Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Aronite Thinking-This Isn't A Nasty Pope But A Nazi Pope ? Indian Media Fails To Probe - Turn India A Safe Haven For Its Godmen's Abuse
Aronite Thinking-This Isn't A Nasty Pope But A Nazi Pope ? Indian Media Fails To Probe - Turn India A Safe Haven For Its Godmen's Abuse
How India became a safe haven for fugitive clergymen sought in the west
by the long arm of Law ?
Media abetment of god-men’s abuse makes India the least reported in a Global
Sex-Scandal Wave
Aron
The Pope appeared in grandiosity for the Mass in Vatican this week, but the airs
hung heavy all around- gone were the crowds of cheering multitudes, the
palpable enthusiasm of the masses in attendance that was infective at the time of
his anointment, and the scene painted was of the Vicar of Christ on earth putting
up appearances amidst his frocked clergymen the source of much
embarrassment.
It was the tried and time tested method of the Church, at damage control, to own
up the lapse and pretend at attonement, and the irony of his raised hands of
Blessings among these men working behind the scene their curses all over the
world was not lost on anyone except perhaps the apple polishing BBC that
covered it doggedly.
Indian media’s complicity in the current global scandal of the Christian church, is
telling- while there is no respite for the diggers of the skeletons from mire the
Church has landed itself in the west and elsewhere, Indian media has utterly failed in its
watchdog role of reporting these abuses handing a raw deal to its Indian victims.
The raring to go and over eager accommodation of the Christian church’s point of
view, and the timidity of the Press and electronic media due to direct and indirect
stake the Christian organizations hold in their outfits, had encouraged the
Christian god-men to carry on with their scandalous behavior to the babyish laity,
and could confidently be sure to surface sooner than later.
The promotion of its agenda of evangelism, using any means- many that would
be held utterly scandalous by western standards in the cloak of religious rights,
has had a fallout of providing a Critique and Probity free environment- during the
period when West had unearthed shocking scandals of these depraved
‘godmen’- a term that our media reserves only for Hindu religious heads.
Kowtowing of the Church line and absence of critical coverage during this Global
Church-Scandal era, is another Media Complicity Scandal is a story worth
unraveling in itself.
The media had thus done the whole lot to turn India a safe haven for clerical
abuse and its fugitives from the global scandal.
Here is just a short list in the very same Orissa where the Church went overdrive
screaming ‘atrocities’.
The indignant Pope even rushed in a huff to accuse India and slight its image in
a public condemnation, even as the churchmen kept up their murky activities.
2003-Nov 25 -A poor Vanavasi child used by a nun called Meena for immoral
Activity, and arrested by police.Devgad District.
2005-Feb 16: Another Vanavasi girl called Jyothirmayi has been brutally raped
and murdered.Denaknal Block
2005-july 1 : Vanavasi boys called Kishore prasanth and Gagori nakada has
been found dead swallowing poison at a MissionHostel-
SundergadMissionSchool.
2006-jan 15 : A poor village women called Rugmini beaten so brutally for denying
conversion at Jajpur Jilla.
2006 Oct 23 : School Principal of LAYOLA Mission School has been detained
and suspended by authorities for using children for immoral traffic.
2007-july 28: Two nuns called Prema and Mary of BARIPADA Vijya sadan
MissionSchool also detained by police for using boys for sexual activities.
This list is by no means to date or complete, but a random report collected from
low key reports that appeared in dailies.
This complete failure of the Indian media, in its obligatory role as a Watchdog
against abuses regarding Christian organizations, will surely come in the
unwrapped when the Christian victims divulge and come out with the same
shocking exposes of these godmen in frocks.
While the craven Indian media keeps mum, all the while trying to linkup an
isolated statements from Savarkar and Golwalkar, to ‘unearth’ the Fascist face of
Hindu rightwingers, the western counterparts have been less circuitous and
straight up on the whole issue.
Regarding the Fascist sympathies and links- read this post of Jim in
his Caledonian Comment-
And even the Archbishop of Canterbury is putting the boot into the
Vatican. He says that Ireland’s Roman Catholic church has “lost
all credibility” because of its poor handling of the “problem” of
paedophile priests. Dr Rowan Williams (pictured above) said the
child sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the Roman Catholic
church had been a “colossal trauma” for Ireland in particular. But
an Irish Catholic Archbishop immediately rebuked Williams over
his comments, contending they were unhelpful and discouraging.
In an interview to be broadcast on Monday, Williams said: “I was
speaking to an Irish friend recently who was saying that it’s quite
difficult in some parts of Ireland to go down the street wearing a
clerical collar now. And an institution so deeply bound into the life
of a society suddenly losing all credibility – that’s not just a
problem for the church, it is a problem for everybody in Ireland”.
Perhaps what makes this (justifiable) criticism even harder to bear
is that it comes from an Anglican nutcase that advocates the
introduction of Sharia Law in the UK !