Fact Check: Not 'Love jihad'! This video of Hindu women rescued from Muslim man's house is SCRIPTED
1 week ago

Fact Check: Not 'Love jihad'! This video of Hindu women rescued from Muslim man's house is SCRIPTED

India Today  

A video of two people allegedly rescuing multiple Hindu women from a Muslim man's house has been widely shared on social media. India Today Fact Check found that the viral video does not show the rescue of abducted women at all. This featured a disclaimer at the 22-second mark that said the video “should be considered for entertainment purposes only.” The YouTube channel with more than 7.5 lakh subscribers features many scripted videos like the viral clip. We contacted Naveen Jangra, who told India Today Fact Check that the video was created for entertainment and awareness, and did not show a real incident.

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Telangana BJP MP Appeals Christians' Support Against Love Jihad, Tears Bangladesh Flag During Goa Event
2 weeks ago

Telangana BJP MP Appeals Christians' Support Against Love Jihad, Tears Bangladesh Flag During Goa Event

ABP News  

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh gave controversial remarks on Sunday appealing to Christians to join hands with Hindus for the united fight against "love jihad" which is affecting both religions. Addressing a Bajrand Dal rally at Curchorem in south Goa, the BJP legislator said India won't have a Hindu prime minister in the next 20 to 30 years if …

Love Jihad: 4 Cases of Rape, Threats and Assault in India
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Love Jihad: 4 Cases of Rape, Threats and Assault in India

Op India  

A disturbing pattern of love jihad cases has emerged in India, with multiple incidents reported across different states. These cases highlight the dangers faced by non-Muslim girls and women, particularly from the Hindu community, who are targeted and exploited by Muslim men. The perpetrators employ various deceptive tactics, including social media manipulation, false identities, and threats, to gain the victims' …

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Accused Traps Hindu Woman, Forcing Her to Convert to Islam
2 months ago

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Accused Traps Hindu Woman, Forcing Her to Convert to Islam

Op India  

A Hindu woman in Saharanpur has been subjected to sexual assault and forced to convert to Islam by an individual posing as a Hindu named Mohammad Ashif. The woman, who was deceived by the accused into a relationship, was trapped into a situation where she was forced to convert to Islam against her will.

‘Love Jihad’ being waged by certain community, poses major threat to nation’s unity: U.P. court judge
2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Love Jihad’ being waged by certain community, poses major threat to nation’s unity: U.P. court judge

The Hindu  

The objective of “love jihad” is to establish dominance by certain anti-social elements of a particular religion against India through demographic warfare and international conspiracy, a local court here has observed. Additional District Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar said Hindu girls are being lured into “love” for the sake of illegal conversions and create conditions similar to those in Pakistan and …

Love Jihad in Ghaziabad: Muslim man poses as Hindu to marry a Hindu woman; arrested
3 months, 1 week ago

Love Jihad in Ghaziabad: Muslim man poses as Hindu to marry a Hindu woman; arrested

Op India  

A new case of Love Jihad has come to the fore from the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Police on Sunday, September 15 arrested one individual identified as Danish, a resident of Dhaulana for marrying a Hindu girl by posing as a Hindu. The Police are believed to have taken action after the girl filed a police complaint saying that …

Love Jihad in Assam: Muslim man arrested after luring a Hindu girl under false pretences
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Love Jihad in Assam: Muslim man arrested after luring a Hindu girl under false pretences

Op India  

A 20-year-old male from the Baksa district of Assam was taken into custody on accusations of hiding his religious affiliation to trap a Hindu girl. The offender pretended to be a Hindu guy named Rana Saha on social media platforms to communicate with the victim, according to police reports. In 2019, a 14-year-old girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in …

Love Jihad: Shahrukh becomes Rohit to lure a girl, forces her to convert
6 months ago

Love Jihad: Shahrukh becomes Rohit to lure a girl, forces her to convert

Op India  

A case of love jihad has surfaced from Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district. A Muslim youth in the Sadalpur area befriended a Hindu girl by hiding his identity and as their relationship progressed he pressured her to embrace Islam for marriage. Afterwards, she lodged a complaint at the police station based on which a First Information Report was filed and the …

Love Jihad in UP: Muslim youth marries Hindu girl under false pretences; converts her and feeds her beef
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad in UP: Muslim youth marries Hindu girl under false pretences; converts her and feeds her beef

