Tipu Sultan's forcible conversion of 30,000 Manglorean Catholics

jan 27th, 2009

this is something i didn't know. the mangalorean christists were, of course, converted at gunpoint by 'saint' francis xavier in the first place. some of them were people who had migrated from the northwest because of mohammedan invasions -- there is a book, 'sarasvati's children', by some christist person from mangalore which suggests that many of the coastal karnataka people were migrants from the sarasvati river region.

i think sushil is wrong about jews -- if i am not mistaken, mohammedans consider jews and chrisits both people of the book, and therefore deserving to live as dhimmis (because, i believe the argument goes, they all worship the same semitic jealous god known as yhwh to both jews and christists, and as allah to mohammedans). hindus were outside the pale of this -- basically in the mohammedan view, hindus have no right to exist.

this, of course, is the view taken by the kkkangress and the limeys as well.

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From: Sushil

Rajeev, Found this piece on Wikipedia's English section front page - 'did you know' section Here is the link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity_of_Mangalorean_Catholics_at_Seringapatam Ofcourse, the Christians were helping the British in their campaign against the 'Wolf' ....sorry.....tiger (is it?) of Mysore. Enraged he killed tens of thousands in a similar fashion to his dealing of the Hindus of the Malabar (whose only crime was to be pagan!) This article is in light of the NCM award to the wolf in sheep's clothing - Cedric Prakash who ran the campaign against Modi about the POST-GODHRA riots. NCM award to Catholic priest for 2002 riots campaign http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ncm-award-to-catholic-priest-for-2002-riots-campaign/18898/ Obviously, Cedric is part of the Congress' plan to spread the 'good word' till none of the Hindoos remain. Wonder what he thinks if he were aware of the Islamist sultan's treatment of his 'fellow christians' ......British support not witholding! Well, dhimmi's should be awarded...even if they are 'people of the book' (Christians are called 'Ahl-i-kitab in contrast to the Jews who don't deserve the basic mercy of life). Sushil