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  • Audrey Truschke- how soul vultures lie about Indian history for cheap conversions

    Audrey Truschke- how soul vultures lie about Indian history for cheap conversions

    Audrey Truschke profile is rising fast among the secular cabal in India and in the West. She has been in the limelight after publishing her book “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” about the Mughals. What gave her immediate fame was her defence of Aurangzeb as she tries hard to whitewash his crimes and give them a non-religious colour.

    While as a scholar she is free to hold any views that she wants, her regular diatribe against Hindus in general is nauseating. This can be seen from the views she regularly expresses about Hindu nationalism, like here:

    “Hindu nationalism has a particular history that is deeply tied to colonial ideas, as I have written about elsewhere. Hindu nationalism faces a significant problem, however, which is that it advances historically bogus claims. Hence the need to rewrite history arises.”

    So essentially what Truschke wants to do is paint all reasonable attempts by Hindus to rewrite their history as bogus. While she agrees in some cases that there is a problem with the Marxist lens of history currently used in scholarly circles, she wants to replace it with something even worse by completely whitewashing the bigotry of Aurangzeb. Her double standards become clear by looking at the below tweet on Savarkar. While she wants to give alternative explanations to Aurangzeb’s bigotry and potentially hide it, she does not think twice before tweeting a half-baked article about Savarkar, which twisted his words to justify rape.

    Her efforts to malign current Indian PM Modi can also be clearly seen in many of her writings and endorsements. All this raises important questions about her motivations behind the inane diatribe she vents against Hindutva politics and Hindus in general. So, what is her interest in India and Indian politics? Why does she continue to do hit jobs against an elected PM, that too based on frivolous charges which were completely rejected by no one else but the Supreme Court of the country?

    Normally, in cases of conflict of interest, people generally declare their associations so that their views can be discounted given their personal interests in the issue. It is a general practice in financial dealings as well as increasingly in the media. For example, while reporting news about Reliance, Firstpost usually mentions its connection with Reliance to let readers decide how to weigh the views expressed in the article. Sadly, there is no such practice for scholars and they hardly ever disclose details of their personal associations or the donations they might have received.

    Given that Audrey Truschke is becoming the next darling of the sickular media in India and her intense hatred for all issues related to Hindus, it becomes essential to look at her background and see whether this hostility is generated by an inherent bias against Indian civilization. Why else would a scholar take so much pain to whitewash the bigotry of Aurangzeb and pontificate to others about looking at the other sides of an individual who himself claimed to be a Ghazi and slayer of Kafirs?

    So, who are the people behind Audrey Truschke? She is related to Pastor Nate, a soul vulture trying to win India for Christ as pronounced in the vision statement for his organization called Bless India.

    Audrey Truschke is married into the Rehn family, to the son of Pastor Nate, whose original name is Nathan Rehn, and the family hails from Monterey.

    Audrey Truschke herself comes from the Deep South and Bible Belt of the US, regions which are known for their bigotry and support for fundamentalist Christian networks. Both her husband, Thane Rehn, and father-in-law, Nate Rehn, belong to the fundamentalist Christian organization which wants to win India for Christ. Having connected the dots, it becomes amply clear that Audrey Truschke is a core member of this Hindu-hating soul-vulture Bible club. Since conversion in India essentially means conversion of Hindus, her views and writings are deeply biased due to her fundamentalist Christian connection. Her research thus seems to be motivated by the intention of denigrating the last pagan stronghold in the world by subverting Indian culture and history.

    The cheap conversions these venomous snakes, like Truschke and her relatives, promote are pushing India into a civil war by changing demographics. Many people don’t know that the reason North-East India faces so many problems is because the Church and Christian majority there actively fund separatists. By pushing conversions, they wish to break India into several pieces since India is now growing into an unstoppable force to be reckoned with in the world. Wise Hindus should learn to look at these anti-Hindu forces and their backers in India like Congress and Communists and expel them or at least censor them from the country. A strong India needs a strong culture, not the poisonous conversions these people bring to our society.

    To summarize, the background information on Truschke also raises serious questions about the credentials of big US universities like Stanford, which, even after knowing the truth about biased scholars like Truschke, kept appointing her. The least they could have done is force Truschke to declare her connections so that an unbiased reader can judge her hostility toward Hindus in light of those connections. The US showers praise on Modi and India in public, but behind the scenes funds such anti-India and anti-Hindu studies to break it apart. It accomplishes this by funding anti-Hindu figures like Truschke to build a narrative against Hindus. Truschke represents the real and ugly face of Christian and American secularism. For them secularism only means the right to convert Hindus and destroy their culture. The sooner Hindus realise this, the better. People like Audrey Truschke are mere pawns in this global jihad of Chrislamists against pagan India.

    Credits: The story is based on the background work done by @peaceandy11 and @aparna. You can follow them on Twitter.

