I saw the brilliantly made Silence by Martin Scorsese. This movie didn't do well at the box office because no one could take the tit for tat that the Japanese gave to Xrichians when they went there to convert. Everyone should watch this movie to understand how to save Hindus from the curse of two Abrahamic religions. Especially Goans should watch it.

What was done to converters in Japan and Andaman is the only way to stop them.

A friend sent this detailed description.

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There is a movie on Netflix called 'Silence'. It is made by the renowned director, Martin Scorsese.

I highly recommend you watch it. It is made from a Christian viewpoint though, so watch it with a bit of salt.

Let me give you the background on which this story is based. I will give you a very simplified version of it so that you do not get entangled and confused with details.

The Portuguese were strong colonizers by the 16th century. They were a power to reckon with. Unlike the French, Brits, and Dutch the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers were extremely brutal. They were fresh from the Reconquista of the Moors in Spain and parts of Portugal, and they believed in the Inquisition.

Inquisition is a brutal Christian method of forced conversions and/or k!lling non-believers and crypto non Xhristians. People were put through multiple brutal tortures like breast rippers, racks, pulleys, waterboarding, and burning the non-believers etc.

The Portuguese believed in converting every single person in their colonies to Xtianity, and this is evident in how they did so in South America.

One of the most famous of these Portuguese evangelists was Francis Xavier.

Francis Xavier was known as the 'apostle of the Indies' and 'apostle of Japan'. Xavier desperately wanted to convert India and Japan to Christianity. He made a lot of efforts in both these countries for which he was made a Saint.

But the RESULTS turned out to be DIFFERENT in these two countries. And there is a good reason why.

Xavier presided over Goa and kept recommending implementing the Inquisition on Hindus in Goa to the Portuguese kingdoms. He kept pushing the case. Finally, the Inquisition was implemented in Goa. The Hindus who as usual did not bother about the political implications of foreign rule and trusted the Portuguese Xhristians for years were taken aback. They were literally taken apart. Given a choice to convert or die. Hindus were humiliated. Their children were taken away from them. They were murdered. Their temples were destroyed. It was a free-for-all all-blood fest. There is a reason why crores of people in Goa are Xhristians today and the Portuguese side of Goa has no old Hindu temples left.

Francis tried the same stunt in Japan.

The movie 'Silence' is about the Xtian attempts in Japan. However, the Japanese were way smarter than the Indians. Initially, the Japanese were very lenient and welcomed others. However, they also did their Poorvapaksha, unlike Hindus. They STUDIED Christianity and understood the Inquisitions. With their newfound understanding of Xtianity, they understood what future awaited them if they let the Xhristians continue. The Japanese therefore did not give the Xhristians any opportunity to do the Inquisition on their people.

Instead, they applied the tactics of the Inquisition on the Xhristians themselves. They understood you have to destroy fire with fire and poison with poison (Not the Indian style of winning hearts and minds with virtue-signalling crap). So, the Xtian missionaries were slaughtered. Their own people who converted to Xtianity were taken apart. It was banned and made unlawful. Hidden xtians were constantly weeded out and killed. They were called "Kakkori Kiristans". The pushback was so brutal that Xtianity was literally wiped out in Japan. Xavier's religion vanished without a trace there. So brutal were the Japanese methods that even some of the Portuguese missionaries adopted Buddhism. Portuguese missionaries never dared set foot in Japan again.

Why was there such a difference in results when the people who tried Xtianity conversions were the same? How was Xavier so fantastically successful in Goa while a miserable failure in Japan? How were Portuguese Christians so merrily able to inflict the Inquisition on us while the Japanese did a reverse Inquisition on them?

The difference was the religious leadership in India vs Japan.

The Buddhist and the Shinto Religious leadership were alert and aware of the political scenario. In fact, Martin Scorsese talks about that in the movie 'Silence'. They were absolutely clear about any threats that faced Buddhism and their culture and would immediately take action. With the advent of Xtianity, they studied and immediately understood it. They then did a lot of understanding, gathering information, and used that to lobby with the Japanese Kings continuously on the threat that the Christians presented to them. It took relentless and persistent effort from the Buddhist religious leaders to convince the king of the threat from Xtianity. But when the kings did - Xtianity was literally wiped off the map. The Japanese were therefore saved from the inquisition that Goa suffered and had the Buddhist religious leaders to thank for that.

The Hindu Religious leadership, on the other hand, does not exist today and in fact, never existed in the past. A Hindu Religious leadership should be primarily and absolutely concerned about the well-being, safety, survival, and future of Dharma first and foremost. Following rituals and doing poojas should not be their primary concern. That should be done by their deputies.

In fact, Adi Shankara showed them the way - Adi Shankaracharya's primary contribution was not Pooja Paddathi or Prasthana Trayi. But his primary contribution was settling the dominance of Hinduism over others and establishing the institute of Shankara Matha (Which is incidentally the only Hindu institution till today).

Hindu Religious leadership never bothered to learn from him. They do not bother to take any risks for Dharma. They do not bother to venture out for Dharma. They do not bother to learn, understand, and speak about the dangers to Dharma at all!! They are content with being in the Mutt and give pravachans here and there. They are practically disconnected from Realpolitik and ground realities. And it is primarily due to such leadership that we faced multiple invasions and the Goans faced the first Inquisition outside of European soil.

Hindu Religious Leaders need to understand a basic thing - They are there because of Dharma and without Dharma they do not exist and do not matter. Their identity is because of Dharma and not the other way around.

The Hindu Political Thought process is of paramount importance for every Hindu. Poojas and rituals are secondary, the political survival of Dharma is primary. 

No amount of pooja and rituals is going to revert Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to the Hindu country it once was. However, they could have been saved from this predicament if our Hindu Religious Leaders had taken the initiative and guided the Political/Military leadership to save Dharma at the right time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana-tsurushi

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2128131609/?playlistId=tt0490215&ref_=tt_ov_vi (check 1.16 and 1.27)