Author: B R Haran
Publication: Haindava Keralam
Date: April 29, 2009
URL: http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx?PAGEID=8602&SKIN=B
The White Christian Church has the unique
characteristic of gaining entry into non-White, non-Semitic civilizations,
by slow infiltration of important establishments to influence them and create
unrest by dividing the local populace along communal or linguistic lines,
with the sole objective of Christianising those countries.
Several instances in history confirm this.
The Church has been partially successful in India, as evidenced by the Christianisation
of north-eastern states such as Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, etc., and a
few pockets in other States. While interior states have been able to withstand
the Christian onslaught, the southern coastal states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been vulnerable to the evil designs of the
Church. This was made possible only because of the help provided by self-serving
political leaders in the guise of secularism.
Influencing politics in Tamil Nadu and Sri
Lanka
The Dravidian Movement of Tamil Nadu comprised
only such leaders, who even went to the extent of requesting the British to
continue their hegemony over Tamil Nadu. Since then, the unholy 'Christian-Dravidian'
nexus has worked consistently for the cause of 'Tamil Nation,' extending it
to the north-east of Sri Lanka as well.
Just as it divided the Tamil people through the bogus 'Aryan (Brahmin) - Dravidian
(Non-Brahmin) Theory,' to alienate non-Brahmins from the 'Hindu' fold along
linguistic lines (Aryan Sanskrit - Dravidian Tamil), the Church similarly
divided the Sri Lankan people along linguistic (Sinhala-Tamil) lines. On the
one hand, it backed the LTTE fully against the government, and on the other,
it successfully infiltrated the Sri Lankan establishment and influenced the
government through Sinhala Christian leadership.
When Sri Lankan Prime Minister Solomon West
Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike introduced the "Sinhala only Act" in
1956, the Island's first anti-Tamil riots took place. Prior to Solomon Bandaranaike,
the Sri Lankan government was headed by leaders like Don Stephen Senanayake
and John Kotelawala, and his successors were Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Dudley
Senanayake, Junius Richard Jayewardene, Premadasa, Ranil Wickramasinghe, Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunge (married a Christian), Percy Mahinda Rajapakse, who
were all either Christians, or Buddhist converts, or married to Christian
spouses.
The first Sri Lankan Tamil leader who started
the demand for separatism was a Christian - Samuel James Velupillai Chelvanayakam;
he also called for a "Greater Dravida Nadu" on both sides of the
Palk Straits.
It can be said that LTTE just followed his
footsteps, backed by the Church and missionaries. Ever since ethnic riots
took place in 1983, Anton Balasingham, a Roman Catholic, assumed the mantle
of LTTE's political leadership and was second only to Prabhakaran, also a
Christian.
Ironically, the 85% Hindu majority of Sri
Lankan Tamils came totally under the control of a Christian minority leadership,
thanks to the Machiavellian machinations of the Church and missionaries. It
is difficult to swallow this bitter truth, especially when recalling the glorious
past of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus under the leadership of great Shaivite scholars
like Arumuga Navalar, great men like Ponnambalam Ramanathan and Ponnambalam
Arunachalam, and intellectuals like the Coomaraswamys. All were widely respected
by the Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Ponnambalam Ramanathan was the one who pushed
for "Wesak" or "Buddha Purnima" to be a public holiday
in colonial Sri Lanka.
As for Tamil Nadu, though the Church suffered
a slight setback when M.G. Ramachandran left DMK and founded the AIADMK, deviating
from "Atheism" to "Theism" (moving closer to Hindu religion),
and his successor Jayalalithaa followed his footsteps (at least for a while),
it seemed to have cleverly moved its coins to influence AIADMK too. Now we
have a host of Dravidian parties changing alliances at the drop of a hat and
even at each others' throats, but remaining perennially close to the Church.
So, whichever party is in power, the Church
is able to have its say and continue with its agenda of de-Hinduising the
state. Similarly, in Sri Lanka, the Church has been able to influence the
leadership of both LTTE and the Sri Lankan government, while causing the death
of thousands of Hindus and Buddhists in the decades-long conflict. The Church
has also been indulging in blatant conversion activities in both Tamil Nadu
and Sri Lanka.
