Interfaith Marriage goes wrong in Sonari, Family alleges ‘Love Jihad’

Sonari: Well, there are several quotes saying “Love has got no boundaries!” But, what if people start judging Love in the name of religion, thus, naming it as ‘Love Jihad’?

In an incident of inter-faith marriage, a youth from the minority community in Sonari under Charaideo District allegedly got married to a Hindu community lady who is reported to be a nurse at Sonari Civil Hospital.

The couple later eloped to Sivasagar.

This incident had sparked sensation among the family members of the lady after they came to know that the youth identified as Hasan Alom alias Biki Alom was already married to another woman from the same community and they also have a 7-year-old son.

A case was also lodged by the family members of the nurse at Sonari Police. Later, Sonari Police apprehended the couple in Sivasagar on Saturday and brought them to Sonari.

Later, one can see in this video that the family members of the nurse took her away forcibly in disagreement with her wedding choice.

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It is to be noted that Interfaith marriage, traditionally called "mixed marriage", is a marriage between spouses professing different religions. Although interfaith marriages are most often contracted as civil marriages, in some instances they may be contracted as a religious marriage. This depends on religious prohibitions against the marriage by the religion of one (or both) spouses, based on religious doctrine or tradition.

In an interfaith marriage, each partner typically adheres to their own religion; this excludes a marriage of a spouse belonging to religion X to a spouse who has undergone religious conversion from religion Y to religion X. Interfaith marriage is also distinct from the concepts of religious assimilation, cultural assimilation, religious disaffiliation, and apostasy. Despite the distinction, these issues are associated with aspects of interfaith marriage. Interfaith marriage is also distinct from interracial and inter-ethnic marriage (also known as "mixed marriage"), since spouses in an interfaith marriage may share the same race or ethnicity.

In some religions, religious doctrine prohibits interfaith marriage. In others, religious tradition opposes interfaith marriage but may allow it in limited circumstances. Several major religions are mute on the issue, and still, others allow it with requirements for ceremony and custom. For ethnoreligious groups, resistance to interfaith marriage may be a form of self-segregation.

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