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The Concept of India a Hindustan continues....
Therefore, either Hindus will have to capitulate on this question by permitting religious conversion in India, or in the alternative be united and assertive to ensure that laws are enacted and effectively enforced against religious conversion of Hindus. There is no third way.
I am persuaded that it is urgent now that Hindus be mobilized to assertively oppose any further conversion from Hinduism to any other non-Indian religion. There is no room for indifference here. This is because the status quo is damaging to the Hindu faith, since the Christian missionaries and Muslim mullahs are already fully at work, funds being no constraint, to convert Hindus. If conversions are not explicitly opposed, then Hindus are implicitly acquiescing in the atrocity.
Reflect on the past trends: In 1000 A.D., Muslims and Christians in undivided India were in negligible numbers. By 1400, they had become 3.5% of the sub-continent. In 1700, they rose to 11%, and by 1891 to 13%. By the time of Partition, they were 23%, and today in south Asia the Christian and Muslim population is 36%. What will it be in 2050 or 2150? This is an extraordinary rise, which has continued even after freedom from British colonial rule. Defacto power in the hands of Hindu majority has not changed the attitude of the proselytizers; only their strategy has changed and become invisible for most Hindus. And those Hindus who have been in power in government have been soft on this issue entrapped by the lack of a Hindu mindset and by bloc voting by the Muslims and Christians.
Even the most secular Hindus should however worry about this demographic trend, because secularism is itself under threat if the Hindus lose their majority share in population. That is why even Gandhiji and Dr. Ambedkar [no Hindu fundamentalists but highly regarded secularists], during the Freedom Struggle had stoutly opposed religious conversions.
to be continued...
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