Influencing Jayalalithaa for the greatest
assault on Hinduism
At one point, the Church found it difficult
in Tamil Nadu, due to the enormous influence of Melmaravathur Adiparasakthi
Movement and Sabarimala Pilgrimage on Scheduled Caste Hindus, and the various
activities undertaken by Kanchi Mutt to reach out to them, besides the enactment
of the anti-conversion law by the Jayalalithaa regime.
But the Church finally succeeded in influencing
Jayalalithaa after her party's rout in the 2004 parliament elections, resulting
in two telling actions. First, she repealed the anti-conversion law, enacted
by her own government, to appease the Christian community; secondly, she went
to the extent of denigrating and destroying the sanctity of a 2500-year-old
institution established by Adi Sankara and flawlessly maintained by his order
of disciples as 'Jagath Gurus' for millions of Hindus.
Not surprisingly, in October 2004, she received
the 'Golden Star for Dignity and Honour' (Thanga Tharakai) award from a Ukraine-based
Christian organisation named International Human Rights Defence Committee,
controlled by America and funded by 'US Agency for International Development'
(USAID).
The Indian representative for IHRDC was Mallavarappu
Prakash, Bishop of Vijayawada and later Chairman of Tamil Nadu Minorities
Welfare Commission! In February 2005, the 'India International Society', USA,
proposed a tribute for her together with 'Barath Jyothi' award, after which
evangelist K.A. Paul came to Tamil Nadu in a private jet to give thousands
of crores of rupees for Tsunami relief.
Jaya pursuing Christian agenda
Since then, Jayalalithaa has clearly sided
with the Christian clergy. Last year, while terming the spontaneous 'retaliatory'
attacks on Christians in Kandhamal, Orissa, as a "disgrace" to the
nation, she conveniently ignored the dastardly murder of Swami Laxmanananda
and his disciples, and the distribution of blasphemous literature and pamphlets
denigrating Hindu Gods and Goddesses, by his opponents. When the Rama Sethu
Protection Movement was at its peak, she spoke against the Sethusamudram Project,
not with true faith in Sri Rama, but with an eye on the votebank. And while
protesting against the Sethu Project, she exhibited her 'secular' credentials
by pointing out that 'Adams Bridge' (Ramar Sethu) was significant to Muslims
and Christians as well, a myth which no Christian or Muslim scholar has so
far endorsed!
Even the present election manifesto of her
party makes only a passing mention of Rama Sethu! Yet it gives exclusive commitments
for Christians, such as Reservation for Dalit Christians (unconstitutional),
subsidy for Jerusalem pilgrimage, 'All Souls Day' to be made a holiday, hostels
with all facilities at nominal charges in towns of minority religious significance,
and addressing the 'security' concerns of minorities.
But she gave no commitments regarding repeal
of the DMK government's ordinance on Tamil New Year or returning the Chidambaram
Temple administration to the Dikshidars, or any issue concerning Hindus. As
if to confirm allegiance to the Christian agenda, she deviated from her original
stand on the Sri Lankan ethnic issue and sat on a day-long fast on 9 March
2009, condemning the Indian government's alleged inaction on the issue and
addressed the LTTE as "fighters" instead of her usual remark of
"terrorists". Now she has openly supported the Christian agenda
of creation of a separate Tamil Eelam, which amounts to supporting the LTTE
and nothing else. After all, the Church-backed LTTE leadership is also fighting
for the same cause!
Sabotaging the legislation on conversion in
Sri Lanka
In 2003, Sri Lankan Buddhist and Hindu leaders
joined hands to draft a legislation, at the request of Hindu Affairs Minister
T. Maheswaran, to legally stop conversion activities by the Church. Despite
the pressure applied by this joint committee which worked for six months to
draft the new act for parliament, the Church-influenced Sri Lankan government
has been reluctant to enact the law.
