“Spurned woman throws acid on boyfriend” this was perhaps the kind of headlines that read everywhere on the Bangalore Acid attack incident where a Christian girl threw acid on her Hindu boyfriend and slashed his face with a knife for refusing to convert to Christianity before marrying her.
Now most readers might be jolted and may find it really uncomfortable to even be reading or sharing something like this where prefixes like a Hindu boy and a Christian girl are stressed because it has always been the norm that it is only a minority member who is attacked or victimized and that is the only narrative that is largely propagated and readily consumed or qualified as breaking headlines for a front page column!
Most newspapers have played down this incident with a small column on the third or fourth page which might at best make one feel that Bangalore mindset, like its civic authorities is going to the dogs but what gets hidden or negligible attention is the fact that this brutal acid attack and face slashing with a knife was less about love and more about religious hate that is brewed organically under the garb of freedom of religion.
In most cases where crimes involving Muslims or Christians is often played down or the identity and motto of the accused is craftily concealed but when it comes to a crime committed by the not so privileged majority community there is a massive brouhaha about the whole damn thing and a mountain is made out of a molehill, not that crime becomes any less depending on the religion but if we are chest beating that we are a secular nation then there has to be one law for everyone where the same iron hand of law deals with one and all without any categorical classifications like minority or majority and if any propaganda houses play the victim or vilification card of majority vs minority their licenses should stand annulled.
The fundamental question here is if we are using the term ‘majority’, then should we not amend the constitution and call ourselves a Hindu nation because there cannot be a religious minority or a majority in a secular nation with endless economic privileges and facilitating schemes for appeasement of one section at the cost and provocation of the other!
The 26 year old girl Lydia, a Christian nurse wanted her boyfriend Jayakumar, a cloth dealer in Bangalore, to convert to Christianity before marrying her, although he was willing to marry her he had refused to convert which had apparently antagonized the young Christian lady as confessed by her who did not hesitate to take this dastardly step of throwing acid on his lover’s face and slashing it with a knife.
It is also clear that it was not an impulsive reaction in a fit of rage as reports are emerging that it was a planned attack where she waited with her accomplice to attack Jayakumar on his way back from his temple visit.
There have been violent attacks in the past where possessive and abusively overpowering jilted lovers have inhumanly scarred their dissenting lovers for life but this incident leaves one wondering if the brand of religious intolerance propagated across the year previously was and continues to be a masked yet deliberate propaganda falsely attributed to the current majority community which is the Hindus in order to denigrate them and set a prejudiced overview of themselves as oppressors when in reality it has always been the other way round. And the biggest irony in contemporary politics is when even a Hindu national party bows down in all eagerness to appease the so called minorities who continue to dominate all political discourses in spite of their pronounced spite in a secular India.
But what is disturbing is how and from where does such hate and obsession for their forced faith possibly stem from? The first thing that comes to mind is that it could possibly be an ugly outcome of religious rigidity at home or a prerequisite compulsion for marriage from the padre as one cannot ignore the fact that creating malicious dissents in a society is the very essence of conversion activities which is ceremoniously carried out by the agents of evangelical hate breweries. And the madness of adding more numbers coupled with a narcissistic religious superiority might have blurred love into loathsome feelings.
Invasive influx of newer faiths have never been about raising the bar of spirituality but has always been about keeping the masses in subservience and conversion is a time tested tool for divide and rule where a society is split into segments of various sects and sub sects pitting against each other. In this mega process, the more the conversion numbers merrier the agenda and a new convert is often a dutiful soldier!
The Bangalore incident will never get coverage like it would have got had it been a Christian or a Muslim who had been attacked in a bid to convert but unlike Islamic bigotry which is widely known today, Christian domination is something very subterfuge unknown and intangible to most liberal open minded Indians who do not know that most Dalits today are converted Christians with Hindu names to only avail the reservation benefits and their souls are already pledged to the padre who in turn is an employee of the Vatican and vehemently carries out the political interests of the western papal authorities. And it is perhaps because of this misconception about Christianity or lack of awareness about its hegemony that still dominates the world discourses that we Indians still hesitate to even acknowledge or even talk about this incident of a Christian attacking and throwing acid on a Hindu for refusing to convert, as it is too communal on our part to be even debating sense!
