A poor Hindu woman who was working as a domestic help in a Muslim family was harassed and terrorized for hiding her Hindu identity in Malappuram district by the head of the family.
In a video that has surfaced on social media shows the frightened woman, Sujatha, trying to impress upon her employer that she was forced to adopt a Muslim name because she wanted a job badly due to her financial troubles. Unfazed, the man continues to interrogate her. “Why didn’t you tell you were a Hindu? For five days, we were eating food prepared by you, right. Isn’t this wrong,” he asked the frightened domestic help. The Muslim man hired her from an agency. The woman says she hadn’t revealed her Hindu identity to the agency also as Muslims usually don’t keep Hindu women as domestic help.
This reflects the radicalization of the society in the Northern districts of Kerala. A few years ago, a Salafist mulla, Mujahid Balussery — who controversially claimed that making a contribution to set up a brothel is better than making a donation to a temple, said in ten years ‘we can make Kerala an Islamic country’.
In another viral video, an Islamist, addressing a gathering, says, “don’t employ RSS dogs in our enterprises”.
In a TV panel discussion, liberal Muslim scholar Hamid Chennamangaloor said the Islamic radicalization in rural areas of Northern Kerala is taking place at a fast pace. The policies of the two coalitions – LDF and UDF – are helping Islamic radicalization, he added.
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