2/29/2012
LOVE JIHAD: A Reality or False Propaganda to Disgrace Islam?
FFI Contributing Editor Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari
Muslims deny existence of Love-Jihad movement
When my previous article LOVE JIHAD: A Sinister Design to Convert Hindu and Non-Muslim Girls to Islam by Fake Love has been posted at FFI, a Muslim reader commented that what I have written are false propaganda not supported by evidence or investigations.
Regarding Love Jihad, Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia says:
“Love Jihad was alleged to be conducted in Kerala and Mangalore in the coastal Karnataka region. According to Kerala Catholic Bishops Council, up to 4,500 girls in Kerala have been targeted, whereas Hindu Janajagruti Samiti claimed that 30,000 girls have been converted in Karnataka alone. Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana”general secretary Vellapally Natesan said that there had been reports in Narayaneeya communities of “Love Jihad” attempts. Reports of similar activities have emerged fromPakistan and the United Kingdom.”
“The practice is said to be popular on college campuses, and it was on one such case that in early September 2009 two girls—one Hindu and one Christian—indicated that they had been forced to convert by two Muslim youths. The young men, both of whom were members of the Muslim Popular Front of India‘s student organisation Campus Front, were subsequently arrested and held without bail. Other women have reported similar situations. According to press reports, the purpose of the activity is to force girls to produce children for Islam”, adds Wikipedia.
“Love Jihad” campaign appeared to be so serious an issue that the Karnataka government announced its intentions to counter it in October 2009 and ordered a probe into whether it was an organized effort to convert these Hindu and non-Muslim girls, and, if so, by whom it was being funded. The investigation found two cases of conversion of Hindu girls, including what police characterized as kidnapping, forced conversion and marriage of a 17-year-old college girl in Mysore in April 2010. Similar investigation in Kerala in October 2009 revealed, according to police spokesman conducting the probe, that “There are reasons to suspect ‘concentrated attempts’ to persuade girls to convert to Islam after they fall in love with Muslim boys”.
In another incident, late in December 2009, Justice K T Sankaran of the Kerala High Court, Kochi, heard bail petition for two Muslim youths Shahan Shah and Sirajuddin, who were accused of forcibly converting two women studying MBA. The Judge observed that “Police reports revealed the “blessings of some outfits” for a “concerted” effort for religious conversions, and some 3,000 to 4,000 incidences of which had taken place after love affairs in a four year period.” Justice Sankaran found indications of ‘forceful’ religious conversions under the garb of fake love and observed “Such ‘deceptive’ acts might require legislative intervention to prevent.”
Apprehending such conversions were being done with blessings of some fanatic Muslim outfits, said Justice Sankaran, “This should be of great concern to the people at large and the government”, adding “The government was bound to protect the fundamental rights and civil rights of citizens. Article 25 of the Constitution (right to freedom of religion) did not entitle a person to indulge in activities for “compulsive religious conversion.”
Apprehending such conversions were being done with blessings of some fanatic Muslim outfits, said Justice Sankaran, “This should be of great concern to the people at large and the government”, adding “The government was bound to protect the fundamental rights and civil rights of citizens. Article 25 of the Constitution (right to freedom of religion) did not entitle a person to indulge in activities for “compulsive religious conversion.”
The court, which perused 18 reports produced by the police in a sealed cover, observed that 14 reports were cryptic. One report mentioned about religious conversion centres run by Muslims in Kozhikode city, while another report referred to the functioning of an organization called ‘Smart Front’ in two colleges. Another report said an inquiry had revealed that “fundamental outfits such as NDF, PFI and Campus Front” have roots on college campuses in Kozhikode city.
The report further said that Muslim organisations such as the Muslim Youth Forum, Muslim women’s organizations such as the Thasreen Millet and Shaheen Force, the PFI, theNDF and its students wing Campus Front were behind the so-called “Love Jihad” movement.
However, investigations both in Karnataka and Kerala found no organization, called “Love Jihad”, functioning in those State.
A Few Indian media reports confirming Love Jihad
Many media reports, both Indian and foreign, highlight the existence of a Love-Jihad campaign, operating in Kerala and coastal Karnataka, for large-scale conversion of non-Muslim girls to Islam by feigning love. A few of these reports appeared in the renowned English daily The Times of India are presented below:
A report appeared on Sept 1, 2009 in The Times of India, under the heading Jihadis luring Kerala college girls for love, said:
“The Kerala police has constituted a special team to probe charges that jihadis are running an organized racket in the state’s colleges to lure gullible girls in the name of love and then convert them (to Islam) for subsequent use in anti-national activities.”
“We are investigating if there is any such design”, DGP Jacob Punnose told TOI. What jolted the sleuths into action was a habeas corpus petition in the Kerala high court from the parents of two MBA students. The students were staying in the same hostel at St. John’s College in Pathanamthitta district when they met a Muslim boy and grew fond of him.
