François Gautier - Your Friendly Neighbourhood Sewage Dispensor...

François Gautier - Your Friendly Neighbourhood Sewage Dispensor...
©Prakash John Mascarenhas. 1^st October 2003.
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This letter has been written in reply to François Gautier's essay as carried by Sify.com. See here for his text.

To Sify: I ask: Why have you, Sify.com, chosen or selected a Frenchman with an insane phobia of Christianity and conversely, an insane adulation for Hinduism, to report on local elections in India to its subscribers in India?

This does not make sense unless one assumes that Sify is biased towards the ideology that he espouses, which, apparently enough, is the sole qualification that he possesses for this assignment...

I would like to have Sify.com state upfront if this logical assumption is true. Silence will be taken as assent. To François Gautier:

For long you have been one of the largish, though select, band who make it their vocation to bait and torment, verbally if not physically, the Christians of India.

Therefore, I was greatly surprised to find that Sify.com had decided it fit to entertain you as one of its correspondents to give its subscribers - such as myself - the lowdown on happenings in mofussil India, in light of the forth-coming provincial elections.

You were born a Frenchman and a Christian. However, you have very evidently, de facto become a Hindu. I do not know whether you have actually undergone any ceremony by which you have become a Hindu, and while it may be that you have not, it still remains that you have become one for all purposes.

You, however, makes it your vocation, above all things, to bait Christians in India, for being "converts" away from Hinduism.

That is illogical and hypocritical on your part, given that you too are but another convert, albeit the other way round. This is true even if you have chosen, for hypocritical reasons, not to formally embrace Hinduism - in order to preserve the pretence of a "Christian" critical of Christianity and favourable of Hinduism - sort of a Trojan horse!

I am forced to ask you this point-blank: What is your qualifications to pontificate to us Christians in India? You are not an Indian or a South Asian, but a Frenchman. You are yourself a convert to Hinduism.

However, it is not my intention to stop you. We need you. You may think that you are doing a great job for the Hindu Nazis by baiting us, by your campaign of lies and hypocrisy directed against Christians and Christianity, but let me assure you, you are doing a great service to us Christians and to Christianity, just as your prototype, Julian the Apostate once did.

That is, your campaign of lies and hypocrisy and misinformation only strengthens our resolve to be faithful to Jehovah, to Elohim. Persecution always strengthens us. Therefore, we are grateful to you.

Now to analyse your essay that Sify.com has carried.

Why is this essay so titled? With its present title, it gives one the assumption that Mr. Lyngdoh is guilty or has been more than amply proven guilty of this, when in fact it is not so at all. The title, therefore, in itself, is very mischievous and is slander and libel.

James Michael Lyngdoh is a Khasi, or of the Hynniewtrep ethnic group. They have their own indigenous religion which is neither Hinduism nor Islam nor Christianity. There had been a trend which had seen the Khasis converting in large numbers to the various Christian ideologies, but today that trend has practically petered out, and there is even a reverse movement, with many turning to a revival of the Khasi religion, a small minority to Hinduism, and a small minority to atheism.

James Lyngdoh has consistently affirmed that he is an atheist. This has been so for the long years of service as a bureaucrat in the Indian government, long before he had become the Chief Election Commissioner.

And yet you insist on labelling him a "Christian", as you do Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, who is, by profession, a member of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu sect.

Evidently, what you mean is that anyone and everyone who is opposed to your adopted ideology, Hindu Nazism, or does not fall in with and cooperate with it, is either a "Christian" or a "Muslim".

Evidently, of course, no such imputation needs to be made against George Fernandes, born a Catholic, one time a Communist and now a Hindu Nazi! From your viewpoint, obviously, that he is today a Hindu Nazi is evidence of high moral standing and virtue!

Conversely, anyone who falls afoul of your hypocritical and misanthropic standards, the standards of Hindu Nazism, is necessarily a non-Hindu, necessarily a Christian or a Muslim.

Therefore, evidently, S.M. Krishna of Karnataka must be a Christian or a Muslim. Ditto for Mulayam Yadav, Lalloprasad Yadav, Capt. Amarinder Singh, Gehlot of Rajasthan, Digvijay Singh of Central India, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushilkumar Shinde, Buddhadev Basu, etc.

And, it must be that folks such as Narendra Modi, the Butcher of Gujarat, Advani, the wannabe Hitler of India, Vajpayee the Mask, etc., should be, for you, the paragons of virtue!

You asked: "Is Lyngdoh's prime value the fact that he is a Christian, with qualities of honesty and fairness, which are much superior to Hindus, who have a tendency to be 'fundamentalists'?"

And as a matter of fact, there is no suggestion, in what you quote from Lyngdoh, that there is any such idea in the minds either of Lyngdoh or the journalists - professing Christians or otherwise - who wrote about him.

And it is very important to stress the fact that the only reason Lyngdoh's "Christian" faith is mentioned is because the Hindu Nazis have spotlighted it, as an excuse for his not having fallen in with their program... despite him being in fact, not a Christian, but an atheist!

