In India, as in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe, the political and media elites appear to have decided that opposing jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others is worse than jihad violence and Sharia oppression.
“Kerala Catholic Bishop booked for ‘narcotic jihad’ remarks,” PTI, November 2, 2021:
Kottayam (Kerala)(PTI): The Kerala Police on Monday registered a case against Catholic Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt on the basis of a complaint that the priest through his “love and narcotic jihad” remarks, committed the offence of promoting feelings of hatred between different groups on the grounds of religion.
A senior police officer told PTI that the Kuravilangad police has registered the case against the Bishop of Pala diocese after a Magistrate Court directed it to investigate and report on the basis of a complaint that the bishop through his “love and narcotic jihad” remarks, tried to create a rift in the society through the statement.
The court in Pala gave the direction while considering a plea filed by a leader of All India Imams Council.
The petition seeking to register a case against the Bishop was filed by Abdul Aziz Maulavi, the Kottayam district president of the council.
He moved the court after the police refused to register the case against the Bishop on the basis of his complaint.
The Bishop, at a function held in a church in Kuravilangad in Kottayam district on September 9, had stated that Christian girls were falling prey to “love and narcotic jihad” in Kerala and wherever arms cannot be used, extremists were using such methods to destroy the state’s youth….
Infidel says
He’s right of course, but he’s running against 2 of the authorities over him:
– The Vatican
– The elected Marxist government in his state Kerala
And since the BJP itself has switched to a pandering mode ever since Trump left, good luck to him getting support even from them
mortimer says
Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt is justified to condemn the ‘love jihad’ which preys on young women, just as a bank president would be justified to condemn a gang that robs banks.
The love jihad is an attack on the freedom of conscience which the Indian constitution and Indian courts must defend.
gravenimage says
India: Catholic bishop charged with ‘promoting feelings of hatred’ for speaking against ‘love and narcotic jihad’
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Yes–because what is more indicative of hatred than opposing the drugging and rape of young girls? sarc/off
mortimer says
It is the ‘love jihadists’ who are creating a rift in society by their crimes against the freedom of conscience.
The police and courts should defend the freedom of conscience to adhere to the religion of one’s choice, the freedom to change one’s religion without threats or coercion and to adhere to no religion if an individual chooses. These three options are protected by Indian law.
There is no right under Indian law for Muslims to abduct, kidnap, sequester and coerce young women forcibly into marriage or to adhere to Islam.
Muslims know that Mohammed approved of the love jihad:
– “A woman can be married for religion, her fortune, or her beauty. So marry one for the religion.” (Mohammed) – Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 7, Bk. 62, No. 27
gravenimage says
+1
Frank says
Both Love and Narcotics Jihad are fantasies created by the RSS Hindutva (‘Hinduness’) narrative. JIhad and vicious persecution of non-Muslims, and Ahmadis and Shias are real in Pakistan and elsewhere-and there have been attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh. But in India the BJP government and its RSS backers promote the superiority of Hindu civilisation and the idea that the only truly loyal citizens are those for whom India is their ‘Fatherland and Holyland.’ This includes Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists and excludes Muslims and Christians as alien faiths allegedly present mostly to forced conversions or conversion with inducements Hindutva is a racial ideology because it claims Christians and Muslims are only converted Hindus (in the sense of being indigenous to India-not in following a faith) and they should return to the alleged mainstream. The Hindutva organisations also always press the Government to ban conversions. Christians are under pressure in India and it is dismaying to see bishops feeling they have to promote the official narrative in order to try and show their loyalty to India, which is under unjustified question. It’s a typical thing the weak do but it never works. It only emboldens the strong.
RP says
Hindutva is not a racial ideology, it is study of life, cultural and way of life to lead. It has adopted over 7000 years. It is based on life study, examples and question’s etc. Over time it will also take on principle Christianity. It is also based on how to achieve higher understanding of mind, body and life.
mortimer says
Reply to Frank: So you believe Bishop Kallarangatt is promoting Hindutva? The bishop sees what anyone can see, namely, that wherever Muslim youth go, there are some who see selling drugs to the dirty kufaar as a form of jihad against them, and thus, they justify their criminality.
I see these criminal jihadis all the time near where I live. Many of them think they are ‘good Muslims’ and further believe there is no contradiction between drug dealing to kafirs and Islam.
The drug jihad and ‘seduction jihad’ (I don’t call that ‘love’) are both very real parts of genuine Islam. There is usually a justification for criminal behavior if a jihadic motive is in play and if the result of the criminality is more people entering Islam.
Mohammed’s ANSAR (‘auxiliaries’) were bands of thugs and bandits similar to the modern-day Muslim drug dealers. Mohammed praised the Ansar and demanded respect for them from his small band of pious Muslims who thought ill of them.