“We are investigating if there is any such design”, DGP Jacob Punnose told TOI. What jolted the sleuths into action was a habeas corpus petition in the Kerala high court from the parents of two MBA students. The students were staying in the same hostel at St. John’s College in Pathanamthitta district when they met a Muslim boy and grew fond of him.
But the boy proved to be a nuisance to the authorities and was expelled from the college some years ago. “He still managed to retain contact with four junior students, including the two MBA students and feigned love for them. The boy wanted them to get converted to Islam. But one of them suspected his intentions and withdrew, while another developed psychiatric problems. The other two fell for him and eloped “, said the college principal Sreekumaran Nair.
When there was no news of their wards, the parents approached the high court with habeas corpus petitions. The girls were subsequently produced in the court which allowed the parents the custody of their children for a week. When they appeared in the court next, the girls stated that they had been trapped and did not want to go back with the boy and theother was forced to marry his friend, a bus conductor. In their statements given to the police, the students claimed that they were shown jihadi videos and literature by the boy.Expressing concern over the development, the high court asked the police to probe deeper.
“When we searched the hostel, we found provocative literature given by the boy from the rooms of the two girls”, the principal said. This was seized by the police who have now extended the probe to other campuses as well they feel this was not an isolated incident. Similar reports have been emerging for quite some time now but were mostly ignored for political reasons’, the police source added.’
On October 13, 2009, The Times of India carried another news-report — under the heading“Love Jihad Racket: VHP, Christian groups find common cause”. It reported K S Samson, an office-bearer of Kochi-based Christian Association for Social Action (CASA) saying: “Both Hindu and Christian girls are falling prey to the design. So, we are cooperating with the VHP on tackling this”.
VHP on its part set up ‘Hindu Helpline’ and claims that it had received as many as 1,500 calls in last three months.
VHP on its part set up ‘Hindu Helpline’ and claims that it had received as many as 1,500 calls in last three months.
The Kerala Catholic Bishops Council has come out with a set of guidelines for Christian parents warning them to be more careful about their wards. “It is shocking but it is happening. Many Christian families are getting affected”, said Father Johny Kochiparambil, secretary of Council’s Commission for Social Harmony and vigilance.
Another report appeared under the caption Love Jihad piqued US interest in The Times of India on September 6, 2011, said, “Controversial phenomenon of ‘Love Jihad’ – an alleged conspiracy of foreign-funded ‘charming’ Muslim men attempting to seduce, marry and convert Hindu and Christian women – had caught the fancy of American diplomats, who in their cables to Washington last year expressed that the episode generated a lot of ‘religious tensions in south India’.
The US diplomats in their report from Chennai consulate said, “Both Hindu and Christian groups have expressed fear and outrage at the plot, while Muslim groups have felt the need to defend their coreligionists against the conspiracy theorists.”
The US diplomats in their report from Chennai consulate said, “Both Hindu and Christian groups have expressed fear and outrage at the plot, while Muslim groups have felt the need to defend their coreligionists against the conspiracy theorists.”
On November 15, 2011, the Dailybhaskar.com posted a news-report, under the caption“Conversion of two Hindu girls to Islam turns a knotty affair”. It ran as follows:
“In Ahmedabad, two incidents of Hindu girls converting to Islam have raised alarm in Karanj police jurisdiction on Monday. The cops have registered two separate FIRs in which the girls are said to have been converted and married to Muslims by the same cleric without the required permission of the district collector.”
“In Ahmedabad, two incidents of Hindu girls converting to Islam have raised alarm in Karanj police jurisdiction on Monday. The cops have registered two separate FIRs in which the girls are said to have been converted and married to Muslims by the same cleric without the required permission of the district collector.”
On Monday, one Bhavarlal Kumavat, 46, a resident of Jalian apartment, near Vastrapur railway crossroad, lodged an FIR with Karanj police station, accusing four people including Akbar Abdul Razak, Haji Mohd Yusuf Pathan, Yasin Malik and Yasin Sheikh.
The complainant claimed that the four forced his daughter to convert to Islam and marry Akbar, the main accused. Bhavarlal alleged that on October 21, his 18-year-old daughter Kavita disappeared. The following day, he received a post containing a certificate informing that his daughter after conversion had become Kausar Bano and married Akbar. Hazi Yusuf Pathan of Nautad masjid in Cheekanta area had performed the ceremony while the two others accused were present as witnesses.
The complainant claimed that the four forced his daughter to convert to Islam and marry Akbar, the main accused. Bhavarlal alleged that on October 21, his 18-year-old daughter Kavita disappeared. The following day, he received a post containing a certificate informing that his daughter after conversion had become Kausar Bano and married Akbar. Hazi Yusuf Pathan of Nautad masjid in Cheekanta area had performed the ceremony while the two others accused were present as witnesses.
