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Joshua Project

Joshua Project II has been conceived as a war project and is no

being implemented like a military model - to be precise a Blitzkrie

Operation, with the intent to invade, occupy, control or subjugate th

population of India. This Nazi-type military strategy was based on sol

intelligence emanating from the ground on various facets of selecte

people groups. The idea was to send out espionage missions to locat

collect and collate micro details on religion and culture. The social an

economic divisions in the various Indian communities were close

studied and analysed. Taking note of the fact of untouchability amon

certain sections of Indian society, the American evangelical strategis

chalked out programmes for reaching these various 'unmixable an

untouchable' caste groups. This kind of organized approach has throw

up a mass of useful ethnographic data covering all parts of the country

terms of ethnicity, caste, creed, language and class.

The fundamentalist American missionaries belonging to the Wor

Evangelical Fellowship (an international alliance of national evangelic

alliances) launched a world-wide evangelical movement over the 1990

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the Global Consultation on World Evangelization (GCOWE) in Seoul

May 1995, South Korea, where nearly 4,000 Christian leaders from 18

countries, including India, gathered to draw up secret and cove

evangelical plans. The Seoul Conference has been hailed by man

American evangelists as 'the most strategic Christian gathering in wor

history.' Year 1995 also saw the transformation of the earlier moveme

into a higher plane in the name of JOSHUA PROJECT. The first GCOW

consultation was held in Singapore in 1989. The first five years of th

decade (1990-2000) were the years of seeding the clouds with the visio

of a church for every people and the gospel for every person by the ye

2000. This involved the building of a new kind of partnerin

relationships, a grassroots networking structure based on a 'Network

Networks.'

Joshua Project II now under active implementation in Ind

provides for a 'blue-print' of the unfinished task of world evangelizatio

programme. The mission of Joshua Project II is to highlight the savag

plight (!!) peoples of the world who have the least exposure to th

Gospel of Jesus Christ. The mission of evangelism of the Joshua Proje

II is threefold.

1. First, to gather, manage and distribute strategic populatio

progress indicator and ministry activity information to maximise th

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visibility of the least-reached peoples to the Church in different parts

India. The goal is a comprehensive, accurate, validated, public al

available list of all the ethno-cultural people groups of India.

2. Second, to be a 'least-reached peoples networking resource' to b

made available to the Christian mission community for lightenin

conversion operations in remote areas.

3. Third, to enhance the flow of information between Gre

Evangelical Commission organizations by using standardized data codin

based on known Postal Pin Codes.

In respect of India this 'standardized data coding' has bee

perfected to the utmost degree. This has been fine-tuned to such a

extent that even the diverse language groups of India have been divide

into PIN codes. The ability to plant evangelists that are familiar with th

language and culture in each Pin Code area greatly facilitates the pace

conversion both in terms of speed and efficiency. This data base als

enables any Christian missionary organization anywhere in the world

source any ethno-cultural or ethno-linguistic data on India at the click

the mouse. Just about any detail it wants is available on demand. To giv

another concrete example. Let us assume that somebody at the CI

headquarters wants specific information on a particular district or regio

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in any part of India. All that needs to be done in CIA headquarters is t

call up Bush's mentor Rev Billy Graham. Rev Graham will in turn log int

databases maintained by a network of American Evangelical Missions

India and supply the needed information to the CIA. All this can happe

in seconds and this is how technology has made evangelical activities s

potentially dangerous and subversive from the point of view of o

national security. Why am I citing the name of Billy Graham as a

example? I am doing so only because Billy Graham, a known Christia

fundamentalist and a rabid evangelist (who was mainly responsible fo

George Bush's 'born again' Christian status and whom President Bus

considers as his godfather) was the honorary co-chairman of the A

2000 movement.

Joshua Project II deploys paid evangelical spies all over India to g

an accurate picture of opportunities and challenges facing their larg

scale conversion programme in our country. They have evolved suitab

subversive strategies to implement their plans. Concepts like PLU

PREM and NICE have been conceived. PLUG refers to the target grou

people in every language, urban centre and geographic division. PRE

refers to the techniques of using prayer, research, evangelization an

mobilization. NICE refers to how the work is to be done - networkin

taking initiative, and using an evangelist to spur existing groups an

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cohorts in their efforts to convert people to Christianity. There is alway

a close and continuous cooperation between the White House, CIA, an

all the Evangelical Organizations like the International Mission Boar

Southern Baptist Convention, Christian Aid, World Vision, Seventh Da

Adventist Church and multi-billion enterprises run by Evangelists like P

Robertson, Billy Graham and Roger Houtsma, etc.

Thus it will be clear that under the direct personal supervision

President Bush, the US Government's faith-based initiatives have funde

major Christian groups in the US to pursue their programme of massiv

religious conversions in India. These funds are officially deployed fo

social work in India only on paper, but are actually used for dua

purposes, most of it being used for massive conversion and only

nominally token amount for social services. These activities are linked

forces that are subversive to India's territorial integrity and nation

security. Against this background, there is an urgent national need

USA for a US Congressional or media inquiry into the alleged use of U

taxpayer funds for religious conversions in India without the knowledg

of US taxpayers. There is no doubt that many of these America

Evangelists, apart from potentially undermining India's stability, als

play into the hands of subversive forces, which in the final round cou

eventually backfire on American interests as it has happened in Pakista

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and many other countries.

I am highly amused by the massive intelligence collecting operatio

launched by Joshua Project II in India. I am of the view that there

going to be a larger cosmic auditing of the evangelical movement

India. I am not very sure whether the massive volume of Himalayan da

collected Pin Code-wise in India will be of any real use to the evangelic

missions in USA. World history clearly shows that figures and planning

this scale cease to be meaningful. The massive survey of Joshua

Project may seem to be eminent in statistics but is positively poor

philosophy and spiritual wisdom. In fact, its psychic source is not eithe

spiritual or philosophical. It is nothing but crass materialism.

To quote the brilliant words of Gautham Sen: 'The contempora

assault on Hinduism is reaching acute proportions. The reason is pu

opportunism. All the mannered subterfuges cannot hide the fact that

Hindu bigot rules Hindu for the first time since the end of colonialism. N

nominal Hindu ruler has dared to underwrite Hindu proselytising s

brazenly though they surely laid the ground for the unfolding aggressio

At present much of Hindu is ruled directly by adherents of Catholic an

Protestant denominations, in cahoots with foreign powers and assiste

by Hindu renegades. The different denominations of Hindu proselytise

have postponed conflict over a division of the spoils among themselve

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in favour of first displacing the Hindu upper castes, perceived as th

principal obstacle to their unfettered rule....'

V SUNDARAM

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)