Op India  

A shocking case of love jihad has come to light in Uttar Pradesh where a young Muslim man first trapped a Hindu girl from Bihar into love jihad by lying about his identity, started a romantic relationship with her and then brought her to Bareilly’s Dargah-e-Aala Hazrat. The matter pertains to Sunni Nagar of the Baheri police station area. When …

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Shaqib poses as Sagar to befriend a Hindu girl, assaults and attempts to rape her after being exposed
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad in Saharanpur: Shaqib poses as Sagar to befriend a Hindu girl, assaults and attempts to rape her after being exposed

Op India  

A new case of Love Jihad has surfaced from the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, where a Hindu girl was trapped in a ‘love affair’ by accused Mohammed Shaqib, who posed as a Hindu individual. As per the videos that are making rounds on social media, the accused then assaulted the girl along with four of his associates and also …

Read how radical Islamist outfits are facilitating love jihad in Bangladesh
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Read how radical Islamist outfits are facilitating love jihad in Bangladesh

Op India  

Radical Islamic sectarian groups embark on new proselytizing missions in Bangladesh targeting religious minorities, particularly Hindus. A disturbing notification signed by Muhammad Shahidullah Khan Madani and Professor Dr. Abdullah Farooq of ‘Bangladesh Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadis’ has been circulating on social media calling upon volunteers to lure Hindu females into love jihad and force them towards religious conversion. Commenting on the ongoing …

Neha Hiremath Was Killed Because Her Right of Choice Was Not Respected
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Neha Hiremath Was Killed Because Her Right of Choice Was Not Respected

News 18  

The blood-curdling and brutal murder of Neha Hiremath, a 23-year-old college student in broad daylight on a college campus in Hubballi, Karnataka by Fayaz Khodunaik has sent shock waves through society and shaken the morale of young Hindu women, engendering in them a fear psychosis that hinders their unrestricted mobility and freedom of choice. Since she didn’t agree to religious …

Love Jihad: Muslim man pretends to be Hindu, later says won't marry a Hindu, hurls caste abuse
9 months, 1 week ago

Love Jihad: Muslim man pretends to be Hindu, later says won't marry a Hindu, hurls caste abuse

Op India  

Another Love Jihad case has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district. In this case, the accused Talib Hasan pretended to be a Hindu man named Ankit and trapped a Dalit girl who was a widow. When the victim learned about his real identity, she lodged an FIR against the accused Talib Hasan, and his family members on 9th …

These news channels have been warned over ‘love jihad’ shows
9 months, 3 weeks ago

These news channels have been warned over ‘love jihad’ shows

Live Mint  

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has taken action against several news channels for their shows. TimesNow Navbharat and News18 India faced fines for their segments on "love jihad". The term "love jihad" must be used with "great introspection as religious stereotyping amounts to violation of the Code of Ethics and can corrode the secular fabric of the country", …

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’
11 months, 1 week ago

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’

The Hindu  

January 12, 2024 09:01 am | Updated January 18, 2024 01:06 pm IST Three journalists, Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma, put their heads together to address widely floated conspiracy theories such as love jihad, forced conversions and population jihad in their new book, Love Jihad and Other Fictions. There was a certain frustration in the way it was …

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’
11 months, 1 week ago

The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 | ‘As citizens we are deeply anxious about the impact of these falsehoods in real life’

The Hindu  

Three journalists, Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma, put their heads together to address widely floated conspiracy theories such as love jihad, forced conversions and population jihad in their new book, Love Jihad and Other Fictions. There was a certain frustration in the way it was getting approached, a kind of ‘he said, she said approach,’ specially true for …

Video of Muslim youth beaten at Bandra surfaces; ‘In name of love jihad’: AIMIM
1 year, 4 months ago

Video of Muslim youth beaten at Bandra surfaces; ‘In name of love jihad’: AIMIM

Hindustan Times  

A purported video of a Muslim youth being up at Mumbai's Bandra railway station for 'going out with a minor Hindu girl' surfaced on social media with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen demanding a probe into the 'assault in the name of love jihad'. AIMIM national spokesperson Waris Pathan shared the video and said, "What is happening at the heart …

Want peaceful co-existence between Hindus & Muslims, but love jihad…: Himanta
1 year, 4 months ago

