By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kochi: The public conference organised by the Popular Front of India in Calicut on Monday declared it would defend in unison the conspiracies of the Sangh Parivar, caste organisations, churches and the ‘Manorama’ (leading Malayalam newspaper named Malayala Manorama) against alienating the Muslim community from the mainstream through fake propaganda. The conference and rally were organised with the slogan ‘religious conversion is no crime’.
The ‘love jihad’ controversy was a conspiracy of the Sangh Parivar, said Nasarudheen Elamaram, state president of the PFI, who presided over the conference. He added that the attitude which makes religious conversion a crime for Muslims would be fought against and that the organisation would come forward to provide Constitutional aid to those being tortured on the matter.
The cock and bull stories of ‘love jihad’ are spread by the media persons receiving money from the Sangh Parivar, said Dr MS Jayaprakash, president of the Kerala chapter of the NCHRO. He pointed out that the ‘Malayala Manorama’ and others were trying to make the good mornings of Malayalam into dark nights by the propaganda of communal lies. The organisations that get ready to raid Muslim centres in the name of religious conversion should read once again the former Ezhava publications like ‘Asavarnarkku Nallathu Islam’ (meaning Islam good for non-elite), he added.
The ‘love jihad’ accusation is a part of the global conspiracy against the Muslim community, opined O Abdulla, veteran journalist and media analyst. The accusation of love-cum-religious conversions is a Hindu-Christian conspiracy to suppress women in the narrow-mindedness of religion and caste as well as to jeopardize reformist values, said KM Salim Kumar, convenor of the Dalit Maha Sabha. He pointed out that the venomous ideas of Hitler and Golwalker were apparent in the ‘love jihad’ controversy. The Sangh Parivar and the media are carrying out a systematic propaganda against the Muslim community, said Prof P Koya, editor of ‘Thejas’ daily.
State general secretary of the PFI P Abdul Hameed, treasurer KH Nasar and district president Prof Muhammed Ahmed Nadwi also spoke.