  • GoI should force missionaries to only convert Muslims

    GoI should force missionaries to only convert Muslims

    GoI under PM Modi cracked the whip on foreign funding of NGOs last year, which culminated in the orchestrated attack on GoI by local and foreign media through highlighting a non-existent intolerance debate in the country. Fake Church attack stories were planted to tarnish the image of the government. A large number of these NGOs with foreign funding are engaged in subversion activities in India and a significant part of this foreign money is channelled through organizations related to the Church. So fake Church attacks not only generated large donations for them worldwide, but probably also made GoI go softer on the conversion business of the Church. It raises the question whether Hindus can somehow manipulate the Church mafia for their own benefit.

    The manipulation in this case means using Church money to fund conversion of Muslims into Christianity. To use this strategy one first needs to ask: why is it better to have Christians than Muslims in India? It is more than evident that Christians are usually much less of a nuisance than Muslims in any neighbourhood. Also, since such conversion will cut into the already present high Muslim population in India, it will divide the population among these two Abrahamics. This will make it slightly easier to handle them instead of just handling Muslims. What makes a few more Christians instead of Muslims even better is the fact that Christians have even lower fertility rates than Hindus and are more affected by the liberal memes of the West. So it would be easier to outbreed them than outbreed the Muslims in the long run. So, it can be established beyond doubt that having a few more Christians at the cost of a few fewer Muslims is a better deal any day.

    Now comes the question: why is it beneficial for Hindus to ask or aid Christians to convert Muslims?

    1. It is like killing one snake with another. Christians have money and want to harvest more souls, so if they can evangelize Muslims, it reduces their numbers which is better for India in the long run.
    1. It takes the heat off Hindutva groups engaged in Ghar Wapsi. This trick can pit one set of Abrahamics against another without hurting the image of Hindus. International and local media, which lose no chance to paint Hindutva organizations as fascists over one Ghar Wapsi incident, cannot do anything if one minority group converts another.
    1. If Muslims and Christians fight over it, then Hindus do not lose anything. If Muslims get too violent, they would further erode their image as the Religion of Piece.

    Having outlined the benefits of such a strategy, the only remaining piece of this puzzle is how to implement it. Using one set of Abrahamics against the other is not an easy task, especially when they would always gang up against pagans, in this case Hindus. Look below at the flow of foreign funds to NGOs in Kerala. The northern districts are Muslim dominated while the southern districts are Hindu majority. Although all these funds are not related to conversion activity, they still give a rough hint that the prime target for conversion is southern districts like Pathanamthitta with large Hindu populations, as it has received significantly higher foreign funds.

    But does this mean Hindus can do nothing and lose their brothers to Christians while the Muslim womb goes into overdrive? The fact is, if GoI is serious it can break this nexus and force the Church to only convert Muslims. How will that work?

    1. GoI gives the Church the choice to convert Muslims or shut shop in India. Given they will still prefer to harvest some souls rather than none, they would choose to convert Muslims.
    1. Future conversion licences will be based on the performance of these organizations in converting Muslims. If they are found to be engaged in activities of converting Hindus, their licence will be revoked under one pretext or another and their funds will be seized.
    1. In return for the services of these missionaries, the state will provide them full protection during this activity, i.e. strict action against Muslims who harass the foot soldiers of the Church engaged in converting Muslims.

    Given huge repercussions for not toeing the line of GoI, any Church would prefer to make do with whatever number of souls it can harvest. Also, it is cheaper to hound the Church using sleuths and use its funds rather than force the entire responsibility of Ghar Wapsi on Hindus.

    Long-run strategy:

    1. First use evangelization and Ghar Wapsi in low-density Muslim areas so that there are low chances of riots.
    1. Once the above areas are clear of Muslims, then one can resettle Hindus and converted Christians in high-Muslim-density areas like West Bengal and Western UP.

    The above two strategies can be reformed to make them more effective over time. In an ideal scenario, given that Islam and Christianity are majority religions in the world, a sensible GoI could have banned conversion out of Hinduism and forced a one-child policy on Muslims. But since we live in a non-ideal secular world, probably it is the best option to make friends with the lesser enemy in the short run and let them finish each other off.

  • Reservations: The Brahamastra for Ghar Wapsi

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    Editorial illustration for “Reservations: The Brahamastra for Ghar Wapsi”.

    The Upper Caste rants against reservations just hit the crescendo with the recent Jat riots in Haryana, which caused massive destruction of public property. These rants are well justified and grounded in the libertarian thoughts which many of the Right Wingers have directly copied from the west. Sadly like all other borrowed ideology, the imitation is perfect and the libertarian cheerleaders have forgotten to tweak and adapt them according to local conditions. There is a huge momentum built around reservations based on economic inequality and doing away with caste-based reservations. Given how it is adopted blindly by many of the right wing Hindu intellectuals, it is utmost important to describe the one constitutional provision which has helped in consolidating Hindus more than anything else. While most constitutional provisions like temple control, RTE etc. are stacked against Hindus, only reservations is one tool which is favourable against the onslaught of Abrahamic religions. By the end of this article, we should be able to convince you why all Hindus should bury the hatchet against caste-based reservations for the next few decades and use it as an active policy tool to counter missionary activity through Ghar Wapsi.