The October 25, 2009 edition of Express India carried a report, under the caption “Love Jihad raises alert in Karnataka, Kerala”. It said: The term ‘Love Jihad’ used in Kerala and coastal Karnataka to label inter-religious relationship allegedly aimed at converting women to Islam, has started doing its rounds in the courts and administrative circles of both states as well.
It added: The Kerala police has reported to the High Court that they had indications ofMuslim youths trying to convert girls to Islam after pretending to fall in love with them.
In Thiruvananthapuram, DGP Jcob Punnoose submitted the report to the High Court which last month had asked the police to probe the reported attempt of Muslim youths to convert Hindu and Christian girls to Islam. Justice K T Sankaran made the directive while rejecting the bail applications of youths, who had allegedly trapped two girls for conversions.
The report said: Police have come across such conversion attempts in many parts of the state. The forces behind the move are suspected to be getting financial support from abroad.
Reaction of a BJP leader on love jihad
UNI reported on October 23, 2009 said that P K Krishna Das, the Kerala state president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), referring to 972 girls missing in the state, expressed serious concern over “mass conversion” of Hindu girls to Islam in the name of Love Jihad. He warned that “Love jihad”, allegedly planned by Muslim youths, would lead to serious and widespread communal riots in Kerala. He also cited that Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Kollam and Malappuram were the major centers of such conversions and asked the State Home Department to take immediate steps to shut down such centers.
He added that Hindu and Christian girls were their primary targets. Muslim boys, pretending that they were sincerely in love, forced these girls to watch videos and made to read books, glorifying Islamic extremism. The girls were later used for smuggling drugs trafficking and other terrorist activities.
Reports by Foreign Media
A report appeared on October 28, 2009 in the Asia Times, written by Sudha Ramachandran, under the heading “India lost in Love’. It said, “As part of an organized campaign young Muslim men are deliberately luring women from different faiths into marriage so they will convert to Islam”, say radical Indian Hindu and Christian groups in south India.
The alleged plot has been dubbed “Love Jihad” It first surfaced in September when two Muslim men from Pathanamthitta town in the southern state of Kerala reportedly enticed two women – a Hindu and a Chriatian – into marriage and forced them to convert to Islam.
The women first claimed to have become Muslims voluntarily, but after being allowed back to their parents’ houses said they had been abducted and coerced to convert. The men were reportedly members of Campus Front, a student wing of radical Muslim.”
The women first claimed to have become Muslims voluntarily, but after being allowed back to their parents’ houses said they had been abducted and coerced to convert. The men were reportedly members of Campus Front, a student wing of radical Muslim.”
A news posted in the ‘BlackBerry Bold’ on April 8, 2009 — under the heading “Love Jihad: girl rescued” – said:
“Mysore: Weeks after a Muslim youth was nabbed for allegedly kidnapping and marrying a minor girl, the district police have labeled it it as case of Love Jihad. The police said that Pooja, 17. IPU student from K R Nagar, Mysore district, was rescued 10 days after she was kidnapped by Azeem Afeez, 22. She is now with her parents. She told the police that Azeem forcefully converted her to Islam before marrying her. She was also rechristened as Meheq Taj. Afeez’s parentsd Hassan Idinabba and Raziya, his relatives and Pooja’s classmate Sjerin Taj aew absconding.
According to sources, the police are planning a book a lawyer who helped Azeem in legal matters. Azeem fled from his home town Ullala Dakshina, Dakshina Kannada, after he was booked in a robbery case. He took shelter at the residence of his relative Rafiq. Later with the help of Sherin Taj, he trapped Pooja into love in January.
Three days after she went missing on March 1, Pooja’s brother Pavan Kumar told the police that the last time he had seen her, she was with Azeem. Following this, the police began tracking Azeem. He took her to various places in Karnataka and Kerala before reaching Ullala. According to police, Azeem also sold Pooja’s gold jewelleries to bear his travel and lodging costs. Police are on the look out for his friend Siddiq of K R Nagar and Hassan Kaka of Chikmagalur.”
A report posted in CNN-IBNLive on December 23, 2009, under the caption ‘Karnataka High Court flooded with love jihad cases’, said:
Many cases continue to be filed in Karnataka High Court related to love affaires and the alleged communal angle despite police investigations revealing no evidence of a love jihad movement. In one such case after three months in court, 20-year-old Silja Raj and her husband Azkar are relieved to be together.
Silja had been ordered to stay with her parents for three weeks after allegation that she was a victim of ‘love jihad’.
Love Jihad hits the UK
UK’s Evening Standard ran a report as early as on February 22, 2007 — under the heading ‘Police protect girls forced to convert to Islam’ – which said:
“Extremist Muslims, who force vulnerable teenage girls to convert to Islam, are being targeted by police, Met chief Sir Ian Blair has revealed.
