Hindu Nation: India's Religious Cleansing
CBN News. NEW DELHI, India - February 1, 2008. It was perhaps one of the worst attacks on Christians ever in India's history. December 2007, hundreds of Hindu radicals destroyed more than 700 Christian homes in India's eastern state of Orissa. "The Hindu mob threatened us saying that India belongs to Hindus, Christians do not belong here," said Obed Diggal, a resident of the Kandhamal District. Some 95 churches were demolished or burned to the ground. "They warned us that if we rebuild the churches they would kill us; they would break our body into pieces just like they broke our church into pieces," another resident Nabaghana Naik said. The man, whose group is suspected of taking part in the attacks, told CBN News that peace will come only when Christians in India stop proselytizing. "This is my message to the Christians: Stop your conversions or you will learn a lesson from the Hindu society!" Hindu Umasankar Acharya said. Acharya didn't say what that lesson would be, but his Hindu extremist organization, Bajrang Dal often uses violence against Christians. Bajrang Dal and other radical groups are trying to turn India into a Hindu nation- what many people would even call a fundamentalist state. "The goal of the Hindu radicals is to destroy India's reputation as a secular and pluralistic democracy and replace it with an explicitly Hindu identity." Ram Madhav is a spokesman for the RSS, a right-wing Hindu supremacist organization. "Just as America belongs to Americans <b>...</b>
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