Mohan Bhagwat And Catholic Body On War Over Lynching Word
New Delhi: A full-blown war of words is raging between Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat and a top Catholic body over- who invented the word “lynching”.
Taking umbrage to Bhagwat’s remarks dissociating the Hindu community with rising incidents of mob lynching in the country and instead linking the term to Christianity, the All India Catholic Union (AICU) has issued a detailed statement lashing out at both the RSS and the country’s ruling BJP and questioned Bhagwat’s “political intentions” behind the remark.
At the foundation day function of the RSS on October 8, Bhagwat had spoken at length about the phenomenon of mob lynching. “No one from the Sangh gets into such troubles. If some such thing is about to happen, they, in fact, try to stop it.
Calling any association between Hinduism and lynching “a conspiracy”, Bhagwat said the word comes from an incident in the Bible. According to him, once Jesus Christ asked people to hit a woman with stones, but only if they had never committed any sin themselves.
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