Read how radical Islamist outfits are facilitating love jihad in Bangladesh
8 months 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 Islamist attempt of love jihad in Bangladesh, Advocate Gobinda Chandra Pramanik of National Hindu Grand Alliance said, “This is a very disturbing and alarming trend. An ex-Hindu jihadist recruiter named Pinaki Bhattacharya led this notorious plot targeting leaders of National Hindu Grand Alliance, including Advocate Gobinda Chandra Pramanik and branded them as “Hindutva terrorists”, “agents of India”, “Agents of RSS”, “Lapdogs of Narendra Modi”. Referring to the long-standing project of a section of Islamist fundamentalists who are running dangerous projects of converting Hindus into Islam, National Hindu Grand Alliance leaders said, “These are the worst examples of religious hatred.

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Fact Check: Not 'Love jihad'! This video of Hindu women rescued from Muslim man's house is SCRIPTED
3 weeks, 5 days 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.” …

Fact Check: Video Of Bangladesh Volunteer Helping Homeless Man Goes Viral As ‘Forced Conversion Of Sadhu’
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Fact Check: Video Of Bangladesh Volunteer Helping Homeless Man Goes Viral As ‘Forced Conversion Of Sadhu’

ABP News  

A video going viral on social media claims to show a group of men approaching a homeless man. Fact: The viral video does not show a Hindu sadhu being compelled to convert to Islam in Bangladesh. According to the channel’s description, the content creator runs a voluntary organisation focused on helping homeless and neglected people living on the streets. He …

Telangana BJP MP Appeals Christians' Support Against Love Jihad, Tears Bangladesh Flag During Goa Event
1 month 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’ being waged by certain community, poses major threat to nation’s unity: U.P. court judge
3 months, 1 week 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 …

Atrocities Against Women, Forced Love Jihad: Bangladesh Govt on Backfoot After Videos Emerge on Social Media
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Atrocities Against Women, Forced Love Jihad: Bangladesh Govt on Backfoot After Videos Emerge on Social Media

News 18  

The Bangladesh caretaker government is on the backfoot as atrocities against women and minorities continue in the country. Meanwhile, Farokul Islam, who is being said to be the face of atrocities against women, has been arrested by the Dhaka Police after pressure from various social media groups. Dhaka University ‘Love Jihad’ Weddings In another incident, Dhaka University was forced to …

Love Jihad in UP: Muslim youth marries Hindu girl under false pretences; converts her and feeds her beef
7 months 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: Muslim man pretends to be Hindu, later says won't marry a Hindu, hurls caste abuse
9 months, 4 weeks 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
10 months, 1 week 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, 4 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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 …

Want peaceful co-existence between Hindus & Muslims, but love jihad…: Himanta
1 year, 5 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 …

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 …

Background checks will curb ‘love jihad’, says Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami
1 year, 7 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, 7 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 …

OPINION | HOW TO PREVENT ‘LOVE JIHAD’
1 year, 7 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 …

The Kerala Story: Dirty Secrets Tumble out of Left-‘Liberal’ Closet as India Discusses ‘Love Jihad’ - News18
1 year, 8 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, 8 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 …

BJP MLC Demands Law Against ‘Love Jihad’ in Maharashtra, Fadnavis Says Govt Mulling Legal Solution
1 year, 9 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 …

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

Pro-Hindu groups demand separate law against Love Jihad in Karnataka
2 years, 1 month 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 …

How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh
2 years, 5 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 …

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
3 years 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, 1 month 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, 5 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, 6 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 …

Countering ‘love jihad’ by celebrating India’s interfaith couples
3 years, 11 months ago

Countering ‘love jihad’ by celebrating India’s interfaith couples

Al Jazeera  

Last week marked the 100th day of a campaign called India Love Project, started by former journalists, that celebrates interfaith love or marriages. “Love jihad” refers to a conspiracy theory propagated for more than 10 years by India’s right-wing groups that accuse Muslim men of luring Hindu women for marriage to forcefully convert them to Islam. A day after the …

