The Increasing Talibanization of South India
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One article and one post…both pointing to an alarming trend of increasing radicalisation in south India. I would really value opinions and thoughts from those in the region or familiar with it.
If what is mentioned in these two articles/reports is even half-true, we should be seriously worried about these developments.
Unfortunately, this topic is off the national agenda…and besides, as long as we have “peace and tranquility” under the UPA regime, who really cares?
First, some excerpts from “Is talibanised South the Swat Valley of India?” by Sh B R Haran (dt 14th Mar ’09) – emphasis added.
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…The advent of the UPA government led to a sharp rise in sleeper modules and the rejuvenation of SIMI under different names, such as ‘Indian Mujahideen’ (IM), and a plethora of terror attacks on Indian soil. UPA’s inefficacy in tackling terrorism resulted in two dozen ‘major’ terror attacks (excluding Kashmir) – from a bomb blast on 15 August 2004 in Assam to the Mumbai carnage of 26 November 2008.
…At the fag end of its term, it took the grim carnage at Mumbai and the deaths of hundreds of innocents for UPA to sober up.
Dr. C. I. Issac, delivering the P.A. Ramakrishnan Memorial Lecture* in Chennai on 8 March 2009, dwelt extensively upon the fast-breeding Talibanisation faced by Kerala. He cited various instances over a period of time and exposed the aiding and abetting of Talibanisation by political fronts. This writer had a short discussion with Dr. Issac regarding a similar trend in Tamil Nadu. As both states share a vast border from Nilgiris and Gudalur to Coimbatore and from Theni to Thirunelveli and Kanyakumari, it is not a surprise that both have become a breeding ground for fundamentalist elements.
There has been a surge in the growth of Jihadi elements in Tamil Nadu in the last two decades. When a countrywide ban was enforced on SIMI, the Tamil Nadu unit took the avatars of “Al Umma†and “Jihad Committee†and Al Umma made its first major strike at the RSS HQs in Chennai in November 1993, killing 11 swayamsevaks.
The “Jihad Committee”, which has been regularly indulging in communal riots in the state, disintegrated when its leader Palani Baba was murdered. Thereafter the TMMK (Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam) was launched in 1995, giving a political colour to Islamic fundamentalism. It was founded by Hyder Ali, a SIMI activist and former associate of Palani Baba in the “Jihad Committee”, who left “Al Umma” after a tiff with its president Basha.
When Al Umma was banned for the Coimbatore blasts in February 1998, it changed colour as ‘Manitha Neethi Paasarai†(MNP). Thus, neither the banning of SIMI and “Al Umma”, nor disintegration of the “Jihad Committee”, reduced Islamic fundamentalism in the state. In fact, it started growing in different avatars with the support of Dravidian parties, which go to any extent for the sake of votebanks.
There is a general feeling outside the state that Tamil Nadu is normally peaceful and that terror attacks are confined to the RSS HQs attack of 1993 and the Coimbatore blasts of 1998. The reality is that between 1993 and 1998 there have been several terror attacks, to cite but a few:
1] Wife of a Dalit-Hindu activist died in a blast in Nagore on 4 July 1995.
2] Blast in Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple on 18 May 1996; TMMK leader Naina Mohammed and Sait Saheb, Raja Hussain and Fakrudin (cadres) arrested.
3] Bomb attack on Doordarshan Kendra’s Thanjavur office on 6 June 1997.
4] Scores of bomb explosions occurred within 20 months prior to the Coimbatore blasts.
5] On 6 December 1997 bombs exploded in Coimbatore-bound Cheran Express, Madurai-bound Pandiyan Express and Allepey Express in Trichur.
6] On 10 January 1998, a bomb exploded on Anna Flyover in the heart of Chennai city.
7] On 18 September 1997, five Hindu activists murdered in different places; three fundamentalists arrested.
8] On 9 December 1997, a cycle bomb exploded in Coimbatore suburb killing three women; Sultan Nazar and Abdul Quayum arrested.
