This post is basically my comments on posts about Love Jehad by BRP Bhaskar and Kavita Krishnan.
Islamic terrorism is a reality. But that is no reason to tag terrorism with every activity that Muslims do. Love Jehad is no different.
the Karnataka HC passed similar observations in the case of a 23-year old woman civil engineer who told the Court clearly that she had converted to Islam of her own accord and wished to marry her lover Ashgar and live with him. The HC chose to suspect the veracity of the woman’s statement, ordered her to stay with her parents, and ordered a probe by the Karnataka police saying the matter had ‘national ramifications concerning security, besides the question of unlawful trafficking of women.’
Our courts sometimes intervene too much. An adult women wants to change her religion and marry her lover. The court has no right to force her to stay with her parents.
Recently when Anitha (22) went missing in June this year, Sangh Parivar organizations claimed that she was forcibly converted to Islam by a Pakistan-backed, professional ‘jehadist lover’. The police, however, established that Anitha was poisoned to death by Mohan Kumar, a serial killer arrested on October 21, who allegedly confessed to having murdered her and robbed 17 other women by luring them with offers of marriage.
There was a purposeful attempt from the Sangh parivar to disrupt communal harmony by spreading wrong information. What did the court do to punish them ? Why did the court fail to see the greater conspiracy ?
‘Love Jehad’ is a communal fantasy – a new pretext to attack the freedom of women to love and marry by choice, and to witch-hunt Muslim men.
100% agreed.
Our religious/social leaders forgot how Indian Kings lost freedom. They fought against each other and switched sides whenever they got a chance to attack their neighbors.
The love jehad gave these leaders a chance to attack Muslims and counter fall out from their own groups due to marriage. But did they look inside their own organization ?
The fools list follows.
The first to take up cudgels against the campaign, dubbed Love Jihad by the media, was Vellappalli Natesan, general secretary of the Sree Narayana Dharmaparipalana Yogam, an organisation of the Ezhava community.
PK Narayana Panicker, general secretary of the Nair Service Society, said it was the government’s duty to check Love Jihad. If it failed to act, the people would take up the task, he added.
The powerful Catholic Church has alerted parents and teachers against attempts to convert young faithful through marriage.
The most Hippocratic among these is the Catholic Church. How did they forget attacks against their own missionaries in the name of conversion so fast ?
Last week the Congress and the Democratic Youth Federation of India, an affiliate of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, publicly rejected the Love Jihad theory for the first time.
Congratulations. You may call it minority appeasement but someone (sometimes the devil itself) is there for the truth.
It has been clearly declared by the DGP that no such group exists..
But yesterday I had seen some strange posters in an attracting alignment placed in Muslim crowded areas.The content was like this
“OUR DAUGHTERS ARE NOT SAFE…MUSLIM TERRORISTS ARE CONVERTING OUR CHILDREN TO MUSLIMS…CHRISTIAN AND HINDU DAUGHTERS ARE NOT SAFE HERE…”
VishvaHinduParishath(VHP)
Actually who are creating aggressive thoughts in Indian’s mind…Think..???
Comment by Arunshah — November 5, 2009 @ 9:25 am
This is quite a new term to an outsider. Is this a hype in Kerala at present…? Why do religion and the politics involve into personal affiars of individuals. Two points to be noted,
1. We do have pre and post marriage courses taken by unmarried priests.
2. Religious conversion happens before or after a marriage.
Catholic church always has this tendency to involve into marriage and personal affairs like St. Thomas Aquinas advocated on Missionary style as the only acceptable form of sexual position for inter-course. Our society has the nature not to respect the privacy, identity and individuality of a person.
Accepatance of the society is the pivotal and the most ridiculous aspect in marriage. It is a very usually observed phenomenon that if a person marry someone who belonged to another religion, he/she will be kicked out of the house and from the religion. The survival of the couple who gets out of the framework is quite difficult. The social acceptance of the couple by arranged marriage is a bargain by religious, racial and communal pimps.
Comment by Tony Jose — November 5, 2009 @ 9:43 am
Our constitution gives all the citizen, the freedom to choose his/her religion and follow religious practices. So there is no point in an inquiry into the matter of conversion. But what happens after the conversion and marriage? Are such couples living a normal life? Are these girls left alone or are they forced to any inhuman activities? This is what needed to be probed into.
So I don’t think there is anything wrong with the court ordering for a clean probe to find out whether such group exists and whether any girl had to suffer.
Of course I agree that the SanghParivar is trying to politically gain from this.
And the catholic church is warning the parents to be vigilant about this. But who wants to disagree with that the parents should be careful about their children even if such groups doesn’t exist.
Let us hope no such terror exist and the true lovers in our community have to face no barriers because of this.
Comment by Joji Mathew — November 5, 2009 @ 11:01 am
i have read the above mentioned response. but u people shoudl know that i know guys who are trying to get the exact no. of jihadi lover bastards cases by contacting the no. of victims . if these guys are trying to get the stat what do u guys think abt the presence of the issue in our society
Comment by max — November 5, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Hi Kenney,
This is about the proposed website on Kerala Politics. I am wondering whether this should be limited to Politics. Could it be about developmental issues, issues in educational sector, social mindset etc? I agree that all these have politics involved in it, but I do not think there is a website or blogspace where people can talk about “change” in general.
Vinod
Comment by Vinod/Kakka — November 6, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
@Vinod,
Every social aspect is relative in sociology, aspects consist of various issues which are inherently multidimensional. Society is what these macro level elements are and it consists of education, religion and even the so called Nasty politics. We cant isolate politics without education, education without politics, community without religion etc. since everything is relative, and Hence To solve the issues, understanding and solving these minute, macro aspects of the society is vital.
Comment by Tony Jose — November 7, 2009 @ 11:01 am
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