On secularism, conversion & religion
6 years, 1 month ago

On secularism, conversion & religion

Deccan Chronicle  

When the late J. Jayalalithaa opened up the debate on conversions by passing an ordinance during her second tenure as chief minister of Tamil Nadu that made the choice of faith subject to the state’s approval, not surprisingly, the VHP, RSS and the BJP hailed it as a great achievement. Modern religions are akin to great commercial enterprises like Coke and Pepsi constantly seeking greater marketshare while retaining the faith of existing customers. This very simply means that people are free to believe whatever they may want to, convert others to this belief and perform whatever rituals or ceremonies that are required by one’s faith. Both the State and our predominantly Hindu society have failed to provide to the majority of this country the elementary essentials of living and quite often even the elementary decencies due to all human beings.

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'India's Majority Population Will Be Minority If...': Allahabad HC On Religious Conversions
8 months, 3 weeks ago

'India's Majority Population Will Be Minority If...': Allahabad HC On Religious Conversions

News 18  

The Allahabad High Court on Monday observed that if the current trend of religious conversions carries on then the majority of India’s population will find itself in the minority one day. Hearing the bail plea of a person, who is accused of taking people from a village in Uttar Pradesh to a religious congregation in the name of the ceremony …

Legally Speaking | Are laws that prevent forced conversions really about freedom to practise religion?
1 year, 1 month ago

Legally Speaking | Are laws that prevent forced conversions really about freedom to practise religion?

Hindustan Times  

Article 25 of the Constitution of India recognises freedom of conscience and the right to freely profess, practise and propagate religion. Last month, the Allahabad high court dismissed petitions filed by eight interfaith couples seeking protection for their lives, noting that their marriages were not in compliance with the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion …

Political Storm Over Religious Conversions: Does India Need a National Law? - News18
1 year, 9 months ago

Political Storm Over Religious Conversions: Does India Need a National Law? - News18

News 18  

The possible repeal of the Karnataka Freedom of Religion Act, 2021, enacted under the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government has created a political storm. Amid the sharp political narrative between the Congress and BJP, the intricate issue of religious conversions in India has never found the serious attention it deserves. The absence of empirical data or any study on religious conversions, …

Right to religion does not include right to convert: MHA to SC
2 years, 3 months ago

Right to religion does not include right to convert: MHA to SC

The Hindu  

The right to religion does not include the right to convert other people to a particular religion, especially through fraud, deception, coercion, allurement and other means, the Home Ministry told the Supreme Court on Monday. The government said, “Fraudulent or induced conversion impinged upon the right to freedom of conscience of an individual apart from hampering public order and, therefore, …

Forced religious conversion cannot be measure of spread of any religion, says Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
3 years, 5 months ago

Forced religious conversion cannot be measure of spread of any religion, says Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Firstpost  

Naqvi said both believers and atheists have equal constitutional and social rights and protection in India. New Delhi: Forced religious conversions cannot be the measure of spread of any religion in a nation like India, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday and asserted that both believers and atheists co-exist with equal rights in this country. In his …

Hindus should prove secularism by converting to Islam: Leftist website
5 years, 2 months ago

Hindus should prove secularism by converting to Islam: Leftist website

Op India  

Liberals have finally abandoned the domain of political disagreement and crossed over into the realm of the insane. This dispensation is unsurprisingly on an exclusionist rampage and will one leave no stone unturned till they are well on their way to attaining Hindu-Rashtra as they have purported to achieve directly and indirectly.” The author, after a long litany of propaganda, …

On secularism, conversion & nature of religion
6 years, 1 month ago

On secularism, conversion & nature of religion

Deccan Chronicle  

When the late J. Jayalalithaa opened up the debate on conversions by passing an ordinance during her second tenure as chief minister of Tamil Nadu that made the choice of faith subject to the state’s approval, not surprisingly, the VHP, RSS and the BJP hailed it as a great achievement. This very simply means that people are free to believe …

The challenge of religious conversions
10 years, 3 months ago

The challenge of religious conversions

Live Mint  

On 1 May 1947, Vallabhbhai Patel rose in the Constituent Assembly to move a Constitutional clause that dealt with the right to freedom of conscience and religion. In the case of Stanislaus vs State of Madhya Pradesh, the court made a clear distinction between the right to propagate one’s religion or faith and the right to convert. The court’s words …

Debating the conversion conundrum
10 years, 3 months ago

Debating the conversion conundrum

The Hindu  

Sometimes as I watch TV, I feel a sense of despair. What was interesting to notice is that the word ‘conversion’ means different things to different people; that the dictionary definition does not quite capture the contextual emotions of the word — meanings one should open up the debate to by looking at the various nuances of the word. > …

Is religious conversion really a fundamental right, or can we ban it?
10 years, 6 months ago

Is religious conversion really a fundamental right, or can we ban it?

Firstpost  

By Jaideep A Prabhu To most observers, India appears a paradox - teeming with diversity of cuisine, dress, language, pigmentation, and faith under one flag, yet simultaneously simmering with communal tensions. As Jakob de Roover of Ghent University argues, the liberal principle of religious freedom implicitly endorses the Abrahamic view of the world that religion revolves around doctrines and truth …

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