You say: "Is this why the Magsaysay award, a Christian prize, awarded by a Christian country, the Philippines, was given to Lyngdoh?"

Till today, I was under the "misunderstanding" - until you enlightened your readers - that the Philippines is a secular state, and that the Magsaysay award is by no stretch of imagination a "Christian" award. This is the first and only time that I have heard this extraordinary description of this award. Your claim, or rather, more properly, your insinuation, is preposterous and monsterous.

This fantastic allegation - or is it a revelation? - is irrefutable proof of your dishonesty and insanity. It is evidence that you are in urgent need of a permanent incarceration in a psychiatric facility!

If the Magsaysay Award is a Christian award that is awarded solely to Christians, then it must mean, logically enought, that the Swadhyay Movement, a Hindu sect, and its founder, Pandit Athavale, are Christian. Ditto for Mr. Edhy, the "Mother Teresa" of Karachi, Pakistan. Ditto for all the very many Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, atheist, or other persons of whatever faith from India and around the world who are laureates of the Magsaysay Award.

You are fatuous — a fatuous ass! You are irrefutably insane!

I am willing to have the entire list of Magsaysay awardees analysed to be shown exactly who has been awarded either because he is an active Christian or because of service to Christianity.

Are you man enough for this challenge?

You talk through your hat. But sadly, you do this deliberately, in order to mislead people and to build up antagonism against Christians and Christianity.

You say: "My 34 years in India have told me that you cannot find in the world a people, the Hindus, who are more tolerant of others, who accept the fact that God can be Krishna, Christ, Buddha or Mohamed. I also know that Christians still believe, today in the 21st century, which should be the century of acceptance of others, that Christ is the only true son of God and that all other beliefs � particularly those of the Hindus, who adore a multitude of �heathen� gods, are false"

Christians are not ashamed nor will be ashamed of owning up to the truth. That truth is what Yahweh has insisted upon in the Bible, that He alone is God, that all "other gods" are false. Say what you want, we will never compromise on this - we will never accept that Krishna or Buddha or Mohamed is "god".

As for Hinduism being "tolerant", you do not know what you are talking about. It is merely your deliberate and enthusiastic ignorance - your very fatuity, that is speaking.

It is none of your concern or that of the Hindus, what the Christians believe. That is purely the concern of the Christians.

This should be even more, given that you claim that this is the "century which should be the century of acceptance of others". So why are you in such a sweat to not accept us, to ensure that we are not accepted, based upon nothing more than your phobia of Christianity and Christians?

We will remain loyal always to the one and only true God. We will not compromise with the Ba'als, certainly not with the Ba'alim of India. You delude yourself that you, Aroon Shourie and others of your satanic breed, the Hindu Nazis, can succeed where Diocletian and Nero and Julian the Apostate, your patron saint, have failed!

You say: "Christian missionaries are still... converting thousands of innocent tribals and Harijans"

It is not true that Christian missionaries are working at converting solely tribal and "low caste" folk to Christianity; that is a malicious lie that the Hindu Nazis like to put out - and you are merely yet another spokesman of Hindu Nazism!

As a matter of fact, Christian missionaries not only are indiscriminate in their missions, but they actually seek harder to convert "upper caste" folk, since Christ Jesus commanded that efforts be made to bring in first those who control society...

It is an old lie and slander of the Hindu Nazis that Christian missionaries convert only "low caste" folk. This lie is intended to dismiss and demean converts as being "low caste", and to dishearten would-be converts from the fellow "upper caste" groups.

You say: "Christian missionaries are... converting... with the millions of dollars that gullible westerners donate, so as to �alleviate poverty in the Third World�"

I would like to know the basis of your gratuitous line that the monies that finance the Christian missionary endeavour have been donated by "gullible westerners". What are you insinuating?

If you are insinuating that the missionaries acquire these funds from people who are ignorant or lied to as to the exact uses these funds will be put to, then you lie and lie mendaciously. And yet, there is no other construction that can be set on your words...

One can get into never ending arguments about the relative situations pertaining in Gujarat under Narendra Modi and in Jammu & Kashmir (JK). It is however, pertinent to bear in mind the fact that while in Gujarat, the situation was current, in JK, the displacement was an old matter, and for that reason it could not justify delaying elections.

As a matter of fact, JK is merely a red herring you have drawn in. No one, least of all the Hindu Nazis, wanted a delay in elections in JK. You are merely comparing the situations in order to mislead people, when in fact there is no basis to compare the situations.

You yourself demonstrate the ridiculous extent of this when you whine of the "centuries" of oppression of the Hindus by the Muslims in JK. On the logical basis of taking all this into consideration, there should logically be no elections permitted in JK for the next millenium or so!

Just as Lyndoh has never made a fetish of his Christianity, (he himself has publicly stated that he is an atheist!) but merely of his professionalism, while performing his job, in the same way it is nonsense to allege that Sonia Gandhi is a Christian, merely because she was born one!

After all, you too was born one! And see, there cannot be a more vicious anti-Christian and protagonist of Hindu fascism than you are!

