MOHAN BHAGWAT, MOTHER TERESA AND UNWANTED CONTROVERSY!
I am no supporter of Mohan Bhagwat and RSS. (Some years back, I had riled out a thought that he was working at the behest of Congress and he deliberately caused NDA defeat in 2004 and let down LK Advani and Jaswant Singh in 2009. I have not changed my opinion on him, since.) To me , most RSS leaders are lose canons and lack real grasp of national issues. It is a one track mind organization, immersed in the thought process of 1920s. This Organization has not grasped the dynamism of modern India. All the same, social work done by it, is laudable, though its leaders need some lessons on " The handicaps and Compulsions of India in 2015".
However, I do not understand the motive of a deliberate controversy created by "NDTV", " Indian Express", "The HIndu"and Congress on a casual statement of RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, on Mother Teresa's real work. What is so disrespectful he has uttered about her that they are all up in arms against him? Are they trying to say that 18 years old teenager nun had come to India to fight poverty? I am sure she was not sent to India even for sight seeing or holidays. What would a 18 year old girl from Macedonia know about India and her poverty? And we are talking about the year 1928----- when means of communication were very limited and flow of Information was at a snail's pace.
She was a Christian missionary and the purpose of these Christian Missionaries is well known. They are meant to propagate their faith and religion and convert people to their faith. Question may be asked as to why only poor people? Very simple answer because poor can be very easily enticed. If this is NOT luring and converting one's religion , then, what is this? How's "Ghar Wapisi" different from "Charity work"? To say conversion was not her purpose is to deny the real facts on grounds. And if she did it, why should there be any objections? In fact, those who are baying for Mohan Bhagwat's blood actually want to deny this because to them , it is a criminal Offense now as Hindu Organizations have started doing the same. If it was good for Mother Teresa, what is the problem, now? This is the problem. Why should not Hindus do it? If it has to be stopped, it must apply to everyone.
Before I go to sketch life history of Mother Teresa, I would like certain fact to be known. It would reveal some astonishing facts of her real motives. She was not what she projected herself to be. Sheltered by INDRA Gandhi's Congress, she misused donations to be sent out of India to Vatican. Let us see some important facts about her , all culled from Internet, as under :--
1. MISUSE OF DONATED MONEY.
It has been alleged by former employees of Mother Teresa's order that Teresa refused to authorize the purchase of medical equipment, and that donated money was instead transferred to the Vatican Bank for general use, even if it was specifically earmarked for charitable purposes. See Missionaries of Charity for a detailed discussion of these allegations. Mother Teresa did not disclose her order's financial situation except where she was required to do so by law. No wonder, Arvind Kejriwal had worked for her and learnt the tricks from her finance handling. An IRS man as he was, he added more jugglery to it and perfected the art , as is evident from Forged four Cheques, worth 2 Crores, received by AAP in May 2014. Today, he is Mother Teresa's strongest supporter, along with Congress squeakers.
An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and other practices of Teresa's order. In 1994, two British journalists, Christopher Hitchensand Tariq Ali, produced a critical British Channel 4 documentary, Hell's Angel, based on Chatterjee's work.
2. NO ANGEL OF POOR PEOPLE.
"Hell's Angel" is a 1994, BBC, Channel 4, television documentary about Mother Teresa by Christopher Hitchens, a precursor to his book, The Missionary Position. The film claims that she urged the poor to accept their fate, while the rich are portrayed as being favored by God. Hitchens and Tariq Ali wrote the show's script. In his book The Missionary Position, Cristopher Hitchen, in a frank expose of the Teresa cult, unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds. Hitchen maintains that Mother Teresa had glorified POVERTY for her own narrow motives.
Given the real-world implications of Theresa’s ministry – taking millions of donations, using none of it for the palliations or treatment of the dying Indians in her care, and allowing herself to be ruthlessly and absurdly used by dictators and monsters for the purposes of public relations – it is not only warranted, but necessary to demolish Teresa's icon image. The book is eye-opening and a handy little answer to everyone who has ever used Theresa as a icon of compassion. The book also exposes what should be horrific for believers as well – the forcible conversion of the dying to Catholicism through unwanted, secretive baptism. The spiritual equivalent of rape.
3. DUBIOUS CONNECTIONS WITH FRAUDSTERS.
She accepted money from the British publisher Robert Maxwell, who, as was later revealed, embezzled UK£450 million from his employees' pension funds. Criticism does focus on Teresa's plea for leniency in the Charles Keating case. Keating donated millions of 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. There has been a lack of media investigation of her relationships to these individuals, though Christopher Hitchens was a strident critic.
She supported Licio Gelli's nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gelli is known for being the head of the Propaganda Due masonic lodge, which was implicated in various murders and high-profile corruption cases in Italy, as well as having close connections with the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement and the Argentine Military Junta. This explains her closeness to communists and its Indian mouth piece in Media , today, the NDTV.
4. POOR MEDICAL CARE FOR HER PATIENTS BUT THE BEST FOR SELF.
In 1991, Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Kolkata and described the medical care the patients received as "haphazard". He observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors in the hospice. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible for conditions in this home, and observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment.
In contrast to the conditions endured by the poor in her hospices, Mother Theresa sought the most advanced modern medical treatment available for herself, visiting world-renowned clinics in the United States, Europe, and India.
5. SUPPORT FOR INTERNAL EMERGENCY AND INDRA GANDHI .
After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes." These approving comments were seen as a result of the friendship between Teresa and the Congress Party. This explains as to why she got BHARAT RATNA in 1980 and Congress's special love for her.
6. ANTI ABORTION CRUSADER.
Mother Thresa, true to be a Roman Catholic, was a strong opponent of abortion, e en if it was due to rape or sexual assault. In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, she declared, "Abortion is the worst evil, and the greatest enemy of peace... Because if a mother can kill her own child, what will prevent us from killing ourselves or one another? Nothing."
In the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, it was determined that more than 450,000 Hindu women in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) had been systematically raped. Even in these circumstances she asserted her rejection of abortion by publicly denouncing abortion as an option and by calling upon the women left behind to keep their unborn children. She characterized her views later when asked in 1993 about a 14-year-old rape victim in Ireland, "Abortion can never be necessary... because it is pure killing."
7. Who Was Mother Teresa?
A Catholic nun and missionary, Mother Teresa was born circa August 26, 1910 (her date of birth is disputed), in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. On August 27, 1910, a date frequently cited as her birthday, she was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Mother Teresa's parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were of Albanian descent. Her father died when she was 8 years old.
In 1928, an 18-year-old Agnes Bojaxhiu, decided to become a nun and set off for Ireland to join the Loreto Sisters of Dublin. It was there that she took the name Sister Mary Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. A year later, Mother Teresa traveled on to Darjeeling, India for the novitiate period; in May 1931, Mother Teresa made her First Profession of Vows.
Afterward she was sent to Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary's High School for Girls, a school run by the Loreto Sisters and dedicated to teaching girls from the city's poorest Bengali families. Mother Teresa learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently as she taught geography and history and dedicated herself to alleviating the girls' poverty through education. She became school 's principal in 1944. She taught in the school till September 10, 1946, when she set up her Order of the Missionaries of Charity. She received a Noble Prize for peace in 1979 and in 1980 , she had won BHARAT RATNA, the highest civilian award in India. She died in 1997. She has been accused of anti- abortion and asking poor to accept her fate.
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