Posted on 11/01/2014 6:39:07 PM PDT by Steelfish
An Attack on Love By SONIA FALEIRO OCT. 31, 2014
MUMBAI, India — IN 1975, Sita Iyer was a 19-year-old college junior with a secret she was desperate to keep from her conservative, middle-class parents. Ms. Iyer, a Hindu, was in love with a Muslim. To avoid detection, she would meet her boyfriend, a dashing 23-year-old business student named Ayub Khan, in downtown Bombay, where she was sure no one would know her.
It was not quite 30 years after the Partition of India, a blood-soaked event that killed some one million people. India’s Muslims had been steadily ghettoized.
When the truth came out, Ms. Iyer’s parents were furious. “He will have four wives,” her father warned. “You will end up on the street.”
After she married Mr. Khan — and changed her given name to Salma — her family disowned her.
But looking back, she says, it was easier being an interreligious couple in the 1970s than it is in India today. At least she felt safe. Now, in contrast, the news is filled with report of assaults on mixed couples.
In several parts of the country, consenting adults who have broken no laws have been threatened, beaten up and, in a medieval twist, had their faces painted black by pumped-up bands of roving men who disapprove of Hindu women in relationships with Muslim men.
There have been reports of women being forcibly shoved into cars and dragged to police stations, from which they are made to phone their parents. Adult women, treated like chattel, like criminals and like juveniles.
Right-wing assailants have stopped weddings between interfaith couples from taking place. They have even forced married women to desert their Muslim husbands, and to marry Hindus instead.
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Isn’t this the plot of every Bollywood movie?
a dashing 23-year-old business student, putting a muslim in a good light
Both cultures have a tendancy to view women as property. Of course they’re going to be mistreated if they disobey. But pointing out the cause and effect like that is “waaaay-cist!”
Well, that’s because Hindus know that no matter how badly they treat their daughters and wives, Muslims will treat them worse - and use them to breed enemies of the Indian state and of Hindus in particular.
I’ve never seen Hindus fly airplanes into buildings
You know it’s the New York Times when they use the phrase “right-wing” six times in a one-page story.
The movies have more singing and dancing though
http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/yeh-ishq-nahee-aasaan-bollywoods-famous-inter-faith-romances-679647
Comparative study of honor killings in India vs Pakistan.
http://www.meforum.org/3287/hindu-muslim-honor-killings
The Indian government aggressively prosecutes honor killings, to the point that multiple assailants have received the death penalty for a single incident. The Pakistani government does little to discourage them. Even a 10-year prison term would be a deterrent, but nothing like that has been forthcoming.
One of the many effects of the pernicious and violent Rahstirya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), of which the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the political arm.
Hinduism is the antidote to Islam; I remember a news story where they burned down a Muslim’s house (with the whole family - including children - inside) because of an unconfirmed rumor that they had slaughtered a cow.
Fight fire with fire...
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