Many criminally-minded young Muslims even use the name ‘Ansar’ as an online pseudonym. They enjoy the thuggish chic of being an ‘Ansar’.
gravenimage says
Good post, Mortimer. Not only does this claim from Frank vis-a-vis Hindus itself make no sense, but why would a Catholic Bishop supposedly be spouting pro-Hindutva propaganda?
Infidel says
‘Frank’
Do you happen to work for Big Tech? B’cos this is a favorite trope of theirs – that ‘love jihad’ is an invention of the RSS
First on ‘love jihad’. The modus operandi works along these lines:
– Muslim dawa artists fund muslim guys to traffic in non-muslim girls. In the case of Hindus, they break it up by caste – ranging from something like ₹50M for Brahmin girls down to ₹10M for Dalit girls to convert them to islam
– The muslim guys in question take their time, masquerading as devout Hindus, putting up charades of fasting, going vegetarian on certain occasions and so on
– The Hindu girls in question acquiesce and get married
– Cue any amount of time: sometimes, it’s months, sometimes it’s after she’s given birth that the muslim lets his actual religious identity be known
– Wife confronts him on that and wants to walk out of the marriage
– Muslim guy threatens her and tries to force her to convert
– In some cases, muslim guy tries to pimp her to all other male members of his family, promising her that it will remain secret within the 4 walls
– In a good story, the wife will escape and get the help of the police in nailing the husband
– In a tragic story, the wife ends up dead, and cut up so that the body can be well hidden
The overall goal of this is to reduce the number of girls available for marriage to non-muslims so that they can’t continue across generations. It’s not like the Hindu girl marries the muslim guy and they live happily ever after. It’s followed by conversion, pimping and even murder. If the girl converts, even then, the husband dumps her on the street once he’s done w/ her, and at that point, few Hindu men would bother marrying her, since she’s psychologically scarred
This goes on not just in India, but also in neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh. Years ago, I even read on islam-watch a testimonial of an ex-muslim from Egypt on how he baited Coptic girls into getting raped. In the case of Bangladesh, this thing has been going on for some years now, and there’s no RSS in that country. I’ve been following a Bengali-language YouTube channel ‘Hindu lives matter’ which documents various cases of ‘love jihad’, and whenever they put out such a story, YouTube inserts the Wikipedia article on ‘love jihad’
Coming now to the RSS, you really need to update your trope. The RSS of today is no longer a Hindutva organization: they’ve started peddling the theory that Hindus and muslims have the same DNA, and so there are no issues b/w them. This has not been well received by the population at large. This week, there were by-elections in several constituencies all over India. In places where the BJP had shown itself to be secular and ignoring Hindu interests, like allowing muslims to infiltrate temple towns or block roads for namaz, the BJP got a shellacking. Whereas in places where the BJP had shown itself to be ‘communal’ i.e. mindful of Hindu interests, such as in Assam, they won those seats. Essentially, those elections were a tale of 2 BJPs: the secular BJP in states like Himachal, Uttarkhand, Rajastan, Bengal being trounced while the communal BJP in Assam, Manipur, Telengana, Maharashtra won. In fact, one of the reasons that Yogi Adityanath and Himanta Biswa Sarma are now celebrities in the Hindutva movement is that neither of them are from the RSS
On the issue of Christian conversions, Christians have been ‘Hinduizing’ Jesus Christ and instead of showing him as he really was – a Jewish preacher in Roman era Palestine who was thought by many as the son of God, he is promoted as a Hindu saint, dressed in saffron and decked up in Hindu symbolology. All that would not be a problem, except that the people doing the conversions then require the new converts to do things like descecrate/destroy idols of the deities that they used to worship as Hindus, and that their communities still worship. In short, it’s not enough just to increase the flock: they have to be @$$holes about how they go about it. And in India, it’s well known that since Christianity is increasingly ignored in the West, they’re trying to make up the numbers by proselytizing in Africa and Asia
gravenimage says
Frank, your claim that Muslims kidnapping, raping. forcibly marriying, and forcibly converting Hindus–and Christians, and Sikhs, and other non-Muslims–is a “fantasy” is mistaken.
