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RSS for launching global movement against conversions

India will not tolerate attempts by foreign missionaries to force Hindus to change their religion, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief K S Sudarshan said Sunday.

"There is an urgent need to launch a worldwide movement against conversions," Sudarshan told a large public meeting of Indians organised by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh of Canada.

He said all out efforts should be made to prevent attempts by certain Christian and Muslim units to force Hindus to change their religion.

"If Hindus do not maintain Hinduism, who shall save it? If India's own children do not cling to her faith, who will guard it?"

Sudarshan added that all Hindus were one, and Indians alone could save the country.

"Hinduism is tolerant. It is that tolerance that enabled Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Sikhism to find shelter and support in India. But it should not be treated as a weakness," he said.

Sudarshan was of the view that the Hindu religion was used and understood as a synonym of "Indianisation" - the development of a uniform culture by obliterating the differences between all the cultures coexisting in the country.

PTI

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