Is a Liberal Woman meant for Love Lurkers?

Ravita Meghwa, a 16 year old girl and daughter of a Pakistani Hindu Sataram Das Meghwar has been converted and married off to Syed Nawaz Ali Shah without the consent or knowledge of her parents. Parents say that their daughter is kidnapped from her village near Nagarparkar Town on June 6th. Haqu, mother of Ravita, insisted that her daughter was kidnapped by the influential Syed community, forcibly converted and then married. She has been named as Gulnaz after conversion to Islam. Shah is 36year old. and the marriage is conducted in registrar office in union council Gulzar Khalil in Samaro of Umerkot district of Karachi.  Marrying of girls under 18 is a punishable offence under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013. The registrar had mentioned Shahs year of birth (1980) and the national identity card number on the marriage certificate. But, the registrar mentions only the age of the girl  as 18 years without mentioning the date of birth during marriage and national identity card (NIC) number mentioning her age/DOB.  Similarly, the certificate of conversion to Islam did not mention her NIC number but mentioned her age as 18 years. An FIR has been registered (in second week of June) at the Dano Dandhal police station in Nangarparkar taluka and a case has been filed in Sindh High Court (SHC) through advocate Bhagawandas.

Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat, Ghousia Jamat and Jeelani Jamat and other political outfits of Pakistan  are openly supporting the Muslim husband. Bhagchand Meghwar of PPP-SB (Pakistan People Party - Shahid Bhutto)  and other activists are opposing the forceful conversion of the girl. Various Jamaat activists are on the streets to oppose what they called the propaganda with "blasphemous contents" on social media in the wake of Ravitas conversion to Islam.

The bench headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar ordered Mirpurkhas DIG and Tharpakr SSP to produce Ravita on June 22, the day of next hearing. Next case hearing is scheduled for 30th June.

Earlier, Shah and Ravita had filed an application in the SHC seeking protection and accusing the girls parents of issuing death threat. Ravita has appealed to her parents to let her live with her husband happily as, according to her, she had taken the decision to embrace Islam to marry the person of her choice. She requested the people of her community and members of civil society to stop raising the issue further. "I am very satisfied and happy after marrying Nawaz Ali Shah and now I cannot [live] without my husband," she said yesterday and made it clear that she was not kidnapped. "I willingly went with Shah after falling in love with him."  Ravita expressed the hope that the court would do justice with her and allow her to live with her husband.

Not just the girl, her parents, and political supporters are under pressure in Pakistan from Islamic organizations. It is possible that Ravita may depose in the court in favor of her abductors and against her parents.

The pattern of aggression against Hindu girls is same.  Hindu girls, often shortsighted and selfish, become prey to non-Hindu and many times anti-Hindu men. The men need not be unmarried. Non-Hindu man need not be compatible in age, education qualification, appearance and economic levels.  Parents of Non-Hindu man play their role. Encourage their son and exhibit their liberal face  till marriage. During marriage, invariably non-Hindu rituals are followed. Either a contract or a commitment in writing is taken from the Hindu girl contradictory to the oral agreements.  Opposition from the girl relatives to the marriage is circumvented through abductions and elopements.  False imagery of post married life is sustained by the non-Hindu community.  Simultaneously, threats and fear is implanted in the mind  of the Hindu girl about the safety of her parents.  Hindu girl will be misinformed and misled about the developments in her family, in police stations and in courts.  She would be encouraged to depose against her parents before and in the aftermath of marriage.  Some time after the marriage, un-Hindu and many times aDharmik marriage norms are imposed by husband and his family members.  Legal or social structures can not prevent such imposition.  Parents can not come to the rescue of the girl. The Hindu girl either accepts her fate or does not understand that she is exploited. 

Or is it that Hindu girl is happy in a Muslim or Christian home? or Is the love (lust) of a liberal women fulfilled in such surprising scenario?  Is a Liberal Woman meant for Love Lurkers?

Love Lurking - A Semitic Phenomena?

