Despite the SC encouraging inter-religious marriages, there seems to be a lack of progress within the Kerala community itself. A Kerala mosque committee called for a boycott of a Muslim family for allowing their daughter to marry a Christian man.
A Muslim committee in Malappuram district called for social boycott of a family for allowing their daughter to marry into another faith. Ignoring the diktat, guests and well wishers from both community attended the wedding and gave the couple their blessings. On October 19, a special circular was issued by the secretary of Madarul Islam Sangham’s Mahallu committee urging the people associated with the mosque to break off all contact with Kunnummal Yusuf and his family.
“Since Kunnummal Yusuf has agreed to his daughter’s wedding to a non-Muslim, we have decided that people need not cooperate with his family, neither for mosque-related affairs, nor for other matters,” said the circular.
The marriage took place on October 20 under the Special Marriages Act. 26-year-old Jaseela married Tiso Tomy, and the reception was then held a day after the wedding. In a Facebook post Jaseela’s uncle Rasheed wrote: “Yesterday was my niece’s wedding. She has the right to marry a person of her choice. Jaseela and Tiso Tomy’s wedding is not the first inter-religious marriage here, though it is not common to see such functions conducted with the consent of both the families. I appreciate my sister Najma Yusaf and brother-in-law for this bold move. Why is Mahallu Committe reacting against this decision? How can they stop the changing tides of time? I just wanted to remind you that the wedding was attended by many Muslim devotees.”
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