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Why belief remains high among Indian Americans

As religious identity transforms, the Indian-American diaspora finds new ways to balance ancient Vedic beliefs with the realities of 21st-century life.

The issue of Love Jihad is controversial for three reasons: one, it seems like a pejorative label; two, it erases the line separating genuine inter-faith marriages from those where one of the purposes of marriage is to achieve conversion of the spouse to one’s own religion; three, it reeks of a patriarchal view of love and marriage.

Let us thus deal with all three objections. Instead of Love Jihad can we call this Conversion Pressure in Marriage, or Conversion Pressure in Marriage and Love. But that would be hated by the Left, since the abbreviation would end up as CPIM or CPIML. So, let’s prefix an R, which would make it RCPIM – Religious Conversion Pressure in Marriage.

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