Disclaimer : Before you read this article further, I want to make it absolutely clear that I am neither a Pro-Hindu nor Anti-Muslim. I am an Indian first and religions don’t mean anything to me.

The following article might sound absurd but this is a startling revelation found by a leading Kerala daily, Kerala Kaumudi

A few days back, I received a mail from one of my relatives in Kerala about a new form of Jehad called Love Jehad. Initially, I thought he was trying to play pranks on me or may be he was trying to write an article and couldn’t get the right words and hence came up with this term. Quite like me, I totally ignored it. Since I live outside of India, my only connection to India and in particular Kerala is through some online news and a few updates from my friends and relatives, back in India. I usually give it a pass if I find there is no substance in the argument. This time I was mistaken

On Feb 27th, I again received another mail on Love Jehad – This time as a part of Yahoo Groups subscription. By now, I was hearing it from different sources which prompted me to do some googling.  Here is what I found

Project Name

Love Jehad

Objective of the group :

Trapping non-Muslim (mostly Hindus) girls in the name of love, promising them a dream life, converting them into Islam and giving birth to at least 4 to 5 children.

Success Rate:

Already about 4000 girls have been trapped and converted to Islam

Project Plan

Identifying the girl – 2 weeks

Converting to Islam and Nikah – 6 months

Target girls – Naive non-Muslim girls, who are either college going or working girls.

If the target seems tough, the youth are instructed to move onto another target after trying for the first 2 weeks.

Incentives for Success

If the project is successful, the youth is rewarded Rs.1 lakh (which in Kerala, is a substantial amount to live with). During the course of the project the youth is also given bikes, free mobile phones and dresses as tools to accomplish the task given

You might think where the funding is coming from and who has that kind of money to pay every youth who fathers so many kids…Well the answer is simple – Gulf.

For long, Kerala has been a safe haven for cheap labour to the Middle East. Most of those who go there are typically uneducated Muslims who don’t have any better source of income. Some of them become radical and return to their native with a different mission altogether. What happens after that is anybody’s guess

Apparently each district in Kerala has a Chairman who oversees this mission and is believed to be an organised crime in the making.

There are two issues here..

One is the radicalisation of a vast majority of Muslim population in Kerala which soon might turn out to be the safe haven for home grown terrorists …and the other, exploitation of the youth of Kerala, who in the lure of money are submitting themselves to crimes, unknowingly.

This, if not controlled, might soon well be an unstoppable mess that Kerala or India can not deal with. We do not know whether these children will have a normal upbringing or they, too, will end up going to radicalised madrassas and become another Kasab.

Goes without saying that the proponents of this breeding culture will have a lot to dig from their religious books and show the world what they are doing is correct, there is no way that one can be prove the intent of these people who are actually masterminding such a reproductive terrorism. The local government especially at the panchayat levels should be equipped to handle this form of non-violent, futuristic so called “Love Jehad”.

I have lived enough in Kerala to understand what goes on in the minds of the innocent Malayalees and to find another form of terrorism in God’s Own Country is the last thing that the natives want. Hope the CBI, CID, NIA led by Chidambaram are listening.

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