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1 posted on 12/26/2007 6:03:34 AM PST by charles m
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To: charles m

Apparently there’s more than one “religion of peace” out there...


2 posted on 12/26/2007 6:16:31 AM PST by Redbob
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To: charles m

Yet we continue to do business there.


3 posted on 12/26/2007 6:18:21 AM PST by TheRake (Still Taxed to death in Michigan....it's getting worse.....and worse)
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To: charles m; Gengis Khan
Some reports said that Christians had attacked a hardline Hindu leader, Laxmanananda Saraswati of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad group, who had been leading an anti-conversion movement.

"The situation was aggravated by some Christians forcibly stopping the 80-year-old Hindu leader Laxmanananda Saraswati and attempting to attack him," said Giriraj Kishore of the VHP.

"When they were prevented from attacking him by his followers the Christians hit someone with an ax and one Hindu died," he told reporters in New Delhi.

8 posted on 12/26/2007 6:39:28 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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But the New Delhi-based Catholic Bishops Conference of India said the fighting began when Hindu extremists objected to a Christmas Eve show, believing the display was designed to encourage Hindus at the bottom of the religion's rigid caste hierarchy to convert to Christianity.

This is the real issue. Bottom-caste Hindus do all the crap jobs, and have to defer to upper-caste Hindus. If they convert to Christianity, then they might tend to get "uppity" and forget their "place" in the scheme of things

They might even leave the countryside and try to get a job in the city with a company that doesn't care about caste

13 posted on 12/26/2007 6:55:49 AM PST by PapaBear3625
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Orissa is a state with a large, forest-dwelling tribal population.


It is the same place the emperor Ashoka won the Kalinga battle. The place has been wild since ages.


Besides these tribes, there are even more primitive tribes in some of India's islands:





 

Stone Age tribe kills castaways

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/stone-age-tribe-kills-castaways/2006/02/09/1139379613195.html

 

February 9, 2006 - 1:14PM

Police on India's Andamans are planning to sneak onto a forbidden island to retrieve the bodies of two castaways killed by members of an isolated tribe, officials said today.

Fishermen Sunder Raj and Pandit Tiwari fell asleep in their row boat which drifted to the shores of North Sentinal island, 40 kilometres from the Andaman's administrative capital of Port Blair, Dharmendra Kumar, police chief of the Indian Ocean archipelago.

They were killed with bows and arrows by Sentinalese tribespeople when they arrived on the shores of the island, which is out of bounds even to Indian authorities.

The attack occurred some 10 days ago and the "Stone Age" aborigines have buried the pair in separate shallow graves next to their boat from where police hope to retrieve the bodies.

"Right now, it is impossible. There'll be casualties on both sides," said Kumar.

"Right now, they are coming out in large numbers and so let things cool down and once these tribals move to the island's other end we'll try and sneak in and bring back the bodies," the police chief told AFP by telephone from Port Blair.

Relatives of the slain fishermen were taken by government boats and shown the two graves through binoculars, said B S Negi, Andaman's chief civilian administrator, adding the area was still surrounded by 20 naked Sentinalese.

Kumar's plan if executed is likely to be criticised by environmental groups who accuse the authorities of failing to protect the archipelago's five aboriginal groups who have lived on the island cluster for 60,000 years.

"It will be crazy if the police land on the island. They will be condemned by the whole world," warned Samir Achorya, founder of Society of Andaman and Nicobar Ecology environmental group.

Achorya said the two slain men were poaching lobsters and crabs in the off-limit waters of Sentinal.

"These two were petty criminals and have been imprisoned many times so we don't know what the police will gain by retrieving their rotting corpses from the island, which is the legal exclusive preserve of the aborigines," he said.

Survival International, an international pressure forum for near-extinct tribes, accused the archipelago's administration of not doing enough to prevent fishing boats entering the island's waters, which are even forbidden to naval ships.

"These tragic deaths could have been avoided if authorities had been enforcing the law," forum director Stephen Corry said in a statement.

Beside the Sentinalese, four other Stone Age tribes -- the 99-member Onge, 350-member Shompens, 39 of the almost extinct Andamanese and 350 Jarawas --- live on the Andamans.

Only a handful died in the tsunami waves which lashed the archipelago on December 26, 2004, killing some 3,500 people in the Andamans. Another 5,000 are still listed as missing.

A military reconnaissance helicopter surveying a tsunami shipwreck near the island strayed too close to its shores last year and received a volley of arrows, one of which pierced the cockpit glass narrowly missing its startled pilot.

AFP

 

 

 

14 posted on 12/26/2007 6:58:39 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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"When they were prevented from attacking him by his followers the Christians hit someone with an ax and one Hindu died,"

If true, not a very "Christian" act.

16 posted on 12/26/2007 7:26:44 AM PST by montag813
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To: charles m
Orissa, in fact, is the only Indian state that has a law requiring people to obtain police permission before they change their religion

A blatant infringement of human rights, but since Christians are involved, the international community of course coudn't care less.

17 posted on 12/26/2007 7:32:37 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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I’m trying to figure out how this got indexed to the keyword China.


25 posted on 12/27/2007 6:17:46 PM PST by Zhang Fei
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