What is Love Jihad? - Page 2

Originally posted by: concerned_kiwi

So should they be our examples? No wonder Mahabharata happened in India ... even those who doubt its reality should accept it now. We have always been and will always be divided in Bharata ...

How do we stop people from falling in love? By creating laws against it? Taking the worst examples and feeding them to lynch mobs?

Originally posted by: souro

You didn't make much sense. What exactly are you trying to say?

Originally posted by: concerned_kiwi

You just called Indian Muslims as "they" ... and I still don't make sense to you. We can't make sense to each other sorry, its inevitable, we are a divided country in its core since thousands of years and now divided in 3 states again, we continue our sad history.

Originally posted by: souro

So what did you expect me to say, "We"? Even if I'm not an Indian Muslim myself?

Here I'm trying to show you Muslims themselves don't tolerate inter-religious marriages when it concerns their girls, and you're quibbling over semantics. Stick to the point.

Originally posted by: concerned_kiwi

I am with the point, just because I see the point differently doesn't mean that I am missing the point here, its just that your way of seeing it is different from mine.

Yes, for me its "we" as we are all Indians. We are Indian muslims or hindus or atheists or christians. This form of division, this form of us vs them in the same country has never been good for us. For thousands of years we have done this, this has ruined us.

Do you think the Rajputs were not doing this on some other religious or traditional issue to forward their political purposes? Not just the Rajputs, the whole of India. Then came the Muslim rulers, and in time when some portion of Indians converted to Islam (which happened before Muslim rulers started to come in) and the descendants of the Muslim rulers merged with the general Indian population, they became yet another reason for us Indians to fight between each other.

We just hate ourselves and each other. It is evident on how we treat White Foreign people and how we treat each other in their lands.

In our country we would go for us vs. them, in their countries we preach love!?

How can an Indian be so much negative about another Indian, either on the basis of State, Caste and Religion? We have all these vices so prevalent, and we (just like myself) love to keep holding on to it.

It is so confusing and distressing, coming from a country I never called home into a country which I thought of as home. Everyday I realise, how similar we are to those very same people 3000 years ago, fighting the same war - crying out the same curses - frustrated by the same plague of distrust and discord.

Love has no place amongst us I suppose.