VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain on Monday defended the demolition of a church in Hisar, Haryana, asking whether Christians would allow construction of a Hanuman temple in Vatican City.
According to a prominent daily, Jain also claimed that the 1857 War of Independence was in fact a ‘communal war’ and threatened that more such wars would be fought in future if Christians did not stop converting.
Rubbishing any communal angle claim in the gang-rape of a nun in Bengal, Jain said that it was a ‘conspiracy of the church’ and that sexual exploitation of nuns was a ‘Christian culture’, not a Hindu one.
“It is a Christian culture to exploit nuns. We don’t do such things. The Vatican received 5,000 complaints of sexual exploitation in five years prompting the Pope to appeal for legalization of gay sex,” Jain said.
The VHP member also supported the statement of Subramanian Swamy that “God does not live in churches or mosques but in temples”. “This is a truth that even Muslims agree to. Ask any Muslim if Allah lives in mosque and he will reply in the negative. Saudi Arabia has demolished so many mosques for developmental work, no body has objected,” he said. DNA
