Dil Nawaz
 
October 17 2007

Merinews first reported the story of Umer and Priyanka from Bhopal. This is the second part of story from UK of an inter religion marriage between a Sikh girl and a Muslim boy. The predicament of the lovebirds was the same.

THE STORY CONTINUES: The community in UK continued the religious persecution of wife and husband. They decided to go through a Sikh religious ceremony. There was a lot of opposition to this and no one was willing to conduct such a ceremony. A stumbling block was the Muslim name of the boy (Mohammed). He agreed to take the oath that he believed in Sikh Gurus, by circling around the holy place. He bowed in front of the Holy Book (Guru Granth) of Sikhs. But Sikhs refused to accept this as legitimate wedding. In UK, the couple suffered abuse, harassment and intimidation at the hands of the Pakistani gangs, who accused them of converting from Islam.

Mohammed and M Kaur (full name hidden for security reasons) tried to get help from local police. They felt helpless at the lack of response from the police, which feared that delicate issues between Sikhs and Muslims could spark off riots like the June 2001 clashes between VHP and fundamentalist Muslims in area known as little Pakistan.