Does Love Jihad really exist?

There were TV interviews, there were debates, there were stories of film stars marrying Hindu to Muslims and vice versa then there were "Yogi" Adityanath and so on.

I do not know how truth is the news of love Jihad. We need to understand it deeply. It is not necessary that the word "Jihad" is related to terrorism but in the current scenario, the muslim fanatics and terrorists have given same interpretation. Jihad basically means a fight to protect righteousness and to protect religion.

However, it seems a section of muslims have taken this as per their own interpretation and for them, whoever is not a muslim is enemy of God and enemy of religion so their every wrong, inhuman move is Jihad.

I do not believe in things easily. I got lot of email, whatsapp and links on "Love Jihaad" in Kerala as well as other part of country. I am still neutral in the extreme side of this but I cannot deny the extremist side of the muslims who are blind in the religion. Hindus, in other hand in India are very flexible. They have flown with the time, the same is not in the case of few sections of the muslims who are still following thousand years old things which have no relevance today.

I just come across through this IBN7 video about love Jihad and I watched this.

I do not want to comment on authenticity of this video and various other news report claiming and refuting existence of love Jihad but I strongly opposes those so called pseudo secularist and the media saying it does not exist at all.

I heard many times that in Bhiwandi ( which has mix Hindu and Muslim populations near Mumbai. People are living peacefully here, celebrating festivals together), few muslim boys (Please remember, I am saying few- not all) vowing Hindu girls specially from Gujarati and Marwadi community and I affirm that. I also heard that the parents and family members of such boys actually promote it (it has to be verified yet and if it is true, sad!). However, I just express my few observation. 

I do not want to comment on film start who is doing what whether somebody has a Hindu wife but doing Ganpati Puja at home or etc. I am talking here about general people. 

I have seen few of the Hindu Muslim marriages, in most cases a Hindu girl marrying a muslim and in a case at least, a Hindu boy marrying a muslim girl.

I have not seen a single case, where a Hindu girl after marrying a muslim allowed to live the life as a Hindu and practice Hinduism. she had to accept way of "Islam".

Yes, in my neighbourhood, there was similar case of sisters. Whenever they had to come to meet their parents, even then they had to come in Burqa. 

Another case is of a boy, who used to be my friends's friend (and of course I know him personally. A post graduate, a good human being. He fall in love with a muslim girl and he eloped (of course both were mature at that time- hardly few years back). Later, the girls' parents forced him to convert to Islam and then only he could marry the girl.

So, where does the love exist? If it is love, then why they are individually not allowed to practice the religion ? So, in a love, is it the case where a non-muslim has to compromise? If it is about compromising then how is it the love?

See, even if people from two different religion love each other, nothing wrong in that. But such marriage and love should be consensual. It must not be done with the intention to purposely marriage people from other community.

Cases of true love between Hindu and Muslims

Again, I am excluding celebrity list here. I am citing example of few famous personalities

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Seema Naqvi: So Mukhtar is a senior BJP leader married to his classmate Seema Naqvi (and mind it, there is no information whether she is daughter of Ashok Singhal and I am believing she is not and all these are rumours).

Shahnawaz Hussain and Renu Sharma

There is rumours spread that Shahnawaz Hussain is son in law of Pravin Togadia, what a shit! Pravin is Togadia not sharma. So this is the bad impact of social media, it easily spread rumours. Unfortunately, no detail information about both's wife.

When I search desperately for the data for Hindu Muslim or interfaith marriages, I just get data of a Hindu girl and a muslim boy (even among the starts); however I could not find more than 1 or 2 data where a girl is a muslim. so why do these pseudo secularist and "protector of love" remains silent? 

Here is video from TV9 where a muslim girl trying to marry a Hindu faces problem even from the "police"

So somebody from Kashimira Police Station calls this boy and beat him (somebody Kadam) and I am not surprised the way police function (I am going to write about it in a separate post). For police there is only one religion- money. 

To conclude, love jihad exists in India but may not be in the form the fanatic and extremist propagating and spreading hatred. We must not forget Tara Sahdev case, where this 23 years old national champion and descendant of a royal family alleged that her husband actually did not tell his actual identity and later how it was confirmed that he was involved in the flesh trade. 

Here, I have no objection if two people from two different faith marriage. In fact, if I would have loved a Muslim girl, I might not have allowed her to eat non veg but I am sure, I would have not forced her to convert to Hinduism as it really does not matter. But there is difference between intentionally laying the trap to marry people from other community to "increase" population and really loving somebody. 

It is equally difficult to differentiate the case and I do not wonder, there is very few cases of actual love and maximum case on intentionally doing so, I do not know how true it is that a muslim boy gets money to marry a non-muslim girls by converting them to Islam. I think, one should follow a religion by own will not by force. But you pseudo secularist and too much lover of hinduism, please stop it, please stop hatred and stop featuring yourself in TV and media. Better, let us have a true, secular state. And you muslim religious leader, teach them humanity not the wrong things. 

Govind

Mumbai

September 09, 2014