PLEASE permit me to express comments on an article in Kaieteur News (dated September 3) entitled “Mormons expelled from Guyana.”

I wish to express my full support to the Ministry of Home Affairs to expel these religious fanatics (missionaries) from Guyana. Guyana needs folks who can assist with its on-going development and not people who come to Guyana with their main purpose to denigrate other religions and proselytize (conduct religious conversion). I am shocked to learn that there are over 50 Mormons in Guyana. It is time that our Immigration Department filters potential visitors.

One cannot help but ask the question: “Who would want to leave the wealthiest country in the world with its concomitant luxuries to come to Guyana to proselytize?”  Possible answers are:

1. The uneducated who cannot find decent jobs in the USA

2. The unemployed who needs something to do in the USA

3. The unqualified who lacks basic skills in the USA

4. School drop-outs who cannot fit into a normal society in the USA

5. Since Mormons are known polygamists (having multiple spouses) which is illegal in the USA , they want to find an escape for their polygamous behavior which is also illegal in Guyana

6. Individuals or groups who conduct other illegal activities (similar to Jim Jones many years ago)

These people operate under a nebulous organisation that hides its true purpose. They operate in third–world countries where they “buy” naïve locals and use them as pawns to further their nefarious acts.  While Guyana may be a third-world country by economic standards, Guyanese are way too smart to fall for this kind of deception by radicals.

Now will be appropriate for the Immigration Department to seriously question the intent of visits by Mormons before they are allowed entry into Guyana and deny entry to anyone whose main purpose of their visit to Guyana is to proselytize.
SHIV MAHARAJ, PhD