A 100-strong mob surrounded the police station in Delhi’s GTB Nagar for several hours and raised provocative slogans as the pastor and injured persons reached to file their complaint.

  • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    In western countries that’s a fair viewpoint, but in countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc christians are oppressed & victimised quite regularly, being in the minority and surrounded by devotees of ‘rival’ religions…

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      In India, most Christians belong to the oppressed castes whose ancestors converted to Christianity to escape Hindu oppession and to get an education that had been denied to their caste.

      Even though, they’ve been Christians for generations, Hindu supremacists hate them because their ancestors & they escaped religious and caste oppression. hindu supremacists derisively call them “rice bags” because of a myth that they changed their religion for a bag of rice. my q to this “How shitty their old religion must’ve been to them, if they willing accepted a new religion for a bag of rice in rice-growing India?”.