Bishop warns Christians in Kerala against ‘love and narcotics jihad’
The Hindu
While the bogey of ‘love jihad’ has already gained deep traction among the Catholic community in Central Travancore, this is the first time that the head of any Catholic diocese has directly named Muslims
Close on the heels of his circular on alleged attempts by fraudsters to entrap young women, Mar Joseph Kallarangatt, Bishop of Palai, has come out in the open accusing a section of the Muslim community of targeting Christians through love jihad and narcotic jihad. Addressing the laity on the occasion of the Eight day lent of Mary that concluded the other day, the Bishop has urged the laity to be conscious of the pitfalls in “befriending people from other communities”. To back the argument, he also pointed to a statement by the former State police chief, Loknath Behra, that Kerala had become a hotbed of terrorist sleeper cells and a recruiting centre of the terrorists. “A very few Muslim groups have been indulged in promoting communal violence and religious hatred. They are present everywhere in the world including Kerala,” noted the Bishop. These groups, according to him, have been using different strategies for multiplying that are bafflingly difficult to pin down.More Related News