Thursday, April 30, 2015

Man-made disaster: the virus of conversion strikes again

The 'converters' are at it again.  

On 14th April, Deccan Herald published a report about conversion activity in Bangalore. 

Apparently three neo-converts herded together a group of children aged between 10 and 15, and attempted to brainwash them into accepting the 'only true God'.  It is only when an alert neighbour, Mr Ramanna confronted the owner of the house - who was also a convert - that truth came to the fore. 

The neo-converts apparently told him to mind his own business.  But displaying rare courage, Mr Ramanna lodged a complaint against them at the police station, and the trio were arrested under Section 295A of the IPC (which deals with deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs).  

It seems the virus of conversion is very much alive, and spreading faster than H1N1 - not just in rural and deprived areas, but also in urban areas, where newly infected people seem to be the main sources of epidemics.  

Please note that the virus of conversion is also opportunistic in nature.  It strikes mostly when the host population's immunity is at an all time low.  The latest population group that is vulnerable to infection appears to be group of victims of the earthquake in Nepal.  News reports suggest that copies of the much needed holy book have been shipped across to the land locked Himalayan nation.


The fomites and reservoirs of the virus - proselytisers - must be having a field day.  So many infections to carry out, and so little time!   Food and water can surely wait.  Accepting the true path is the need of the hour, you see.  Everything else will magically fall into place after that.  After all, the heathen have to be shown the right path; it is their barbaric faith that is the cause of all this devastation. 

If at all you are concerned about the rapidly spreading epidemic, please at the very least follow the example of Mr Ramanna and use the antidote of Section 295A.  

Or even better, spread awareness about the prevention of the epidemic.  Prevention, after all, is better than cure.  In fact, there doesn't appear to be a cure to this viral infection.

May the breed of public health workers like Mr Ramanna increase!



Image source: http://dekhnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/np1.jpg

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