Love lurking refers to feigning love with concealed intentions.  The phenomena is unique to Semitic religions  and prominently manifests in Christianity and Islam.  The evangelical terms for love lurking is either called flirt fishing and love bombing. The Jihadi term for love lurking is known as love jihad.
 
An evangelical organization named Children of God initiated its female members into an evangelical activity named flirty fishing (FFing). In this activity, the missionary organization published several documents with exact instructions to use flirting to convert men of other religions.  Flirty Fishing was defined as using sex appeal for proselytizing. If flirting included masturbation, oral, or penetrative sex, the women was considered as a deep witness drawing more respect among the group was loving sexually for the Gods sake. FFing did not include intercourse, but allowing intercourse was the most efficient method of proselytizing. The activity was started in 1974 officially and ended in 1987 till the fear of AIDS swept the globe.  According to 1988 statistic, more than two and half lakh men were converted through fishing. The offspring from the pregnancies due to FFing are called as Jesus babies. Presently, the organization is named as Family international. 

Members of the Unification Church of the United States coined a term called Love bombing in an attempt to influence a person by demonstrations of attention and affection. Typically the love is feigned and the practice is psychological manipulation in order to create a feeling of unity within the group against a society perceived as hostile.

Jihadi Muslims across the globe are initiating systematic sustained violence to annihilate non-Muslim men and appropriate non-Muslim women and children. Celibacy is not recommended and multiple marriages are allowed in Islam. When the Muslims are in minority and when the Islamic rule is not present, Jihadi approach replaces the violence completely or partially by Love lurking termed as Love Jihad by affected Christians.

In Love Jihad, Jihadi Muslim community encourages the Muslim boys to pursue non-Muslim girls. Not restricted by celibate rules of the religion, Muslim boys pursue non-Muslim girls diligently and freely.  Non-Muslim girls lean more towards attention paying Muslim boys in comparison to reserved boys from their own community.  Muslim boys pursues the girls till the marriage and then initiates the conversion to Islam with near 100% success.

Is Pooja Bhatt supporting noise pollution?

Why Pooja Bhatt is supporting disturbance due to loud Muslim prayers, which was opposed by Sonu Nigam? 

It is a well known fact that loud Muslim prayers multiple times every day through horn loud speakers is distrubing neighborhood residents everywhere.  Such use of horn loudspeakers is illegal too.  Sonu Nigam is neither the first person who is complaining not the last person who will complain this public nuisance. In fact, many courts across the country have passed judgements to stop noise pollution due to Muslim prayers through horn loud speakers.   But, administration and politicians have failed to implement the court orders.

So, when Sonu Nigam says something about a real issue, Why should Pooja Bhatt support the loudspeaker noise with Church bells and aggarabathi? And relate them to the spirit of India?  Here are some observations and speculations. 

1. Church bells are not as loud as horn loudspeakers. Aggarabathi does not create noise pollution or any other pollution. Pooja Bhat may be becoming emotional for some reason.

2. The spirit of India is not trouble making. Not acknowledge mistakes committed by one group would not contribute towards achieving social harmony as some believe naively. 

3. Pooja Bhatt is daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Loraine Bright (Kiran Bhatt after marriage). She is separated from her husband Munish Makhija.  Pooja may be taking the issue personally.

4. Sonu Nigam is identifying him self as a non-Muslim. He is a theist. He is forced to wake up by loudspeaker. He is rightly calling this as a forced religiousness prevalent in India. Probably, Sonu Nigam is crossing the political correctness. 

5. Sonu Nigam has sent out three tweets on this topics one after the other. The second tweet categorically disowns temples and gurudwara that creates noise pollution. Still, many are conveniently neglecting the second tweet and creating noise around the first tweet. 

6. It is not easy to articulate clearly against the problem of noise pollution in India. NGOs such as Awaaz, socio-politico-cultural organizations such as RSS, VHP, BJP, Congress, Communists are hesitant to raise this issue.  Sonu Nigam has boldly and correctly articulated the problem faced by vast populations across the country. 