The growth of Islamic fundamentalism was apparent during the DMK regime between 1996 and 2001. Though the law and order was comparatively better during AIADMK rule between 2001 and 2006, clandestine operations continued and sustained fundamentalism. This became evident when five MNP cadres were arrested on 22 July 2006 in Coimbatore (DMK came back to power in May 2006) on charges of plotting serial bomb blasts similar to the 1998 blasts. The five were acquitted on 9 February 2008 on grounds of being arrested on false charges!
Besides, half a dozen cadres of “Al Umma” were suddenly released from Palayamkottai prison in May 2006, within days of the present DMK government taking charge.
Regarding the release of Islamic fundamentalists by the DMK, Indian Express (8 August 2006) reported, “senior Policemen in Thirunelveli were shocked by what they termed the DMK Government’s ‘blatant sympathy’ for the Muslim fundamentalists.†This misplaced sympathy for the sake of votebanks is allegedly the reason behind the government’s refusal to appeal against the acquittal of Abdul Nazar Madani in the Coimbatore blasts case.
With the release of these fundamentalists from various prisons, Muslim pockets have begun to be Talibanised. A good example can be seen in Muslim-dominated ‘Melvisharam’ in Vellore district, where the dominant community refused civic amenities to non-Muslims of ‘Keezhvisharam,’ who have to depend on Melvisharam for anything. Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy approached the Madras High Court and later the Supreme Court to order a separate Panchayat status for Keezhvisharam, to save non-Muslims from dependence upon the oppressive Muslims of Melvisharam.
…With Talibanisation comes the oppression of women. A woman running a tea shop and another working in a local beedi factory were waylaid and murdered in broad daylight in Thirunelveli, for trivial reasons, in the name of religion. Indian Express (26 March 2007) reported, “the police spoke of “Al Umma”, the fundamentalist outfit which had become weak after the arrest of more than 100 of its members in the Coimbatore case, which under the DMK regime had been rejuvenated and was trying to enforce edicts on the Muslim community in the districts of south Tamil Nadu.â€
…On 17 February 2007, The New Indian Express, Chennai, reported: “The ‘Q’ branch of the state police is now concerned about the formation of a new Islamic outfit, ‘Popular Front of India’ (PFI), a coordinated effort between three organisations – Karnataka For Dignity (KFD), Karnataka; Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP), Tamil Nadu; and National Development Front (NDF), Kerala. The new organisation was launched on Friday (16th February 2007) in Bangalore, ‘to coordinate & strengthen grassroot level developmental activities throughout the country,’ followed by an ‘Empower India’ conference in the garden city. Though the organisation’s agenda has been well spelt out – democracy & social justice, the state police fear that the organisation had been set up to propagate hardliner ideology. A ‘Q’ branch official had said, ‘What is worrying us is the fact that a majority of the leaders of this new front belonged to the now banned SIMI’. The decision to launch Popular Front of India (PFI) has been taken at a conference of KFD, MNP & NDF held on 22 November 2006 at Calicut. The leaders of PFI include K.M. Shareef, President of KFD, Gulam Muhammed, leader of MNP and Abdur Rahman Baqari of NDF and they have decided to confine their activities to South India’.
…On 26 July 2006, Indian Express carried a report on MNP indulging in ‘conversion’ and conducting classes in the name of ‘Arivagam’ to brainwash new converts, especially scheduled castes, to train and recruit them to Jihadi squads. The MNP is reportedly active in places close to the Kerala border (Theni, Coimbatore, etc), so it can connect with Kerala-based NDF easily. Investigations of Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Mumbai blasts reveal that Kerala has been a permanent and save haven and a training ground for Islamic terrorists who have been sent on Jihadi missions from Kerala to Kashmir…”
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If you thought Sh B R Haran is being unnecessarily alarmist, this post from Varnam is likely to jolt you out of your complacency.
