"My mother had also asked me when I was about to get married whether I would ask Ratna to convert." Naseeruddin Shah on the "nuisance of Love Jihad"...
Thanks to Karwan e Mohabbat for the footage.
Thanks to Karwan e Mohabbat for the footage.
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00:00This love jihad is only to stop the social interaction between Hindus and Muslims, to stigmatize it.
00:10I am very angry about this, about this kind of division.
00:17And I have repeatedly repeated that I am not afraid, I am angry.
00:22And what is there to be afraid of? I am in my own country, I am in my own house.
00:27On the programme Harman-e-Mohabbat, I had once expressed my regret
00:32that a cow murder is being given more importance than the murder of a policeman.
00:38And I could not believe why this was happening.
00:44I just said that the death of a human being is less important than the death of a cow.
00:51And I am very angry about this.
00:54And I have repeatedly repeated that I am not afraid, I am angry.
01:07And what is there to be afraid of? I am in my own country, I am in my own house.
01:11Five generations of my family are buried in this land.
01:15My family has been settled here for 300 years.
01:19If this does not make me an Indian, then what can make me an Indian?
01:24The world you imagined before Covid-19, what do you think?
01:32Will the world be the same or will it change?
01:36Or what did you think about yourself?
01:39That in the future, it will be like this.
01:43Sir, do you think it will be like this or is it happening?
01:47I have to say with regret that no.
01:50And the problem is that there is no room for any kind of exchange of thoughts.
02:03If you say anything, you will be accused of something or the other.
02:09Even if you speak for the good of the country.
02:13I am very angry about this.
02:16This kind of distribution is being done.
02:20This is the scene of the word Jihad in UP.
02:23First of all, these people do not even know the meaning of the word Jihad.
02:28The people who have invented this phrase.
02:32And the second thing is that I do not believe that anyone will be so stupid
02:38that he really thinks that one day the number of Muslims will increase from Hindus in this country.
02:45How fast will Muslims have to give birth to children?
02:48To increase their population from Hindus.
02:51This is not a joke.
02:55I think this is absolutely ridiculous.
02:57No one believes in this.
02:58This scene of the word Jihad has been done
03:02only to stop the social interaction between Hindus and Muslims.
03:06To stigmatize them.
03:08That you do not even think about marriage.
03:11Marriage is a very distant thing.
03:13We will also stop you from meeting each other.
03:16This is an attempt.
03:18And since my wife is a Hindu.
03:21I am a Muslim.
03:23Neither am I religious nor is she.
03:25And our children have been told about every religion.
03:30They were not told that you belong to this religion.
03:34So this was my belief that this difference will gradually disappear.
03:40I was sure that marrying a Hindu woman is a healthy precedent.
03:47I do not consider it Kufr.
03:49My mother also asked me.
03:52When we were about to get married.
03:54Will you bring faith from Ratna?
03:57I said you are talking about changing religion.
03:59I will not change his religion.
04:01She said yes it is right.
04:03How can it be changed?
04:05My mother who was educated.
04:07She was brought up in a very orthodox family.
04:11She was a five-time worshipper.
04:14She fasted all her life.
04:16She also did Hajj.
04:18But she also said.
04:20How can you change the things you were taught in childhood?
04:24It is not right to change religion.
04:27And you are all seeing the scene of the word Jihad.
04:31How innocent people are being arrested.
04:34They are being harassed.
04:36They are being beaten.
04:38On the occasion of a happy wedding.
04:40The police comes and arrests both of them.
04:43Later it is found that both of them were Muslims.
04:45So the police do not even feel the need to apologize to them.
04:50So this was not the world I had dreamt of.