Love Jihad-a Case Study

Love Jihad-a Case Study

Introduction

Love Jihad has become the buzzword in Kerala, with media reporting on this on a daily basis
for some time now. Even though reports had been published by the Kerala Kaumudi
newspaper as early as February 2009, stating that over 4000 Hindu girls had fallen prey to
Muslim youth and got converted to Islam, not much attention was given by the other media
and the public then.

From the Kerala Kaumudi, Feb 09

‘Love Jihad’ which aims to convert by marriage in Kerala as well’

An organisation named “love Jihad” with the objective to trap girls in the web of
love in order to marry is active in Kerala as well. It is learned that this organization
has converted hundreds of girls through this modus operandi.

The Special Branch of Police began investigation when mass religious conversions
came to light in the more than 4000 marriages recorded within the last 6 months in
the Panchayat directory. The highest concentrations of such marriages were reported
in Malapurram district. Calicut and Kannur are just behind. There are reports of such
marriage in other districts too.

This organization is using a group of young boys from a certain religion. They are
instructed to lure girls from other religions. As per the instructions to recruits of this
organization, they have to romance a girl within 2 weeks and brainwash them to get
converted and marry within 6 months. Special instructions to have at least 4 kids
have also been given. If the target doesn’t get trapped within first 2 weeks, they are
instructed to leave them and move on to another girl.

The money required for this arriving from foreign sources. This organisation has
been active in Kerala for a year. Modern gadgets like mobile phone, motorbikes and
fashionable clothes are given to the recruits as tools for the mission.

Each district has its own zone chairman to oversee the mission. Prior to College
admission they make a list of girls segregating them along religious lines.

But with the filing of the Habeas Corpus petition before the Kerala High Court which has
ordered investigation from the State and Central governments, ‘Love Jihad’ has captured the
attention of the entire media, both print as well as visual media.

Organisations behind Love Jihad: - Love Jihad is primarily the brainchild of the Pakistan
based terrorist organization LeT. It is being carried out in Kerala by organizations like
‘Campus Front (Students wing of NDF), Tasreen Milleth, Shahees Force, Muslim Youth
Forum etc.

Organisations providing backup support by providing materials and resources to Love Jihad:

1. Thareekath Movement (Hyderabad)

2. Mitch of Truth

3. Islam council

4. Maunathul Islam

5. Political parties like IUML, PDP, and also SIMI



Intention: To finish off Hinduism once and for all by changing the demography of kerala by
ensuring that Hindu girls give birth to Muslim child. Having gained the upper hand viz-a viz
land holding, educational institutions, business establishments, more Muslim constituencies,
economic situation, destroying temples etc, it is only logical that they go for the ‘kill’.

Target: (Mainly Hindu girls, and also Hindu boys.)

The ‘preys’ for Love Jihad are:

Non Muslim College and Schoolgirls. (Mainly Hindus)
Working women
Special emphasis to target Brahmin girls
Girl students studying in educational institutions under Muslim management.) mainly
professional colleges)
5. Hindu women working in institutions of Muslims
6. Girls and women having a close friends circle of Muslims

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A Brahmin girl is treated as more valuable. The Muslims are aware that by destroying the
priestly class they are more likely to uproot Hinduism. The reported 'reward' in rupees given
to the jihadi Romeo who traps a Hindu girl depends on the girl’s caste.

1.Brahmin:Rs. 100,000/-
2.Nair: Rs. 75,000/-
3.Ezhava: Rs. 50,000/-
4.Other caste: Rs. 30,000/-



More disturbing information that has been observed is that when girls from middle class and
affluent families are targeted and are made to bring in a lot of gold or the girls family is
threatened and forced to part with some of their property as dowry.

Organisation Structure: - (for Kerala)

1. Head Quarters- Green Valley, Manjeri, Malappuram Dist.
2. Zonal centers at Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode.( people who have obtained Let
training are in charge of these centers)
3. Committees at district level with a 5-member committee.
4. Love Zone chairman and assistant for each district.
5. 5-10 jihadi romeos for each educational institution (either students from the same
institution or boys from the surroundings)

Methodology: - 6 Stages

1. Identification:
2. Contact: Through Mobile Phones, SMS, easy charging centre, E Mails, Internet,
Through Muslim girl and classmates or hostel mates, Direct Contact.
3. Impress the Girl: satisfy the fashion and ‘lifestyle’ needs of the potential target by
buying mobile phones, remitting their college fees, recharging their mobile, sending
SMSs, buying gifts etc.
4. Entertainment: taking the girls to Cinema, ice cream parlours, restaurants, fan clubs
in flashy bikes and cars and buying them expensive gifts and dresses.
5. Emotional approach: The girl is proposed marriage and promised a loving and
comfortable and rich life style after marriage and the boy slowly works his way to
become intimate with the girl and start making physical advances. The photographs
and video clips (mainly using mobile cameras) of the intimate moments are captured
and then used to blackmail the girl and her family subsequently. The threat of

: Rs. 100,000/-
: Rs. 75,000/-
: Rs. 50,000/-
: Rs. 30,000/-


physical harm to the girl or her family or even killing of the girl or her family is also
used as blackmail.
6. Conversion:- The girls are promised marriage and are told to convert to Islam and
then made to learn Islam through institutions like
a. Maunam at Ponnani
b. Mogadhar at Kozhikode
c. Mancheri at Malappuram Dist.
d. Ervadi and Theni in Tamil Nadu
e. And also through Islamic study centers at Kottayam, Kasargode,
karunagapally etc

Training: Love Zone chairmen and Jihadi Romeos are known to have got LeT training.
Training camps conducted at Kochi and Kannur. 185 Muslim youths attended the training
camp at kannur. (Of which 4 got killed by security forces in J&K) Training camps conducted
by ‘Thareekath’ at all districts. (It is of interest that a lot of Muslim doctors, engineers,
professionals, business men, are actively supporting this program)

Funding:

1. 23 ‘charitable’ organizations under the control of SIMI are financing the Kerala Love
Jihad plan.
2. India Fraternity Forum, centered at Dhamam, Saudi Arabia is collecting funds from
Middle East and sending. Receives around 600 cores per year.

Facilitators: Popular Front of India provides the basic support by providing mobile phones,
motorbikes, cars, and also provides physical protection (in the form of “escort” for the eloped
or kidnapped girl and boy). Their legal wing, Kerala Legal Front provides legal assistance to
the jihadi Romeos.

Status of the Victim:

1. After marriage the girl is sold to flesh trade or used in sex rackets.
2. The victim is used to trap more Hindu girls and in some cases to trap Hindu boys.
3. Some of the victims end up as slaves at yatheemkhanaas or as domestic help in the
muslim households
4. Some reach terrorist centers.
5. It has come to light with the disclosure of one of the girls who escaped from this trap
that they are given some drug regularly that makes them psychiatric patients or
mentally de ranged after some time.
6. Sent to Arabian gulf as concubines to Arabic youths

Arise awake and react by educating your self!!!
This is not the time for Hindus to be complacent, imagining that the love-jihad is something
that happens to someone else. The girl who is being targeted by the love-jihads today may be
from your own family, and nobody is immune. It can happen to absolutely anybody.

In this context, it is worth remembering the words of a prominent German anti-Nazi named
Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out -because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out -because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak out for me…..