Writing on March 23rd ’09. JK mentioned:
…a report from the Malayalam newspaper, Kerala Kaumdi (March 3, 2009), about an organization called “Love Jihad” whose goal is to convert girls from “other religionsâ€, marry them, and produce at least four children. Around 4000 such marriages happened in the past 6 months, inviting the attention of the Special Branch. No religion was mentioned, except that most marriages happened in Malappuram district.
For those of you who can read Malayalam, here is the snippet, courtesy Varnam:
Be worried…be very worried.
Related Posts:
Radical Islam finds willing recruits in fresh converts
“India’s Islamist Groups†– Extracts
* Dr Isaac’s lecture referred to above can be read here: Kerala’s biggest challenge – the fastest breeding Talibanization.
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UPDATE – Excerpts from C R Issac’s Is Kerala moving towards another 1947?, dt 29 Aug 2009:
The situation in Kerala now is similar to that of India on the eve of the Khilafat Movement.
…The present sporadic developments of contemporary Kerala which appear in the news media are shocking and remind us of the days of the poem Tarane-i-Milli [1908], which contained the battle-cry for jihad and called for total conversion of the world to Islam by Mohammad Iqbal.
…The pan-Islamic plan of building Dar ul Islam over Hindustan has now raised its hood [fana] from Kerala. The state’s political and economic situation is pleasing to jihadi enterprises. A recent directive from the Union Home Ministry to the State Crime Branch in charge of anti-terrorist operations has forbidden the police from interrogating Abdul Nassar Madhani, a hardcore terrorist and master brain behind several recent blasts in various Indian cities [Janmabhoomi daily, Kottayam, August 22].
Kerala now has 15 places where no civil or police administration is possible. The shameful reality is that the states’ governance is shrinking day-by-day and the vacuum is being filled by terrorists or goons. These 15 places are exclusively controlled by Islamic extremists. One place, Bhimapalli, is just 5 kms. away from Trivandrum. An exclusive Muslim zone, for a couple of decades the state administration has lost sway over the region due to the prevailing political climate of Kerala.
Fourteen out of the 15 places are in Malappuram district, a Muslim district carved out of the Hindu majority district by CPI [M] Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboothirippadu in 1968, disregarding objections from the patriotic society of Kerala.
News about this alarming situation was reported only in the Janmabhoomi daily, which quoted the Union Home Ministry’s report to the state government on 27 February 2009 [Janmabhoomi daily, Kottayam, 28 July 2009].
Shantanu, if you get a chance please read this detailed analysis. Manmohan Singh agrees with Indian Mujahideen terrorists?
Excerpts from Sandeep’s post on recent reports regarding forcible conversion of Christian girls to Islam:
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Separately, there is more worrying news. From Jihadis luring Kerala college girls for love, a TOI report filed by Ananthakrishnan G, TNN 1 September 2009, 08:05am IST:
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The last sentence is revealing. But guess how many newspapers covered it.
Wait, there is more (courtesy comment left on Sandeep’s blog):
All Hindu-Muslim love marriages under probe
by Sanjeev Shivadekar, TNN 3 July 2009, 04:26am IST
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is meant to probe high-profile cases, will now investigate love affairs that have resulted in marriages between Hindu girls and Muslim boys.
The state CID has been told to check whether Muslim boys are enticing Hindu girls as part of a larger ‘conspiracy’. Minister of state for home (rural) Nitin Raut announced this step in the legislative assembly on the last day of its session.
BJP MLAs Eknath Khadse and Devendra Fadnavis had alleged in the assembly that young Muslim boys in rural areas were wooing Hindu college girls and then marrying them. This, they claimed, was part of a ‘conspiracy’ to increase the strength of the community. Khadse had further alleged that some Hindu girls had also been sent to the Gulf.
In his reply, Raut had admitted that such incidents were taking place in the state. “I will initiate an inquiry into this,’’ the minister had promised. However, the opposition had demanded a CID probe, terming the issue as serious. Raut had then given in to their demands.