As the Church foresaw that Buddhist-Hindu
unity - unity between majority (Buddhists) and the largest minority (Tamil
Hindus) - could lead to permanent peace in the war-struck Island, it sabotaged
the process of legislation by favouring the creation of an inter-religious
council to hammer out a solution. This so-called inter-religious council is
a typical Christian strategy (much like the Church-backed inter-faith dialogues
in non-Christian countries) to thwart all attempts to ban conversions by an
act of parliament; the same has been adopted by the Vatican to stop such legislations
in India as well. Though organizations such as 'All Ceylon Hindu Congress'
(though pro-LTTE), 'Hindu Council of Sri Lanka' and 'National Council of Buddhist
Clergy' are dead against conversion activities, the Church has been able to
influence the political leadership across the spectrum to sabotage the legislation
of the anti-conversion law (Ref:
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=20884).
In this context, it must be noted that the
former Hindu Affairs Minister in Ranil Wickramasinge's cabinet T. Maheswaran
escaped an assassination attempt in 2004, but was finally assassinated on
1 January 2008 while worshipping in a Shiva Temple. Till date, the government
has not completed investigations in to the murder, though it has been blamed
for allegedly reducing his security level and for continuing Minister Douglas
Devananda, widely alleged to be involved in the assassination. The government
put the blame squarely on LTTE and Douglas Devananda also denied the allegation
of involvement. The BBC Sinhala.com reported, "The DNA samples taken
from the murder suspect of a Tamil legislator matched with the blood samples
taken from the gun used for the killing, Sri Lankan judiciary said. The legislator's
security guard managed to shoot the suspect, identified as Johnson Collin
Wasanthan Valentine
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Maheswaranand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2008/02/080201_maheswaran_dna.shtml).
Importance of Hindu-Buddhist relationship
As early as June 1998, 'Tamilnet' reported
that an International conference on Hinduism condemned attacks on Hindus and
the destruction of Hindu places of worship by Sri Lankan security forces,
and urged Colombo to halt such attacks. The report said that, the 'First International
Conference on Hindu Solidarity' was held in Paris on 27-28 June at the UNESCO
auditorium and attended by delegates from several countries, including functionaries
from BJP and VHP (
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=1691).
Though this seems like a conflict between
Buddhist and Hindu communities, it must be understood that the security forces
are controlled by a political leadership owing allegiance to the Church. The
centuries-old cultural relationship and largely peaceful existence of both
the Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus can be ascertained from two facts.
First, their coming together to draft a legislation
against conversion activities of the Church and missionaries, and second,
the statement from the Hindu Council of Sri Lanka that the long-standing cordial
relationship between the two religious communities in the Island Nation would
go a long way in solving the present crisis and creating peace and harmony.
It is pertinent to note that Buddhists worship
Hindu Gods and Goddesses and Hindus worship Buddha as an Avatar of Maha Vishnu,
and both communities follow the same calendar and celebrate the same day as
New Year. While condemning the politicisation of the ethnic conflict by self-serving
politicians of Tamil Nadu, the Hindu Council felt that areas of common interests
must be identified and along with religious commonality and cordiality, local
capacities built for peace. It opined that furthering political interests
and fanning Tamil chauvinism must be discouraged as it would complicate the
situation and inhibit the capacity of the Indian government to help find a
lasting solution by bringing both the Sri Lankan government and the Tamils
to the negotiating table.
BJP-led NDA government's proactive role in
the peace process
Journalist M.R. Narayan Swamy (IANS) reported
that the Vajpayee government played a secret but vital proactive role in the
peace process between Sri Lanka and LTTE, brokered by Norway: "Overseen
by New Delhi, a truce document began to be drafted. Norway was deeply involved
in the exercise, roping in some of its veteran diplomats. Eventually, this
translated into CFA. India also told Norwegian diplomats to let the LTTE know
about the Indian involvement in the entire effort. On Feb 21, 2002, LTTE chief
Velupillai Prabhakaran signed the CFA. Wickramasinghe put his signature a
day later."
By sheer coincidence, both Ranil Wickramasinghe
and A.B. Vajpayee lost power almost at the same time (April-May 2004) and
J.N. Dixit, appointed NSA by Sonia-led UPA regime, passed away within a few
months of his appointment, with all the details about India's role in bringing
the CFA, which he learnt from Ranil Wickramasinghe, when the later visited
India after demitting office. It is natural for a Hindu nationalist party
to be deeply concerned about the well-being of a country who's Buddhist and
Hindu people are both tied to Hindu India by an umbilical cord; hence it is
no surprise that it tried to bring peace in the interests of both countries.
