john wrote:I must say I thought it a bit strong. So where does the rape bit come from, have I missed something?
Yes, one wants to make any comments not too easy for the BKWSU to dismiss and paint any ciriticism as extremism. They have accused Eromain as acting out of hate on the basis of his child abuse report and on the Wikipedia, they say this domain is an "attack website", which is a little bit superficial when you consider the research, churning, support and meeting of all parties we do.
The truth is, those incidents have and do happen but their numbers are probably much lower than society's average. I think the issue is not that they do happen. They do.
There is an ongoing murder/suicide/pregancy investigation going on at the BKWSU center in Panipat, Haryana in which all the BK teachers appear to have absconded leaving the center to have been looted by locals enraged by the discovery. What is under examination if the leaderships response to them which is, I think, what Eromain was on about.
The murder/suicide investigation is not the first of its kind. In another unreported incident (on this site) a BK Sister was found in a burnt out center with evidence of sexual congress. Whether it was rape and murder or consensual sex and suicide we may never know.
The former incident has been reported on Star News Channel India and in the Dainik Bhaskar or Dainik Jagaran newspapers. If there are any local BKs or ex-BKs who can comment on this, please document findings here.
Do BKs hear and discuss these incidents? No. Baba tells them "not a hair on their heads will be harmed ... like the kittens of a cat" and the SS keep matters looking squeaky clean.
Of the rapes, I can specifically remember the Sister in Australia that was raped by her partner in a final last grasp at the dissolution of their marriage follwing her involvement in Gyan. There were incidents at the beginning of the Yagya. And there was that horrific taxi murder of another Australian BK Sister (I believe she was done in with a screwdriver) only a few years ago which was said to have had sexual overtones.
Still, these things do happen in all corners. They are not necessarily all the fault of the BKs. Some are, without doubt, complicated and inflammed by BK involvement. The Ranjana Incident, for example. But again, it is the handling of them that I look at. BKs are kept gaga about the realities in some child-like state on onehand and "karma" on the other.