud.
Kamal said Tunguru, who watched the entire incident, recounted it all to him.
The extremists then turned to Tunguru, who kept insisting he was a Hindu. Nonetheless, they condemned him for befriending Christians, then poured kerosene on him and set him on fire. Tunguru fled to a nearby village where people helped douse the fire. According to Kamal, Tunguru suffered severe burns on his body.
Kamal said Rajesh's two younger sisters and an aged mother now live in a relief camp. Nobody has filed a police case over Rajesh's death, he added. Read 

INDIA  Priest Recounts Close Brush With Death In Orissa

By Dibakar Parichha

September 10, 2008  |  IE05724.1514  |  667 words     Text size  

Suresh Nayak's Story

"We lost everything, but the humiliating ceremony to disown our Christian faith still haunts me," Nayak told Catholic News Service at a refugee camp in Cuttack, about 20 miles from Bhubaneswar, Orissa's capital.

"They tonsured my head and made me drink cow dung water to purify me. We were also forced to write a declaration that we are becoming Hindus of our own (will) and giving up the Christian faith," he said.

Nayak said he and his family, as well as 20 more Christian families from Pirigurg village in Kandhamal district, fled to nearby jungles Aug. 24 after they were alerted that Hindu extremists were planning to target their village.

"They looted our houses and burned everything down," he said.

Nayak and several others returned to his village after local Hindu leaders, assuring them of their safety, invited them back for a peace meeting. But Hindu extremists had a different agenda and forced 13 Christian couples to attend the conversion ceremony.

While the men had their heads ceremonially tonsured as a mark of embracing Hinduism, the women were forced to eat sacred offerings to mark their conversion. Read

BSP MLA arrested for ‘raping’ research scholar

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BSP MLA arrested for ‘raping’ research scholar

Press Trust of India
Posted online: Sunday , June 29, 2008 at 08:50:08
Updated: Sunday , June 29, 2008 at 10:22:40



Lucknow, Jun 29: BSP MLA Bhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pundit was arrested on Sunday from sector 24 of Gautam Buddha Nagar for allegedly raping a research scholar.

Sharma was arrested after a FIR was lodged against him by a woman research scholar of Agra University under various sections of the IPC including 376 (rape) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) at Kasganj police station in Kashiram Nagar, Additional Director General of Police, Brijlal told media.

Besides, section 147 (rioting), 366 (illegal confinement), 363 (whoever kidnaps or abducts a women and compels her to marry or have a sexual relation), 497 (adultery) and 420 (cheating) were also slapped on the MLA, Brijlal said.

Sharma, an MLA from Debai seat who had defeated BJP leader Kalyan Singh's son Rajveer Singh Raju was given Z plus security on the recommendations of the state government.

In her complaint, the research scholar from Agra alleged that the MLA had married her two years ago by hiding the fact that he was already married and had two children, the ADG said.

"He (MLA) wanted me to be his kept and terrorized me physically besides mentally torturing me", the ADG said quoting the research scholar.

She also alleged that she was kept in different places and raped several times by the MLA's men.

Brijlal said, on the basis of the complaint of the woman, Station House Officer of Ramghat police station in Bulandshahr was suspended for trying to frame her and a colleague in fake cases of auto theft and fraud.

Asked whether the arrest was made on the direction of the Chief Minister, Secretary Home Mahesh Kumar Gupta said that GB Nagar police arrested him after being tipped off by the police chief of Kanshiram Nagar.