Want peaceful co-existence between Hindus & Muslims, but love jihad…: Himanta

India Today  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who has been vocal against 'love jihad', said on Saturday said it must be stopped as it creates tension in society. Sarma, who was speaking to reporters at Bongaigaon after a two-day convention of police superintendents of the state, said he wants peaceful co-existence among Hindus and Muslims in the state but "Issues like …

Fact Check: No 'Love Jihad'! Grisly video of Gurugram murder shared with FALSE communal spin
1 year, 5 months ago

Fact Check: No 'Love Jihad'! Grisly video of Gurugram murder shared with FALSE communal spin

India Today  

A disturbing video of a woman’s corpse lying on a blood-stained road has been widely shared on social media as an instance of “Love Jihad”, a far-right Hindu conspiracy theory that claims Muslim men target Hindu women and convert them to Islam through marriage. According to a report by The Indian Express, the video showed a 19-year-old woman was stabbed …

Fake ‘love jihad’ news from Mira Road circulates on social media, WhatsApp, say police
1 year, 6 months ago

Fake ‘love jihad’ news from Mira Road circulates on social media, WhatsApp, say police

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: A fake ‘love jihad’ related news is making rounds on the social media platforms and WhatsApp after a 15-year-old boy was booked for allegedly blackmailing a 13-year-old girl with her private photographs in Mira Road. HT Image In the fake news, it was mentioned that the boy was booked for ‘love jihad’ as he was trying to convert the …

Their homes were marked with black X signs. Now Muslims in India are leaving Himalayan towns in fear for their lives
1 year, 6 months ago

Their homes were marked with black X signs. Now Muslims in India are leaving Himalayan towns in fear for their lives

The Independent  

When angry marchers filed past their Himalayan home, Naaz and her husband Irfan* were among the Muslims cowering in a back room, braced for violence. Several right-wing groups, including the prominent Hindu organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad, labelled the abduction a case of “love jihad” – a right-wing, Islamophobic conspiracy theory that claims Muslim fundamentalists are plotting to convert Hindu and …

Some Muslim Families Are Fleeing Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi. What Led To This?
1 year, 6 months ago

Some Muslim Families Are Fleeing Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi. What Led To This?

The Quint  

On 26 May, two men, Jitendra Saini and Ubaid Khan, were caught with a minor girl in Uttarkashi’s Purola town, allegedly trying to kidnap her. The girl was sent back home and the two men were arrested by the police and charged under IPC sections 363 366A as well as under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Even …

Background checks will curb ‘love jihad’, says Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami
1 year, 6 months ago

Background checks will curb ‘love jihad’, says Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami

The Hindu  

With tension brewing in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi town after a minor girl attempted to elope with a boy from the minority community, the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday said that to check the rising cases of “love jihad”, the government will launch background checks for people who recently moved to Uttarakhand. ‘Devbhoomi Raksha Abhiyan’, a right-wing group, has allegedly …

Muslims boycott TheWire: Bhagwa Love Trap, Love Jihad & more
1 year, 6 months ago

Muslims boycott TheWire: Bhagwa Love Trap, Love Jihad & more

Op India  

Recently, the website TheWire published a video denouncing the so-called ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’, a fictitious propaganda that is being run by Islamists to target Hindu men. | @TheOtherKaskar#Watch: https://t.co/hOhf47UHS2 — The Wire June 2, 2023 However, even though TheWire tried to monkey-balance by denouncing Bhagwa Love Trap only to whitewash Islamist crimes against Hindu women, their Muslim readership, which demands …

Unseen War of Love Jihad Rages On and It is Time We Opened Our Eyes to It - News18
1 year, 6 months ago

Unseen War of Love Jihad Rages On and It is Time We Opened Our Eyes to It - News18

News 18  

In the Shahbad Dairy area of Delhi, a macabre spectacle unfolded on the evening of May 28, 2023, leaving the nation shocked and shaken to its core. Sakshi knew Sahil as a Hindu boy, a claim further supported by Sahil’s appearance during his arrest — he had a Kalava tied around his wrist. These were the revelations that pointed towards …

OPINION | HOW TO PREVENT ‘LOVE JIHAD’
1 year, 6 months ago

OPINION | HOW TO PREVENT ‘LOVE JIHAD’