“India: Muslim poses as Hindu to lure Hindu girl to marriage, then says he’ll kill her for refusing to become Muslim”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/10/india-muslim-poses-as-hindu-to-lure-hindu-girl-to-marriage-then-says-hell-kill-her-for-refusing-to-become-muslim
“Pakistan: Another Christian girl kidnapped and converted to Islam”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/pakistan-another-christian-girl-kidnapped-and-converted-to-islam
“India: Another Hindu woman converted to Islam, sold off, slaughtered by Muslim husband”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/india-another-hindu-woman-converted-to-islam-sold-off-slaughtered-by-muslim-husband
“Jammu and Kashmir: Two Sikh girls abducted, married and converted to Islam, court remains indifferent”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/07/jammu-and-kashmir-two-sikh-girls-abducted-married-and-converted-to-islam-court-remains-indifferent
“Pakistan: Married Muslim father of four abducts and marries Christian girl, 13, and forces her to convert to Islam”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/pakistan-married-muslim-father-of-four-abducts-and-marries-christian-girl-13-and-forces-her-to-convert-to-islam
“India: Muslim kidnaps Hindu girl, 15, forces her to convert, threatens to kill her whole family if she goes to cops”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/india-muslim-kidnaps-hindu-girl-15-forces-her-to-convert-threatens-to-kill-her-whole-family-if-she-goes-to-cops
Claiming that all such stories are made up to prove Hindu superiority makes no sense, since many of these victims are not Hindus,
Moreover, Muslims practice kidnapping and rape of non-Muslim women and girls in many other places–Boko Harman in Nigeria targeting Christians, the Islamic State targeting Yezidis and Christians–so the claim that this in India is all Hindu supremacist lies makes no sense at all.
peter says
Thank you graveimage ! I agree with everything you say . My last post was in response to Frank and but the way it is published ,it appears that I am trying to rebut you . I am sorry for any misunderstanding this may create.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Peter. I didn’t think you were trying to rebut me. 🙂
peter says
I think you are trying to split opposition to muslim hegemony by dividing them into Christians and Hindus. There are Hindu girls who are marrying Christians and Christian girls marrying Hindus and no body is calling that a religious war . You should understand that a Hindu ,or Muslim girl can marry a muslim man and will automatically be considered as a muslim but a muslim girl is allowed to marry a Hindu or Christian . You are comparing apples and oranges and your argument that there is a sort of conspiracy by Hindus against Muslims and Christians does not hold water.
Michael Copeland says
Just to make this clear, it is the council of imams that has launched this complaint that the Bishop was ‘promoting feelings of hatred’.
And what do the imams promote in their mosques?
love the Muslims and hate the Kuffaar – muslimsagainstvoting
Muslims …must have … enmity and hatred of …kaffirs – islamqa.com
Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us – Osama bin Laden
You should hate them, disown them and their religion – Alminbar.com
No one loves the kuffaar. We hate kuffaar. – Abu Usama, B’ham,
As a Muslim I must have hatred for everything non-Islam – Anjem Choudary
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
mortimer says
MC makes the right point: The mullahs are preaching AL WALAA WAL BARAA (Islamic hate directed towards the kufaar) and psychologically project what they themselves are doing, just as they deny they are preaching Kafir-o-phobic hatred.
However, AL WALAA WAL BARAA is not an aberration, but standard, canonical Islam.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
– “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.” – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca
Jim says
All is fair in love and war. The Muslims use every tactic they can to prevail, and they are fantastic at it.
The Pope wants to capitulate to Islam, because he can see what happens when voters elect people like Biden. And of course, Christians are mostly dog-faced pony soldiers who cannot do many push-ups and never ride trains and busses. So of course one has to approve of Islamization as an insurance policy. And like Democrats, they have to all pull on the same rope, all hang together as it were.
gravenimage says
Jim, “Love Jihad” is not actually about love. And no–most people *don’t* treat the supposed objects of their affection by lying, kidnapping, raping them, or forcing marriage or religious conversion. But Islam does indeed sacralize this treatment of Infidel women.
Then, your idea that Christians are physically weak, make poor soldiers, and do not ride public transit is terribly odd–and you seem to be misusing the term “dog-faced pony soldiers”, which originally referred to Indian scouts, and later in some contexts any mounted soldier.
Who knows what Biden meant using the term–it seems as an insult to an Iowan who had a question about national elections.
Then, your use of “all hang[ing] together” is also mistaken. It has nothing to do with Democrats or others appeasing Muslims. Originally, it meant the danger that brave American Founding Fathers faced when standing down the British Empire. The original quote, from Benjamin Franklin, goes “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately”. This meant they must stand united, or else they would be quite literally hanged.
somehistory says
https://www.gopusa.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-catholic-anymore/
A Catholic asks the question.
GreekEmpress says
As an Eastern Rite Catholic, I can totally empathize with the author of that article.
Thanks for sharing it; it’s good to know I’m not the only one that feels that way.
somehistory says
You are welcome. I’m not Catholic, but I feel the same about the unborn. I do believe that had I ever been Catholic, I would feel even more the same about things.