Love Jihad

This heading immediately caught my attention in the morning newspaper. It is the name of an organisation active in the Indian State Kerala with the agenda of converting young girls to Islam. Muslim boys woo non-Muslim girls and convert their religion by faking love for them. We heard about this method being used in UK on Sikh and other non Muslim girls and horrifying tales of exploitation of girls.

It brings a question to my mind. Why are Sikh girls a gullible target ? Sikh history is replete with stories of hardships and persecution that sikhs faced by the rulers of the time, yet force could not crush the Sikh spirit. Women made the ultimate sacrifice of watching their infants being pierced by spears, cut to pieces and threaded into a garland for the helpless mothers to wear, yet it did not deter them from Sikhi. When Sikh men were ordered to be killed on sight their families were looked after by their women. When hardships could not break them why has an easy and comfortable life made Sikh women lax in sikhi ?

Looking good is the new mantra in the life of a Sikh. No harm in looking good but the problem is it does not differenciate between women of different religions………all look alike ! Here I do not mean the minority pukka sikhs but majority of kuccha sikhs. The new age mom with her short hair, trimmed beard dad and short cut hair kids is a very common sight even in Punjab ………. the homeland of Sikhs. The rich and the influencial born into sikh families do not look like Sikhs. A common excuse for Sikh boys to cut kesh is that Sikh girls like it that way. Many parents voice concern about their daughters asking to be married to ‘clean shave Sikh’.

It is time Sikh women roused the spirit of Mai Bhago in them to bring Sikhs back to Guru’s fold. How about a genuine Love Jihad by young Sikh women to bring the Sikh boys back into Sikh fold and laying the foundation of a Gursikh family ?

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