    Let’s go back to February 2015 to understand the importance of caste-based reservations, which Hindu organizations have ignored till now. The bench of Justices Dipak Misra and V. Gopala Gowda held that a person shall not be deprived of reservation benefits if he decides to “reconvert” to Hinduism and adopts the caste of his forefathers. The case was brought to court by an individual whose grandparents had converted to Christianity while he reconverted back to Hinduism and availed reservation benefits. This is what the Supreme Court had to say:

    If a person born to Christian parents, who had converted to Christianity from the Scheduled Caste Hindu, can avail the benefits of the caste certificate after embracing Hinduism, there cannot be any soundness of logic that he cannot avail similar benefits because his grandparents were converted and he was born to parents who were Christians.

    This decision has now removed the inter-generational gap between conversion and reconversion within the fold of Hinduism to avail reservation benefits, thus opening the way for Hindus to win the demographic battle stacked against them. With this single decision, the Supreme Court has given the Brahmastra to fight both the menace of aggressive Evangelization efforts in India as well as high Muslim fertility. Extending the right of reservation to those who converted generations ago will give the massive carrot which can be dangled in front of Muslims as well as Christians to get them back into the Hindu fold.

    As expected, this decision caused massive heartburn among the sickulars of the country. Sad thing is most of the people on the Hindu Right have overlooked the benefits of this one policy in countering the Abrahamic religions. The cry for substituting the current reservation policy from caste to economic status is getting louder each day. Also, there has been an active policy push by Christian organizations to extend quota benefits to Dalit Christians and Muslims. While Hindus have more or less ignored this issue, this constitutional disparity has been an important topic for atrocity literature published in the west:

    The loss of constitutional privileges upon conversion, however, serves as a serious impediment to their freedom to choose their religion. Additionally, most Dalits are ultimately unable to escape their treatment as “untouchables” regardless of the religion they profess. The introduction of anti-conversion legislation in several states has further made religious conversion extremely difficult if not impossible. Finally, Dalits may become targets of forced “reconversions” to Hinduism by sangh parivar groups.

    Since the Church feeds on poverty and deprivation, the reservation policy has been one policy tool which has blunted their advances in many parts of the country. Just to connect the dots, one can look at the history of activism by Arvind Kejriwal, who started his career by protesting against reservations under the banner of Youth for Equality. The massive funding he gets from foreign organizations is enough to explain the reasons behind his earlier stand and whether he was executing the agenda on behalf of foreign masters.

    While people protesting against reservations cannot be faulted completely, they are actually helping the agenda of the missionaries. The recent Jat and Patel agitations had the undercurrent of either extending reservations to their communities or completely removing them. Seen under the light of missionary propaganda, it is not a mystery why these protests are mainstreaming the idea of removal of caste-based reservation.

    What is the way forward?

    1. For the benefit of India and to maintain Hindu demographic superiority, it is essential that Hindus do not fall for the current attempts to remove the caste-based reservations in favour of reservations based on income. Keeping the Hindu dominance under reservation is only possible under caste-based reservation as changing it to income will completely change the rules of the game.
    2. No matter how much the Muslims or Christians cry over discrimination, they cannot avail caste-based reservations on a massive scale due to theological equality provided under Islam and Christianity. Since the Constitution already acknowledges it, it has made the task simple for Hindus.
    3. Hindu organizations should use it as an active policy tool to get jobs for reconverted Hindus and blunt the monetary advantage of Abrahamics.
    4. The quota level can be increased from the current ad-hoc 50% level set by the SC to higher levels so that there is healthy competition within the quota and an increased pool of better candidates. What most people forget is that increasing the quota is also another way to dilute quota benefits. Tamil Nadu model can be extended to the rest of India to actively squeeze the benefits available to people from other religions, while improving the quality of quota-based candidates.
    5. This policy should be maintained till India achieves middle-income country status, when it would completely blunt the conversion business of evangelists. No surprise, the Church has made so many attempts to keep Indians poor and marginalised. If used well for the next 2–3 decades, this single policy can completely recover the losses made by Dharmic religions in India.
    6. Rather than asking for implementing no-conversion as a state policy, Hindus need to actively use reservations as the carrot to dangle in front of Muslims or Christians and increase their numbers before it is too late. No-conversion will effectively block any reconversion back to Hinduism. Given the massive state benefit through reservations for reconversion, Hindus should not advocate for a no-conversion policy.