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I must confess my deep distress after having read Shri Ribeiro’s emotional outburst in the New Indian Express. Till recently I had been among the very large majority of his admirers among serving and retired IPS officers . However in the quoted article Shri Rebeiro reveals himself as a hypersensitive fanatic Christian \u00a0with a somewhat oversize ego, who seems to believe that (1) the Christians in India are entirely guiltless of any wrong doing (past or present); (2) that conversions to Christianity in India have been purely voluntary (without any inducement etc); (3) that those who criticize Christian saints like Mother Teresa are really putting him and his community on the Hit List;(4) that it was only after the BJP Government assumed office at the centre that the systematic targeting of the Christian Community began; that Ghar Wapasi, declaration of Christmas Day as Good Governance day and the attacks on Christian churches and schools in Delhi, all have \u00a0caused the Christian Community to feel to be in a state of siege.
\nShri Rebeiro also claims descent from the group which came to Goa with sage Parasuram, having the same DNA and possibly common ancestry with Shri Mohan Bhagwat\/Manohar Parrikar but he (in spite of his learning) feigns ignorance about the reasons his ancestors got converted to Christianity. Yet he feels alienated by the words of those who speak of Hindu Rashtra.<\/p>\n
This post would become too long if I deal with all the points raised by Shri Rebeiro. I will therefore presently confine myself to commenting on the prime reason for Shri Rebeiro\u2019s believing that he has been put on the Hit list viz. the criticism of the Christian saint Mother Teresa by Mohan Bhagwat and Meenakshi Lekhi.<\/p>\n
Mother Teresa, a staunch Roman Catholic, had started the congregation that came to be known as the Missionaries of Charity after receiving Vatican\u2019s permission towards the end of 1950.In MT\u2019s own words its mission was to care for,<\/i> “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.”<\/p>\nMother Teresa\u2019s rise to Indian and international fame was rather fast. Her work was appreciated by the Indian government almost from the beginning. In 1962 she was awarded Padma Shri by Govt of India and also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in the same year. She received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980 besides various other awards from US,UK and Australian Governments and civilian organizations.<\/h3>\n
By 1970 itself Mother Teresa had become an international celebrity. The powerful Roman Catholic media played no small role in building up her image .A 1969 documentary Something Beautiful for God<\/i>, filmed by Malcolm Muggeridge<\/a> and a 1971 book of the same title by the same author were important milestones in the MT build up. The strong presence of the Christian media in India not only contributed to the glorification of Mother Teresa but also in denying audience to her critics.<\/p>\n Mohan Bhagwat is not the first or the only critic of Mother Teresa. In fact what he said about MT looks very mild compared to what MT\u2019s critics\u2014British American, and Canadian have been saying about her for almost two decades by now. The major accusations against Mother Teresa may be summarized as under;<\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0 In spite of having plenty of money, Mother Teresa was not interested in providing proper medical care to the inmates of her hospices. Because of her peculiar religious beliefs she seemed to delight in the suffering of the wretches who landed in her hospices.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0 Mother Teresa felt no compunction in accepting big donations from notorious swindlers and in fact praised some of them.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0\u00a0 That she encouraged her nuns to baptize those who were dying without their knowledge.<\/p>\n Abundant evidence in support of these charges is available in the public domain, some of which is given below.<\/p>\n In 1995 two UK based journalists Christopher Hitchens\u00a0 and Tarik Ali produced a highly critical documentary\u00a0 Hell\u2019s Angel<\/i> based on the work of Aroup Chatterjee an Indian-born doctor living in Britain, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa’s \u00a0Kolkata homes. The next year, Hitchens published The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice<\/i><\/a>, a pamphlet which repeated many of the allegations contained in the documentary. Chatterjee himself published The Final Verdict<\/i> in 2003,on the same subject. Chatterjee stated that the public image of Mother Teresa as a “helper of the poor” was misleading, and that only a few hundred people are served by even the largest of the homes. Chatterjee alleged that many operations of the order engage in no charitable activity at all but instead use their funds for missionary work. He stated, for example, that none of the eight facilities that the Missionaries of Charity run in Papua New Guinea<\/a> have any residents in them, being purely for the purpose of converting local people to Catholicism.<\/p>\n In an article captioned\u201dMommie Dearest\u201d published\u00a0 in the web magazine \u2018Slate\u2019 dated 20 Oct 2003 \u00a0Hitchens\u00a0 had this to say on Mother Teresa \u00a0\u201c she was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions<\/i>\u201d.<\/i> Christopher Hitchens went on to describe Mother Teresa’s organization as a cult<\/a> which promoted suffering and did not help those in need.