Police are working with universities to clamp down on ‘aggressive conversions’ during which girls are beaten up and forced to abandon university courses.
The Hindu Forum of Britain claims hundreds of mostly Sikh and Hindu girls have been intimidated by Muslim men who take them out on dates before terrorizing them until they convert..
Police are working with universities to clamp down on ‘aggressive conversions’ during which girls are beaten up and forced to abandon university courses.
The Hindu Forum of Britain claims hundreds of mostly Sikh and Hindu girls have been intimidated by Muslim men who take them out on dates before terrorizing them until they convert..
Sir Ian spoke about the problem at a conference organized by the forum.”
Another report in the UK, captioned CALL TO MUSLIMS TO SEDUCE SIKH GIRLS INTO ISLAM, by Clive Gresswell, said:
“A racially explosive leaflet urging Muslim men to – quite literally – seduce Sikh girls into the faith, is being hawked on the streets of Luton.
Although the extreme literature, which suggests the best way to do it would be to get the woman drunk, has been condemned by local Asian leaders it could lead to tension in the town. The leaflets have been given out to Muslim men at different locations in the town, including Luton railway station. One which we obtained says, “It is easy to take the Sikh girls out on a date as they generally like a good drink and from there they can be gradually brought into Islam. We need to send our boys out to bring the Sikh girls into the arms of Islam. The teachings of the great prophet Mohammad must be passed on until the whole world is Islam. The world will only thus be saved.
Under the heading “For Private Circulation”, the leaflet advocates ‘converting them by manipulation’ as something the Qur’an advocates. It adds, “We call upon our fellow youth to come and join us in our mission for universal and global Islam. The job is big but not impossible. The task is getting easier by the day as the Sikhs and Hindu girls are not taught much about their religion at all. They have a more westernized upbringing.”
Under the heading “For Private Circulation”, the leaflet advocates ‘converting them by manipulation’ as something the Qur’an advocates. It adds, “We call upon our fellow youth to come and join us in our mission for universal and global Islam. The job is big but not impossible. The task is getting easier by the day as the Sikhs and Hindu girls are not taught much about their religion at all. They have a more westernized upbringing.”
The school, college and university campuses are ideal places for our youths to carry out their duties easily in this way. Describing other faiths as ‘animalistic’, it even adds that Muslims are more attractive and intelligent than other people which should be helpful in the seduction process. Issued by a group calling themselves The Real Khalifah Movement;The eyes, the ears, the voice of Islam, it ends with an appeal for money and a chilling warning: ‘watch this space’. The Muslim man, who handed us the leaflet, did not want to be named.
It may be mentioned here that Luton is a large town and unitary authority of Bedfordshire,England, 30 miles (51 kilometres) north of London. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 60% of the inhabitants in Luton are Christian and 15% are Muslim. The full statistics are as follows:
| Religion | Luton % | National % |
| Christian | 59.6% | 71.7% |
| Muslim | 14.6% | 3.0% |
| Hindu | 2.7% | 1.1% |
| Sikh | 0.8% | 0.6% |
| Jewish | 0.3% | 0.5% |
| Buddhist | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| Other | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| No religion | 14.1% | 14.8% |
| Religion not stated | 7.2% | 7.7% |
Conclusion
The above discussions undoubtedly demonstrate that Muslims in the Indian states Kerala and Karnataka are engaged in covert campaign for large-scale conversion of Hindu and Christian girls in the garb of love. And in this deceptive game, Muslim youths have been found to use all types of illusory tactics, like adoption of false Hind or Christian names and necessary etiquettes to mislead the girls. In the previous article, it has been mentioned that young Muslim men receive financial help at the rate of Rs 200 per day in the initiation stage, and after a successful seduction and conversion of the victim, they receive lucrative rewards starting from Rs 150,000 to Rs 700,000 from the underground organizers of the racket. These organizers receive huge money from the Gulf countries, transferred to them throughhawala.
It may be mentioned that Islam allows the perpetrators the crime to any kind lies and deceptions, as the victims are non-Muslims, which is known as taqiyyah (holy deception). Previously, the racket of Love Jihad was confined within the south Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka. But it has now spread into other states such as Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and so on. More importantly, it has spread its tentacles in the UK, and perhaps to other European countries. It is high time that concerted efforts are made to create awareness about this alarming activity of con-artists Muslim Romeos.
It may be mentioned that Islam allows the perpetrators the crime to any kind lies and deceptions, as the victims are non-Muslims, which is known as taqiyyah (holy deception). Previously, the racket of Love Jihad was confined within the south Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka. But it has now spread into other states such as Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and so on. More importantly, it has spread its tentacles in the UK, and perhaps to other European countries. It is high time that concerted efforts are made to create awareness about this alarming activity of con-artists Muslim Romeos.
(To be continued)
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