Ghar Wapasi Articles- radical Hindus coercing Christians and Muslims to convert.

I am adding thoughtful pieces here until it reaches 25 Articles and after that a new thread will be opened here at www.MikeGhouseforIndia.blogspot.com 

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Ghar Wapasi – i.e. homecoming. It is the biggest news in India. That is bringing Christians and Muslims back into the fold of Hinduism – through incentives and coercion.

Religion is for sale now – it takes 5oo,ooo Rupees to convert a Muslim to Hinduism and 200,000 Rupees to convert a Christian to be a Hindu. 

Times of India reports, “Dharam Jagran Samiti, an RSS offshoot, has distributed pamphlets in Aligarh seeking donations for converting Christians and Muslims to Hinduism. The pamphlet says it costs Rs 2 lakh to convert a Christian and Rs 5 lakh to convert a Muslim. It has set December 25 as the date for a major conversion ceremony and put down an annual target of 2 lakh conversions — 1 lakh Muslims and 1 lakh Christians.” (1 lakh is 100,000).

I urge the Christians, Sikhs and Muslims of India, comprising roughly 200 Million to make a collective offer to the mis-representatives of Hinduism to come up with 500,000 x 200 Million Rupees, plus a job for each one to convert to Hinduism and Brahmin. Here is my offer,  I will become a Hindu Brahmin for 5,000 Crore Indian Rupees. All monies must be deposited at once into their bank accounts. Prime Minister Modi’s Plan to have a bank account and jobs for Indians will be fulfilled at once. He will become the greatest leader on the earth with that achievement; creating 200 million jobs and opening 200 Million bank accounts, there is no parallel in the history, indeed he would have matched the record created during the vedic times, restoring India's glory of ancient times.   

The fascist trend to dictate what one eats or believes is eventually going to be bad for Hindus as well.  The only way to save Hindus and non-Hindus from rogue Hindus is for good Hindus to speak up. So what if all Indian's become Hindu? Will you be safe as a Hindu? Would the mistreatment of Dalits and other "untouchables" go away? 

It is time for Moderate Hindus to speak up and take action and prevent India from becoming ISIS or a Taliban nation. This trend is not good; prosperity does not come when the cohesiveness of the society is messed up. It will create chaos and mess.

I have two articles pending publications  - "Is Hinduism a violent religion?" and "Religion for Sale in India" Hope they will be published by January 10, 2015. If not, it will be published here at www.MikeGhouseforIndia.blogspot.com and www.FoundationforPluralism.blogspot.com 

Mike Ghouse
www.MikeGhouse.net

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We need to save the idea of India: Nayantara Sahgal

Forget development, it is the age of ghar vapasi, conversions and re-conversions. At least that’s the picture emerging from the actions of numerous affiliates of the Sangh Parivar and the Prime Minster’s studied silence on the subject. I cannot put a finger to one accomplishment of this government. Where is the black money they talked about? Where is employment? All they have done is to bring these sadhus and sadhvis to Parliament. They do not represent the great faith of Hinduism. They speak the language of hate and exclusion. They are bringing about an atmosphere of mutual distrust.”- http://www.thehindu.com/features/lit-for-life/we-need-to-save-the-idea-of-india-nayantara-sahgal/article6751355.ece

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Welcome to the Hellhole of Hinduism
Most converts to Islam and Christianity, being from the lower castes who had converted to escape the yoke of caste bondage of Hinduism, would be reincarcerated into the hellhole of Hinduism which their forefathers strove to escape. Continued - http://www.epw.in/margin-speak/ghar-wapsi.html

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The Other conversion story

An old dalit I met in Meenakshipuram told me how he once had to  vacate his seat in a village bus for a 10-year-old Thevar boy, addressing  him respectfully. But after he converted to Islam, he didn't have to do that and he is addressed respectfully as 'bhai'. Continued - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/deep-focus/The-other-conversion-story/articleshow/45747192.cms

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Season of ghar wapsi: Intellectuals go back 'home' after brief Modi infatuation


Yes, I am one of these guys like Varshney and Kishwar. Now, along with them I am returning home away from supporting Modi, he will mess up India if he does not control the rogues. The statement that he denied - that he did not tell his goons that they have three days to do whatever they want to do with Muslims... seem like a pattern. Is he giving one year to the Radicals to shake up and frighten every Indian, then he will speak up?  It will be too bloody late. http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/2014/12/season-of-ghar-wapsi-intellectuals-go.html

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Five lakh Hindu-OBC people to embrace Buddhism by 2016

 ... The OBC (other backward castes) people believed that the caste system 
would be abolished after Independence. "In reality, it is very rigid and
there is no hope of that. We are mental slaves of this religion. The upper
caste Hindus have kept this caste system alive and so we will always
remain poor and deprived," ...http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-five-lakh-hindu-obc-people-to-embrace-buddhism-by-2016-2049100  

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A New, All-Hindu vision of India
In the following article, Chandrahas Choudhury writes, "Hinduism suffers because it has historically never been a proselytizing religion (its identity is partly based on being born into a pre-existing caste order). Therefore, if religion were to become a sort of free market in a multifaith country such as India, Hinduism could only stand to lose followers, not gain any."http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/2014/12/all-hindu-vision-of-india_27.html

