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April 11, 2018

Indian Supreme Court Upholds Right to Interfaith Marriage, in Blow to Hindu Nationalists
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In India, the Supreme Court has upheld the right of interfaith marriage,
in a high-profile case of a Hindu woman who married a Muslim man. In its
ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed that the 26-year-old student named
Hadiya has the right to choose her husband, Shafin Jahan, and convert to
Islam, despite the opposition of her father, who tried to have the
marriage nullified by claiming his daughter had been forced into the
marriage as part of a plot by ISIS to recruit her to fight in Syria. The
Supreme Court's ruling is a major blow to right-wing Hindu nationalists,
who have tried to brand interfaith marriage between Hindus and Muslims
as "love jihad."


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