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Sour Yule Tide spirit in India: Chaddis are targeting Indian Christians and their biggest festival
by Guest Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:24 pm
It is difficult to imagine anyone getting angry or even displeased with Christmas carols. Yet on Thursday, the Madhya Pradesh police detained a group of Catholic seminarians and priests as they were out singing carols in Satna, booking six of them for outraging religious feelings and also charging them under the state’s draconian anti-conversion law. In the ensuing chaos, Hindutva groups set the carollers’ car on fire and allegedly assaulted some of the singers. Eight priests who later went to the police station to inquire about the situation were also detained.
This isn’t all. In Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, the Hindu Jagran Manch warned Christian-run schools in the town of Aligarh not to celebrate Christmas at all. Like in Madhya Pradesh, this was also driven by the bogey of conversions. Earlier in the week on Wednesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ wife, Amruta Fadnavis was attacked on social media for simply supporting a Christmas-themed charity event. One prominent right-wing columnist accused Amruta Fadnavis of encouraging Christians in their alleged efforts at “harvesting souls”. Amruta Fadnavis had to counter this charge by reaffirming that she was a “proud Hindu” and celebrated “every festival in my country”.
Carols were under attack in Mumbai too. On Saturday, Ashish Shelar, a BJP MLA who heads the party’s Mumbai unit, was trolled for inviting Mumbai residents to attend a Christmas festival in the city. Among Shelar’s detractors was the chief strategy officer of right-wing magazine Swarajya, who criticised the event – which features a music competition, food stalls and sand football on Mumbai’s Chowpatty beach – as “a cultural war against Hindus”....
Much of this anti-minority sentiment is driven by the internal logic of Hindutva. As defined by Vinayak Savarkar, the man who coined the term “Hindutva”, anyone who did not consider India his “punyabhumi” (religious land) was not a Hindu and therefore was a second-class citizen in a Hindu nation. Both Islam and Christianity, which originated not in the subcontinent but in West Asia, are therefore suspect.
https://scroll.in/article/861815/war-on-christmas-hindutva-groups-are-targeting-indian-christians-and-their-biggest-festival
This isn’t all. In Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, the Hindu Jagran Manch warned Christian-run schools in the town of Aligarh not to celebrate Christmas at all. Like in Madhya Pradesh, this was also driven by the bogey of conversions. Earlier in the week on Wednesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ wife, Amruta Fadnavis was attacked on social media for simply supporting a Christmas-themed charity event. One prominent right-wing columnist accused Amruta Fadnavis of encouraging Christians in their alleged efforts at “harvesting souls”. Amruta Fadnavis had to counter this charge by reaffirming that she was a “proud Hindu” and celebrated “every festival in my country”.
Carols were under attack in Mumbai too. On Saturday, Ashish Shelar, a BJP MLA who heads the party’s Mumbai unit, was trolled for inviting Mumbai residents to attend a Christmas festival in the city. Among Shelar’s detractors was the chief strategy officer of right-wing magazine Swarajya, who criticised the event – which features a music competition, food stalls and sand football on Mumbai’s Chowpatty beach – as “a cultural war against Hindus”....
Much of this anti-minority sentiment is driven by the internal logic of Hindutva. As defined by Vinayak Savarkar, the man who coined the term “Hindutva”, anyone who did not consider India his “punyabhumi” (religious land) was not a Hindu and therefore was a second-class citizen in a Hindu nation. Both Islam and Christianity, which originated not in the subcontinent but in West Asia, are therefore suspect.
https://scroll.in/article/861815/war-on-christmas-hindutva-groups-are-targeting-indian-christians-and-their-biggest-festival
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by southindian Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:41 pm
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