India TV News  

LOVE JIHAD : Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s youth outfit Bajrang Dal has announced that it would set up “Anti-Romeo Force” to protect Hindu daughters if police fails to stop incidents of ‘love jihad’. After a jilted Muslim lover Sahil stabbed a Hindu girl Sakshi to death, it was found that he was wearing ‘kalaava’ and a ‘rudraksh mala’ to fool the …

Small communal fires across state stoke larger concerns
1 year, 7 months ago

Small communal fires across state stoke larger concerns

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The devastated family of Vilas Gaikwad, 41, killed this Saturday in a riot at Akola, is still clueless about why he was targeted by the mob. Apart from Saturday’s Akola riot, there have been three incidents of communal clashes in the state in the last three months alone: A Ram Navmi procession on March 30th resulted in clashes in …

The Kerala Story: Dirty Secrets Tumble out of Left-‘Liberal’ Closet as India Discusses ‘Love Jihad’ - News18
1 year, 7 months ago

The Kerala Story: Dirty Secrets Tumble out of Left-‘Liberal’ Closet as India Discusses ‘Love Jihad’ - News18

News 18  

The Kerala Story is now banned in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal. Human rights and women’s rights and immigrants’ rights.” When Aiyar asked what he would have done had he been a European policymaker, pat came the reply: “I would change their laws to stop all this immigration.” It is this liberal proclivity to turn a blind eye to growing Islamist assertion …

Time for 'liberals' to wake up and smell 'The Kerala Story': Love jihad is real and not figment of Hindutva imagination
1 year, 7 months ago

Time for 'liberals' to wake up and smell 'The Kerala Story': Love jihad is real and not figment of Hindutva imagination

Firstpost  

The Kerala Story is now banned in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal. Human rights and women’s rights and immigrants’ rights.” When Aiyar asked what he would have done had he been a European policymaker, pat came the reply: “I would change their laws to stop all this immigration.” It is this liberal proclivity to turn a blind eye to growing Islamist assertion …

If BJP Leaders' Daughters Marry Muslims They Call it Love, But When Others Do So It's 'Jihad': Chhattisgarh CM
1 year, 8 months ago

If BJP Leaders' Daughters Marry Muslims They Call it Love, But When Others Do So It's 'Jihad': Chhattisgarh CM

News 18  

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of indulging in double standards, saying that when the daughters of BJP leaders get married to Muslims, they call it love, but if anybody else does so then it’s dubbed as “jihad”. Talking to reporters in Bilaspur town of the state, he also accused the saffron party of …

BJP MLC Demands Law Against ‘Love Jihad’ in Maharashtra, Fadnavis Says Govt Mulling Legal Solution
1 year, 8 months ago

BJP MLC Demands Law Against ‘Love Jihad’ in Maharashtra, Fadnavis Says Govt Mulling Legal Solution

News 18  

Worried about alleged forced religious conversions in rural Maharashtra, BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar has demanded an anti-conversion law in the Legislative Council. Speaking in the Legislative Council, Padalkar said that for the past few months, the Hindu Garjana group has been organising protests across the state against so-called ‘love jihad’, and alleged cow slaughter. In response, deputy chief minister Fadnavis …

Why Hindu outfits are raking up 'love jihad, land jihad' in Maharashtra
1 year, 10 months ago

Why Hindu outfits are raking up 'love jihad, land jihad' in Maharashtra

India Today  

Upping the ante on alleged cases of ‘love jihad’ and ‘land jihad’, Hindu right wing groups have launched a stir demanding laws to stop such practices in Maharashtra. On January 29, these groups organised a protest march in Mumbai, which also included leaders and activists of political parties like the BJP and Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena and organisations like the Vishva …

53 per cent of respondents believe Muslim males indulge in love jihad: India Today survey
1 year, 11 months ago

53 per cent of respondents believe Muslim males indulge in love jihad: India Today survey

Op India  

The India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation survey indicated on Thursday that 53 per cent of the over 1.40 lakh respondents believed that Muslim men indulge in ‘love jihad’. India Today survey says 53% Muslims believe in Love jihad. See https://t.co/SE2dAO4aE4 I have quoted Islamic testimony which says Islam spreads by marriage and “via Bed Room” pic.twitter.com/zN2SEb4CEx — S Gurumurthy …

As 2022 comes to a close here is a list of 153 cases of Love Jihad that OpIndia reported in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

