One of the reasons that was projected for the recent attacks on the churches was forced conversion through financial inducements. The Chief Minister of Orissa said publically that he would investigate the source of foreign funds for the conversion activities. Here is help for Orissa C.M., Mr. Patnaik. One organisation based in the US called, IDRF (India Development and Relief Fund), funded about INR 20 crores to hindutwa affiliates. Have a dekho at the report “The Foreign Exchange of Hate”
http://www.sabrang.com/hnfund/sacw/index.html
The Highlights:
* Hindutva organizations in the US do extensive publicity and fundraising for the IDRF. They openly acknowledge IDRF as a part of the Sangh Pariwar.
* Of the funds that the IDRF transfers to India, almost two-thirds go to organizations that can be identified as RSS organizations. About half of the remaining funds go to organizations that can be identified as sectarian Hindu organizations. In other words, less than 20 percent of the funds sent to India by IDRF go to organizations that are not openly non-sectarian and/or affiliated with the Sangh.
* More than 50 percent of the funds disbursed by the IDRF are sent to Sangh related organizations whose primary work is religious ‘conversion’ and ‘Hinduization’ in poor and remote tribal and rural areas of India.
Another sixth is given to Hindu religious organizations for purely religious use. Only about a fifth of the funds go for disaster relief and welfare-most of it because the donors specifically designated it so.
However, there is considerable documentation indicating that even the relief and welfare organizations that IDRF funds, use the moneys in a sectarian way.
* The Hindutva movement is a violent sectarian movement seeking to create a Hindu Rashtra (an ethnically ‘pure’ Hindu Nation) in India, in many ways similar to the Nazi idea of a pure Aryan Germany. It seeks to exclude or eliminate religious minorities such as Muslims and Christians and fix Dalits and Adivasis into an internal hierarchy of caste.
* The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, or the Sangh, literally, the National Volunteers Corps) is the core organization of the Hindutva movement, and it operates through hundreds of front organizations in both India and the US.
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