Hindu-Muslim Interfaith Marriage

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This paper discusses issues pertaining to Hindu-Muslim interfaith marriages. It discusses the history of tension that has existed between Hindus and Muslims for centuries and the different religious beliefs and different cultures of the two groups. The paper then focuses on the challenges of an interfaith marriage between individuals that are from the two different religions.

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"This is a negative feeling that can be seen on both sides though. In places where Hinduism is the leading religion, public anger against those wanting to have an interfaith marriage is telling of the mutual hatred. In a news story from last spring, "radical Hindus stormed the headquarters of an Indian television network Monday and damaged equipment to protest the broadcast of reports on a controversial Hindu-Muslim marriage, witnesses said. Activists from a group calling itself the Hindu Rashtriya Sena (Hindu National Army) used hammers to smash windows, computers and cameras at the Star News office in Mumbai before police intervened." (Mirza, 1) The aggressive reaction would show that the view of some Hindus is that marriage into Islam is causing the conversion of its women to another religion. This is a view that shows the pressures on those attempting to bridge the interfaith gap, with these hostilities showing a long and bitter struggle between two troubled world faiths."

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