How abduction and conversion of Sikh women to Islam took again seat to ‘save the narrative’ from ‘Sanghis’

On June 26, a case of abduction and spiritual conversion of two Sikh women got here to mild from Jammu & Kashmir. As per reviews, an 18-year-old Sikh Girl from Badgam district was lured and transformed to Islam. Another case was of a woman from Mehjoor Nagar in Srinagar, attended operate of her Muslim pal, from the place she was reportedly kidnapped and married off to a boy who attended the operate. While the woman was not a minor, she continues to be lacking.
The reviews of abduction and conversion of two Sikh women to Islam stirred an enormous on-line furore, with scandalised folks demanding motion in opposition to the culprits. Shiromani Akali Dal chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) additionally raised the problem on social media platforms urging the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to intervene.
According to Sardar Santpal Singh, President Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee-Budgam, who narrated the entire incident, one of many two women was mentally unstable. A Muslim man lured her on the pretext of affection and marriage to transform her. He stated, “A girl from Sikh community has been forcefully converted to Islam. She is not mentally stable. The man lured her on the pretext of love. It is not a love affair but a clear case of Love Jihad. The government is acting negatively against us.”
He additional added that regardless of written assurance by the SP who was dealing with the case that she could be handed over again to the Sikh household, the courtroom orders got here in opposition to them. He stated, “The police inspector had assured in writing that the girl would be handed over to them after presenting her in the Court. However, the judge gave the judgement in favour of the Muslim man and handed over the girl to him.”
Not solely this, the household of the woman was not allowed within the courtroom. The household and the family members of the woman had been sitting outdoors the courtroom as they had been barred from attending the courtroom proceedings on account of COVID rules.
Akali Dal’s Manjinder Singh Sirsa stated, “Urging J&K LG to address this issue of Srinagar. A Sikh girl (mentally disturbed) has been given to the family of a Muslim guy by the Court. The family of the girl wasn’t even allowed to attend the Court’s proceedings while the boy’s whole family was inside the Court.”
Sirsa, who had earlier mocked Hinduism as “weak religion” for legislating anti-conversion legal guidelines, demanded the identical legal guidelines to be carried out to save lots of Sikh girls from compelled non secular conversion. In a collection of tweets, Sirsa demanded the Home Minister of the nation, Amit Shah, to cross a strict anti-conversion regulation on the traces of that handed in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, to cease the compelled conversion of Sikh girls into Islam.
Social media customers play down abduction and conversion of Sikh women, lest it helps “Sanghi ecosystem”
While there was a normal demand on social media platforms to institute robust legal guidelines to cease such abductions and compelled conversions, there have been some Twitter customers, who had been extra involved with preserving the imaginary assemble of “Sikh-Muslim unity” as an alternative of getting stern legal guidelines to cease the rampant kidnapping and conversion of non-Muslims to Islam.
One such particular person Amaan Bali, took to Twitter to undermine the demand for motion in opposition to the culprits and stop such incidents from occurring sooner or later. Instead of bringing the accused to the books, Bali was involved with the ‘Sanghi Ecosystem’ profiting from the incident. He warned younger Sikhs to not cross over to the “saffron side” and claimed that there was “solidarity on ground by Muslims in Srinagar which might not be reflected in the hijacked narrative that Sanghi ecosystem wants to portray”.
Amaan Bali’s tweetIn essence, Bali was suggesting Sikhs to curb their outrage and chorus from expressing their disapproval in opposition to the kidnapping and compelled conversion of two Sikh women to Islam in Kashmir, lest it will undermine the”Sikh-Muslim” political unity.
Similarly, one other so-called journalist, Sandeep Singh claimed that the Muslim neighborhood must step up and resolve the battle, in any other case Sanghis will flip a minority neighborhood in opposition to the one other neighborhood.
Source: TwitterSingh didn’t appear involved with the truth that two Sikh women, considered one of whom was reportedly mentally unstable, had been kidnapped and transformed to Islam. He was extra occupied with the concern that ‘Sanghis’ would use the problem to create discord between two communities.
It have to be famous right here that in Kashmir, it’s the Hindus who’re in minority together with Sikhs.
The farce of preserving narrative by preserving silent and turning a blind eye to felony actions
For such propagandists, salvaging the farce of “Sikh-Muslim” unity is extra essential than preventing for justice to victims. For them, the prevalence of a horrendous crime akin to abduction, doable rape and compelled non secular conversion is just not severe sufficient to warrant outrage and takes a again seat as they’re extra bothered about “Sanghi ecosystem” taking ‘advantage’ of the incident. In their bid to save lots of their tenuous narrative of “Sikh-Muslim unity”, they need Sikhs to stoically endure the atrocities and meekly settle for their destiny, for the concern of serving to the “Sanghis”.
These ‘pro-farmer journalists’ need Sikhs to show a blind eye to the sufferings of their co-religionists, as a result of doing in any other case may assist rival political events. The grooming jihad waged in opposition to Sikh minorities in Jammu and Kashmir is a non-issue for them. Instead, the outrage in opposition to it’s used to demonise Hindus and frighten Sikhs that Hindus may exploit the incident and sow seeds of discord to disrupt the imagined Sikh-Muslim brotherhood.