Law Against 'Love Jihad' During Next Session, Says Karnataka CM Yediyurappa
4 years, 1 month ago

Law Against 'Love Jihad' During Next Session, Says Karnataka CM Yediyurappa

News 18  

The Karnataka government on Monday made it clear that the anti-cow slaughter bill will be introduced during the ongoing winter session of the Karnataka legislature, while a law against “love jihad” will be taken up in the next session. Stating that it has been decided at the government level to enact anti-cow slaughter legislation during this session, Revenue Minister R …

Muslims sometimes misrepresent themselves as victims, says BJP’s Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi
4 years, 1 month ago

Muslims sometimes misrepresent themselves as victims, says BJP’s Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi

Live Mint  

Amid talk of so-called “love jihad”, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion ordinance on 24 November. On 31 October, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath too had warned those practising "love jihad" to mend their ways or "prepare for their final journey" –“Ram naam satya hai ki yatra nikalne waali hai”. In the case of Hadiya, the …

Karnataka Will Have Law Against Love Jihad, Officials Asked to Look into UP Ordinance: Home Minister
4 years, 1 month ago

Karnataka Will Have Law Against Love Jihad, Officials Asked to Look into UP Ordinance: Home Minister

News 18  

Karnataka will have a law against “love jihad”, and officials have been directed to gather information regarding an ordinance promulgated in Uttar Pradesh in this regard, state Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Thursday. “Love jihad” is a coinage used by right wing activists to refer to the alleged campaign of Muslims forcing Hindu girls to convert in the guise …

Love or Jihad? Rahim becomes Arjun, asks woman to convert in Jharkhand
4 years, 1 month ago

Love or Jihad? Rahim becomes Arjun, asks woman to convert in Jharkhand

Op India  

The latest case of Grooming Jihad has emerged from village Behera in the Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand. Rahim became Arjun to lure the Dalit woman The woman got married 12 years ago. The woman tried to stop talking to him many times, but Rahim, pretending to be Arjun, lured her on the pretext of marriage. Rahim told her the truth …

Tehseen Poonawalla says ‘Love Jihad’ coverage by news channels will lead to genocide
4 years, 1 month ago

Tehseen Poonawalla says ‘Love Jihad’ coverage by news channels will lead to genocide

Op India  

Vocal Congress supporter Tehseen Poonawalla has written to News Broadcasters Association President, Rajat Sharma expressing concern over the debates and discussions held by news channels on the issue of Love Jihad. In his letter, Poonawalla requested Sharma to immediately issue guidelines to all the news channels regarding the coverage of the issue of love jihad. Tehseen Poonawalla’s letter to Rajat …

After Haryana, MP Announce Plans, UP Govt Begins Preparations for Law against 'Love Jihad'
4 years, 1 month ago

After Haryana, MP Announce Plans, UP Govt Begins Preparations for Law against 'Love Jihad'

News 18  

The Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh has started preparations to soon bring a strict law on ‘love jihad’. After a recent ruling of the Allahabad High Court that religious conversion isn’t necessary for marriage, CM Yogi Adityanath had announced that a law would be made against ‘love jihad’ in the state. Right-wing groups use say ‘love …

Love Jihad? Here is why we are going to use 'Grooming Jihad' henceforth
4 years, 1 month ago

Love Jihad? Here is why we are going to use 'Grooming Jihad' henceforth

Op India  

In a case that was widely termed as one of ‘Love Jihad, a girl in Sonbhadra was beheaded and buried, shabbily, when she refused to convert to Islam by a man she had married. It says, “Over the course of three decades, Sikh community leaders in the West Midlands repeatedly assert that when families or community representatives contacted the police …

'Love Jihad' A Political Tool, Constitutional Provisions Protect Love Across Faiths and Castes, Say Experts
4 years, 1 month ago

'Love Jihad' A Political Tool, Constitutional Provisions Protect Love Across Faiths and Castes, Say Experts