As 2022 comes to a close here is a list of 153 cases of Love Jihad that OpIndia reported in 2022

Op India  

Much has been spoken and written about the menace of Love Jihad that has rapidly been spreading its tentacles across many parts of the country, where vulnerable Hindu women are being targeted by Muslim men, enticed and misled, forcibly converted to Islam, tortured, raped, and then either killed or abandoned. Madhya Pradesh Love Jihad On June 22, OpIndia reported another …

Forensic team visits television show's set, seizes late actor Tunisha Sharma's belongings for investigation
1 year, 11 months ago

Forensic team visits television show's set, seizes late actor Tunisha Sharma's belongings for investigation

Firstpost  

The police have recorded the statements of 16 persons, including those who were present on the set on Saturday, he said. A team from a Forensic Science Laboratory in Mumbai has visited the set of the television show in Maharashtra’s Palghar district where actor Tunisha Sharma was found dead and seized various materials including a crepe bandage which she allegedly …

Pro-Hindu groups demand separate law against Love Jihad in Karnataka
2 years ago

Pro-Hindu groups demand separate law against Love Jihad in Karnataka

India Today  

Pro-Hindu organisations have demanded a separate law against Love Jihad in the state of Karnataka. Meanwhile, posters by pro-Hindu organisations have emerged in Puttur city stating the need for a law against Love Jihad in the state. The poster also says that Love Jihad was the reason behind Aftab murdering Shraddha and chopping her into 35 pieces. “To save such …

IANS whitewashes ‘Love Jihad’ by calling Hindu outfits ‘hotheads’, citing ‘analyst’ to blame Hindus for their own persecution
2 years ago

IANS whitewashes ‘Love Jihad’ by calling Hindu outfits ‘hotheads’, citing ‘analyst’ to blame Hindus for their own persecution

Op India  

On the 27th of November 2022, IANS tweeted that the National Investigating Agency had submitted the chargesheet in the case of Deepthi Marla, alias Maryam, granddaughter-in-law of former Congress MLA Late Idinabba from Dakshina Kannada district for running a terrorist network in Karnataka and recruiting gullible Muslim youths to terrorist outfit ISIS. On the 27th of November, IANS published a …

Love Jihad and systematic targeting of Hindu children: Ground report from UP's Balrampur district along Nepal border
2 years, 3 months ago

Love Jihad and systematic targeting of Hindu children: Ground report from UP's Balrampur district along Nepal border

Op India  

Several recent reports have shown that demography is changing rapidly along India’s border with Nepal. In our earlier reports, we highlighted how mazars and mosques have mushroomed in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district along the route heading to the Jarwa side of the Nepal border. Not only is the illegal encroachment of public spaces in border areas to build mosques, mazars, …

How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh
2 years, 4 months ago

How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh

Al Jazeera  

The story of a woman who was an alleged ‘complainant’ against her Muslim partner that led to his imprisonment for months. “It was a case of love; they turned it into something called ‘love jihad’,” Kaur told Al Jazeera as she locked the doors of the small house she shared with her parents. by Amandeep Kaur, 24 When asked about …

Love Jihad in Bareilly: Hindu woman raped, fed beef, forced to convert to Islam
2 years, 5 months ago

Love Jihad in Bareilly: Hindu woman raped, fed beef, forced to convert to Islam

Op India  

In yet another case of love jihad, a youth named Imran has been accused of hiding his religious identity to trap a Hindu woman, thereafter pressurising her to convert to Islam and forcefully marrying her. Fed up with the continued harassment, the woman approached the Izzatnagar police station and filed a complaint against Imran and his family, accusing them of …

Islamic YouTube channel Tahaffuz-e-Deen India spreads misinformation, fake news
2 years, 8 months ago

Islamic YouTube channel Tahaffuz-e-Deen India spreads misinformation, fake news

Op India  

Tahaffuz-E-Deen India is an Islamic media channel with large viewership on YouTube and other social media platforms. ‘Ludhiana court bomb blast mastermind was Hindu’ In a December 28 report, Syed Farooq Ahmed, a journalist with the Tahaffuz-E-Deen channel, falsely claimed that the mastermind of the Ludhiana court bomb blast was a Hindu. ‘Hindu terrorists organised Shobha Yatra on Hanuman Jayanti …

