Day 75 – Q 2.What makes the youth vulnerable to religious indoctrination? How serious is the threat emanating out of religious indoctrination? Examine.

2. What makes the youth vulnerable to religious indoctrination? How serious is the threat emanating out of religious indoctrination? Examine. 

किस कारण से युवा धार्मिक मतारोपण की ओर अग्रसर होता है? धार्मिक मतारोपण से होने वाले खतरे कितने गंभीर है? जांच करें।

Introduction:

Religious indoctrination is the type of biasing the thoughts and thought processing. The words are used in reference to promoting a one-sided opinion as being truthful, without allowing accesses to other ideas and with no reservation in calling it unjustifiably, the ‘truth. 

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Reason for vulnerability of youth to religious indoctrination:

• Vulnerability: Young people experiencing exclusion, disorientation or a polarized world view are more prone. Example: abandoned kids, poverty, and basic deprivation of resources.
• Religion orientation: Spirituality is being traded in the marketplace and there is no force to counter that. Youth are being over religious.
  Periodic emotional relief: The victim is always to blame and escape is extremely difficult because there is periodic emotional relief but no overall perspective.
• Ignorance: Parents are ignored about radicalization of the youth and left unchanged.
• Misuse of education: children are sent to missionary schools, rightist Hindu organizations, and madrasas. Children mind are slowly biased to radicalization.
• Arabisation: What you should wear what your rituals or inter-sex relations should be — they have directly imported this culture. Huge influence among the youth can be seen.
• Extremism is a rational strategy in a game over power: Extremist actions are an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining power in a hierarchical environment.
• Digital media: Viral videos, easy access of videos make easy persuasion to follow radicalization.

How serious is the threat?

• Has affected communal harmony, disrupted peace in the society leading to law and order problem. Ex: cow-vigilantism, conversion movements, Babri masjid demolition, Muzaffarnagar riots etc.,
• Rise of Lone wolfs: Nice attack in Paris was carried out by a single person who was absolutely outside the intelligence radar.
• Intelligence nightmare: Local youth are being participating in the terrorist attack which makes it difficult to identify and avert. E.g. Pulwama attack: is carried out by a local youth who was religiously indoctrinated.
• Counter attacks in the name of religion: as a hatred or retaliation E.g. Christchurch attack in New Zealand.
• Has led to secessionist tendencies on religious lines taking violent form. Ex: Khalistan movement, J&K etc.,
• Growth of terrorism having international linkages. Ex: incidents of youth joining ISIS.
• Hinder development: religious indoctrination takes away the passion, ambition, career away from the youth who are the driving force of any development in any country. E.g. Unemployment in J&K, instances of stone pelting etc.,

Conclusion

CDS Bipin Rawat recently talked about 10-12 years children being radicalized in the name of religion in J&K. Religious fundamentalism and religious indoctrination pose greatest threat to the peace and development of state, 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).

Note: Give more and more examples in these types of questions. Evaluator instantly get what you are trying to argue.