Love Jihad
The editorial in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece Organiser,titled Take action against love jihad, says: What is the lure of Love Jihad? The problem is old. But the terminology is new,crediting its origins to some imaginative police officer in Kerala,who filed his affidavit in the high court following a widespread commotion against an alleged sinister campaign by Kerala Islamists to convert non-Muslim women to Islam through deceptive love and marriage. Such cases have become commonplace in North India and the readers of Organiser are familiar with them,as such cases have been written about in the journal. The problem received wider attention in Kerala because the Christian girls are equal victims of the jihadi Romeos as the Hindus,and the church has taken a serious view. The Commission for Social Harmony and Vigilance of the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council,which is actively creating public opinion against the organised menace of Love Jihad,says that women so converted to Islam are being used by male Islamist terrorists.
Global inequality
In an opinion piece titled Policy for reducing global inequality Bharat Jhunjhunwala writes: Developing countries have to choose between two policies for reducing global inequality. One policy is of cooperation. Developing countries can hope for an increase in the growth rates of the developed countries. An increase in consumption by these countries will create demand for their exports just as the ancillary industry gains when sales of the parent company pick up; or as the village potter gains when the landlord reaps a good crop. The most efficient among the developing countries will gain more from such exports. The second policy is that of confrontation. Developed countries are importing the natural resources of the developing countries such as iron ore,oil rice and mangoes in large quantities. Developing countries can make cartels and jack up the prices of these exports just as was done by the oil-exporting countries in 1971 by forming OPEC.
He concludes: The world economy can be divided into four parts. At the lowest rung are the poorest countries like Bangladesh. At the second level are developing countries like India. At the third level are middle income countries like Brazil and Hungary. At the top are the developed countries like the United States. We have to discover the main fault line among these divisions. The main problem of the world economy in my reckoning is the high consumption by the developed countries. Therefore,ideally,the lower three rungs should make a common cause and join hands against the developed countries.
