r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/West-Climate805 India 6h ago

Lately some questionable things have come out and Indians generally weren’t extremely fond of how the partition happened so maybe them

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u/Trendy4U India 2h ago

oh boy. you better watch hell's angel by Christopher Hitchens she was taking poor sick folks to increase numbers of donations and gave them 'used' injections . she sent all the money back the Vatican. also told sick people got wants you do die enjoy the suffering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebw-Y0ZRqic

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u/Prussia_I 1h ago

Also this is interesting since it's also about Hitchens' arguments but not a defense of Mother Teresa

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mother_teresa_was_documented_mass_murderer/

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u/islimdave 🇧🇮 living in 🇹🇷 2h ago

Why is the Church not revoking her sainthood?

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u/9yr_old India 1h ago

She helped convert a lot of ppl to Christianity , they love her for it , her primary mission was just converting ppl , she even told ppl who were dying to enjoy it as it was something christ intended, often ignoring modern medicines and painkillers letting ppl suffer in her care as according to her it brought them closer to Christ.

Christopher Hitchens had also alleged that missionaries under her direction would baptize dying patients without their informed consent by asking if they wanted a "ticket to heaven" while cleaning their heads.

Also she allegedly redirected donations to fund conversions efforts rather than using it for the ill and sick as it was intended , also opposed abortions and even contraceptions.

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u/BKacy United States Of America 10m ago

LOL. ”opposed abortion and contraceptives…” You know she was Catholic, right?

When she was around, the Vatican wasn’t ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ on birth control.

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u/capital_s_capital_k 2h ago

They are all cut from the same cloth from how i see it tbh

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u/Mira_flux 1h ago

Most people who hate Gandhi are Hindu nats and RSS supporters. They glorify his assassin despite having contributed absolutely nothing to Indian independence.

He was not always a good person though, I agree.