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Nihal: Inter-faith marriages.

14/05/2012

Inter-faith marriages.

BBC Asian Network - Nihal, Inter-faith marriages.

Would you mind if your son or daughter married someone from a different religion?

Nihal asks: would you mind if your son or daughter married someone from a different religion? Plus Keep It or Leave It - what do you think about personalised number plates?

Would you mind if your son or daughter married someone from a different religion? 

There's a new Yash Raj film called Ishaqzaade which deals with a story surrounding what happens when a Muslim girl falls in love with a Hindu boy.

The film shows violence that results between the two communities because of the relationship. The director deliberately set the film in a metropolitan environment to show that no matter how modern families may think they are, inter faith divide still exists. 

What do you think about this? Can interfaith marriages work or is there a deep lying fault lines amongst Asians that make it impossible. 

Has someone in your family married someone from a different religion? How did it make you feel? Did it end well? Did you feel that person was betraying their family and roots?

Or do you think this attitude belongs to history and that nowadays its widely accepted to marry someone from a different faith?

Do some religions have a harder line on this than others? Have you married someone from a different faith?

Call Nihal and tell him what you think.

Then later on, Keep it or Leave it.

Nihal asks whether we should keep personalised number plates or if it's time to leave them. What do you think? Do you have a personalised number plate? What does it read? Call Nihal and tell him what you think.

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