News 18  

The Constitution of India guards interreligious love and marriage, protects personal liberties and provides legal arrangements for the same, experts say. Constitutional experts News18.com spoke to pointed out that with ‘love jihad’ being a conspiracy theory, having no evidence, the moves by the states are against the spirit of the supreme law of the land – the Constitution – which …

Joining Other BJP-ruled States, MP Says It Will Bring Law Against 'Love Jihad' With 5 Years Jail Term
4 years, 1 month ago

Joining Other BJP-ruled States, MP Says It Will Bring Law Against 'Love Jihad' With 5 Years Jail Term

News 18  

Weeks after BJP-ruled Haryana and Karnataka governments said they were considering legislation against ‘love jihad’, the Madhya Pradesh government has said it is planning to formulate a law to prevent the purported action, which would also make forceful conversions a punishable crime with stringent measures. MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday plans were underway to soon formulate a …

Law on love jihad can be challenged, says U.P. Law Commission head
4 years, 2 months ago

Law on love jihad can be challenged, says U.P. Law Commission head

The Hindu  

If the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government brings a “limited scope legislation” restricting marriages between a Hindu and a Muslim in the garb of curbing “ love jihad ”, it would not stand in law, says Justice Aditya Nath Mittal, Chairperson of the State Law Commission. A communal slur, “love jihad” is a term used by the Hindu right wing …

After U.P. and Haryana, Madhya Pradesh mulls law against ‘love jihad’
4 years, 2 months ago

After U.P. and Haryana, Madhya Pradesh mulls law against ‘love jihad’

The Hindu  

The Madhya Pradesh government will make legal arrangements to curb the alleged practice of love jihad in the state, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday. With this, Madhya Pradesh has become the third BJP- ruled state to announce its intention to make legal provisions against “love jihad“. “Love jihad” is term used by right-wing activists to refer to …

SIT to probe PFI and SIMI role in the ongoing Love Jihad racket in Kanpur
4 years, 4 months ago

SIT to probe PFI and SIMI role in the ongoing Love Jihad racket in Kanpur

Op India  

The Juhi Colony’s Shalini Yadav “Love Jihad” case threw Kanpur in the spotlight, with it emerging as the epi-centre for cases of “Love Jihad”. Following several such cases reported from different parts of the state, the Uttar Pradesh police have constituted a special investigating team to probe allegations of ‘Love Jihad’ and forced conversion. The SIT, which have now come …

Bajrang Dal urges CM Yogi Adityanath to take action against individuals involved in ‘love jihad’ and forced conversions
4 years, 4 months ago

Bajrang Dal urges CM Yogi Adityanath to take action against individuals involved in ‘love jihad’ and forced conversions

Op India  

Bajrang Dal leaders in Kanpur have written a letter to Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister Uttar Pradesh, urging him to take strict action against individuals involved in cases of Love Jihad and forced religious conversions. A well-planned conspiracy They said, “These organizations and individuals get involved in activities of love jihad and religious conversions. They further added, “By electing a nation-devoting …

'Love Jihad is a reality': Kerala church claims Christian women lured into IS trap for terrorism
4 years, 11 months ago

'Love Jihad is a reality': Kerala church claims Christian women lured into IS trap for terrorism

India TV News  

"Love Jihad is a reality" - That's what an influential Catholic Church in Kerala said, alleging that scores of women from Christian community from the state were being lured into the trap of Islamic State and used in terror activities. The synod of Syro-Malabar Church, an apex body of Catholic Bishops, chaired by Cardinal George Alencherry, also accused the state …

Love Jihad: Does it exist or is it just a figment of 'right wing' imagination
5 years, 8 months ago

Love Jihad: Does it exist or is it just a figment of 'right wing' imagination

Op India  

“Love Jihad”, also known as “Romeo Jihad” in some countries, is a strategy of luring vulnerable girls to convert to Islam by feigned love. When Family called off the wedding, he shot Subhologna dead and injured both her parents In 2009, Kerala High Court confirmed the signs of “love jihad”; the court’s statement mentioned the following observations – during the …

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