…Raut’s announcement has not gone down well with his cabinet colleagues and leaders of the Muslim community. Senior NCP leader and labour minister Nawab Malik said the BJP had a political interest in raising such issues. “The BJP’s politics has always been based on communalism and this demand too is part of the same theory,’’ he added.
Congress leader and minister of state for home (urban) Arif Naseem Khan saidthere was no provision in law where a member of a particular community could be stopped from marrying a girl/boy of another community. “In case a girl or boy is pressured into getting married to a member of another community, the offender should certainly be punished,’’ he added.
…Meanwhile, home department officials too have been left wondering as to how investigations can be conducted into cases where a Hindu girl has married a boy from the Muslim community or vice versa. “Finding such cases and calling the persons concerned for an inquiry would be a lengthy process,’’ an official said, adding that it may even lead to communal disharmony.
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Has the inquiry begun? No idea…Is it likely to begin and conclude soon? Almost certainly no…For all I know, it may never begin.
And why do I get the feeling that these news-items may not remain online or searchable for long?
Shantanu,
In Maharashtra there was no enquiry as the minority organizations made noises about being troubled etc. When Sickular news channels enquired about ordering of the enquiry the minister went as far to say that he had never ordered any enquiry.
Shantanu ji,
Please use “Southern India” and “Northern India” instead of the commonly used but incorrect “South India” and “North India”.
It makes me wonder if we are referring to two separate and mutually antagonistic countries like “South Korea” and “North Korea” … or “East Germany” and “West Germany”.
These are divisive terms.
This piece is also somewhat related and is reported from Kerala in TOI just about a couple of days ago:
Now, love in the name of Jihad…
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET-Cetera/Now-love-in-the-name-of-jihad-/articleshow/4957304.cms
Quite worrying…
Oops..just realized that you have already covered in in your comment # 2 above…
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Kerala HC wants probe into ‘love jihad’:
The state High Court on Wednesday (30tH Sept ’09) directed the Kerala Police and Union Home Ministry to probe the alleged movement, under which young Muslim boys reportedly target college girls for conversion by feigning love.
The court also asked the state and Centre to look into the sources that “fund†the love jihad, the number of girls who have got “trapped in the racket†in the past three years and its extremist links, if any.
Justice K T Sankaran was hearing anticipatory bail applications of two Muslim youths, accused of “luring†two MBA students into marriage for reportedly the purpose of religious conversion. The court rejected their bail pleas.
The two youths were allegedly associated with Campus Front, a student outfit of the right-wing Muslim organisation Popular Front of India (PFI).
Earlier this month, the parents of the two girls had filed a habeus corpus in the high court after their daughters were found missing. On being produced in court, the girls deposed that they were “trapped†by the youths and forced to convet to Islam. Allowing them to go with their parents, the court had asked the police to probe the charges of forced conversion after trapping girls in love affairs.
Shantanu @9. I have been talking to my friends regarding love marriages, elopement etc., which has now taken the uglier from of LOVE JIHAD. The moment one attains the age of 18 one becomes major and can elope, marry any Tom, Dick and Harry and get ruined. Yes, ruined in real sense. If, unfortunately, some parents out of their anguish take some action then the whole, so called secular media, pounce upon the already grief stricken parents. The unfortunate parents who have nurtured their wards to see them coming up in life are forced to see the future of their children ruined and their dream shattered.
Why can’t the law be changed suitably that no person who is studying in school, college or any other institution and are still under the care of their parents/guardians should get their permission before entering into wedlock. Alternatively, the person, especially those marrying such (dependent) girls, should deposit with the authorities a sum which is sufficient to see through her in the rest of her life. The person should also produce the girl for the next five or ten years before the authority so constituted every month to ensure the girl is looked after well. In my opinion no such laws should be made effective where the immature girls are thrown to the wolves. Only those who are above a reasonable age say 25 years, or are earning and are independent (not dependent on parents)should be allowed to enter into wedlock without the consent of parents.
