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Pak Priest Sacrifices 3 Daughters
Times of India ^ | March 23, 2010 | Omer Farooq Khan

Posted on 03/24/2010 2:08:17 PM PDT by Steelfish

Edited on 03/27/2010 9:20:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Pak Priest Sacrifices 3 Daughters Omer Farooq Khan Mar 24, 2010 ISLAMABAD: A Hindu priest committed suicide after killing his three minor daughters, all under 6-year-old, to please Hindu goddess Kali Mata in Bhemomal area of Sind province on Tuesday.

According to police and eyewitnesses, religious rituals were regularly performed at the Kali Mata Temple established on the first floor of a house owned by Tekam Das Meghwar in Bhemomal. Reports say that Tekam Das Meghwar first slaughtered his three daughters, Parwati, 6-year-old, Reena, 4, and Aarti, 1, with a sharp knife and then slit his own throat to make Kali Mata happy.

Moulchand, brother of deceased Tekam Das Meghwar said, “My deceased brother was Hindu priest of Kali Mata and he performed pooja the whole night but in the early morning when power supply failed he slaughtered his three daughters before committing suicide with a sharp weapon.”

SHO Taluka police Rasool Bux Thaheem told media that after post mortem the bodies of the three sisters and their father were handed over to their heirs.

Initial police investigation suggested that Tekam Das Meghwar, early on Tuesday morning, entered the residential portion of the house, asking his wife, Pavi, to bring milk from a nearby shop. Investigators believe that taking advantage of solitary Tekam Das slit throats of his three daughters.

The ill-fated mother told police that "when I returned home, I saw heads of three girls in a cradle placed in room. Body of Tekam Das also lay in a pool of blood with his throat slit." She started screaming on which neighbours rushed to the house.

Another Hindu priest Bhagat Ashok told media that act of Tekam Das was foolish and it was illegal to offer sacrifice of even animals in Hindu religion. The incident spread panic in the town of Mirwah Gorchani as hundreds of people gathered at the spot.


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1 posted on 03/24/2010 2:08:17 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Out leftists are heading that way too.


2 posted on 03/24/2010 2:09:38 PM PDT by GeronL (All politicians are POS. Some are just piled higher and smell worse.)
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To: Steelfish

You’ve at least got to hand it to them that when they decided to kill, it appears they just take their own family.

Muslims could learn something from them.


3 posted on 03/24/2010 2:11:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: Steelfish

Hey - this is the behavior of a mentally sick man. Such murder/suicides happen here in this country, too, even among Christians. The fact the family is Hindu is besides the fact.


4 posted on 03/24/2010 2:16:24 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Steelfish

There is a big difference between Judeo-Christian culture and all the other religious cultures. Thank God for providing the guidance to allow us to avoid this pattern.


5 posted on 03/24/2010 2:17:40 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Steelfish

progressives?


6 posted on 03/24/2010 2:18:07 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: ConservativeMind
This is the first time I have heard of Hindus doing something like this. I thought they were rather peaceful until pushed.
7 posted on 03/24/2010 2:21:08 PM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar. ---- "OBAMA: THE GREAT MISTAKE OF 2008")
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To: SatinDoll

Hey - this is the behavior of a mentally sick man. Such murder/suicides happen here in this country, too, even among Christians. The fact the family is Hindu is besides the fact.


Uh, no.

Kali is the God of Death.

Mata means “death” -—— from the Sanskrit,

For example: like saying check mate, in chess, (which comes from India), where “Mate” is an altered pronunciation of Mata meaning death (of your chess king)

So Kali or Kahli Mata is the God of Death to whom he was giving his daughters’ heads and himself, to make Kali happy.

Very un-Christian I would say.


8 posted on 03/24/2010 2:23:57 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Steelfish

“My deceased brother was Hindu priest of Kali Mata"

Kill for the love of Kali.

9 posted on 03/24/2010 2:25:57 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: Steelfish

What modern Christians never seem to understand is the fact that Christianity releases people from fear. That’s what St Patrick did when he evangelized Ireland (set the people free from the druid priest-kings and their idols and spells), and that’s what Christians should be doing in Africa (and India) too.

“Social justice” means nothing when people are so scared of the demons and dark forces that they will sacrifice themselves and their own children to them.


10 posted on 03/24/2010 2:29:36 PM PDT by livius
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

This is the type of thing that God was referring to when He got angry at his people (Old Testament) for causing their children to “pass through fire”. That was how Baal worshipers sacrificed their children.


11 posted on 03/24/2010 2:43:39 PM PDT by Spudx7
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To: livius
“Social justice” means nothing when people are so scared of the demons and dark forces that they will sacrifice themselves and their own children to them.

Absolutely correct. A devout Christian, motivated by true faith could never perform such atrocities. A fervent commitment to the Hindu faith, or, for that matter, the faith of Islam results in acts considered barbaric by Christians and Jews. Among them are murder, suicide, mutilation and terrorism. Any attempt to equate Christianity with barbarism is unenlightened.

12 posted on 03/24/2010 2:45:53 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (He is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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To: Steelfish
How predictable.

You "conveniently" left this part out:

"Another Hindu priest Bhagat Ashok told media that act of Tekam Das was foolish and it was illegal to offer sacrifice of even animals in the Hindu religion. The incident spread panic in the town of Mirwah Gorchani as hundreds of people gathered at the spot."

What's next, a discussion on paedophile Catholic priests? Or a justification for the ritual mass slaughter of children and infants a la 1 Samuel 15: 2-3?

13 posted on 03/24/2010 2:49:29 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009
Uh, no.

Uh, yes.

"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'"

- 1 Samuel 15: 2-3.