\u00a0 Around 2003-2005 articles critical of Mother Teresa were published in many UK and US newspapers and web magazines<\/p>\n At a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: “Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?” Mother Teresa reportedly replied: “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”[2]<\/sup><\/a>:11<\/sup>[7]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Canadian scholars Serge Lariv\u00e9e and Genevieve Chenard of University of Montreal’s Department of Psychoeducation and Carole S\u00e9n\u00e9chal of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education who carried out an analysis of the available documents on the subject concluded that Mother Teresa\u2019s hallowed image, which does not stand up to analysis of the facts\u2014was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign.<\/p>\n LACK OF CARE FOR THE DYING<\/p>\n Among other critics, mention may be made of Dr. Robin Fox, editor of the medical journal *The Lancet*,\u00a0 who after visiting\u00a0 Mother Teresa’s operation in Calcutta in 1994 reported that he was very “disturbed” by what he saw. \u201cThere was little anesthesia to be seen and a near total neglect of medically sound diagnosis\u201d<\/p>\n Mary Loudon, a volunteer in Calcutta, had even worse things to say about Mother Teresa’s operation. She reported seeing in the Home for the Dying more than a hundred men and women all dying and not been given much medical care. Pain killers used did not go beyond aspirins. The nuns were rinsing the needles used for drips with plain tap water. When Loudon asked <http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/paulntobin\/mission.html?200929#22<\/a><\/p>\n Susan Sheilds, who worked for almost ten years as a member of Mother [23]<http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/paulntobin\/mission.html?200929#23<\/a>><\/p>\n SECRET CONVERSIONS TO CHRISTIANITY<\/p>\n \u201cTo Mother Teresa, like all other missionaries, spiritual well being \u201cIn a speech at the Scripps Clinic in California<\/a> in January 1992, Mother Teresa said: “Something very beautiful… not one has died without receiving the special ticket for St. Peter, as we call it. We call baptism ticket for St. Peter. We ask the person, do you want a blessing by which your sins will be forgiven and you receive God? They have never refused. So 29,000 have died in that one house [in Kalighat] from the time we began in 1952.”(Wikipaedia)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1981, Teresa flew to Haiti<\/a> to accept the Legion d’Honneur<\/a> from the right-wing dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier<\/a>, who, after his ouster, was found to have stolen millions of dollars from the impoverished country. There she said that the Duvaliers “loved their poor”, and that “their love was reciprocated”.<\/p>\n She accepted money from the British publisher Robert Maxwell<\/a>, who, as was later revealed, embezzled UK\u00a3450 million from his employees’ pension funds..\u00a0 Teresa also pleaded leniency for the American swindler Charles Keating<\/a> who donated millions of \u00a0stolen dollars to Mother Teresa and lent her his private jet when she visited the United States. She refused to return the money, and praised Keating repeatedly. She supported Licio Gelli<\/a>‘s nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>.[4]<\/sup><\/a> Gelli was reportedly known for being the head of the Propaganda Due<\/a> masonic<\/a> lodge, which was implicated in various murders and high-profile corruption cases in Italy, as well as having close connections with the neo-fascist<\/a> Italian Social Movement<\/a> and the Argentine Military Junta<\/a>.[Wikipaedia}<\/p>\n Mother Teresa\u2019s \u00a0response to her critics was: “No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work”.<\/p>\n I hope that knowledge of the facts given above will assuage at least to some extent Shri Ribeiro\u2019fears about the imaginary Hit List<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Feel I Am On The Hit LIst — A Police Officer Replies To Sh…. more
\nthem why they were not sterilizing the needles, the reply was simply they had no time and that there was “no point”. She also recounted the case of a fifteen year old boy who was dying because of a treatable kidney complaint. All that was needed was a *cab fare* to take the boy to a proper hospital. But Mother Teresa’s peons refused to do so, for “if they do it for
\none, they had to do it for everybody.”[22]<\/p>\n
\nTeresa’s order, subsequently left the movement because of the *atrocious
\nnegligence* she witnessed there. The order’s obsession with poverty means
\nthat the nuns and volunteers work under conditions of austerity, rigidity
\nand harshness. Ms. Sheilds reported that due to Mother Teresa’s fame, the
\ncharity had around US$50 *million* in their bank account in the US. The
\ndonations kept pouring in, yet little of these were used to procure medicine
\nor to provide better health care for the suffering. The nuns were rarely
\nallowed to spend money on the poor they are trying to help.<\/p>\n
\nover-rides everything else. As Ms. Sheilds reported, “Mother Teresa taught
\nher nuns how to secretly baptize those who were dying. Sisters were to ask
\neach person in danger of death if he wanted a ‘ticket to heaven’. An
\naffirmative reply was to mean consent to baptism. The sister was then to
\npretend she was just cooling the person’s forehead with a wet cloth, while
\nin fact she was baptizing him, saying quietly the necessary words. Secrecy
\nwas important so that it would not come to be known that Mother Teresa’s
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