Re: LOVE JIHAD IS REAL, SAYS KERALA HIGH COURT
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In article <4b291a49$0$5340$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
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> i have been very seriously telling kerala hindus to knock it off on daroo,
> get thier senses together, and stand up for the meaning of their tradition
> if they value their existence. the 3m is killing spirit!!!!
> more they delay, worse it will be.
>
>
> "Athish Ravikanth" <athishr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5ed76bff-4e6f-4b71...@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> Jai Hind,
>
> Wants law to stop forced conversions
>
> The Kerala High Court on Wednesday stated that forced conversions,
> termed as Love Jihad or Romeo Jihad, and efforts for that were a
> reality in the State despite the arguments by the Kerala Director
> General of Police, and Union Home Department to the contrary.
>
> Stating that the State Government had the responsibility to check
> forced conversions, the court asked it to formulate legislation on the
> lines of the other States.
>
> Rejecting a petition for anticipatory bail in a Love Jihad case filed
> by Shehenshah, a Muslim youth, who had allegedly forced a non-Muslim
> MBA girl student of a Pathanamthitta college in the name of love, the
> court said that campuses should not be turned into venues for forced
> conversions through false love affairs.
>
> Justice KT Sankaran also rejected another petition seeking a ban on
> the use of the terms Love Jihad and Romeo Jihad.
>
> Earlier, Kerala DGP Jacob Punnoose had submitted in the court that no
> evidence was available to prove the existence of an organised movement
> in the State, specialising in converting non-Muslim girls into Islam
> through treacherous love affairs. Subsequently, the Union Home
> Department told the court that it had no information of any movement
> anywhere in the country specialising in such conversion methods.
>
> Justice Sankaran also pointed out that the reports submitted by top
> police officials in the State were of contradictory in nature. The DGP
> had told the court that there were no �actionable� evidences to
> suggest that such a conversion campaign was on in Kerala but
> indications of possibility of such a programme was there. The court
> also said that 14 out of the 18 reports from SPs on the matter,
> submitted by the DGP, were of no value or use.
>
> However, police reports themselves had made it clear that forced
> conversions through love affairs as a movement had been going on in
> Kerala since 1996. The judge said that the police reports had
> indicated that about 4,000 conversions had taken place through love
> affairs in the past four years, and 2,800 girls of other religions had
> undergone conversion into Islam in this period.
>
> He also said that 1,600 such conversions had taken place in four
> northern districts, including Malappuram, Kerala�s Muslim-majority
> district. It was evident from the report submitted by the DGP that
> outfits like Islamist Popular Front of India (earlier NDF) and its
> student wing, the Campus Front, were behind the organised campus-based
> conversion programme, said Justice Sankaran.
>
> He added that the DGP�s report had also indicated that Muslim
> conversion centres had been functioning in Kozhikode district.
>
> Though the Constitution guaranteed equal rights to all religions, the
> right for faith should not be used for forced conversions and
> conversions through treachery, the judge said. Mixed marriages could
> be promoted but such marriages should not be used as tools for forced
> or treacherous conversions, he pointed out.
>
> He also said that several other States had formulated legislations for
> preventing forced conversions and the people and the Government of
> Kerala should consider formulation of such legislation in view of the
> particular context.
>
>
> Jai Hind,
> Athish Ravikanth
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