7. Ahmad Patel has understood the problem articulated by Sonu Nigam and responded appropriately in a positve way.

8. While many artists, writers and academicians are voicing their support to Sonu Nigam, many politicians have remained as mute spectators. And Pooja Bhatt has jumped in to create confusion and complicate the problem.   

​Christian Theological collelge - the choicest venue of Amnesty for sedition

Amnesty International organized a programme on 13th August 2016, which is alleged as aimed at maligning Indian Army.  The events of the programme created controversy which force the Karnataka state police to file an FIR against Amnesty International for sedition charges.  Public protest is growing against individual and organizations who collaborated to organize the programme. Obvious question in this occasion is who provide the venue for the progrmme. Here is a brief introduction of UTC, the venue of the programme. 

The College was inaugurated in July 1910 under the name "The United Theological College of South India and Ceylon" for teaching Christian theology. It was established through the co-operation of the Christian Missionary societies, Churches of Scotland and Americas.  Churches of Jaffna and EU gave monetary support for establishment of the college. 

In the decades of 1950 and 1960, Churches, Missionary Societies and other Christian organizations from various regions of India and abroad supported the college.  Specifically, the Church Missionary Society, the society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Danish Lutheran Church, Danish Missionary Society, Basel Evangelical Mission of Germany,  Kolhapur Church Council, church of South India, Mar Thoma Church,  The Council of Y.M.C.A's in India, Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon (now merged in the Church of North India), Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church have joined hands with UTC providing money and all other support. 

Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute merged with UTC and after that several Lutheran Church and Missions (Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church, South Andhra Lutheran Church, Church of Sweden Mission, the Lutheran Church of America, the American Lutheran Church-both presently merged in the Evangelical Church of America, India Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission ) became supporting bodies of the College. The Malankar Jacobite Syrian Church also joined in decade of 1970.

UTC currently offers various courses aimed at preparing people for serving Churches. The Bachelor of Divinity is a four year course which equips a candidate for pastoral ministry and ordination. The Master of Theology course is a two year course under the Senate of Serampore. This equips a candidate for teaching ministry and is offered under various departments like Old Testament, New Testament, Theology, Ethics, Counselling, Missiology, Women's Studies and Communication.  Doctor of Theology is a research programme with minimum of three years of duration and maximum of seven years.  Diploma in Pastoral Counselling is offered by the Counselling Department. It is a one year diploma which equips candidates in Counselling skills.  Diploma in Women's Studies is a one year diploma offered by the Women's Studies department. It equips candidates with the latest trends and research in Women's Studies.  The YMCA has a unit inside UTC and it runs a YMCA secretaries training programme in the campus.  

Presently, about 30 students are studying for Bachelor of Divinity, 15 students in Doctor of Theology programme. There are about 20 faculty members, 4 administrative staff, 8 in office, 20 in maintenance staff employed by UTC. 

Blame on Nayars and support converted Ezhavas

In June 2011, the Supreme Court directed the authorities from the archaeology department and the fire services, to open the secret chambers of the temple for inspection of the items kept inside

Dr. M.S. Jayaprakash, wrote an article in a Missionary online magazine in Sept 2011, immediately after three months of finding the treasure in Ananthapadmanabha temple.  Dr. M. S. Jayaprakash died on May 9th 2013.  Dr. M. S. Jayaprakash quotes “Church history of Travancore” by C.M Agur as his reference.  After about four months of his death, The Hindu published an article on the same topic, mostly taken from his blog on October 21, 2013 written by Nidhi Surendranath.   In the article, the most of the contents of the article from M. S. Jayaprakash is reproduced and biographies of politicians such as C. Kesavan,  K. R. Gowri Amma as well as blogs of Dr. Ajay S. Sekher have been cited as additional references.  

C. Kesavan was a grand revolutionary in the mould of legendary Lenin, Mao, Che and Ho Chi Minh. Was the first chief minister of Kerala and died in 1969.

