PhD student in Karnataka's Mangalore goes missing, Bajrang Dal suspects love jihad
10 months, 2 weeks ago

PhD student in Karnataka's Mangalore goes missing, Bajrang Dal suspects love jihad

Op India  

A female PhD student in Mangalore, Karnataka, has been reported missing for eight days. According to the information gathered thus far, a Muslim man named Shahrukh from Puttur paid infrequent visits to the student’s paying guest accommodation in Mangalore. Bajrang Dal has filed a complaint with the police, claiming it is a case of Love Jihad, and has sought an investigation. A report by Hindustan Times claims that the missing reports complaint was filed by Chitra’s father, Prakash Hebber. Bajrang Dal Ullal chief organizer Arjun Madur from Mangalore said, “It is possible that this young man kidnapped her.

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Love Jihad: 4 Cases of Rape, Threats and Assault in India
2 months, 2 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 Assam: Muslim man arrested after luring a Hindu girl under false pretences
6 months, 1 week 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 in MP: Arshad pretends to be Bhaiyyu, rapes, assaults Hindu girl
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Love Jihad in MP: Arshad pretends to be Bhaiyyu, rapes, assaults Hindu girl

Op India  

A shocking occurrence of love jihad and rape of a 20-year-old girl for one and a half years has come to light in the Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. On 22nd June she reached the police station along with the workers of Hindu Jagran Manch and registered a case against him under various sections including rape and assault. He used …

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

Love Jihad: Shaukat Pathan claims to be Sunny, marries Hindu girl
1 year, 3 months ago

Love Jihad: Shaukat Pathan claims to be Sunny, marries Hindu girl

Op India  

A case of love jihad including cheating, marriage and abandonment after religious conversion had surfaced in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. These allegations were levelled by a girl from Madhya Pradesh against a man named Shaukat Pathan, who is said to be a Surankot village in Jammu and Kashmir. Police should take strict action against the entire family.” At least …

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, 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 …

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 …

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 …

Just because boy and girl are from different religions, it's not 'Love Jihad': Bombay HC
1 year, 10 months ago

Just because boy and girl are from different religions, it's not 'Love Jihad': Bombay HC

India Today  

While granting protection from arrest to four residents of Aurangabad, the Bombay High Court has said that merely because the boy and girl in a relationship are from different religions, it cannot be given the colour of ‘Love Jihad’. The bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Abhay Waghwase of the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court granted pre-arrest bail …

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 …

'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 …

RTI reply reveals 4 cases of ‘love jihad’ in Haryana in past 3 years
3 years, 10 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 …

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 …

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 cases in Kerala, the tip of 'terrorist recruitment' iceberg?
4 years, 11 months ago

Love Jihad cases in Kerala, the tip of 'terrorist recruitment' iceberg?

Op India  

Recently, the Syro Malabar Church, The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ council and many Christian organisations had voiced their concerns over the growing number of Love Jihad cases in Kerala. This is something many Hindu organisations, grieving parents and families have been alleging for the last few years too, that there are forces active in Kerala that are targeting young women, brainwashing …

'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 …

Kerala: Teenage Christian girl sexually abused, forcibly converted to Islam
5 years, 3 months ago

Kerala: Teenage Christian girl sexually abused, forcibly converted to Islam

India Today  

A 19-year-old Christian girl in Kerala was allegedly forced to convert to Islam after being blackmailed and facing sexual abuse. Tensed after receiving threats of leaking the videos on social media, the victim told her parents following which her father lodged a complaint with Nadakavu police station on August 5. The victim's parents, meanwhile, also lodged complaints with National Minority …

Kerala woman alleges torture and coercion by Muslim man to join ISIS
5 years, 4 months ago

Kerala woman alleges torture and coercion by Muslim man to join ISIS

Op India  

A Hindu girl in Telangana who shared her ordeal with the Kerala State Police Chief, Loknath Behera, at an Adalat held in Pathanamthitta district on Saturday, revealed how she was trapped by a Muslim boy who first professed his love for the girl and later subjected her to various forms of physical tortures for refusing to join the ISIS. The …

How coastal Karnataka was saffronised; part 7: Hindu groups rally behind love jihad; anti-Muslim sentiments seep into local consciousness
5 years, 9 months ago

How coastal Karnataka was saffronised; part 7: Hindu groups rally behind love jihad; anti-Muslim sentiments seep into local consciousness

Firstpost  

Starting from 2005, the stories around how Muslims were indulging in love jihad to lure Hindu girls became a topic of conversation at almost every meeting of the Sangh in Dakshin Kannada. He alleged that ’love jihad’ is a conspiracy to convert Hindu girls to Islam. Almost everybody in the court was having a difficult time controlling themselves from breaking …

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