Mobilenews24x7 Bureau
A new mind-set and a new nomenclature is how the level of mutual intolerance gets relegated each passing day.
‘Love Jihad’ is now trailed by ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’(BLT) and it spreads at a phenomenal pace.
In very recent times the above BLT theory has assumed a menacing shape when two loving souls are being subjected to untold levels mental and physical harassment.
The gist of each tale ends in the harassment of women of the minority community.
However, Uttar Pradesh so far remains a hot bed. When a Muslim woman spotted with a Hindu man, hell breaks loose.
Two burqa-clad Muslim women were in a busy market in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, along with a male colleague and friend, when they were accosted by a mob seemingly comprising Muslim men. The mob demanded that the women reveal their names and their ‘relationship’ with the male friend – a Hindu.
No clarification from one woman could not convince the irate mob.
Then some ugly barbs on their relationship as ‘friends’ and a demand to remove their face veils and it was a repeat act and asking them to be photogtaphed.
Nothing could convince them and one in the mob fired back ‘what kind of brother’ in response to ‘he is like a brother’.
Then it was the turn of the Hindu male to be quizzed and no clarification did satisfy them.
This is just one among many recent incidents sparked by the campaign against the so-called “Bhagwa Love Trap.”
Our sources in Uttar Pradesh told us that on the same day, not too far away from Meerut, in the city of Muzaffarnagar, a Hindu man and a Muslim woman riding pillion with him on a bike were harassed by a separate mob.
Just two days later, on 15 May, a similar incident surfaced in Bihar’s capital Patna, where the Hindu man was beaten by the mob, abusing him for “roaming around with a Muslim woman.”
No less shocking that, several similar incidents have occurred in different parts of the country. These incidents have been reported from UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat among other states.
In most such videos, the woman is asked about her father and brother’s information – phone number, name and address. Despite most of these incidents transpiring in public, crowded spots, most people are seen standing as mere spectators, not intervening on the woman or couple’s behalf.
In some incidents, the woman is also guilt-tripped on religious lines.
Several such incidents the quizzing went down to a ridiculous low and personal also. The moral policing and vigilantism take a more extreme shape. A 19-year-old Muslim student had been staying in Maharashtra’s Sambhaji Nagar (previously Aurangabad), preparing for an entrance exam. On 24 April, when she decided to visit the monument ‘Bibi Ka Maqbara’ with her friends, including Hindu boys, a mob of Muslim men began following them. And then the same routine humiliations.
