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Know Lord Ayyappa as secular god: Activist Rehana Fatima

During a session titled 'Right To Pray, Faith On Fire' at India Today Conclave South 2018, activist Rehana Fathima said she knew of Lord Ayyappa as a secular god -- a god who welcomed people of all faiths. She said she'd had a strong desire to go to Sabarimala for the last 20 years.

A month after Fathima and another woman, a journalist, returned without visiting the Lord Ayyappa shrine, she was arrested in Kochi over her Facebook posts, allegedly for hurting devotees' religious sentiments. "She has humiliated Sabrimala. She has humiliated Ayyappa," said SJR Kumar, general convener of the Sabarimala Karma Samithi, at conclave in Visakhapatnam today.

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