Kerala HC declines 'love jihad' plea after Christian woman marries Muslim man
2 years, 8 months ago

Kerala HC declines 'love jihad' plea after Christian woman marries Muslim man

Hindustan Times  

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to interfere in the marriage of a Christian woman to a Muslim man, observing 'she has taken a decision. The appeal against the marriage - alleged as a case of 'love jihad' - was filed by the woman's father, who told the court his daughter had been illegally detained and filed a habeas …

Kerala HC declines to interfere with interfaith relationship
2 years, 8 months ago

Kerala HC declines to interfere with interfaith relationship

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to interfere with the decision of a Christian woman to marry a Muslim DYFI leader, a decision which stirred up a political storm in the state after her relatives alleged "love jihad", as she categorically told the court that she has not been illegally detained and she was not interested in speaking …

'Love kesari': Karnataka right-wing's counter to 'love jihad', case filed
2 years, 8 months ago

'Love kesari': Karnataka right-wing's counter to 'love jihad', case filed

India Today  

The leader of a right-wing group in Karnataka’s Raichur district courted controversy as he asked youngsters to engage in “love kesari” to counter “love jihad”. You have to do it,” Sri Ram Sene leader Rajachandra Ramanagowda told the gathering on Sunday. Love jihad is a concept propounded by Hindu right-wing groups that suggests that Muslim men target Hindu women to …

Heartbreak, wasted policing, injustice: ‘Love jihad’ law fuels hate
2 years, 11 months ago

Heartbreak, wasted policing, injustice: ‘Love jihad’ law fuels hate

Hindustan Times  

They met in Bhopal in April 2019. 56 cases have been registered as love jihad against people after elopement, rape, marriage and using fake identity with an intention of conversion,” said Rajesh Rajora, additional chief secretary at the state’s home department. “In most cases of a love affair, the woman hides this from her family so there is a dearth …

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge
3 years ago

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

Associated Press  

BELAGAVI, India — Arbaz Mullah’s love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta Kumbhar. While interfaith unions between Hindus and Muslims are rare in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, and other Hindu nationalists have forcefully decried what they call “love jihad.” The discredited …

Watch: Video of street play based on the theme of Muslim man murdering a Hindu woman after his deceit fails to work goes viral
3 years, 2 months ago

Watch: Video of street play based on the theme of Muslim man murdering a Hindu woman after his deceit fails to work goes viral

Op India  

On October 12, a video of a street play based on the theme of a romantic relationship by deceitful means went viral on social media. सभी गरबा/डांडिया व दुर्गा पूजा पांडालों में ऐसे थीम बनाए जाएं ताकि न सिर्फ सनातन की पवित्रता बची रहे बल्कि हमारी बहन बेटियां भी लव ज़िहाद से बची रहें. Such presentations will help in preventing …

How mainstream media continues to whitewash forced religious conversion in the name of ‘love’
3 years, 4 months ago

How mainstream media continues to whitewash forced religious conversion in the name of ‘love’

Op India  

“He loves her.he loves her not.” Remember the silly game played with a rose by the hero and heroines of the 90s Bollywood movies to determine whether he loves her or not. Screenshot of a Times Now report “Radical Hindu organizations have coined the phrase ‘love jihad’ to refer to an alleged campaign by Muslim men to convert Hindu girls …

Love jihad: Celebrate love, don't criminalise it | OPINION
3 years, 5 months ago

Love jihad: Celebrate love, don't criminalise it | OPINION

India Today  

Today, I want to focus on a word that gets me really angry. It's a term that was first coined in recent years by Shri Ram Sene, a self-styled Hindu extremist group led by someone called Pramod Muthalik, who mainly operated from coastal Karnataka and acquired fame, or rather notoriety, when a few years ago, he and his followers attacked …

RTI reply reveals 4 cases of ‘love jihad’ in Haryana in past 3 years
3 years, 9 months ago

RTI reply reveals 4 cases of ‘love jihad’ in Haryana in past 3 years

The Hindu  

Four cases of interfaith relationship — for which some right-wing groups use the term ‘love jihad’ — h ave been lodged in Haryana over the past three years, an RTI reply has revealed. Mr. Kapoor had written to the police in seven districts: Faridabad, Yamuna Nagar, Hisar, Ambala, Nuh, Panipat and Rewari, seeking details of ‘love jihad’ cases registered since …

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