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Mother Teresa faced criticism in 1994 when Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, a well-regarded medical journal out of the UK, conducted an investigation into the quality of medical care at her home of the dying in Calcutta.
He was especially disturbed by the sisters’ lack of medical training, which made it hard for them to distinguish between curable and incurable diseases. People who could be treated were essentially warehoused with those dying of terminal cancer or even of contagious diseases. Moreover, pain management was non-existent. Rather than making improvements, however, the Missionaries of Charity allowed their standards to slip even further. In an August 2005 article for the New Statesman, reporter Donal MacIntyre laid bare the truth about how care homes run by Mother Teresa’s order were little more than cesspools where people with disabilities were held captive: “Earlier in the day, young international volunteers had giggled as one told how a young boy had peed on her while strapped to a bed. I had already been told of an older disturbed woman tied to a tree at another Missionaries of Charity home. At the orphanage, few of the volunteers batted an eyelid at disabled children being tied up. They were too intoxicated with the myth of Mother Teresa and drunk on their own philanthropy to see that such treatment of children was inhumane and degrading.” (“The Squalid Truth behind the Legacy of Mother Teresa”) http://www.newstatesman.com/200508220019 |
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Kolodiejchuk records that Mother Teresa died of heart failure on the night of November 5, 1997, during a power blackout in Calcutta. Her BiPAP machine - a luxury afforded none of her charges, who were even forced to use a communal toilet (without privacy walls or curtains) - had failed. Now it would be interesting to know where all the money went / is going? |
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Assalaamoalaykum-w-w ![]() A report in German magazine Stern, revealed that in 1991 only seven percent of the donation received at Missionaries of Charity was used for charity. Former volunteers and people close to the Mother House revealed that the Vatican, home to the Pope, has control over the “monetary matters” ever since Missionaries of Charity came under its fold in 1965. The control got stronger after Mother Teresa died in 1997. When asked about how much money the Charity gets annually, the then superior general Sister Nirmala in a rare media interview a few years ago remarked “Countless.” When asked how much it was, she answered, “God knows. He is our banker.” Forbes India’s request for details was turned down at the Mother House. Sister Mary Prema, the present superior general, did not agree to a meeting. |
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What, EXACTLY. is crazy? ![]() ![]() |
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![]() If I remember correctly she was inducted as a saint a few years back, right? Vatican. How ironic. Mother Teresa and sainthood, priests and sex abuse cover up. And those were the people who can forgive and erase somebody else's sins. And the Pope had the nerve to slander our Prophet( ![]() ![]() |
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![]() Yes, they made her a saint. Now she is called "Blessed" mother teresa. ![]() |
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![]() That is where the fraud lies. |
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Hell's angel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ0i...layer_embedded
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The physician who wrote the critical article in The Lancet is an astute observer. After condemning the fact that there was no rational search for diagnosis and treatment in the Calcutta facility, he explains: "Such systematic approaches are alien to the ethos of the home. Mother Teresa prefers providence to planning: her rules are designed to prevent any drift toward materialism." Hitchens expounds on the same theme: "The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection."
Mother Teresa is thoroughly saturated with a primitive fundamentalist religious worldview that sees pain, hardship, and suffering as ennobling experiences and a beautiful expression of affiliation with Jesus Christ and his ordeal on the cross. Hitchens reports that in a filmed interview Mother Teresa herself tells of a patient suffering unbearable pain from terminal cancer: "With a smile, Mother Teresa told the camera what she told the patient: 'You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be kissing you.'" Apparently unaware that the response of the sufferer was a put-down, she freely related it: "Then please tell him to stop kissing me." |
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![]() May I be allowed to add my two cents. I doubt that you need to put so much effort on this topic. She was an individual and she is gone. Her matter has been shifted to Lord Most High now. She has left a legacy behind her but the ideological content in that legacy is pretty thin. In any case this legacy has not posed any visible threat to Islam or Muslims. Her advice to victims of Bhopal, to forgive, can not be considered wrong. Allah (SWT) says that if you can forgive then it is better for you. If her mission was a success then that should not bother us. Allah (SWT) wished something for her and gave it to her-money, recognition and fame-including Nobel Prize.There is no need to feel bad about it. And Christopher Hitchens is not the right person to take the truth from. Wassalam |
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thank you for this post. and also for thread - it is good to open and review such issue. w salam |
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![]() Thanks for the kind comments. I agree with a lot of what you have said in your post and disagree with some. For people like you and me, Mother Teresa's ideology is defunct and she does not pose any kind of threat to Islam. For people whose thinking is simpler though and who are Islamically uneducated, the fact is that she has a substantial hold on their minds. These subliminal effects that she has left on the minds of many Muslims is responsible for them seeing Catholicism in a much brighter light than it should be seen. Which is why I fear for Muslims in poverty stricken parts of India where her organization and many other such organizations are active and the Muslims are losing ground steadily to them. In parts of Andhra, there are already 'Muslims' who attend Friday prayers in the mosque and Sunday mass in the Church. Hence my obsession. ![]() |
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![]() Have you seen this termed Slaughter at the Podium by Clifford V Johnson? You'll start feeling pity for them. Wassalam |
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![]() Time to take a look, I guess. |
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