This statement is very ill-informed and in poor taste. Either he is blatantly oblivious or he's trying to rile people for a reaction.
There is never any justification for abduction. Abducting anyone is a universal wrong irrespective of who and why they do it. Any decent human would say otherwise.
Ravana on the other hand is a complex character. There are many varied versions of Ravana ranging in shades of grey from lighter to darker. Even most versions of Ramayana agree that Ravana was a pious and learned man, he was a great ruler, and beloved by his subjects. There are several Ravana temples and he is still worshipped by many Hindu communities.
Creating a version of Ramayana that is not black and white would not be blasphemous or anything new. Mani Ratnam's Raavanan and Raavan are notable modern-day renditions that tried to explore a grey and morally sympathetic Ravana. There were a few people that objecting to sympathizing with Ravana, but it wasn't that big of a deal.
There is another controversial way to look at Ramayana. It is comparing Sita with Helen of Troy. There are a lot of parallels between the two. Both women are key catalysts in epic sagas. They both were abducted and taken away from their husbands. Both their husbands swore vengeance and amassed great armies to get back their wives. Both mythic sagas conclude in an epic war with multitudes of heroes, gods, and goddesses influencing the two sides.
There are a few key differences though. Helen of Troy is not portrayed with the same chastity as Sita. There are many versions of the Trojan war ranging from Helen willingly eloping with Paris of her own free to being violently raped by Paris. Even though Iliad paints it as an abduction there are a lot of romanticizations of Paris and Helen being in love and the Trojan war being a war for love. Sappho wrote about their romance in her poetry and most modern-day adaptations of Helen and the fall of Troy choose the romance angle.
Sita never gets the agency or desirability that Helen does. There have been attempts to give her a Helen of Troy treatment - but because Ram and Sita are so revered in Hinduism, Sita especially is a bastion of fidelity and chastity, it becomes tricky to deviate from the popular plot.
A romance between Sita and Ravan would definitely "justify abduction." But hoo boy they better not be even touching that angle. The world is already one great big giant dumpster fire. This would be dropping a 55-gallon drum of fuel into it.
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