A precedent is all that's needed for future justification, when it comes to nuts.

14 posted on 03/24/2010 2:52:31 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: Steelfish

Hinduism has gods of creation and destruction. And Hindus can be violent, but mostly in reaction to the centuries of violence that they have experienced from Muslim invaders.

The Hindus in India also sometimes persecute and kill Christians and destroy their churches. Again, I think this is partly the result of persecution by Muslims. But, unlike Buddhism, Hinduism can be violent.

The big plus is that its violence seems to be restricted to India. They don’t go out conquering and killing in other countries, the way the Muslims do.


15 posted on 03/24/2010 2:58:12 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: James C. Bennett
This is unfortunately something that can be justified in Hinduism, although of course most modern Hindus do not do things like this. Hinduism is actually very similar to the religion of pre-Christian Rome, the practice of which depended upon the social and educational level of those involved. At a lower level, they had a multiplicity of gods who needed to be propitiated in various ways, they practiced ancestor and emperor worship, and they also threw in a bit of fertility cult behavior; more educated people, on the other hand, had moved almost entirely into philosophical realm and were more or less monotheist, regardless of the ceremonies they had to perform to satisfy social expectations.

Christianity, more than anything else, set the poor free from their fears.

It also gave the final interpretation to what Christians refer to as the Old Testament, the Jewish Scriptures, and removed the literal nature of the commands to kill one's enemy and one's enemies children (which had actually already been interpreted allegorically for many years by the time of the arrival of Christ). Jews stopped practicing even animal sacrifice with the fall of the Temple a few decades after the death of Christ.

16 posted on 03/24/2010 3:03:46 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
 The Bhagavad-Gita.
The Harvard Classics.  1909–14.
 
Chapter XII
 
 
ARJUNA:

LORD! of the men who serve Thee—true in heart—
As God revealed; and of the men who serve,
Worshipping Thee Unrevealed, Unbodied, far,
Which take the better way of faith and life?
 
KRISHNA:

Whoever serve Me—as I show Myself—
        5
Constantly true, in full devotion fixed,
These hold I very holy. But who serve—
Worshipping Me The One, The Invisible,
The Unrevealed, Unnamed, Unthinkable,
Uttermost, All-pervading, Highest, Sure—         10
Who thus adore Me, mastering their sense,
Of one set mind to all, glad in all good,
These blessed souls come unto Me.
        Yet, hard
The travail is for whoso bend their minds         15
To reach th’ Unmanifest. That viewless path
Shall scarce be trod by man bearing his flesh!
But whereso any doeth all his deeds,
Renouncing self in Me, full of Me, fixed
To serve only the Highest, night and day         20
Musing on Me—him will I swiftly lift
Forth from life’s ocean of distress and death
Whose soul clings fast to Me. Cling thou to Me!
Clasp Me with heart and mind! so shalt thou dwell
Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought         25
Droops from such height; if thou be’st weak to set
Body and soul upon Me constantly,
Despair not! give Me lower service! seek
To read Me, worshipping with steadfast will;
And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly,         30
Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me!
For he that laboreth right for love of Me
Shall finally attain! But, if in this
Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure! find
Refuge in Me! let fruits of labor go,         35
Renouncing all for Me, with lowliest heart,
So shalt thou come; for, though to know is more
Than diligence, yet worship better is
Than knowing, and renouncing better still
Near to renunciation—very near—         40
Dwelleth Eternal Peace!
        Who hateth nought
Of all which lives, living himself benign,
Compassionate, from arrogance exempt,
Exempt from love of self, unchangeable         45
By good or ill; patient, contented, firm
In faith, mastering himself, true to his word,
Seeking Me, heart and soul; vowed unto Me,—
That man I love! Who troubleth not his kind,
And is not troubled by them; clear of wrath,         50
Living too high for gladness, grief, or fear,
That man I love!

Who, dwelling quiet-eyed,
Stainless, serene, well-balanced, unperplexed,
Working with Me, yet from all works detached,
That man I love!

Who, fixed in faith on Me,
        55
Dotes upon none, scorns none; rejoices not,
And grieves not, letting good and evil hap
Light when it will, and when it will depart,
That man I love!

Who, unto friend and foe
Keeping an equal heart, with equal mind         60
Bears shame and glory, with an equal peace
Takes heat and cold, pleasure and pain; abides
Quit of desires, hears praise or calumny
In passionless restraint, unmoved by each,
Linked by no ties to earth, steadfast in Me,
        65
That man I love!

But most of all I love
Those happy ones to whom ’tis life to live
In single fervid faith and love unseeing,
Eating the blessèd Amrit of my Being!
 
Here endeth Chapter XII. of the Bhagavad-Gîtâ,
        70
entitled “Bhakityôgô,” or “The Book of
the Religion of Faith”.
 

17 posted on 03/24/2010 3:10:32 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: livius

So, the children were not ordered to be slaughtered, per 1 Samuel 15: 2-3?

Perhaps someone should look into rewriting the book, in that case.


18 posted on 03/24/2010 3:13:29 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: Cicero
The Hindus in India also sometimes persecute and kill Christians and destroy their churches. Again, I think this is partly the result of persecution by Muslims. But, unlike Buddhism, Hinduism can be violent.

Both Hindus and Muslims go after Christians because they want easy prey who are unlikely to respond with extreme violence of their own.

19 posted on 03/24/2010 3:16:39 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Actually, NLTF rebels in India’s north-east, have been waging a campaign of violence, on their own:

“The NLFT has warned members of the tribal community that they may be attacked if they do not accept its Christian agenda.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/758342.stm


20 posted on 03/24/2010 3:20:12 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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