Date: 29/03/2022
Sent: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 1:49
Subject: 'The Conversions' film on love jihad - film that touches your raw nerves & shakes your conscience
'Love Jihad' is slow genocide happening all across Bharat. Daily young girls are lured into relationships and then stabbed, burnt down, their throats slit and even gunned down for not giving in to advances (please see articles at the end).
The pre-screenings of 'The Conversions' film that captures this with a riveting story that would touch our raw nerves and shake our conscience to the deepest core is happening now across several cities in the US. (It was already screened to full audiences in NYC and DC). It is set for full release on April 22nd. The trailers for the film are on their website here.
Links to reserve tickets for remaining pre-screenings (NY & DC already done with housefull audiences!).
City
Date/Time
Link to book tickets
Chicago
Apr 2nd, 12:30 CST
https://www.tugoz.com/events/theconversionfilm/chicago
Atlanta
Apr 3rd, 2:45 EST
https://www.tugoz.com/events/theconversionfilm/atlanta
Dallas
Apr 9th, 11:30 CST
https://www.tugoz.com/events/theconversionfilm/dal
San Francisco
Apr 9th, 12:00 PST
https://www.tugoz.com/events/theconversionfilm/ca
https://www.firstpost.com/india/the-conversion-how-a-new-film-on-love-jihad-touches-raw-nerves-and-shakes-ones-conscience-10423091.html
First Post - ‘The Conversion’: How a new film on ‘love jihad’ touches raw nerves and shakes one’s conscience
There is nothing wrong if two adults consent and marry, but there is everything wrong if deceit and fake love is used to convert a woman
Satya Dosapati March 02, 2022 18:21:21 IST
We all hear about love jihad which is an issue that comes often in the news. Few states in India have laws relating to it and the topic is covered in a lot of chatting that goes on in the social media. However, unless you see the upcoming film ' The Conversion', the full impact cannot be grasped by an outside observer. It is like being hit by a ton of bricks that is terrifying and leaves you shaken. Mercifully the film has a reasonable ending but the reality is perhaps far more bitter. The film makers seems to have taken enormous pains to script and enact the whole process of 'love jihad', how it starts and what it leads to, usually a terribly helpless situation for the girl.
This is not unique to only Hindus, in fact news reports have covered how Christian girls are victims in states like Kerala and in Mangalore. According to a Hindustan times article, between 2006 and 2009 there were 2,868 Kerala Christian girls who were victims of love jihad as reported by the Commission for social harmony and vigilance of Kerala Catholic Bishops council. It is not even unique to Bharat, but also in countries like the UK where Sikh and even white girls were trapped and abused. In Rotterdam, UK, many Pakistani origin Muslims abused 1400 young white girls. Recently an orthodox Jewish woman in New York was duped by a Lebanese Muslim who convinced her he was an orthodox Jew and this is being investigated by FBI and other agencies. Just few days ago in Khandwa Madhya Pradesh, a 15 year old tribal girl in Kandha, Madhya Pradesh was duped into marriage, was gang raped which they video taped and then pressured to accept Islam.
What is 'love jihad'? According to a Hindu activists portal it is “a holy war carried out by Muslim males/females using deceit (hiding their identity) and love as a weapon to marry non-Muslim persons with the sole purpose of converting them to Islam.” There is nothing wrong if two adults consent and marry but there is everything wrong if deceit and fake love is used to capture and convert. Violence against women happens in all communities. However, there is something sinister about faking for purposes of conversion and the eventual abuse that follows because the marriage is not out of true love.
The movie does not just cover the act of duping, feigning, marriage and conversion. It goes far deeper on certain practices of Islam in India such as Triple Talaq, Nikah and Halala that gives excuse for male family members to commit sexual abuse. When the intent of marriage itself is based on fake premises, there is a great chance for the girl to be abused. Worst, when the girl's family disowns her, the girl is completely at the mercy of the abusers. There is no one to check the welfare of the girl and report any abuses and the girl could be virtually a jailed victim, deprived of her humanity. Many times the girl is terrified into accepting her fate with little future and cannot even dare to request help from friends and relatives.
In covering the whole contours of love jihad and certain Islamic practices that abuse women, this movie has made enormous contribution to highlight this issue. We should not be shy of discussing things that are not comfortable. It is such healthy discussion that lead to abolishment of Triple Talaq. We need to investigate the institutional practice of love jihad, the practice of Halala and even that of polygamy. It is a tragedy that is happening even in the 21st century and the longer we wait to openly discuss and address the more difficult it would get. There needs to be very effective punishment to not just those who perpetrate this crime but also those who support it. The movie also teaches a very important lesson to girl's parents that rather than disowning your child, it is important to accept and be engaged in their child so that there is no abuse and perhaps recognize her mistake and come out of it..
This movie needs to be seen by every young girl and parents, administrators and lawmakers so that we can discuss and get rid of the country of this scourge against young women. It is expected to be released in April this year
The writer is a US-based activist who has played a critical role in the introduction of a paper trail for India's Electronic Voting Machines called VVPAT. Views expressed are personal.
RECENT SAMPLINGS OF LOVE JIHAD (use the link below to get to the stories)
https://www.opindia.com/tag/love-jihad/
Women Narrate ‘Love-Jihad’ Incidents Suffered By Them | ABP News
https://youtu.be/n-CV9BnyzTs
Link here
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