About two months ago, I had posted about the dangerous, long-term outcome of what I called Love Jihad. This phenomenon ever since, is steadily receiving the attention it deserves. And no thanks to the Slimes for making it front page headlines for at least two days. The Slimes wouldn’t dare antagonize the Islamic lobby if its back wasn’t solidly protected.

Love Jihad is just another variant of the Jihad, which Islamists have been waging against India on multiple fronts. This Jihad is increasingly finding support from within. Neither is it met with the iron handed response it deserves. Even sensible commentators have lapsed into using the safe, “terrorist” term instead of calling the phenomenon by name: Islam-inspired religious war against infidels.

Stephen Brown at FrontPage Magazine explores this in great detail. I’ve reproduced it in full here.

Read and weep.

The “Love Jihad”

To the “hard jihad” of Muslim terrorism and the non-violent, “stealth jihad” challenging Western societies, the oxymoron “love jihad” can now be added. But this latest form of Islamist aggression has nothing to do with love but rather, like its soulmates, with hatred for the infidel and women.

The love jihad’s modus operandi involves a heartless strategy of luring vulnerable girls and young women to convert to Islam by feigned love and promises of marriage. But instead of marital bliss, the girls unwittingly trapped in its deceitful web usually wind up in the hands of Muslim fundamentalist organizations.

The south-western state of Kerela in India is the latest place where this perverse practice has raised its ugly head. Authorities in this state of 32 million are holding in jail two young Muslim men who stand accused of “luring” two non-Muslim university students with promises of marriage “for the purpose of conversion.”

In court, both students testified the two men “trapped” them and forced them into converting. One told the court she fell in love with one of the men, a senior student at her college, and eloped with him. But instead of the expected marriage, she and the other woman were taken to a Muslim center where they were subjected to Islamic extremist propaganda.

The case has created such concern that Kerela’s High Court ordered the police to investigate the organization responsible for the conversions, the Campus Front, which serves as the student wing of the Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Popular Front of India. It is believed more than 4,000 Hindu and Christian young women in Kerela have converted to Islam in the last six months.

The Times of India reports that Kerela’s Hindu and Christian religious authorities are so alarmed at this development that they are cooperating to “combat the ‘social evil’ which. . .is hitting their respective communities hard.” It is suspected that college girls and working women are especially targeted.

“It’s shocking but it is happening. Many Christian families are getting affected,” said a member of the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council.

One report states the “jihad Romeos” in Kerela are given cell phones, bikes and fashionable clothes to accomplish their sinister mission. They have two weeks to find a girl of another religion and six months to convert her to Islam. If the girl shows no interest within two weeks, they are to leave her and find another.

For every conversion, the men also receive a monetary reward. The money for the “love jihad” in Kerala is reported to come from “foreign sources.”

If a recruiter does marry his convert, he is encouraged to have four children with her. Some believe this capability to bear offspring is the reason why young women are targeted. With conversion, their reproductive powers are taken away from a competing religion and increase instead the Muslim extremist demographic.

But while the term love jihad may be new, the tactic is already a known one. In the 1990s, Sikhs in England believed young women in their community were being targeted for conversion. Young Muslim men looking for prey were even thought to have attended parties for young Sikhs, while pretending to be Sikhs themselves.

Sometimes, however, the jihad Romeos in England used a more brutal approach. A story in the Daily Mail two years ago stated that police were targeting such Muslim extremists and working with universities against “aggressive conversions.” These involved Hindu and Sikh girls being beaten up and terrorized by the Muslim men they were dating until they converted.

The Hindu Forum of Britain, the story says, claimed hundreds of Sikh and Hindu girls were victims of such vicious intimidation. Some even had to leave their university to escape their tormentors.

“Some girls are petrified because they are constantly being phoned up, having their door knocked on,” a Hindu Forum member said at the time.

But the best evidence that this form of jihad has been in operation for some time comes from a former Muslim extremist, who converted to Christianity. In the book, Why We Left Islam, a compilation of testimonies by former Muslims who left their faith, the unidentified apostate gives a powerful account of his days as a jihad Romeo in Egypt who targeted Coptic Christian girls.

Like in Kerela, the former Muslim testifies that money was paid for conversions and that it came from outside the country. And the higher the educational and social status of the victim’s family, the more money the jihad Romeo received.

Unlike in India though, the recruiters would parade the converted girl through the streets, playing music and waving flags, while yelling “Allah Akbar.” The goal, he said, was to humiliate the Christians, especially the men, and dishonor their families in a country where the women are the family’s honor. But such parades were banned in 1985.

