Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore: In the era of the suicide bomber, what is a 'Love Jihad'? Well that is a term that has surfaced out of Kerala and Karnataka - with allegations that young Muslims are using love to win over young Hindu and Christian women with the aim of converting them to Islam.
The Karnataka government seems to think that this is happening, and that it needs to be stopped.
"Love and affection between two individuals - majors - resulting in marriage and a happy life thereafter is absolutely not a subject for the state or anybody to interfere. But these are case reported to High Court also nowadays with tragic consequences. They are forced after so called love and affection, they are married and converted into Islam or some other religion and then they are sent to training classes. I believe and thereafter they are left in the middle, totally tragic consequences," said Karnataka Home Minister V S Acharya.
Any communal issue that erupts in Mangalore usually flows down into northern Kerala. Reports of men persuading girls to fall in love with them, and then making them convert have emerged from Kannur, Kasargod. But the top cop of Kerala says there is no organisation called the 'Love Jihad'.
What makes it all the more complicated is that there are precious few formal complaints from families said to be involved. There is one case pending in the Karnataka High Court where a father says his daughter has been lured away - she says she simply fell in love.
The Karnataka government seems to think that this is happening, and that it needs to be stopped.
"Love and affection between two individuals - majors - resulting in marriage and a happy life thereafter is absolutely not a subject for the state or anybody to interfere. But these are case reported to High Court also nowadays with tragic consequences. They are forced after so called love and affection, they are married and converted into Islam or some other religion and then they are sent to training classes. I believe and thereafter they are left in the middle, totally tragic consequences," said Karnataka Home Minister V S Acharya.
Any communal issue that erupts in Mangalore usually flows down into northern Kerala. Reports of men persuading girls to fall in love with them, and then making them convert have emerged from Kannur, Kasargod. But the top cop of Kerala says there is no organisation called the 'Love Jihad'.
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What makes it all the more complicated is that there are precious few formal complaints from families said to be involved. There is one case pending in the Karnataka High Court where a father says his daughter has been lured away - she says she simply fell in love.
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