The government should ensure that no law is misused or abused to the detriment of any person especially girls. Even when laws should take care of individual rights, it should also take into consideration the after effects of such laws, misuse of such laws by unscrupulous elements to the detriment of not so mature gullible persons.
In this connection Muslim leage leader has come out against the usage of “Love Jihad” as per Haindava Keralam report as per this link http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=9285&SKIN=K. Hence the secular scourge is sure to bury this matter and hindu girls will be targeted again and again.
Pestilence of “Love Jihad†is the direct result of the fanatical secularism practiced nowadays.
@10: KSV Subramanian asked why can’t the law be changed. I don’t think the law needs to be tinkered with. Let us be minimalistic with our law. Cheating is already a crime. That is good enough. The deficiencies lie elsewhere.
It is clear that potential victims and parents need to be more vigilant and informed. In our society we do not teach our teens and young men and women how to protect themselves through suitable behaviour and vigilance.
It takes some cultural change. Let our young men and women befriend each other in public, and in the presence of parents, and nothing dangerous of this sort will ever happen then. It is only when they feel the need to hide away from parents and society that these anti-socials get the opportunity to do harm.
Let our artists and movie makers also depict the reality of these crimes so that people have an appreciation of the dangers and the need to be vigilant. Our movies only depict people dancing around trees or punching each other mindlessly. This is also our failing.
Re: the objection to the specific term (cf. Haindava Keralam report cited above), I find it disgusting that the Hajis are not objecting to the concept of Jihad itself, nor to the modus operandi employed, but to the particular combination of words used in the report.
The Court should uphold freedom of expression in this matter. Otherwise, it would amount to curtailing the expressivity of language which permits such a combination. If I can say “holy cow” to express a concept, why not “love Jihad” ?
KSV: I would tend to go with “A” on this one…I think we have enough laws…The first responsibility is that of the parents…then to some extent, the larger community.
If only the police and the courts were to make an example of a few cases, I think the message will begin to get across..
Separately, if you are aware of anyone in your family – or your circle of friends and acquaintances – who is considering marrying outside their religion, pl. have them read this article on “Inter-Faith Marriages”. Excerpts are here: W’end Links: Hindu Holocaust, Silent Muslims and Interfaith Marriages
The problems of the Hindus and of India today have roots in the way nature shaped it as a country. The racial homogeneity of the Hindus permitted the luxury of religious diversity and for the country to be spread out over a vast territorial expanse without any single control rarely exercised over the whole extent of India and that with some great difficulty as Ashoka found out. The Hindu philosophy while embracing the universal has proved distinctly inept at keeping its own house in order, and an open invitation gifted to any to interfere in their affairs. It was that which provided Alexander the Great and the others after him the opportunities for conquests and to inflict so much misery upon the people of India.
India was gifted a form of government which has worked remarkably well enough for the countries of other South East Asian countries and they have gained entry into the developed world. They do not display the same doubts and harking back to some other golden era that Hindus aspire to. They have troublesome Muslim minorities but that has not allowed them to disturb their poise and confidence. The racial identity of the Chinese has deeper significance to them than their religious identity for the simple reason that they need to make a success of their life in this world and worry hardly after the hereafter.
I see little difference between the Christian who suffers torment for the original sin and the Hindu. At some time distant in the past, the Hindu was noble which came with his warrior caste. In the Mahabharat, caste did not excuse the Hindu from the obligations of war but that has proved an exception. It is evident that the Hindu ordering of society in practice excused military service to its population (which Muslims achieved by wiping out the warrior jats). On the other hand, military service would only be rendered to another in return for some benefits such as for tenancy of land and for right of active political participation. These are the roots of the weak foundation of the Hindu polity.
The Hindu in the India of today has become a misfit because any nobility that came originally has been compromised away and with that the raison d’etre of the Hindu nation. A nation cannot be founded on putting together ill-fitting components of jats (or castes) and this is one doctrine of the Hindu religion that needs to be vanquished. Society necessarily has to be ordered as Hindu society needs to be but it needs to be done so on a rational basis, and without allowing religion to compromise the objective.
