What can one say to people who think that way? How can one understand their frame of mind - people who are not content with living their own lives, seek to destroy the life, libery, the happiness of others?
One bludgeons his daughter to death because she loves a boy from the same village. Another seeks to blackmail or send prison two men because they love each other. Another forcibly seperates a women from her girlfriend and rapes her to teach her the right kind of sex.
Another hangs his son because he falls in love with a woman from a different caste. Another pours acid on his sister's face because she falls in love with a man outside her religion.
The mindset is the same. All believe they are doing good, which gives them the licence to do evil. What is in their heart is neither humanity, nor the love which, we are told, lies at the root of true religion. The poison comes not from within but from without: from the plausible priest, the blustering baba, the menacing mullah, the members of the khap panchayat, the political party that whips up the mob in the search of votes, the enforcers and justifiers of unjust laws.
