The next day he reverted back to his insistence on
Christianity as the only true religion, and gave a call to convert Asia. This is hypocrisy
and duplicity at its worst. The Papal determination to eliminate Hinduism and Indian
culture by converting masses to Christianity is barely one step short of medieval
Talibanism. The medieval Islamites seek to eliminate the infidels through the sword; the
Pope seeks to achieve this through mass-conversions. The end result is same in both cases.
The Western press is not playing a positive role in this whole episode. Invariably, the
reports from the Associated Press and Reuters suffix the word "hard-line" or
"zealot" when describing Hindu groups which are resisting the Pope