A website for promoting marriages across borders of religions and castes was hacked within hours of its launch, purportedly by Islamist cyber warriors.
The new match-making website, launched by the Democratic Youth Federation of India, the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at Kochi on Wednesday, has been hacked by CoMoDo.
The CoMoDo web page, carrying the image of a horse-riding warrior, announces: “Your system hacked.” The page warns America and Israel: “You will demolished! Infamous America, infamous Israel! The cyber war will be appeared all the countries which not respecting Islam. Islamic hacker. Islamic army.”
The website was an attempt by the DYFI to encourage young people to marry without regard to religion and caste in an environment of fast spreading religious polarisation and caste consciousness in Kerala. The organisation, one of whose objectives is to promote secularism in society, has been perturbed by the spread of religiosity and superstition among the new generation.
The website was launched at a public function at the EMS Memorial Townhall here. It was formally kicked off by filmmaker Ashiq Abu and his actor-wife Reema Kallingal. The couple, who had married across religious borders, called upon the youth to resist increasing religious, communal and caste divisions in society through inter-religion and inter-caste marriages.
The match-making website is also part of DYFI’s as well as its parent party’s attempt to get increasingly involved in social issues to stall the CPI(M)’s deteriorating base in Kerala.
However, why the website was hacked, and that too by so-called Islamist cyber warriors, is unclear.