Social media comments and rights reports reveal that it’s
normal in India for Christians and other people who don’t believe in the state-orchestrated
religion, Hinduism, to be victimized.
A woman of authority in local government, according to the video,
calls a pastor from the crowd to come in front and she starts slapping him for
not respecting the Hindu gods.
She warns him that the police standing by cannot do anything
if she “bloody smashes” him as she holds the man by the neck.
She warns him never to return to the area and incites the
public to hate and attack Christians, “women or men” whenever they see them and
demands for their “full address”, warning they will be evicted from their homes.
The woman in the Indian traditional wear says Christianity puts
Hinduism in jeopardy, orders the arrest of the “traitors of the country”.
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| A church at Kammarpally, Nizamabad District, Telangana State in India |
Violation of human rights in India
India’s estimated population exceeds 1.3 billion of which
nearly 80 percent are Hindus while Christians are 2.5 percent.
There are countless reports about violations of people’s freedom
in Narendra Modi’s India
including leaving extremists groups to do their wish to people of Christian faith.
A US Persecution watchdog reported that five Christians were
arrested last month in September 2021 including a pastor who testified that he
had been in prison three times in the last decade.
ICC says it has documented at least 30 incidents of Christian
persecution in Uttar Pradesh since the enactment of the anti-conversion law in
December 2020.
The US Commission of International Religious Freedom, in
their 2021 annual report, ranked India the fourth after Burma (Myanmar), China
and Eritrea in the row of countries of particular with limited religious
freedom.
“The government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),
promoted Hindu nationalist policies resulting in systematic, ongoing, and
egregious violations of religious freedom,” the report said citing laws that
target individuals who don’t practice Hinduism even barring
them from marrying.
“In late 2020, Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, passed
an ordinance avoiding any marriage conducted for the “sole purpose of unlawful
conversion or vice-versa,” the report says.
The Open Door in their recent report ranked India in the
top ten countries whose regimes oppress religious freedom using religious nationalism
to label those who are not reverent to Hinduism as enemies of the state.
“Christians are accused of following a foreign faith and often physically attacked. If they don’t re-convert, their community may boycott them, with a devastating effect on their ability to earn income and buy food” the report says.
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