I read with interest your editorial and various letters on conversion controversy that is making headlines. While conversion under duress is cruel and should be outlawed, as may have happened in Delhi and especially as practiced in Pakistan and Bangladesh, the phobic fiduciary opposition who now professes to be champion of imaginary oppressed maintained undignified silence when it was a one way traffic, Hindus being converted with bribes by Christian missionaries and under duress by Islam.
The ball is now in opposition’s court, as BJP is willing to introduce anti-conversion bill, but the hallucinating Hobbesian opposition under foreign patronage would like to keep the door open for future conversion of Hindus, have their cake and eat it? Hindus believe that this is just home-coming of lineage Hindus who were converted and are now willing to come back to their roots.
I remember few decades back; Hindu and Sikh girls were openly converted in Trafalgar Square like war booty. Even some learned contributors believe two wrongs do not make it right but one wrong do! One should read Francois piece on internet.
Mercifully such rhetoric incidents are on decline here, with education and understanding, as we have much more serious problems with terrorism, economy and unemployment to tackle. Modiji rightly condemns devious conversion, as he would like to concentrate on development, industrialization and peace and progress. Let us not be distracted or deviate from our goal of harmony and good governance.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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