Why did the CFA fail and whether the Sonia-led government pursued the policy
of the Vajpayee government with regard to Sri Lanka remain unknown?
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=24710
The present scenario
At present, all Dravidian parties are wreaking
havoc in the run-up to the general elections, using the inflammatory Eelam
issue as an election talking point. Each party is trying to whip up emotions
in Tamil Nadu to bring about a ceasefire in Lanka and thereby save Prabhakaran
and the LTTE.
When the Father Jagat Gasper Raj-Kanimozhi
combine floated the "Chennai Sangamam" cultural extravaganza in
2007, Jaya TV went to town with investigative reports on the LTTE connections
of Gasper Raj; Jayalalithaa wasted no time condemning the government's association
with the project. But last year, both Jayalalithaa and her TV channel kept
a conspicuous silence during the Chennai Sangamam festival.
During the last week alone, Father Gasper
Raj has been promoted by mainstream electronic media as a representative of
Sri Lankan Tamils! Participating in debates on electronic news channels, he
blatantly supports LTTE in the guise of voicing human rights concerns, criticizes
the Indian government, and in one debate on Times Now Channel had the audacity
to call Dr. Subramanian Swamy a "paid agent of Rajapakse"! Yet it
is unclear if he is a Sri Lankan refugee or an Indian citizen. His antecedents
and present activities in India/Tamil Nadu need thorough investigation.
AIADMK leader Jayalaithaa, who condemned Karunanidhi
for saying Prabhakaran was not a terrorist, has not reacted to her ally PMK
leader Ramadoss' identical statement! Why does Jayalalithaa, who questioned
Sonia's silence on Karuna's statement, remain silent on Ramadoss' statement?
And what has the Italian-Christian-led UPA
done for Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus in the last five years? Why didn't the Sonia-led
regime follow the NDA policy with regard to the Sri Lankan Tamil issue? Why
was her government silent when the Geneva round of talks failed despite the
presence of a live CFA?
Sad irony and civilisational opportunity
Actually, the West and the Church want to
Christianise Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu and form a larger Tamil Christian State.
Hence a Sinhala-Tamil divide has been created with the help of the Tamil-Christian
leadership of the LTTE and the Sinhala-Christian leadership of Sri Lanka.
Caught in between are the Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civil populace.
To keep the issue alive without any solution, the Christian leadership of
India and the Dravidian, irreligious leadership of Tamil Nadu have been used,
just as this diabolic group is using Dravidian politicians and Christian NGOs
who have been harvesting souls in both Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It is a sad
irony that the interests of hapless Tamil Hindus of Sri Lanka, who have been
persecuted for long by both the Christian leadership of LTTE and the Christian
leadership of Sri Lankan government, have been represented by the unholy Christian-Dravidian
nexus in Tamil Nadu.
As things stand in Sri Lanka, it looks as
though the West might be able to save the LTTE leadership. It will try to
send missionaries and NGOs to help the rehabilitation process, so it can clandestinely
achieve its evangelical agenda also.
It is said that President Rajapakse instructed
setting up of a chapel in the 'welfare villages' to look into the spiritual
needs of the internally displaced persons and refugees, who number up to 200,000.
Sensing the danger of evangelization, the Hindu Council, the Hindu Women's
Society (Saiva Mangaiyar Kazhagam), the Sai Samithi, along with other organizations,
swung into action to provide medicines, clothes, soaps, detergents and sanitary
napkins and other articles of basic necessity, to augment the shelter, food
and water provided by the government. The Hindu Council has also organized
singing of Tamil devotional hymns (Thevaram and Thiruvasagam); the Sai Samithi
has organized bhajans. These organizations are likely to take care of orphaned
children by sending them to orphanages run by the Sri Ramakrishna Mission.
The present situation must be seen as an opportunity
to revive Hindu-Buddhist unity and Hindu religious heads from India, especially
from Tamil Nadu, would do well to establish contact and communication channels
with Buddhist leaders of Sri Lanka. This will go a long way in bringing peace
and harmony to the Island Nation. For this to happen, we need a strong "Hindu"
political leadership in India. Let us hope it gets 'elected' now.