Raghav_12 Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 http://www.firstpost.com/living/hindutva-brigade-pick-kareena-kapoor-love-jihad-cover-girl-2036493.html Hindutva brigade pick Kareena Kapoor as their love jihad cover girl Widely considered one of the most beautiful actresses in Bollywood, it’s no surprise that Kareena Kapoor is a favourite of advertising brands. Her face has been used to convince you to buy shampoos, eyeliner and a host of other cosmetics. Now, the right-wing organisation Durga Vahini is hoping Kapoor’s striking features will make people see love jihad, the so-called campaign to seduce Hindu women into the Muslim fold through romance and marriage, in a pro-Hindutva light. The latest issue of Durga Vahini’s magazine Himalaya Dhwani is devoted to love jihad and has Kapoor’s face on the cover. Half of her face is in black, but for a slit through which an eye can be seen. The other half of Kapoor’s face shows the actress with a bindi and sindoor in her hair. We presume the logic of the Himalaya Dhwani cover is that anything which will cover Kapoor’s gorgeous face – in this case, with a burqa – can’t be a good thing. The cover of the magazine The cover of the magazine Durga Vahini is the women’s wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and after decades of letting VHP have the spotlight, the Hindutva ladies seem to be stepping into the light. Last year, the organisation was the subject of the award-winning documentary The World Before Her. Taking the viewer into camps that the Durga Vahini organises, the film showed how the young women and girls who enroll in these camps are indoctrinated. They are taught a mix of skills, including self-defense exercises and shooting, but it is also drummed into the girls that their duty is to get married and support husbands, not pursue careers. When asked about the Durga Vahini’s chosen cover girl, the organization’s northern India regional coordinator Rajni Thukral said that Kapoor was chosen for Himalaya Dhwani because Kapoor is a celebrity. An oblique reference was made to Kapoor having married a Muslim. “The youth try to emulate celebrities. They think if she can do so, why not us?†said Thukral, in anattempt to explain the Vahini’s logic. In the past, Kapoor has steered clear of politics and commenting on political issues. However, the actress has made her position on love jihad clear. “Love is a feeling, it's an emotion,†Kapoor had said in aninterview last year. “That's why I don't believe in Love Jihad. I believe in the feeling of love.†Leaving aside how much her opinion sounds like lines taken from a particularly bad Mills & Boon novel, this sentiment along with the fact that Kapoor is happily married to Saif Ali Khan makes the actress an odd choice for the Love Jihad Cover Girl campaign. However, ignoring what the reality is and the opinion of women in particular is standard practice for VHP, so it isn’t surprising that both VHP and Durga Vahini are dismissing the minor detail that Kapoor could have something to say about the way her face is being used. “If actress Kareena Kapoor has a problem with this, the doors of Court are always open for her," said Prakash Sharma of the VHP. Last year, Khan had written an eloquent piece aboutmulticulturalism and inter-religious marriages in response to the negative reactions that his and Kapoor's wedding evinced. “I don’t know what ‘love jihad’ is,†Khan had written. “I know intermarriages because I am a child of one and my children are born out of it. Intermarriage is not jihad. Intermarriage is India. India is a mix. … I am the product of such a mixed marriage and my life has been full of Eid and Holi and Diwali. We were taught to do adaab and namaste with equal reverence.†Kapoor is yet to release a statement on the Himalaya Dhwani cover, but when contacted, Khan described the effort to make Kapoor seem like a victim of love jihad “ridiculous.†Triumphant as Durga Vahini and VHP may be feeling at the attention that their cover and campaign are getting as a result of putting Kapoor’s face on the cover, the decision to cast Kapoor as the innocent young Hindu bride who has been corrupted by the decadent Muslim man may well backfire. After all, it’s not as though Kapoor’s pre-Khan life would meet with either the VHP or the Durga Vahini’s approval. Whether it’s her wardrobe, her ex-boyfriends or the fact that she’s an independent professional, there’s a lot in Kapoor’s life that has nothing to do with Khan and would still give the Hindutva brigade palpitations. Arguably, Khan may actually have helped Kapoor meet VHP’s expectations of a good woman: she’s cut down the number of film projects in order to focus upon her home and family life and her onscreen wardrobe is more conservative than it was before the two started dating. On the plus side, Kapoor is a big fan of yoga so perhaps there’s hope yet for VHP and Durga Vahini’s love affair with Kapoor. These forces have really become emboldened in last few months.
EnterTheVoid Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Diversify your interests instead of posting the same crap over and over again.
bulbul Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Agree Thanks a lot...Difficult to search quotes when using Mobile.
