Fr Victor Ferrao on “Hindu Khatre Mein Hai” Narrative || Interview by Bro. Francis

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]When the create a thought process by which we feel we are victims and this victimization is justified by bringing something that is erupted in the past then we want justice.

[00:00:18]We want something to be brought back to its order.

[00:00:23]Now in this when we desire this I claim in my writings that we must be careful whether we are Catholics, whether we are Hindus, whether we are Muslims or whoever.

[00:00:37]If I want to restore the wrongs of the past in the present I have to be careful.

[00:00:46]Why? Because I become blind to the fact that I am actually repeating the same crime at another spiral of violence.

[00:01:00]I'm repeating the same crime. You see what happened? Somebody built a temple or somebody did a let us say a church or somebody did a mosque.

[00:01:10]Now I'm breaking the mosque. We did it in India.

[00:01:13]What did we do? What? They repeated the same. Same crime. But this time we say we did it for God. That time also that fellow did it for God. Now which God and where God?

[00:01:25]So that's why when we look at this this way we need to scrutinize our movement.

[00:01:31]We are repeating in form, not in matter.

[00:01:35]The form is same. Correct. So our hands are all sometimes stained with the same crime that we are accusing others.

[00:01:44]So that's the ethical moment that has come to me. Every moment that we we want justice and we want to say we are the victims please stand for a sometime, reflect upon it, and see, are you really the victim?

[00:02:01]It's amazing. It's It's really amazing.

[00:02:04]Today, when we have a Hindu Prime Minister, when you have Hindus as running the court, when you have Hindus as police, when you have Hindus as MLAs, and when you have Hindus as CS, Chief Ministers, and whatever. Hindu Katreme Kaise? [clears throat] How? Look at Indonesia.

[00:02:27]Hindu Udhar Katreme Hona Hai Na?

[00:02:30]India Me Kaise Hai?

[00:02:33]What kind of logic is this?

[00:02:35]And we all bow to this logic uncritically, blindly.

[00:02:41]Look at Malaysia with lot of Muslims.

[00:02:45]They should have been Katreme.

[00:02:48]But here, I can't I can't stomach this.

[00:02:53]But it's a fact. People submit to this idea, Hindu Katreme Hai. You will kill you know I want to feel more Indian, therefore I kill you.

[00:03:04]To feel more Indian, I kill another Indian, who is Muslim, who is minority, who is in Christian.

[00:03:12]Mother India will Where that blood will go?

[00:03:15]Where the body will go?

[00:03:18]Whether it becomes ash or whatever, it goes into Mother India. Mother India is not going to refuse. It is the son of India who is trying to think, I'm more Indian when I hate someone.

[00:03:29]I think this logic of hate needs to be reversed. And Christianity has a the logic of love and forgiveness. Perhaps that is very important.