Revealing to read what attracted the attention of Kerala HC to “Love Jihad”. From Is ‘Love Jihad’ terror’s new mantra?:
More on Love Jihad, courtesy Sandeep. A brief excerpt:
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.
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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.â€
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…
Karnataka is waking up link:
BANGALORE: The government has decided to convene a meeting of senior police officers in the next couple of days to discuss the controversial ‘Love Jehad’ issue, which created unrest in parts of Kerala and Karnataka.
The decision follows an observation of the Karnataka High Court directing an in-depth probe as it could be the part of a larger conspiracy against the country.
It is indeed very sad that Love Jihad has been ruled out by HC and by other police enquiry reports.. I feel sad for those people who religiously and patrioticaly argued against love jihadists. Maybe that time and effort could have been spent on something better in life…
@ Nimmy It is indeed very sad that Love Jihad has been ruled out by HC and by other police enquiry reports..
pl see –
No Conclusive Evidence of ‘Love Jihad’ in Kerala
Kochi | Nov 11, 2009
In a statement filed in the court, Director General of Police Jacob Punnose said he could not come to “a definite all conclusive finding” due to divergence in contents of reports from SPs of different districts and subordinate officers on the organised work of the ‘Love Jihad’ in the state.
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Punnose in his statement today said he had received some information from some units based on “source inputs” which suggested ‘clandestine design’ of certain groups aimed at religious conversion through “deceitful means”.
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No evidence of ‘Love Jihad’: K’taka CID interim report
Updated on Friday, November 13, 2009, 16:19 IST
Bangalore: Karnataka CID on Friday sought a two-month time from the state High Court to further probe ‘Love Jihad’, where girls from other religious background are allegedly lured to marriage and converted to Islam.
This is getting curiouser and curiouser!
This extract hints at the confusion in the police investigations so far.
From an ExpressBuzz news-story:
We may have to wait for the final report to get the full picture…due in 2 months, I believe.
Welcome to – Melvisharam: “Darul Islam†of Tamil Nadu
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx?PAGEID=9615&SKIN=C
* Only Urdu gets prominence in Melvisharam. In Municipal sessions, the Chairman and members discuss all issues only in Urdu. The Municipal Library contains only Urdu books, magazines and newspapers, and has very few Tamil newspapers, that too as a formality. The Muslim majority of Melvisharam speak Tamil only with strangers visiting the town. The only street with just 10 Hindu families is named “Tamil Streetâ€! The names of all other streets and even the names of shops and other trade venues and business establishments are written only in Urdu.
* Melvisharam has “Abdul Hakim Engineering Collegeâ€, “Abdul Hakim Arts & Science Collegeâ€, and five schools run by “Melvisharam Muslim Educational Society†(MMES). A landmark is Masjid-e-Khizar whose minaret is 175 ft (53 m) high. In 2003 K.H. Group of Companies and Apollo Group of Hospitals set up the Apollo KH Hospital. Banks and other establishments are aplenty. But, it doesn’t have a police station! Everything is decided only by Jamaat (public – as told by Amjad Hussein, who runs a fruit juice shop).
@ various comments including 21 reg melvisharam.
some good news. there was an order by the supreme court last week to the state govt to consider the split of panchayat of kil visharam (east visharam and not lower visharam – mel is west). dr subramanian swamy seems to have played a major role.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/10/stories/2009111053500400.htm
i lived very close to mel visharam (for 12 years) passing through that place atleast once a week. i even contemplated studying in adbul hakeem college and was once a guest speaker there. i can vouch for every word and may be add much more (but that is not important). these are things that must be brought into the open and discussed – as one activist said “sunlight is the best disinfectant”
rgds/sridhar
Thanks Sridhar for the link…and for sharing your personal experience…As you mention, sunlight is indeed the best disinfectant!
