In a statement, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has given a strange warning that those who 'disguise themselves, covertly, hide their names, or hide their appearance, play with the honor of sisters and daughters, if they do not improve The journey of 'Ram Naam Satya Hai' is about to begin.
How did 'Love Jihad' talk start in the country
In 2009, a website called 'Hindujagruti' (hindujagruti.org) claimed that an organization called Muslim Youth Forum in Kerala had put up a poster of 'Love Jihad', in which it allegedly 'enticed Hindu girls' into love. There has been talk of getting him converted and then marrying him. Then the same thing was raised from other states as well.
Hindujagruti had also mentioned five Muslim websites that such a thing has been done in them. The Kerala police conducted a detailed investigation and found the allegation of 'love jihad' to be false.
After two years of investigation, Justice M. Sasidharan Nambiar of the Kerala High Court, while ordering the closure of the inquiry, said that 'inter-religious marriage is normal in our society and there is no crime in it'.
The basic concept of 'love jihad' is utterly illegal.
It is a matter of fun that the passion of the Hindu fundamentalist organization 'Love Jihad' is being heard even when the Government of India itself has said in Parliament that only in February, there is no such thing as 'Love Jihad' defined in the current laws. There is no such case with any central investigative agency.
It may be recalled that in the Hadiya case of 2018, the National Investigation Agency had shouted yes to Hindu fundamentalists, alleging that Hadiya was a victim of imaginary things like brainwashing and 'psychological kidnapping'.
The Supreme Court rejected it outright and said that the issues of faith and trust are at the core of the freedoms conferred by the constitution and that the patriarchal system of government or society cannot interfere in it.
Justice Chandrachud had said that the right to choose life partner is absolute and absolute and faith cannot come in the way of it.
Despite the decision of the Allahabad High Court in recent days in the Priyanshi case, deliberately being irrelevant, it is being presented as if the High Court has outlawed inter-religious marriages.
In this case, a Muslim girl accepted Hinduism on 29 June and married a Hindu youth on 31 July. Both of them had requested the High Court to order protection from the defendants.
The High Court said that the conversion was done only for the purpose of marriage and refused to interfere. In this regard, two other decisions of the Supreme Court are also being distorted.
In the cases of Lily Thomas (2000) and Sarla Mudgal (1995), Hindu husbands accepted Islam with the intention of having a second marriage. The court said that conversion is their right, but under the Hindu Marriage Act, they cannot have a second marriage unless they are duly separated from their first wife.
In this context, the court said that conversion of religion would be valid if they have also changed their faith and belief. It is not enough just to say this with the intention of second marriage that I accepted Islam.
It is to be noted that the court did not say that for every time and every kind of conversion, it is necessary to provide any proof of change in your faith and belief. Faith is something inside the mind and no scientific proof can be given.
You can file a true or false affidavit for the court, but only you know what is in your mind.
In November 2019, the Law Commission of Uttar Pradesh gave a report to the government, in which, among other things, they have also drafted a new law related to conversion.
In principle, this draft is similar to the laws known as 'Freedom of Religion' or anti-conversion laws in eight other states.
These eight states are Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Uttarakhand. Originally these laws were made to prevent conversion by coercion, fraud or by temptation.
In 1977, the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court upheld the above laws of Madhya Pradesh and Odisha in the Stanislaus case. In it, the court had clarified a fine legal issue that it is your right to propagate religion but it is not right to convert - the person concerned should have his own wish.
Well, now the President of Uttar Pradesh Law Commission, Justice Adityanath Mittal himself is saying that if the government brings laws with the aim of stopping inter-religion marriage, then it will be illegal. Since the government has not brought the law yet, there is no need to say anything more about that subject.
In this context, the formation of a special investigation team by the police in Kanpur is also reprehensible. In an investigation conducted by NDTV, several Hindu girls said on camera that they had married Muslims of their own free will and there was no pressure or inducement on them.
