[ April 19, 2024 ]
In fact, the Christians were actually jailed and charged with hurting the Hindus’ religious feelings.
The seven had been assembled at a sick man’s home to pray for him when they were attacked.
The savagery rivals what Muslims do to those of other faiths. And it’s not the first time such violence has broken out. In 2015, a group of Hindus beat Christians mercilessly, tearing off their shirts:
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Morning Star News has more on this recent offense:
Seven Christians in India have been booked on charges of hurting religious feelings after Hindu extremists savagely beat them when they gathered to pray for a sick man at his home, sources said.
Police in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh state on Dec. 4 charged the six Christian men and one woman with “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings” after a mob of about 20 Hindus led by members of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) entered the house porch and attacked those present.
The six Christian men were taken into custody, while the woman was not immediately arrested due to the absence of female police required to detain her, sources said.
Anita Masih, a former Hindu who converted to Christianity nearly 30 years ago, was on her way to New Delhi with other Christians for a prayer fellowship and stopped at her sister Mamta Valmiki’s house in Eroli Gurjar village to pray for her ill husband. Valmiki’s son had been healed after Masih prayed for him, and Valmiki asked her sister and the Christians to pray for her husband.
Accompanying Masih were Christians including a pastor with Harvest Mission based in Kosi Kalan, Mathura District.
Valmiki, a 35-year-old Hindu of the below-caste Dalit people, told Morning Star News that she had implored her sister to visit her house along with the pastor and other Christians in order to pray for her husband, who was “extremely unwell,” and for her 16-year-old daughter, whose marriage she had recently arranged.
“I requested her to halt on her way to Delhi and pray for my household, that we might be blessed,” Valmiki said.
After seating the guests in a porch area on the premises of the house with about 12 other female members of her family, Valmiki asked if they would start a worship song while she went to get them water.
The mob then attacked, led by her father-in-law’s older brother, Lal Singh, his son and members of RSS, the parent organization of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Valmiki said.
“They shouted, ‘Attack, attack,’ and pounced on the guests,” Valmiki said, crying bitterly. “They hit them so brutally with hands, legs and foot, using abusive language for the men and women alike, and they blamed them for alluring us to convert.”
Singh told his accomplices, “Kill Anita, her daughter and all these Christians who have come to our village to convert innocent Hindus,” she said. Valmiki said she heard one man shout, “Don’t hit them with hands, get wooden sticks,” and soon some of them brought sticks that they used to beat them.
“Lal Singh caught hold of my [14-year-old] daughter from her hair and banged her head into the wall in full force, and immediately blood oozed out of her ear,” Valmiki said. “Another man shouted, ‘Let’s teach them a lesson; come, let us burn them alive.’ Immediately they started to search for kerosene [paraffin] oil.”
Valmiki later asked Singh why he attacked her daughter, and he said she had gotten in the way of their beating the Christians, and that if she dares to do it again, he would hit her again, she said.
Valmiki begged them to stop as fellow villagers stood by as mere spectators, she said.
“The beatings were so brutal that I could not stand there and see them being beaten to death,” she said. “I left home and ran to fetch some help, but to no avail.”
The assailants damaged pastor Stanley Jacob’s car, took the Christians’ cell phones and Bibles and broke the sound system they were carrying to Delhi, sources said.
Someone called police, and the violence subsided as they arrived and the assailants threw away their wooden sticks, Valmiki said.
“They would have killed the Christians,” she said. “I argued with the police, insisting on being arrested along with the six Christians. I told the policeman, ‘If it is a crime to invite guests at home, then the host should be arrested and not the guests.’”
At the Surir police station, the Christians were charged under Section 295-A of the Indian Penal Code for “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings.”
While the attack turned into an anti-Christian melee, Singh originally planned it as revenge for Valmiki refusing to give her 16-year-old daughter in marriage to his choice for a groom in four years, Valmiki said.
“I have never objected to the Satsang [a spiritual discourse or sacred gathering] that Lal Singh and his family does,” she said. “Why should they object to the prayer meeting that I have arranged in my house? Do I not have the right to pray and believe whomever I want to?”
Local newspapers were flooded with reports the next day claiming that the Christians were distributing Bibles and preaching to the villagers, and that when no one responded, they began trying to fraudulently lure and forcibly convert Valmiki and her family.
Valmiki said she was shocked at the reports, calling them an “absolutely cooked-up story.” She told Morning Star News that she was troubled in spirit and spending sleepless nights to think that six Christians are in jail because of her request.
“I was going to the police station to give my statement in favor of the Christians and against the attackers, but the attackers threatened to kill me if I went and also said that they would boycott my complete family and would force us to leave the village if I witnessed against them,” she said.
“I am guilty of being frightened and selfish,” she added. “To protect my family I held back, but not any longer; I will do whatever possible to ensure the seven are free of the charges and are out of jail.”
She has left her home after receiving threats on her life and was in hiding at this writing.
On Dec. 5 the six Christian men – Pastor Jacob, Vijay Kumar, Amit Kumar, David Jacob, Sumit Varghese and one identified only as Dinesh – were produced in court and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
When the six appeared before the Additional District Judge in Mathura, the judge asked the police in-charge why they were being presented in court, and the officer said, “Sir, these poor people have been beaten and are arrested, and those who beat them are outside [the jail],” an eyewitness who wished to remain unnamed told Morning Star News.
“Lal Singh has a strong beckoning of some very influential RSS people, and it is evident from the statement of the policeman that they realize that the victims are arrested while the assaulters are roaming free,” said the source who has witnessed the court proceedings.
