Intolerance

An MLA of Assam along with her husband was badly beaten by members of a mob who barged into their hotel room and barbarically assaulted the couple. Its alleged that she has re married without divorcing her first husband. Her first husband (or may be her only legal husband) has lodged an FIR against her, accusing her of bigamy. That's the legal part. The religious part of the incident is that she being a Hindu, married a Muslim that too leaving her former Hindu husband. Some people may find the bigamy aspect outrageous, while some fanatics may find the latter part (the Hindu marrying a Muslim part) more aggravating, while others still, may find both aspects too much to handle. Let's for a moment just assume (without actually agreeing) that all these allegations are correct and well founded and are even infuriating.

Even then, WHO THE HELL ARE WE TO TAKE MATTERS INTO OUR HANDS ??!!!.

I'm so angry at the moment at such blatant disregard by those men, for the privacy of the couple and the law of our land, that I myself may resort to a bit of lawlessness, if I find any of those brainless hooligans in front of me. I'm seething with disgust & harboring a hypothetical desire to unravel the antecedents of the men who took upon themselves the task of disciplining the couple, and for each wrong that each of them may have committed, instead of submitting them to the Courts, let mob justice be meted out to them too. Only then they'd realize the horror of their own actions But I guess, that's just not the way.

If the lady MLA is guilty of marrying again in the lifetime of her first husband, the she'll face the iron hands of law & so will her companion. The latter will probably be booked for charges of adultery and other relevant offences against marriage. But there is nothing legally wrong with a Hindu marrying a Muslim or vice versa, howsoever insulting and disgusting some may find that to be. Our Constitution sanctions it, and no one has even a grain of authority, to challenge acts allowed by the law of our land. If they do, the are latently challenging the law and directly branding themselves as outlaws. As for the incident, I hope that the investigating machinery lives up to its obligations and presents the guilty alongwith all proper evidence for the Courts to mete out justice to the lady and the man assaulted.


One thing is for sure. We have become a society which is breeding countless numbers of such intolerant mindless & hypocritical bunch of goons, who resort to lawlessness at the slightest opportunity. I want to ask those nincompoops, those morons happily letting themselves to be puppeteered at the hands of the cunning, What business they think they have in a marital dispute ? And what on this earth they think they were achieving by assaulting the lady and her husband ? It's become an order of sorts, that if we cannot accept something, we rush to root it out, without any regard for the fact that the thing may, in the first place be completely legal and proper. We have become a nation infested by such first order dogmatists and bigots, who will endorse and preach the greatness of our magnanimous cultures and religions, but conveniently disown such of it's sermons as would enable them to seamlessly accomplish their selfish ends. Tolerance is a common yet significant virtue practiced and preached by all religions, but its easily the most ignored and neglected trait among the rest. May be because it requires humans to stay human.