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Christians under Attack in India 
http://www.crossmap.com/news/christmas-season-brings-christianity-under-renewed-attack-in-india-15059

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New tolerane for Intolerance in Indiahttp://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/opinion/in-modis-india-new-tolerance-for-intolerance/

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Hindus attack Christmas Carolers 
http://www.worthynews.com/18157-india-hindus-attack-christmas-carolers

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No right to undermine Secular nature of India - Hindustan Timeshttp://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/no-right-to-undermine-secular-nature-of-india/article1-1300103.aspx

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Reconversion roils in India - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/world/asia/india-narendra-modi-hindu-conversions-missionaries.html

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HIndu Switch Sparks Anger - Hong Kong
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=6&art_id=152563&sid=43584267&con_type=1&d_str=20141222&fc=4

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Ghar Wapasi in Mangalore
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/ghar-vapsi-in-mangaluru-too-hindu-mahasabha/article6730501.ece

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Conversions : For the love of God by Bikram Vohra http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/678451

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/3-churches-come-together-to-demand-ban-on-ghar-wapsi/articleshow/45755330.cms

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-shields-govt-reins-in-ghar-wapsi-hotheads/articleshow/45737889.cms

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http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/ghar-wapsi-not-a-govt-programme-shah/

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http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/conversion-to-islam-raises-questions-about-patriotism-vhp/

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http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/vedanti-plans-ghar-wapsi-for-3000-muslims/

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http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/vhp-ghar-wapsi-flops-in-bathinda-akalis-blamed/25592.html

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-has-outsourced-ghar-wapsi-to-VHP-RSS-Asaduddin-Owaisi/articleshow/45769054.cms

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Church turned into 'temple' after 72 Valmikis reconvert to Hinduism

Let people wear whatever religion suits them. The problem erupts when religion becomes political - and the self appointed guardians want to control others. The business of conversion is based on selling a 'superior' product against what they have. That is sheer arrogance indeed, there is nothing wrong with any religion.
Conversion is a good business - some make money or its equivalent (sawab), and some feel good...however, people should have the freedom to believe whatever they want to believe, as long as they don't rob my space, food and loved ones.
Mike Ghouse www.MikeGhouse.net
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Church turned into 'temple' after 72 Valmikis reconvert to Hinduism

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Church-turned-into-temple-after-72-Valmikis-reconvert-to-Hinduism/articleshow/41029431.cms?intenttarget=no

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ALIGARH: A church with a cross in it that belonged to the 7th Day Adventists overnight turned into a temple adorned with a portrait of Shiva after what some Hindu groups in Aligarh termed the "successful ghar wapasi" (reconversion) of 72 Valmikis who had become Christians in 1995.

There was an elaborate shuddhi karan (purification) ceremony on Tuesday inside the church in Asroi, 30km from Aligarh. Children from the village soon took over the premises and were seen playing in it by afternoon on Wednesday. A cross was allegedly remove from the church and placed outside the gate and a portrait of Shiva installed.

Khem Chandra, Sangh pracharak and pramukh of Dharam Jagran Vivad in Aligarh, said, "This is called ghar wapasi, not conversion. They left by choice and today they have realized their mistake and want to come back. We welcome them. We can't let our samaj scatter, we have to hold it tight. I have told them that honour comes from within the community and not from outside." Chandra added that in the years that followed their adoption of Christianity, he met heads of the eight Valmiki families numerous times to convince them to reconsider their decision.

However, as news of the reconversion spread, tension started building up, with sleuths of the Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) converging on the spot. Some villagers told TOI, on condition of anonymity, that the Shiva portrait had been removed and kept inside the house of a local resident. Anil Gaur, one of those who returned to the Hindu fold, said it was because they were unhappy with the caste system that they changed their religion. "But we found ourselves in no better position among Christians," he said. "As Hindus we had no status and were restricted to doing menial jobs, but even after remaining a Christian for 19 years, we saw that no one came to us from their community. There was no celebration of Bada Din (Christmas). The missionaries just built a church for us in the vicinity where some of the villagers got married. That was all."



Seventy-year-old Rajendra Singh said he, too, was happy to reconvert. "While sleeping outside the church one day I suffered a paralytic attack. I found myself unable to move. It happened last year and since then I have been thinking that it may have been Mata Devi's punishment for abandoning my faith," he claimed.

Osmond Charles, a lawyer and community leader in Aligarh, isn't convinced though. "Ghar wapasi sounds like a conspiracy," he said. "Sometimes we hear 'love jihad' and now we have 'ghar wapasi'. Is this the sign of a Hindu Rashtra in the making?"

Father Jonanthan Lal, pastor at City Methodist Church, said, "The 'purification' pooja took place inside the church which belongs to 7th Day Adventists. Such an activity shouldn't have taken place there. Faith is a personal matter but havan inside a church is not."

Meanwhile, there is a sudden, eerie quiet in Asroi. Villagers hurry inside their houses if they are asked about the reconversion and most say they know nothing about it. The presence of cops has added to their anxiety. "Don't ask anything. I don't know what happened," a young man said, turning away swiftly from a TOI team.