This observe of preserving silent when the sufferer is a non-Muslim and the perpetrators Muslims is lengthy devised and carried out by the left-liberal ecosystem. The faith of the sufferer is an pointless element for them whether it is something aside from Islam. Contrarily, when the sufferer is a Muslim and the accused non-Muslims, the members of left-liberal ecosystem go hammer and tongs to communalise the incident and describe it as hate crime, even when the motive of crime is just not faith.
For instance, the Junaid Khan incident, when a Muslim teenager was killed by a bunch of non-Muslim assailants over a spat on a prepare seat. But the left-liberal cabal bastardised the incident by together with the non secular angle, alleging that Khan was killed as a result of he was suspected of carrying beef. Later, the Punjab and Haryana High Court noticed that the dying had occurred due to battle between two teams of day by day travellers over occupying prepare seats and never as a consequence of “lynching” over suspicion of carrying beef.
In case the sufferer is a Hindu and assailants Muslims, the left-liberal ‘intellectuals’ take the ethical excessive floor and sermonise others of understanding the nuance and never vilifying the minorities till the info of the matter are out in public. Take as an illustration, the dichotomy of left-liberal ecosystem’s stand on Kathua rape and incidents of rapes dedicated in mosques.
In the Kathua rape case, the left-liberal ecosystem went into overdrive to hyperlink the rape of a Muslim minor woman to a Hindu temple, allegedly the place the place the woman was raped. However, they conveniently gloss over the quite a few incidents of rapes that happen in mosques. This is completed to stop their narrative from falling aside and in doing so, they don’t even flinch from shielding Islamists, lest they strengthen the “Sanghi ecosystem”.
The perils of disregarding the voices of propagandists as fringe opinions
In case of two Sikhs women being kidnapped and transformed to Islam in Kashmir, whereas one could be inclined to dismiss such makes an attempt by propagandists to demonise Hindus for the atrocities dedicated by Islamists as particular person opinions, restricted solely to the realm of social media. However, it will be perilously delusional to underestimate that such particular person opinions should not have the efficiency to coalesce into public opinions that later have a bearing on political outcomes.
People are disposed to consider that such particular person opinions die their pure dying and don’t play any function in shaping public opinion that has an impact on the bottom. In the previous couple of months, it’s amply clear how some Khalistani parts masquerading as ‘farmers’ have used social media web sites to mobilise themselves and normalise violence within the identify of farmers protests.
The farmers’ protest, which presently plagues the border area of Delhi, was infiltrated by Khalistani parts by way of the technique of social media. Supporters and sympathisers of Khalistan and terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale urged their supporters on-line to hitch the protests and again the farmers of their demonstrations in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines. Under the pretext of finishing up a tractor rally, the farmers ran riot on the streets of Delhi on Republic day this 12 months. Social media web sites performed a key function in organising and mobilising folks for protests that routinely turned violent.
As such, social media web sites have performed a key function in aggregating and amplifying narratives that later turned fashionable amongst its supporters. However, each voice making the ‘right sounds’ to additional their narrative takes a small step in the direction of normalising and rationalising such dialog.
For occasion, initially, gaumutra jibes had been merely used to mock and mock Hindus on-line by Hinduphobic parts, who couldn’t present mental and rational argument to counter them. It slowly crept into political narrative, with politicians and bureaucrats utilizing it casually to insult Hindus. And lastly, the gaumutra jibes had been utilized by Islamic terrorists, most notably the Pulwama terrorist, who used gaumutra jibes in his video justifying the assault on Indians.
The utilization of gaumutra jibes was so dangerously normalised that even after Islamic terrorists began utilizing them, the left-liberal ‘intellectuals’ felt no qualms in persevering with its utilization in opposition to Hindus, they usually nonetheless use it to mock Hindus thus far. It is price noting that the dehumanisation of Hindus with gaumutra jibes had began largely by way of its use on social media web sites.
Similarly, the propaganda in opposition to Citizenship Amendment Act assumed a disastrous proportions after lies and misinformation had been peddled on social media web sites. In reality, web was used as a device to organise anti-CAA protests that later culminated right into a full-fledged anti-Hindu riots in Delhi. People nonetheless consider CAA will strip of Indian Muslims of their Indian citizenship whereas in actuality the Act has nothing to do with Indian residents, Muslims or in any other case. CAA solely fast-tracked Indian citizenship of persecuted non secular minorities in three neighbouring Islamic international locations.
The Sikhs, who protested in opposition to CAA, had been additionally protesting in opposition to granting of Indian citizenship for his or her coreligionists in neighbouring international locations who’re going through unimaginable atrocities solely due to their faith.
Therefore, to ignore the “Sanghi propaganda” trope peddled by propagandits as mere random opinions on-line is fraught with hazard. With social media, you’ll be able to by no means predict how an opinion that seems seemingly fringe beliefs turns into mainstream very quickly. For that cause, it’s extremely essential that folks be aware of how against the law, ostensibly dedicated by radical Islamists, is being utilized by Khalistanis to purvey hatred in opposition to Hindus and defend the perpetrators.
Just like gaumutra jibes have been normalised by the same old suspects, if Khalistanis are allowed to propagate their propaganda, Grooming Jihad would now not be handled as against the law in opposition to minority Hindu and Sikh girls in Jammu and Kashmir.