All kinds of tricks, he writes, were used to convert the girls. From outright expressions of love and attending their churches to trapping them in moral scandals, everything was fair game. In this, the extremists were often helped by young Muslim women who identified likely targets, encouraged the Christian girl in the “relationship,” and would even help set up the morally compromising situations.

While ruining the lives of others, the former Muslim states he thought he was serving his religion, since Muslims “were in a perpetual war with the ‘filthy infidels’.” He lived for three years with one woman he had converted, tormenting her mercilessly, while converting seven other Christian women during that time.

In essence, the love jihad is a form of demographic aggression. Like the “stealth jihad”, which employs political activism to achieve Islamist aims in Western societies, it employs deception and is viewed as a useful tactic in bringing about Islamic world domination. That, however, is of little solace to the many precious young women whose lives it has destroyed.

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The Kerala High Court on Friday released two girls, who were allegedly detained for religious conversion, to their parents…In the petition, Jacob Thomas of Pallikkal, Kottarakkara, and K Madhavan of Peroorkada, the parents of the girls, alleged that their daughters were detained by one Shehansha of Pettah, Pathanamthitta….They had left their homes and had informed their parents that they were going to convert into Islam. In the petition, the parents alleged that the girls were illegally detained and they were being forced to convert.

Apparently, there’s also another, similar incident in the Ernakulam district. From the same news report,

In a similar incident, A J Joy of Kalamassery has approached the High Court, alleging that his wife and three children were being detained by the Mounathul Islam Association, based at Ponnani, for religious conversion.

Three Muslim students, who were staying in Joy’s house, had interactions with Joy’s wife Smitha. On August 10, Smitha went to her house. Later, Smitha’s brother informed Joy that she was missing with her three children.

But then this is India and this happened in Kerala, and the media is too busy safeguarding Shahrukh Khan’s stardom and making Swine Flu a national catastrophe. Equally, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar are busy quarrelling among themselves.

When incidents like this occur far too often, they’re rightly discarded into oblivion. An incident like this a few decades ago would have led to some clash or protest indicating a society that was responsive to such outrages. But we’ve been outraged far too many times to even notice: as long as it doesn’t happen to us, etc

In plain language, this is Love Jihad and shows what Islam will do if it perceives that it’s superior in strength. Love Jihad is typically one of variations of the sacred Taqqiya tactic for conversion, among other things. But in this case, it’s violent Taqqiya, a sort of contradiction of the doctrine. Mention Love Jihad in the secular-liberal circles, and you’ll be laughed off your head in characteristic disbelief. The fact that “misguided” Muslim youth are abducting Hindu girls and marrying them to keep the Islamic baby factory well-oiled is real. No amount of secular discourse will make this go away. Thus far, these kidnappings were restricted to Hindu women but Kerala has broken new ground. Which brings us to the other dimension: the stirrings of a clash of monotheisms. The combined nexus of Islam, Christianity & Marxists have historically posited a united front to quell and browbeat Hinduism. Thus, all Hindu organizations are criticized by this nexus in the same tone, tenor, and with the selfsame self-righteousness. In this case, Islam has “tresspassed” the sacred quarters of Christians by (allegedly) abducting unsuspecting Christian girls. But the links are confusing and run deeper.

Example: Mounathul Islam Association (MIA), which has a pretty colourful past. The Christian quarter had in the past (link thanks: JK) unearthed some dirt about MIA.

Six schools in the state which had availed of Rs 30 lakh from the central funds meant for the uplift of educationally backward minorities are missing… The money was transferred to the minority community agencies by the deputy directors of education in the respective districts by bank drafts. The Mounathul Islam Association had availed of a total of Rs 15 lakh in two instalments of Rs 7.5 lakh each.

It is also no coincidence that the MIA is located in Ponnani, which boasts of itself as the “small Mecca of South India.” Tipu Sultan, after ravaging the Malabar recognized its importance and made it a thriving center for Islamic studies. In any case, when I dug around a bit, here’s what I found. The PDF copy of the Kerala Gazette confirms that MIA had indeed swindled the government of about 15 Lakh Rupees. And now the same MIA faces the charge of forcibly detaining non-Muslim girls so it can convert them to the Religion of Peace. Can we link the swindling and the use the MIA has put the money to? How many other MIAs are lurking or roaming around undetected?

More importantly, how many such girls remain locked up never to be discovered again?

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