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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Love and Marriage as part of Islamic Jihad or a Hindutva conspiracy?, Muslims and Islamophobia, NewAgeIslam.com

Muslims and Islamophobia
Love and Marriage as part of Islamic Jihad or a Hindutva conspiracy?
By Shakeel Shamshi
Translated from Urdu by Raihan Nezami

This controversy started when two Muslim students of M.B.A fell in love with two Hindu girls studying in the same college in Trivandrum. The evolution of such delicate emotional relationships over time among college students is no bolt from the blue, but in this case its consequences were atrocious. This affair led to the expulsion of the Muslim students on the ground of creating trouble in college premises. This intimate relationship continued even after leaving the college, ultimately the girls left their parents’ house to live with their lovers, which commonly happens in Indian society. As usual, the Hindutva parties raised a lot of hue and cry by accusing inter-religion love-marriages as a part of an international Jihadi conspiracy to use the Hindu girls for anti-national terrorist activities.

The parents of the girls could not lodge a petition of kidnapping against the Muslim youths because the girls were adults but they filed an appeal - PIL, in a Kerala high court. The girls were sent to the parents’ house for a week in place of keeping them in Nari Niketan, and then, the nature of the entire case changed. The girls changed their statements and attitude. They may have been forced by the Hindutva forces or threatened by the parents to change their mind and statement. They deserted the Muslim boys. The girls, on the second date, asserted that they were forced for the marriage and were provided Jihadi literature in the hostel rooms by their lovers. As a matter of fact, the Muslim boys had handed over some Islamic books to the girls to study and understand Deen-e-Islam before converting to it. I would request the D.G.P of Kerala police to release to the Press the Islamic literature found in the hostel rooms or from the boys’ houses to clear all confusion.

http://newageislam.com/love-and-marriage-as-part-of-islamic-jihad-or-a-hindutva-conspiracy?/muslims-and-islamophobia/d/1793


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