Bill passed Tuesday also proposes life term & demolition of properties to check forced, fraudulent religious conversions. It exempts 'ghar wapsi' from ambit of these provisions.
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District administration says no connection between report and transfer order. MLA Gulihatti Shekhar’s alleges Hosadurga tehsildar Y. Thippeswamy’s report on forced conversion is 'all lies'.
In an interview with ThePrint, Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai discusses the controversial anti-conversion bill, the 'bitcoin scam', and BJP’s performance in MLC polls.
On 15 November, All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha wrote to office-bearers to 'check' religious conversions and assist in 'bringing back' those who have converted to other faiths.
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Ancestral faith of India is spiritual freedom. Every individual had/has the freedom to believe in any God or entity or teachings of any guru. This is alien to book-based religions like Christianity or Islam where there is only one God – a male God. So conversion to any of these religions strikes at the very root of spiritual freedom that exists in India unless a person fully knows what he/she is getting into. India does not prevent anyone from following the teachings of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Tirtankharas, or Guru Nanak. It is only when someone denies the others their right to have spiritual freedom the anti-conversion law comes into picture.
The press does not seem to understand this fact in their attempt to sensationalize this issue.
Ancestral faith of India is spiritual freedom. Every individual had/has the freedom to believe in any God or entity or teachings of any guru. This is alien to book-based religions like Christianity or Islam where there is only one God – a male God. So conversion to any of these religions strikes at the very root of spiritual freedom that exists in India unless a person fully knows what he/she is getting into. India does not prevent anyone from following the teachings of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Tirtankharas, or Guru Nanak. It is only when someone denies the others their right to have spiritual freedom the anti-conversion law comes into picture.
The press does not seem to understand this fact in their attempt to sensationalize this issue.