Detonator Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Thanks a lot...Difficult to search quotes when using Mobile. you can use opera mini, turn on text wrapping and single column view. it's quite good for forum and news reading Tapatalk is good but sucks on many features. :two_thumbs_up:
bulbul Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Cant believe how media only publishes reports against radical hindutva but silent on other communities. About time Modi/Shah start buying them.
bulbul Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 you can use opera mini, turn on text wrapping and single column view. it's quite good for forum and news reading Tapatalk is good but sucks on many features. :two_thumbs_up: Thanks,using Chrome righr now as new tapatalk is pathetic. I guess we can search so many quotes for this thread.Unfortunately bit busy right now
Detonator Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Thanks,using Chrome righr now as new tapatalk is pathetic. I guess we can search so many quotes for this thread.Unfortunately bit busy right now No need. I think it's time to ignore the psec brigade in this forum as well. Look how many got trolled in that terrorist boat thread.
Raghav_12 Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 Diversify your interests instead of posting the same crap over and over again. Didn't know that there was a thread of this highly objectionable article already. Please direct me to that, i'll remove this thread.
Detonator Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Didn't know that there was a thread of this highly objectionable article already. Please direct me to that' date= i'll remove this thread. even FP posted this highly objectionable article under Life and Entertainment section. :giggle: only here it's under politics. chillax buddy.
bulbul Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 No need. I think it's time to ignore the psec brigade in this forum as well. Look how many got trolled in that terrorist boat thread. They are the entertainers in this forum, difficult to ignore :winky:
Raghav_12 Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/love-jihad-kareena-kapoor-vhp-campaign/1/412032.html http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/star-power-kareena-used-as-warning-against-love-jihad/article1-1304415.aspx http://www.timesnow.tv/Love-jihad-Actors-morphed-picture-used/videoshow/4472292.cms Mainstream media links where it is in main section, not in entertainment section. I am surprised to see supposedly educated people don't see anything objectionable in this. Also love jihad was such an important issue for our ruling party that it was core item of their election campaign, now some of the party followers think it is matter of entertainment only.
Detonator Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 I here by accept my loss at thread fight and congrats to Raghav bhai for winning 1 brownie point. yay.
bulbul Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 I here by accept my loss at thread fight and congrats to Raghav bhai for winning 1 brownie point. yay. Question now is are you educated? Also which subjects make sure that some one is educated or not?
Detonator Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Question now is are you educated? Also which subjects make sure that some one is educated or not? anyone who doensn't agree with psec opinion is uneducated. Educated folks will ignore a secular leader funding to terrorism, but the bigger problem an all important love jihad in an amateur magezine which made Modi as the PM of the country. I think the educated seculars wanted the BSP secular leader to fund the 51 crores for an attack on the magazine on the OP, with the poeple of peace. Man, if I start a divorce jihad I will be the next PM. :woot:
Raghav_12 Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 anyone who doensn't agree with psec opinion is uneducated. Educated folks will ignore a secular leader funding to terrorism, but the bigger problem an all important love jihad in an amateur magezine which made Modi as the PM of the country. I think the educated seculars wanted the BSP secular leader to fund the 51 crores for an attack on the magazine on the OP, with the poeple of peace. Man, if I start a divorce jihad I will be the next PM. :woot: You chose to ignore the point which I had very clearly stated that BSP leader should be punished and prosecuted for such terrorism supporting act. But unfortunately that would make him martyr in eyes of some communities and would bring popularity to him, so better be left alone. On the other hand I didn't see any negative comment on this piece which has been published by VHP who is accepted part of the family which BJP and Sangha part of.
Kalia_Test Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 If anybody should have a problem with this, it is Kareena as her name/face is dragged into this presumably without her consent. Others, don't buy the magazine. Simple.
Raghav_12 Posted January 8, 2015 Author Posted January 8, 2015 If anybody should have a problem with this, it is Kareena as her name/face is dragged into this presumably without her consent. Others, don't buy the magazine. Simple. Others could have chosen not to watch PK as well, simple. But they didn't? Instead preferred to go for protest and vandalize theatres with tacit support from certain parts of the society.
Tiger80 Posted January 8, 2015 Posted January 8, 2015 Others could have chosen not to watch PK as well' date=' simple. But they didn't? Instead preferred to go for protest and vandalize theatres with tacit support from certain parts of the society.[/quote'] what logic is this? do you want to say that your sentiments are hurt because kareena's pic is published in this manner :hysterical::hysterical:
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