Day 53 – Q 3.What is religious indoctrination? How does it affect the youth and what challenges does it pose to the security of India.
3. What is religious indoctrination? How does it affect the youth and what challenges does it pose to the security of India.
धार्मिक मतारोपण क्या है? यह युवाओं को कैसे प्रभावित करता है और यह भारत की सुरक्षा के लिए कौन सी चुनौतियों पैदा करता है?
Introduction:
Religious indoctrination is a process where person is forced to think and act on the basis of ideology of particular religion.
Body:
Traditionally young, unemployed, vulnerable people were drawn into the net of religious indoctrination. Today we have instances of even educated youth falling prey to such methods due to modern means of communication. Isolation, fear, anxiety, insecurity and real or perceived deprivations make youth vulnerable which are exploited by religious fundamentalists for social and political gains.
It causes changes in their value system:
- Growing intolerance – parochial interests and hatred against others.
- Attracted towards wrong means like violence to protect their religion. This makes them to take up arms and ammunitions leading to religious militancy.
- Loss of human values. Join terror groups to create violence against humans.
Thus, growing extremism of religious militants as a result of religious indoctrination is against secular, progressive and democratic ideals and is likely to cause following security challenges:
- Human security. Ex: incidents of lynching, lone wolf attacks.
- Affects communal harmony, disrupts peace in the society leading to law and order problem. Ex: cow-vigilantism, conversion movements, Gujarat riots.
- Secessionist tendencies on religious lines taking violent form. Ex: Khalistan movement, J&K.
- Growth of terrorism having international linkages. Ex: incidents of youth joining ISIS.
Conclusion:
Today, religious fundamentalism and religious indoctrination poses greatest threat to the peace and development of society and nation. Government should adopt multipronged approach like equitable development (minorities, poor population), strengthening education system (moral values, teaching essence of different religions), creation and broadening access to employment opportunities, modern and well equipped security and intelligence agencies and push for international coordination (proposed CCIT).
Best answer: Kamal
