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Publications: The Navhind Times
Date: July 16, 2001
India will not tolerate attempt
by foreign missionaries to force Hindus to change their religion, Rashtriya
Sawayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Mr K S Sudarshan said here today.
"There is an urgent need to launch
world-wide movement against conversions," Mr Sudarshan told a largely attended
public meeting of Indians organised by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh of Canada.
He said that all out efforts should
be made to resist and prevent attempts by certain Chrisitian and Muslim
units to force Hindus to change their religion.
"If Hindus do not maintain Hinduism,
who shall save it? If India's own children do not cling to her faith, who
should guard it?" he asked, and added that Indians alone could save India
and Hindus were one.
He said, "Hinduism is a tolerant
faith. It is that tolerance that enabled Islam, Christianity, Jainism,
Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Sikhism to find shelter and support in India.
But it should not be treated its weakness."
Mr Sudarshan was of the view that
Hindu religion was used and understood as a synonym of "Indianisation"-development
of uniform culture by obliterating the differences between all the cultures
co-existing in the country.
In his forty five minutes address,
Mr Sudarshan said the Hindu nation was born with sanatana dharma, it would
live and grow with dharma. When sanatana dharma would degerate, so would
India.
