Hindu girls running with Muslim boys or Vice versa

A Hindu girl and a Muslim youth (or vice versa) elope and tension grips the entire town. If the girl is Hindu, the Bajrang Dal and other fringe organisations will create a storm and demand that the girl is brought back and the youth arrested for kidnapping her.

It is later found that the girl and boy were adult and had married as per law. The affidavit was submitted in the court. And the real bombshell comes when they find that: it was not the girl who converted but the boy who not only changed his name but also underwent 'Shuddhikaran' to become a Hindu.

Now what! The loony organisations are left without an issue. So they demand that the couple should return and they will do his 'Shuddikaran' and make him wear the sacred thread as it could be just a trick of a Muslim to increase their population by luring innocent Hindu girls. The couple shows CD of the video recording of their marriage as per Vedic rites and also the priest's version of coversion.

Still, you must give credit to Bajrang Dal and such organisations who insist that it is wrong. After all, they are our moral guardians and the culture cops. They turn pro-Muslim and would say that the inter-religious marriage is fundamentally wrong as ' Islamic and Hindu cultures can't coexist, both families will have difficulty in adjusting and what about their children--no matter what happens, the society can't accept it'.

And even go a step ahead to say, 'what will happen to Muslim girls if the Muslim boys won't marry them and instead take away the Hindu girls'. Just see the concern! Otherwise in the society as well, people get divided on communal lines and also as per their interests.

An RSS sympathiser would rue that the Hindu youths are so buy in studies and competitive examinations that the Muslim youths who are free to loiter and have ample time, manage to coax the Hindu girls.

Amongst Muslims you will also find similar voices. As long as the Bajrang Dal and other outfits were complaining, they were happy but when the boy's conversion to Hinduism is known, they would change their stand. They would begin questioning the very concept of love marriage. 'mahaul kharaab hota hai, koii faida nahiin, apni ladkiyaan ghar par baithii hain....' and all sort of crap.

So whether its a Hindu girl or a Muslim girl or boy of either religion (or even Christian), most people would love to forget that adults can marry in a free country as per law. They would cite all sorts of weird reasons and try to prove that it is the worst of crimes. The police also loves it.

In the past a poor couple and handicapped couple was harassed. See the earlier post.

They can convert the case of missing person into abduction/kidnapping to put pressure on the boy's family for extortion. They would cite that the complainant's family had told that the girl was not yet 18 though she may be 20 or more.

Kin of the families would be illegally detained and made to cough up money. Watching a movie everybody stands for the hero and heronie and for end to obstacles in marriage so that there is happy ending but in real life, it's so different.

Here is the story that had all these ingredients mentioned above.