K. R. Gowri Amma (born 14 July 1919) heads the Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy (JSS), a political party based in Kerala, India. Prior to the formation of JSS she was a prominent figure in the communist movement in Kerala. She was the first female law student coming from the Ezhava community.She was a Minister in the communist-led Ministries in Kerala in 1957, 1967, 1980, and 1987 and also became a Minister in the Congress-led Cabinet from 2001 to 2006.

Ajay S. Sekher, a teacher of English at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, through a blog post has introduced many to the story of Nangeli and mulachiparambu. He has written this blog on August 28th, 2012 about 14 months after the treasure was found. 

On 9th March 2015, Vijayakarnataka, D. Umapathi a known Kannada journalist wrote a copy article on the same theme on the occassion of Worlds woman's day in Vijaya Karnataka, a Kannada daily from TOI group.  The articles had references from workds from Jesuits such as References of this story is also can be traced back to R. N. Yesudas, Ivy Peter, & Peter, D and others.

The caste oppression propaganda sustained by those who are resorting to religious conversion seems to be active again in these episodes heralded immediately after the discovery of treasure in Anantha Padmanabha temple.  Secularists, Leftists, and others from various walks of life are either appropriated or misled by the propaganda. 

The topic of the propaganda is steering around conflict between Nayars and converted Ezavas.  It hides the issue of conversions, mixes up with so called 'breast tax', and 'head tax'.  Creates a victim heroine called Nangeli and demonizes Nayars.

Islamic State practices non-modern slavery

While Vatican is hosting conferences on modern day slavery, Islamic State is practicing non-modern slavery.

A pamphlet published by Islamic State providing guidelines for treating woman slaves.


Amnesty International published a report titled "Escape From Hell" detailing torture and sexual slavery in Islamic State captivity in Iraq

Enthusiastic missionaries and hesitating military surveil Iraq

Christian ministries in Iraq are working day and night among the displaced Kurdish people of Iraq with an aid mission.  The aid mission is providing necessities of displaced people and is attempting to convert them to Christianity.  This information is provided by the Christian Aid Mission and is published by Mission Network News of USA. (by Ruth Kramer, on 13th October 2014, https://www.mnnonline.org)

A colonel, serving as a division commander of the Peshmerga and fighting ISIS, is converted to Christianity, according to this report.  The Kurdistan Regional Government's armed forces to which the colonel belongs, have helped to slow the incursion of ISIS in its brutal push to establish a caliphate imposing a strict version of Sunni Islam.  With the aid of U.S. air strikes, the Peshmerga have also slowly retaken some territory. They are helping to secure the Kurdish capital of Erbil, where a ministry team assisted by Christian Aid Mission is supplying displaced people with food, clothing, beds, and medicine. The colonel met the ministry team members and interacted with them. The colonel was impressed by the help that is being offered. The Peshmerga colonel, whose name is withheld for security reasons, was quick to respond.

"You see the Arabs around you in the Gulf states, which claim to be religious Muslims, have not sent us anything but terrorists," he told the ministry team members. "But you who follow Christ send love and peace and goodness to people every day. Today I am the happiest person! I've had the privilege of making this decision,' and he received a copy of the Bible."

According to the report, the colonel's experience was just one of many taking place in Iraq. In cities of refuge like Erbil for people displaced from their homes in other parts of Iraq, people are turning to Christ at a stunning pace. Tent churches are springing up in the makeshift camps. Under normal circumstances, mission strategies focus on how to proclaim Christ effectively, but the challenge now is keeping pace with the number who would receive Him, the director said.  The fervor of missionaries is such that some church leaders and workers for ministry organizations are remaining in Iraq even as the cruel practices of ISIS–beheading Iraqi children who refuse to deny Christ in Qaroqosh and Western journalists elsewhere–gain greater notoriety.

The news also includes a message and a request to more funds for food, water, medicine, and other supplies and promises to utilize the opportunity to demonstrate Christ's love in a tangible way.  While the UN and its powerful members are approaching the problem of ISIS in a hesitant and calibrated manner, missionaries are busy in poaching the helpless Islamic denominations by providing them with New Testaments and audio Bibles.