Punjabi Writers, Activists Say Self-Proclaimed Sikh Leaders Can t Take Away Women s Rights The anxiety over women entering into marriages of choice has deep-seated patriarchal and casteist roots, wherein a woman is perceived as property, and handed over from her parents to her husbandâs family, safely within the community and caste, with little say in the matter.
The 18-year-old Sikh woman from Kashmir who was brought to Delhi by community leaders . Photo: PTI
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New Delhi:Â A group of Punjabi writers, social activists, academics, public intellectuals and others have issued a statement expressing concern over what some community leaders have recently said about Sikh women marrying Muslim men.
‘We are not children’: A Kashmiri couple recall their marriage ordeal amid conversion controversies
‘If a woman becomes a big officer then people say that she has her own mind but if she marries someone of her choice then people think otherwise.’ 13 hours ago A civil right activist holds a placard during a demonstration condemning the decision of various Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led state governments in the country for the proposed passing of laws against Love Jihad in Bangalore on December 1, 2020. | Manjunath Kiran / AFP
“I am 110% sure that I converted on my own will,” said a 28-year-old woman from Jammu and Kashmir. She had converted to Islam from Sikhism this year and married a man of her choice who is also Muslim. “There are lots of rumours about forced conversion but I would like to say that nothing of the sort happened to me,” she said.
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18-year old girl from Kashmir who was allegely converted to Islam forcibly, on her arrival at the airport in New Delhi, on Tuesday
AMRITSAR/AMBALA: Outrage over the alleged abduction, conversion and forced marriage of two Kashmiri Sikh girls to older men appeared to ebb somewhat on Tuesday when one of them started a new chapter in her life post-rescue by tying the knot with a Srinagar-based youth from the community. As the search continued for the other girl, pressure mounted on the administration from the Akal Takht and leaders of the Sikh community to bring an anti-conversion law in J&K on the lines of those in UP, Haryana, HP and MP.