A bail application for the Christians was rejected by a lower court on Dec. 7, and they were moved to the Sessions Court to secure bail. At a hearing on Tuesday (Dec. 12), they were informed that the case had been transferred to the District Court. Approaching the District Court, they were told that the appointed judge was not present and that the hearing was postponed until Saturday (Dec. 16).
Her husband chronically ill, Valmiki is the sole earning member in her home, responsible for her in-laws who live with her and five children ranging in age from 6 to 16. She said cleans cow excrement from homes in return for bread.
Her absence from home while she is in hiding is resulting in the starvation of her family, she said.
Her 14-year-old daughter recently phoned her, crying and complaining of severe pain, she said. She pleaded that Morning Star News readers pray for the Christians to be released without charges and that her spirit would find rest.
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in May 2014, the hostile tone of his National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Hindu nationalist BJP, against non-Hindus has emboldened Hindu extremists in several parts of the country to attack Christians, religious rights advocates say.
India ranked 15th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2017 World Watch List of the countries where Christians experience the most persecution.
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16 Comments
6 years ago
Hindus … what can I say about them?
The moslems raped and kill their girls but the Hindus do nothing. Why? Because Hindus are very afraid of those moslems
On the other hand, beating and killing of Christians and Buddhists by the Hindus are no longer ‘news’ in India
They would even go as far as raping and killing old nuns
So, what should I say about those Hindus?
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
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6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
First stop listening to half truth and false propaganda.
The case of raping/killing of nuns in state of kerala and west Bengal was falsely blamed on hindus even before investigation took place and this false deliberately malicious story was published across the world.
After few months after investigation in the Kerala nun murder case a christian priest was found to be the culprit. In the west bengal case a bangladeshi illegal migrant was found to be the rapist.
Not one correction of this case was published nor apology tendered by christian propaganda artists who sole aim is to denigrate, lie , spread canards about hindus.
xians have lived with hindus since 7 th century when xians fled jihadi attacks from syria and to this day they are thriving community.
Its present day evangelists (Less than 1% of christians in india) funded by overseas supporters who go around printing abusive literature about hindus , denigrating their gods that is root cause of hindus who get upset at these and their attempt to hoodwink hindus using lies , inducement in a bid to harvest souls.
They won’t dare do this to muslims because they don’t just beat them but chop their hands or head off like they did to christian Professor in Kerala state . Not one cowardly christian organisation condemned the muslims.
It was hindus who condemned it.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
I do know the globalist media has been spreading lies about non-Muslim religions around the world — about the Buddhists in Myanmar, the Hindus in India, the Christians in the US, etc. For what it is worth, the article did refer to these people as an extremist group. I do not know the truth of the story. I know Hindus to be good people. Try not to take offense. Few people dislike the Hindus (excepting perhaps the commenter above). I have to add it would be unlike evangelicals to do such things. Perhaps that is a false rumor, too? We should not hate each other. I think our common enemy is Islam (though not all Muslims).
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
The British ruled India for 300 years and gave them their parliment and law courts but still there remains a savagery for anything Christian. When the Hindus and Muslims mutinied commuting gross atrocities on women and children in the reign of queen Victoria they were dealt the harshest punishment imaginable.
Now They’ve reverted back to type and there is no punishment at all.
Apart from the Buddhist the only civilised culture is the Jewish Christian one. The other so called great religions are just thinly veiled savagery.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
I’m adding hindiyoos to my list. Obviously not as bad as moslems .. but they seem to be in training for the anti-human being contest.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed
Not really true. Most Hindus are not like this, but there are violent people or extremists or confused people in all groups.
6 years ago
Reply to
paz
I am sorry, paz. However, I have some acquaintances in the sub-continent and I hear some very sad tales. The hindoooz are becoming emboldened, and worse by the day. Half of a decade ago, I would have never imagined this .. but .. hindooz .. they are doing their best to catch up with the moslems. Next question, instead of brutally attacking, beating, raping, and murdering peaceful Christians and Buddhists, when will they develop enough bravery to go after the vilest of ALL creatures (moslems)? More than likely, never .. hindooz are almost as cowardly as moslems.
6 years ago
Too bad they can’t face off against their real, mutual enemy, the one enemy that would gladly exterminate or enslave them all. But it’s always a lot easier to go after Christians than muslums — just ask the corrupt, craven atheists that run the dying West.
6 years ago
I’m sure allah and muhammad smile at stories like these — from hell.
6 years ago
I don’t believe in war, but Satan is winning. There must be another crusade to cleanse the Earth.
6 years ago
This is most probably a concocted story. Please do not react in knee-jerk fashion. Hindus have no problems with Christianity. This is not the first time that violence against Christians has been blamed on Hindus. In the 1990’s there were a series of blasts using IEDs which the mainstream media quickly attributed to ‘Hindu Terrorism’. After many months a taxi exploded on the road because of a very similar IED that was being carried in the car, and investigation revealed that the perpetrators were muslims. Hinduism advocates only peace and kindness to all people and animals and because of this there is no such thing as ‘Hindu Terrorism’. I am a senior citizen, and went to a Christian school. I have never, ever come across an incident of violence against Christians in my entire life. Of course, India is a huge country of 1.3 billion people, and one can never rule out statistically that small incidents occur against Christians or Jews etc. But such incidents should not be reported as the norm, because nothing is perfect in the world. I see from time to time the mainstream media reporting crimes against Hindus in the USA. But I do not consider this the norm in the USA, because I know from years of living there that such is not the case. There are hundreds of Christian churches in my city alone, in India. But sadly, I have seen Christian pastors on TV in the USA talking about violence by Hindus against Christians. I have never understood their motivation for this false picture that they were presenting. There are frequent clashes between Hindus and muslims all over the country. But never between Christians and Hindus. Please visit India and see for yourselves.
6 years ago
They should use that Hindu energy on Muslims wtf?