Love Jihad has claimed one more life in Kerala. Sajna, a very pretty hindu girl of 21 years married Nasser in 2008. She was continously pressurised to convert by Nasser as well as his family. She was also taken to the conversion centre. But she resisted. Ultimately after the unbearable harassment she committed suicide. This was reported in Malayalam daily Janmabhumi of Nov. 27th. No other secular media reported this matter. Compare this with the Rizwanur case. The double standard become very glaring.
Follow this link for further details.
http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=9729&SKIN=K
“Love Jihad has claimed one more life in Keralaâ€
The question asked should be why do so many hindu women fall prey for the jihadis not only in India but in other countries as well..?
VICTIM OF LOVE JIHAD
Islam or Death – Sajna opted death
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=9729&SKIN=K
More on Love Jihad: This is the report appeared in the New Indian Express dated Nov. 30, 2009.
Minor girl kidnapped by lover: Paravoor: A minor girl hailing from Paravoor went missing in mysterious circumstances from Thiruchirappally the other day. She was studying at a higher secondary school here. A police team led by CI K.G. Babukumar has taken four persons into custody including a woman, in connection with the incident.
The girl was reportedly kidnapped by Vedimara Rijaz, 19 who according to the police, has a love affair with the girl. Rijaz is believed to have kidnapped the girl with the help of his parents and friends.
Earlier, the girls parents had reportedly shifted her from the rented house near Town Hall at Paravoor, where the family has been staying, to a relative’s house at Thiruchirappally in a bid to put an end to the love affair. However, after the girl went missing last week the parents filed a complaint at the Paravoor Judicial Magistrate Court asking it to direct the police to trace the girl. Though the police questioned Rijaz’s parents and friends they did not provide details of the whereabouts of the girl, who had allegedly stayed at Chalakkudy also. Meanwhile Hindu Aikyavedi has demanded immediate steps to trace the missing girl.
What is needed is an independent Citizens’ Court collecting evidence directly by themselves. It should be independent because the government machinery for investigations is tainted with various political agendas.
Some organization has to take leadership. It will need some judicially trained persons, ex-law enforcement officers etc, and I am sure the truth of the matter can be brought out. It concerns also the Christian population of Kerala which is quite sizeable.
After that evidence is established, it is a simple matter to move the courts to look at the hard evidence, and bring it out through mass media.
From Ban conversion in the guise of romance: HC (dt 10th Dec ’09:
…After perusing the case diary and reports filed by various law enforcing agencies, the court held that there were indications of forceful religious conversion. DGP Jacob Punnoose submitted earlier that though no movement called Love Jehad or Romeo Jehad had been identified in the state, there was reason to suspect concerted attempts to persuade girls who fell in love with Muslim boys to change their religion.
“As per the statistics available around 3000-4000 such incidents took place during the last four years,” the court said.
A 15 year old girl’s travails in a case that could count as a “Love Jihad”
http://sridharkrish.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/95/
rgds/sridhar
Sridhar: You stole my thunder! A blog post on this coming up within the next 30mins…(almost done).
In S of India, when we speak comparatively “J” factor is less evil than “X” factor. This is because latter is largely unknown.
But surely, this will cause the max. damage to the nation.
How many of us know “DHRM” or Dalit Human Rights Movement??
Latest from God’s own country: Taliban-style courts in God’s Own Country by Ananthakrishnan G:
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ‘Hotbed of terrorism’ is not the usual label for Kerala. But intelligence gathered by disparate agencies over the last few years suggests the description may not be far off the mark. Confirmation of this came with the horrifying incident of July 4, when a college lecturer’s right hand was chopped off in Moovattupuzha, a town in Eranakulam district.
..Police raids on offices of the Popular Front of India (PFI), whose activists are believed to be behind the attack, have exposed a well-oiled, pan-Islamist network fed by a heady mix of Wahhabism and hawala. Kerala’s deep-rooted Gulf links also come in handy for the PFI.
The revelations of the last two weeks are startling. It includes al-Qaida training tapes, Taliban-style courts that dispense justice according to Shariat law, literature on conversion, explosives enough to kill dozens, and documents indicating unusual interest in the Indian Navy.
