This selective choice of facts (and the title) goes well with the spate of anti-Muslim posts we're seeing on Goanet in recent times!
2009/12/30 SHRIKANT BARVE <shri8...@yahoo.com>: > > Youth gets bail in elopement case > > > TNN 17 December 2009, > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Youth-gets-bail-in-elopement-caseKolkata/articleshow/5345745.cms > > KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted the > anticipatory bail plea of a 26-year-old youth from Murshidabad > who had been accused of kidnapping and marrying a 15-year-old girl. > > Sairul Sheikh, a resident of Bakultala in Behrampore, had been accused of > kidnapping and forcibly marrying Anita Roy.... > Now had it been a Hindu Boy who had kidnapped an underage > girl (Muslim or Hindu) he would not have got Anticipatory > Bail under any circumstances. Interesting to see how women are treated as chattel in this discourse. Why does it always have to be "our girls and their boys" and not the other way round? Don't forget that the Muslims-building-illegal-places-of-worship-in-Goa campaign for years in the local media (and to a lesser extent online) did make Curchorem a justifiable possibility! FN -- Frederick Noronha
