Christians throughout India
are Greatly Disturbed by a Diabolic “Love Jihad” Design by Misguided Muslim
Youth in India’s
West Coast.
Greatly disturbed, Christians throughout India, in unequivocal terms,
condemn an international conspiracy of a diabolic nature, a “love jihad”
design, of tricking innocent girls by the misguided Indian Muslim youth and
converting them to Islam and marrying them as part of a deep-rooted criminal
ploy to use them for immoral and terrorist activities in the country. The latest
case in the list of such disgusting and painful incidents is that of a married
Christian lady from Kochi in Kerala who left her
husband working in the Middle East, and then
married a Muslim driver of a school bus, thereby becoming an easy accomplice in
their terror activities.
Kochi city
police recently arrested that lady on charges of supplying SIM cards to
Thadiyantavide Nazir, alleged Leskar-e-Taiba operative, while he was in
prison. The woman, originally named Deepa Cheriyan, had accepted the name
Shahina, after converting into Islam by Jihadis. Deepa is married to a person
who is abroad. Deepa developed the affair with Naushad while he was
working as a driver in a school at Aluva in Kerala. Deepa Cheriyan, 31,
also known as Shahina, was arrested from SRM Road in Kochi by a police team led by Sunil Jacob,
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ernakulam. The police sources said that
the woman was living with Noushad of Cheranallore, who was earlier serving a
sentence in Ernakulam sub-jail, where Nazir was also lodged. The National
Investigation Agency (NIA) and intelligence agencies have already initiated
probe into the calls. Noushad was arrested with 3,000 ampoules of tranquilizers
in his possession. As per the instructions of Noushad, Shahina activated
two mobile phone connections from a sales executive of Vodafone, without
providing any identification documents, sources said. Intelligence agencies
initiated a probe after detecting calls from foreign countries to the SIM
cards, and tracking them to the Ernakulam sub-jail. The police subsequently
arrested the sales executive and soon Shahina went into hiding. It is
learnt that Shahina and Noushad had stayed in Murshidabad in Bangladesh
border for some time, perhaps getting trained in terror activities.
The following news reports would throw still greater light on this frightful
subject of Love Jihad. Based on the WikiLeaks, the TNN, under the caption, Love
Jihad, had published on 6th September 2011, that the US diplomats in
their report from Chennai consulate had said: "Both Hindu and Christian
groups have expressed fear and outrage at the 'plot', while Muslim groups have
felt the need to defend their co-religionists against the conspiracy
theorists." It also said that “Controversial phenomena 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.
Also, the Catholic Church in Kerala was very much seized of this problem. The
report said that “The Commission for Social Harmony and Vigilance of the Kerala
Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) had reported that there had been 2,868 female
victims of the 'love jihad' in Kerala from 2006 to 2009 alone. The panel had
made several recommendations to parents through its newsletter, including a
recommendation to monitor children's cell-phones and computers, so that they
could be better prepared to fight this phenomenon. Some members of the police,
politicians and both Hindu and Christian religious groups, continue to suspect
that 'forced conversions' are occurring, and that the culprits are receiving
foreign funding for their efforts." The Kerala High Court had also issued
an order for the police to investigate the cases of two college-going girls
allegedly forced to convert to Islam after marrying Muslim men.”
The report further said that “In order to verify such claims and reports, the US diplomats
had met a number of people from different groups, including Sajan K George,
national president of the Global Council of Indian Christians. The cable, as
disclosed by HYPERLINK "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Wikileaks"
\t "_blank" WikiLeaks, said that George was convinced that
"there was a concerted effort in south India by Muslim men to get
Christian women fall in love with them in order to convert them."
Quoting George, the cable said his group found it necessary to warn Christian
parents and young girls of the danger posed by the 'love jihad' so that they
can be better prepared to resist what many call "charming" young
Muslim men involved in the scheme.”
The latest report from Luton, a township about 30 miles from the London city centre, hits
the nail on the head that the Love Jihad is undoubtedly an International
menace. An exclusive report by one Clive Gresswell from Luton, under the
caption, CALL TO MUSLIMS TO SEDUCE SIKH AND HINDU GIRLS TO ISLAM, makes the
problem abundantly clear without an iota of doubt. A racially explosive leaflet
urging Muslim men to – quite literally – seduce Sikh and Hindu girls into their
faith is being hawked on the streets of Luton.
Under these painful circumstances, we wish to appeal to the saner sections of
our society in India, irrespective of their religious backgrounds, including
our Muslim friends who, we are sure, believe in the sanctity of the words like
love and jihad, to raise their voices against these perverted and evil forces,
and condemn this tragic development in the country, in the interests of peace
and harmony among the members of different religious groups in India and
abroad. The whole thing becomes still more tragic, when these two terms, ‘love’
and ‘jihad’ which should be used by every human being exclusively for the
purpose of achieving ones salvation, are being used with scant respect for
them, and merely for carnal pleasures and more tragically, for devious and
destructive purposes. Indeed, there cannot be a greater degradation of man than
this.
We request your good selves to give necessary publicity to this timely and
socially relevant statement of caution, and help in the task of nipping such
negative and evil forces in the bud, if it is not already too late.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
For the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC)
( Bishop S.V. Sampath Kumar, Spiritual Director)
(Prof. John B. Kutinha, Director for Public Affairs