Now if the people of their house say that there was something wrong, then there is a direct solution to it that the girls would have taken a statement before the judicial magistrate or asked for an affidavit on the notary. The purpose of registering the case is to harass the empty Muslim boys and their families.
What are the underlying motives behind creating the love jihad?
The question arises that when the central government itself has agreed that there is no such thing as love jihad, then why did some state governments think of bringing a law on it?
Radical Hindu organizations refrain from officially speaking on it. But to a large extent the true ideology of his communal rancor is to be gauged from the statements of his leaders (for whom he would later state that he had given in his personal capacity), messages circulating on social media and the content of so many unofficial websites. Can.
Simply put, they believe that 'Love Jihad' is a conspiracy of Muslims against the country.
In his imagination, through this, Muslims want to tell Hindus that they are still able to 'take away' the women of Hindus - if not by defeating them in wars like in the Middle Ages, then in the trap of love!
Second, it is an insult to Hindu femininity that Muslims should 'consume' them. This is an ancient form of that ancient concept in which it was believed that 'mlechch' corrupts Hindu women.
Thirdly, it is a slap in the face of Hindu masculinity that their women have to seek happiness outside their community, whether it is in search of love or sexual pleasure.
Fourthly, by marrying Hindu girls, they want to increase the population of Muslims at the cost of Hindus because then that many girls will not be available to produce Hindu offspring and thus they want to expand Muslim jeans on the earth.
Fifth, if this continues unabated, the day is not far when the population of Muslims in the country will be more than Hindus and Hindus will become a minority in their own country.
Needless to say that such ideas are doing the inconsequential work of inciting communal sentiments against the interests of the nation and society and hence their immediate rigorous mitigation is necessary.
It is also worth noting that the use of the word jihad in this whole episode is both intimidating and tricking the public.
Although the religious concept called 'Jihad fe Sabillillah' has a good meaning, people usually associate it with terrorist activities.
In 2010, the then Home Minister P. Chidambaram was forced to reform his statement due to such a prevalent misuse of the word jihad because a Muslim organization 'Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam' objected to it.
Factual mistakes in 'Love Jihad' story
The story of 'Love Jihad' started from Kerala. Therefore, they also open their poll from Kerala. In 2012, in Kerala, the government gave figures to the Legislative Assembly that 2,667 Hindu girls had converted to Islam during 2006-12.
This means that in the year 500-1,000 Muslim boys would have been married to Hindu girls.
If we assume that there are about one crore marriages in the country in a year, then according to the population of Kerala, there are 2,76000 marriages in the state. That is, inter-religion marriages constitute only 0.36% of the total marriages. What difference can they make?
The Muslim population in Kerala increased at the rate of about one lakh in a year during 2001-11. Inter-religion marriages are only 1% of this increase. Now these Hindu fundamentalist organizations should tell what is the matter of concern in this?
This is an inauspicious symptom for the future of the toxic nation
Governments do not have the right to make laws on any imaginary object. If such laws are made then it would be an abuse of legislative rights.
Discussing imaginary things like 'love jihad' is also both denominationalization and criminalization of the legal system like marriage.
It is unethical because it serves to make the sacred feeling of love illegal.
It is patriarchal and anti-feminist because it implies that Hindu women are being considered the property of Hindu male society, in which men have rights over their sexuality.
This is disrespectful to women because it means that Hindu women are so foolish and easily deceived that they are not even able to make the right decision of their good and bad and anyone can 'consume' them by luring them. is.
The underlying political motive behind all this politicalism is to bring the social isolation of the Muslims to the extent where they turn into their social boycott or they have no meaningful participation in the social ecosystem of the country.
These people know that due to all the intricacies of this country, they may not be able to make the 'Hindu Rashtra' of their imagination a political or physical reality, but with this kind of poisoning they can make it a social reality. We have to be careful with this danger.
(The writer is a retired IPS officer and has been Director General of Police of Kerala and Additional Director General in BSF and CRPF.)
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