Kerala: Case filed against Bishop Joseph, statement on love and narcotic jihad

Court has directed registration of a case against Pala Bishop Joseph Kallarengat in Kottayam for his controversial remarks on Narcotic Jihad. The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Pala, Kerala issued these directions on Monday. The court gave this direction on a petition filed by the Imam Council of India. There was a lot of uproar over the statement of the bishop.

Church said, will deal legally
A case has been registered against Bishop Joseph Kallarengat at the Kuravilangad police station under section 152(a) (causing hatred or division between different communities) and other sections, a police official said, a spokesman for the dias said. No information has been received about this yet and the church will deal with it legally after receiving the notice.

The direction to register a case against the bishop has been welcomed by several Muslim organizations including the Kerala Students Union. Addressing a church function in Kottayam on September 9, the bishop had said Christian girls in Kerala were being victimized by “love and narcotic jihad”.

Know what the bishop said
The bishop said that wherever weapons cannot be used, drugs are being used and Catholic girls become victims. There are some groups working in the state to help them. There is a need to analyze how women of other religions got into Islamic State camps. Bishop was referring to the travel of 21 people from northern Kerala to Afghanistan in 2016, including five converts to Islam.

Amid controversy over narcotics and love jihad remarks, Bishop Joseph of the Pala Diocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church said on October 2 that pseudo-secularism would destroy India. Who is getting the benefit of secularism? He said that today there is a need to protect the true values. In an article published in the church’s daily newspaper Ang Deepika on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the bishop, without referring to the narcotics and love jihad remarks, attacked those who say that one should not talk about the evils that they do. Come to your community.

Breaking his silence after his remarks in September, Bishop indirectly justified his point of view by saying that those who do not speak out against mistakes are quietly encouraging them to flourish.

Court has directed registration of a case against Pala Bishop Joseph Kallarengat in Kottayam for his controversial remarks on Narcotic Jihad. The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Pala, Kerala issued these directions on Monday. The court gave this direction on a petition filed by the Imam Council of India. There was a lot of uproar over the statement of the bishop.

Church said, will deal legally

A case has been registered against Bishop Joseph Kallarengat at the Kuravilangad police station under section 152(a) (causing hatred or division between different communities) and other sections, a police official said, a spokesman for the dias said. No information has been received about this yet and the church will deal with it legally after receiving the notice.

The direction to register a case against the bishop has been welcomed by several Muslim organizations including the Kerala Students Union. Addressing a church function in Kottayam on September 9, the bishop had said Christian girls in Kerala were being victimized by “love and narcotic jihad”.

Know what the bishop said

The bishop said that wherever weapons cannot be used, drugs are being used and Catholic girls become victims. There are some groups working in the state to help them. There is a need to analyze how women of other religions got into Islamic State camps. Bishop was referring to the travel of 21 people from northern Kerala to Afghanistan in 2016, including five converts to Islam.

Amid controversy over narcotics and love jihad remarks, Bishop Joseph of the Pala Diocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church said on October 2 that pseudo-secularism would destroy India. Who is getting the benefit of secularism? He said that today there is a need to protect the true values. In an article published in the church’s daily newspaper Ang Deepika on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the bishop, without referring to the narcotics and love jihad remarks, attacked those who say that one should not talk about the evils that they do. Come to your community.

Breaking his silence after his remarks in September, Bishop indirectly justified his point of view by saying that those who do not speak out against mistakes are quietly encouraging them to flourish.