CONVERSION IS VIOLENCE

Conversion is violence. To induce our innocent people to convert to Christianity or to Islam by offering the bribe of cheap access to heaven or salvation or material benefits here on earth is reprehensible and is totally opposed to principles of civilised propagation of religion. These monotheistic faiths are shallow philosophically and need to bolster their ranks through material conversion in order to survive. Philosophically bankrupt ideologies need to swell their ranks to gain confirmation of the supposed truth of their dogmas. Moreover, in a world increasingly tending towards democracy, increase in numbers through conversion, immigration and population explosion makes for favourable demographic shift for future domination of a nation’s politics. The European Union nations are facing a grave threat to their cultural identity on account of widespread Islamic immigration. India is facing localised demographic danger too as in Kashmir where the Muslim majority population has brutally driven out 350,000 Kashmiri Hindu Pundits from the valley which for ages has been their homeland. We must not forget the lessons of history but must ever woefully remember the horrors of Partition brought forth by a large section of the Indian Muslim population refusing to live with the Hindus and choosing to secede from the mother country by forcing the amputation of her limbs in connivance with the Machiavellian British. As the demography changes in Europe, America and elsewhere with the burgeoning Muslim population posing a real threat to European culture by its large refusal to integrate into European society and creating its own exclusive world within world, and, as extreme Islam, spreading terror instead of peace throughout the world, daily derails the rhythm of civilised living across the globe, one ponders the moot question whether conversion to Islam, after all, is a wise decision or not. A large negation seems to be the obvious answer and Hindus must under no persuasion give up the faith of their forefathers to buy quick salvation or a passage to paradise or earthly pleasure, for in it lies the most pernicious perfidy towards the motherland whose very pulsation sings out the hymns of the Vedas, that vast treasury of universal spiritual laws which are the inheritance of her children. Conversion is violent and if fanatical sectarian violence is to be eschewed from civic life for good, Christianity and Islam must stop their vile programmes of conversion, for the strength of a faith’s following depends not so much on its numerical count as it depends on the character of its adherents. But these are contentious issues which these Abrahamic religions will take aeons to comprehend and all present efforts seem to be exercises in futility. Till then the warring factions of the world will keep up their carnage and civilisations will be sent to ruin till kingdom come. It is here that the Hindu owes it to the world to take out his spiritual treasures from his coffers and offer them as a free gift to the world that the impending doom looming large in the face of humanity may be averted and a golden renaissance of human culture may be ushered in where every person may proclaim with voice of truth his inherent divinity in an intrepid spirit regardless of any overseeing human or so-called superhuman authority. May the Hindu guide humanity home and for this, pray, stop converting the Hindu! Hari Om Tat Sat!