An Indian Christian leader was almost killed in an attack Sunday night by Hindu extremists during a prayer service in the city of Davangere.

Pastor Isaac Samuel, coordinator of the Global Council of Indian Christians, was seriously injured when he was hit between his neck and shoulder with a cleaver, in front of his wife and two sons, as he led the meeting.

He was taken to Chigateri hospital where he had to undergo a blood transfusion and receive twelve stitches.

Police have arrested a man identified only by the name of Bansava, following an investigation.

Sajan George, president of GCIC, accused the attackers of having a “clear intention of killing him”, but was relieved Samuel survived and thanked God that “the blade missed his head”.

He also criticised the anti-conversion laws currently upheld in several Indian states, labeling the laws as an “excuse for anti-Christian violence”.

“The government of the Bharatiya Janata Party must realize that the anti-conversion law has a history of misuse by Hindu fundamentalists,” he said, according to AsiaNews.

Though India’s constitution provides for freedom of religion, six out of 28 states restrict this freedom with legislation that allows for punishment of religious converts who do not inform the state.

Although the laws do not exist in Karnataka in southern India where the incident occurred, there has been a strong demand to introduce similar policies.

A recent report by the Evangelical Fellowship of India shows a spike in violence against Indian Christians over the past decade, with 149 attacks in 2010.

The majority of cases took place within four states, indicating “attacks on Christians are not stray incidents but are part of a systematic campaign by influential [Hindu nationalist] organisations,”, the EFI report states.

Violence against Christians escalated in 2008 when Hindu extremists murdered 110 Christians and destroyed 170 churches and 4,500 homes following the murder of one Hindu leader.

Hinduism is the main religion in India, with around 80 per cent of the 1.1 billion people being Hindu. Christians account for 2.3 per cent of the population.

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I was recently driving home from the office and was listening to one of my favorite talk show hosts.  This happened just a couple of days after the murder of George Tiller and, of course, the host was deriding someone going to the length of murder to support their position.

Accurately, in my opinion, he made the point that you should not forsake the law to try to achieve change, but rather change the law.  I have no argument with that precept in any way.  To allow for vigilante justice, especially when the recipient (in this case, Tiller) is not breaking the laws of the land (whether the law is heartbreaking and evil or not), ultimately leads straight to anarchy.  Some may say that anarchy might be preferable to the Obama administration but that is a thought for another day.

He then started to take questions and comments from callers and one guy totally floored me.  He made it clear from the very beginning that he had no axe to grind.  He had no horse in this race.  Abortion was a non-issue to him and he did not recognize himself as either pro-life or pro-choice.  He then posed this question.  If one believes that abortion is murder, and that life begins at conception, just how far should one go to protect the lives of those children?  He followed that with the dagger to the heart:

“If you saw a guy walk into a daycare center with a baseball bat and start bashing kids in the head, would you stop him?  How far would you go to stop him?  If you saw someone walking around a school cafeteria and emptying vials of poison into the kid’s drinks, how far would go to stop him?”

1.  At what point does “2 wrongs don’t make a right” become just another lame cliche?

2.  Since life begins at conception, are we taking OUR reponsibilities as Christians, humans, and Americans seriously enough that we are willing to take every LEGAL step available to us to put a stop to this ongoing legalized genocide?

Today, IN AMERICA, in honor of George Tiller:

Come and get it:  Free Abortions

How far is too far?

If you knew that YOUR children were in imminent danger of death, to what lengths would you go to protect and defend them?

More info on the Philly free abortion tradedy from around the web…

Free abortions to honor George Tiller – Reformed Chicks Blabbing – An abortionist is gunned down in his church by a fanatic and to honor him the Philadelphia Women’s Center offered free abortions. Amazing. What price do we put on human life? Free. Tiller’s legacy continues to be death: The Philadelphia … Abortion business gives away free abortions in honor of George … – An abortion business in Pennsylvania is drawing criticism or giving away free abortions on Tuesday in honor of slain late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. The Philadelphia Women’s Center said the free abortions were meant to … The Conservative Mama: In Honor of the Great Dr. Tiller…FREE … – The Philly Abortion Giveaway by Jillian Bandes The Philadelphia Women’s Center gave away free abortions Tuesday in honor of Dr. George Tiller, the abortionist who was murdered last week by an anti-abortion extremist. … Philly Abortion Giveaways In Honor of Tiller – The Philadelphia Women’s Center gave away free abortions on Tuesday as a means of “honoring” slain late-term abortionist George Tiller. The abortion clinic told the media that an unspecified number of abortions were done free of charge. …

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