Indira Ghandi, Muslima

Peregrinations across the web led me this morning to discussions of Indira Ghandi's muslim husband and possible/probable conversion to Islam herself on the occasion of her marriage. This is believable when you find out that the government of Saudi Arabia invited her to visit the Kaaba. Non-muslims are not allowed into Mecca much less into the presence of the holy black stone. (Not that the Saud family was too religious to ask French troops to take care of that nasty rebellion for them in 1979.)

Indira was very much in love with Feroze Khan, son of Nawab Khan, the Moslem family grocer. Feroze sympathized with Indira who too had been practically abandoned by the aunts; the mother was eternally sick, and the widowed father was always chasing all kinds of women, breeding bastards. Her education was neglected. She was admitted in Oxford but driven out from there for non-performance. She was then admitted in Tagore's Shantiniketan but was chased out from there too for bad conduct. She had no proper education and was brought up almost as an orphan.

Indira was fully conscious of her half-Islamic parentage. Against Kamala's wishes, she married Feroze, whose own mother was a converted Parsi woman married to Nawab Khan. As soon as they got married in England, the old crow, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ordered Jawahar to force the bride and the bridegroom to change the name Khan, by an affidavit, to Ghandy, a Parsi sounding name. But the not so intelligent grocer's boy got the name changed to Gandhi instead; since then India had in its destiny a half-mussalmani to become its PM for many years under a false name and to promote the cause of Islam.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about this swordoftruth website. I'm just presenting this as a matter of interest.
Sonia Gandhi (now I'm confused about where to put the h) was born in Italy and it is said her husband Rajiv converted to Catholicism when he married her. Their daughter Priyanka/Bianca seems to be Catholic as well.

Priyanka's wedding itself was one of the biggest exercises in fooling the public. Her husband Robert Vadhra is a baptized devout Catholic, the son of Rajinder and Maureen Vadhra who are both confirmed Catholics. This detail can be attested from the fact that the Delhi archdiocese had made a big ruckus about the fact that Priyanka was not baptized when they sought permission to get married in a Catholic ceremony at the Sacred Heart Cathedral of Delhi. Robert had to produce his Baptism papers and Priyanka had to produce proof of her conversion to Christianity, before they could be married in the Catholic ceremony at Sacred Heart Cathedral at 10.30 am on February 5, 1997. This was hastily followed by a publicity exercise where the already married couple was shown being wedded in "traditional Hindu style" on February 18, 1997 at Sonia's Bungalow on 10 Janpath.

This is Indian secularism. Hindu nationalists don't trust it one bit because they see secularism as seeking to undermine and destroy the great Hindu tradition of tolerance and substitute for it a hypocritical multiple-standard "separate-but-equal" approach to cultural diversity.
The Nehru-Ghandi dynasty is the ruling family of Indian secularism. They seem to convert to whatever religion is convenient for them, which is fine -- perhaps they consider themselves Hindus in a sense that lets them "add on" a religion without forsaking their own gods. So why do they seek to hide their Muslim and Christian ties? Wouldn't they want to be a shining example of diversity?
More inportantly, there is a huge distinction between Hindu Dharma and Islam. The Indian Supreme Court has formally included tolerance and acceptance of many paths as part of the very definition of Hindu Dharma. Islam, on the other hand, considers itself the One True Religion which all must eventually acknowledge, with a fair amount of scripturally justified and mandated violence and intolerance. If Indira Ghandi ever believed, or was compelled to act as an agent for any entity that believes in the Islamic view, then her actions must be looked at in the light of new information on her motivations.