One must remember that, from the Christian viewpoint, as well her own, Sonia Gandhi has effectively ceased to be Christian. She married under Arya Samaj rites, as did her daughter recently. For a Christian to participate in such rites is to officially abandon Christianity. Both you and Mrs. Gandhi are supremely aware of this fact. The difference is that Mrs. Gandhi sincerely seeks to be an Arya Samajist, by faith, the faith of the family into which she has married, while you and your partners are making false and mischievous charges that are nothing more than a pack of lies!

You say: "I see many western correspondents - such as Jean LeClerc du Sablon in Le Figaro - who honestly think that Sonia Gandhi is the sane, balanced 'civilised' solution to an 'uncivilised Hindu India'"

To which I reply: Whatever the feelings or sentiments of some left-over white racists among western journalists in India, their sentiments do not in anyway oblige either Mrs. Gandhi or anyone else, least of all Indian Christians, and that should be logical and obvious to any sane person. So why you dragging this in here? How can you use this to impeach us Christians or Mrs. Gandhi?

You say: "The primest property ...in India... is in the hands of churches ...thanks to British colonial favours... although they have minimal attendance in comparison with temples or mosques."

Have you studied your facts, so that you can so confidently assert that Christians possess the best property, and that this is because of the British, or have you merely studied sedulously so that you can consciouslessly speak through your hat? Your claim is nonsense...

You say: "Christians still control to a large extent the best colleges."

And is it something wrong if we erect schools and colleges? Do we compel non-Christians to join them?

It may be news to you, but the vast majority of Christian educational institutions in India were set up by Christians scrimping their funds, in order to provide themselves with premier education, and that non-Christians have begun to be admitted only due to their own importunation of these institutions for admission...

I am game to a Census of all journalists in India, in order to determine the breakup of their religious affiliation. Also, for all Indian businessmen, managerial staff, government officers, and the other professions...

The Staines case gets exceptional coverage because it is exceptional. But you have no right to blame Christians for the lacklustre coverage of the atrocities committed by Kashmiri Muslim separatists on Hindu transient labourers, even if for no other reason than that professing Christians do not control the media and have not been demonstrated to having a bias to report only Christian sufferings and an agenda to obscure or under-report non-Christian sufferings.

The killings in JK has become unexceptional purely because it has become so commonplace. This much should be evident. It has nothing whatever to do with Christians and Christianity.

It is ridiculous to allege that NDTV was "inflaming" passions by truthful coverage of the atrocities being committed by the Hindu Nazi, Narendra Modi's goons in Gujarat. As a matter of fact, such truthful coverage acts, not as an incentive, but as a dampener, put fear into the minds of the perpetrators. That is why you hate this coverage, because it puts the spotlight on your misdeeds and therefore crimps up your space to commit such mischiefs.

You wrote: "I doubt that a non-Catholic could become Election Commissioner" or attain any similar high position in your native France.

In France, not only have non-Catholics achieved high positions ever since the Revolution, but it is also a fact that, even more than non-Catholics, it is the anti-Catholics who have. You are full well aware that Freemasons have achieved even the French presidency as well as controlling positions in the French state for the bulk of its existence since the Revolution, and you are just as aware of their virulent anti-Catholicism.

Therefore, yet again, you lied.

You wrote: "It would be impossible in my country, France, which is predominantly Catholic, to have a mainstream national magazine with 75 percent non-Catholic, although the French have also a 10 to 12 percent Muslim minority!

You are a shameless liar. France has been dominated politically and in the press as in most other sectors, by the anti-Catholic Freemasons and their Jew paymasters, proportionally a minority of the population, ever since the French Revolution. Not only are the papers, radio stations, etc., owned and strictly controlled by them, in order to propagandize constantly against Catholicism, but even the Huguenot and other minorities have been emancipated since the Revolution, so that they own and have their own papers.

It may be true, to an extent, that the Muslims colonizing France do not yet have a significant stake in the medias, but that is purely because they are relatively newcomers. They are working hard at gaining a dominance over France!

You end your essay by asking: "So Lyngdoh, are you a Christian and then an Indian? An Indian and then a Christian? Or simply an Indian?"

[You may forever remain in a state of doubt as to Lyngdoh's religious affiliation; you have left your readers, however, in no doubt whatsoever, as to your insanity!]

You are no one to ask Lyngdoh that question. For you to arrogate to yourself the right to ask that question, is nothing more than arrogance, impudence and impertinence.

Lyngdoh has not done anything by which he has made himself answerable to anyone, least of all to you.

You may have earned yourself a standing in the ranks of the rabid rabble-rousing Christian-baiters, but that does not give you a standing among civilized people.

To be exact, from Lyngdoh's perspective, you are a man with no standing - that you are supremely contemptible.

And I suspect, that despite your self-importance, Lyngdoh is correctly going to ignore your self-important questioning as the barking of a street dog who must not be encouraged by being paid any attention.

To that his response, I say: Amen!

Prakash John Mascarenhas