Contra Francis The Apostate - II
©Prakash John Mascarenhas, Bombay. 23rd October 2003.
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This page is in response to the following page on Sify.com, by Francois Gautier:
Mizos will fight Govt's indifference in polls
Francis Gautier, the Apostate, is back at his old work - that of being Satan's spokesman. And so is Sify, back to mischief, in patronizing a madman, knave, liar and charlattan who revels in sheer, brazen lies and misrepresentations in order to propagate the ideology, if it can be called one, that he has adopted - Hindu Nazism, based on the teachings of Arvind Ghosh, Vivekanand, Gandhi, etc.
In his latest spiel of hatred, of Christophobia, he pretends that the Mizos were Hindus or Indians prior to their adoption of the Methodist Protestant religion. But as a matter of fact, the Mizos were a people who had not been truly penetrated by Hinduism and Indianism when the English encountered them. The only peoples of the Greater Assam region who had been penetrated by Hinduism and Indianism were the Asom, the Meiteis and the Kingdom of Twipra, modern Tripura. Asom was first penetrated, the Meiteis about five hundred years ago, and Twipra was just beginning.
But even here, in the Twipra-Marga-Mizoram area, there was conflicting penetration by Buddhism, so that the Chakma, which includes the Reangs, are predominantly Buddhist.
Before adopting Methodism, the Mizos were Animists. That is, they followed their own pagan religion, which they had fashioned themselves and which was not Hinduism. The same is true of the Nagas, the Kukis, the Hynniewtrep and the Achiks. As for the Hynniewtrep, under the combined onslaught of Hinduism and Islam which strove for influence and the accession of these peoples, they developed further their own native religion, reforming and finetuning it, into what is today called the modern Khasi religion, about as old as Sikhism in India.
From the viewpoint of the Hinduized Asom, the Mizos were "Chamars" or Hmars. That, at least, is the version put out by Gautier's own Sangh Parivar in one of their articles, when they mention that two boys from the Haflong nation who had married Mizo girls were forced to have them apostasized and adopt paganism.
Gautier complains that a body of the Adivasis of India sought recognition from the UN as the aborigines of India. Do you have any idea what the word "adivasi" means? I always thought that it means "the older inhabitants", i.e. "aborigine"! Correct me if I am wrong!
Even the Hindus, the descendants of the Aryans themselves recognize these peoples as aborigines, calling them Adivasis, the older inhabitants!
Francis the Apostate cutely pretends that the Ramakrishna Mission is not a part of the Sangh Parivar. In matter of fact, it shares its ideology. Under the Congress administrations, which is mild-Hindutva, as against the extreme-Hindutva of the RSS-BJP, the "North-East Frontier Agency" territory was closed to Christian missionaries and deliberately kept open only to the missionaries of the Ramakrishna Mission in order to Hinduize this Buddhist-Animist tract!
This fact is well-chronicled, as is the persecution and mass murders of converts to Christianity among the Nagas and other nations of the tract under the Ramakrishna Mission and the Indian colonial government!
The Apostate also brings up the old Sangh sobstory of Twipra and of "Christian" persecution. He conveniently ignores the fact that the happenings there are merely the acts of a faction under one loose cannon - a Mr. Debbarma - a pagan who has adopted the Baptist Protestant religion, and who not only attacks Hindus and Buddhists but also "Catholics" - members of John-Paul 2's sect, there. Indeed, these "Catholic" clergy have borne the brunt of Debbarma's attacks, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Baptist Churches there or in India support him.
Prakash John Mascarenhas