Sources say it was one of the PFI’s Taliban-style ‘courts’ in Erattupettah in Kottayam district that decided Joseph’s fate.
There are 13 more across Kerala, discreetly exhorting members of the community to stay away from regular courts which are deemed “un-Islamic”. The state police is now taking a fresh look at three murders in Kannur, including that of a police constable. There is some suspicion the killings were ordered by Taliban-style courts.
The policemen who seized the CDs from PFI offices later reported disgust and disbelief at videos showing brutal punishment – such as the severing of limbs – inflicted on “enemies of faith”. Some shots had activists slaughtering animals, apparently to harden them. Kerala’s descent to terror is not recent nor is it without political backing.
…But perhaps the jihadi network first became really visible in Marad, a sleepy fishing hamlet in Kozhikode district. On May 2, 2003, eight Hindu fishermen were executed on the beach by a crack team, which appeared out of nowhere. It was said to be a revenge attack and the execution betrayed a chillingly high level of training. Fingers were pointed at the National Development Front (NDF), headed among others by P Koya, who was a founding member of SIMI, the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. But the trail went cold when it inexorably led to politicians.
Kerala’s then A K Antony-led government as well as the Left turned down calls for a CBI investigation. A later inquiry by a judicial commission made reference to the alleged role of some leaders of the Indian Union Muslim League, a Congress ally.
…Barely two years later, Kerala’s links with the global jihad became clear when four young Malayali men were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kashmir. They were en route to PoK for training. The incident brought some disquieting facts to light, not least the extensive recruitment of Kerala’s young men for jihadi operations. Official estimates say as many as 300 young Malayalis were recruited from different parts of the state.
The state government sought to play it down, but then constituted a special inquiry by an anti-terrorism unit. Once again, the trail led to politicians of various hues and the investigation languished. It was finally handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
…Police officers accused of links with the organization remain free. Just recently, the Centre ordered an NIA probe into allegations that a senior IPS officer, Tomin J Thachankary, met suspected terrorists during a visit to Qatar in January this year.
The state home department has not initiated action against a former SP accused of sabotaging the arrest of SIMI activists from a camp in Alwaye near Kochi in August 2006. Though 18 hardcore activists took part in the camp, the police – allegedly under instructions from the SP – only arrested five and let off the rest. They would later mastermind the Jaipur and Bangalore blasts.
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Also read Sandeep’s “Clash of Monotheisms – 2” from which: “Fear of death is infinitely more potent than fear of God” http://bit.ly/dAUfiK
@Shantanu
This whole topic of “love jihad” is juvenile in my opinion (not your post). I start with accepting that this “love jihad” is a real conspiracy. In that light, here are a couple of points to ponder over.
1) What percentage of those girls who married muslim boys were over 18?
2) If a significant proportion were over 18, aren’t they legally allowed to decide which religion to follow, whom to marry and so on?
3) How many of those girls have actually come out to say that they were forcibly abducted and converted to Islam?
4) If all these girls could so easily convert to another religion, doesn’t it mean that they were anyway never very devout in their earlier religion? And, to be a little provocative here, if they are so gullible, shouldn’t they deserve what they get anyway?
5) And finally, a little mature question – do anyone here really believe that this “love jihad” is actually going to turn India into an Islamic state?
I think we all got to act a little adult about this issue. If underage girls have been abducted and forcibly converted/married, then they should be rescued and their abductors should be brought to justice. But if they were adults, fell in love, eloped, converted, got married – on however a large scale – then it was their choice and that’s their life. It’s none of anyone’s business.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Explosives-weapons-seized-near-Kerala-mosque/articleshow/6160395.cms
Link says: Raids on some PFI activists last week revealed that the outfit tried to infiltrate its men into an exhibition organised by Navy in Kochi. It was also found that PFI took undue interest in a mock anti-terror drill jointly conducted by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Kerala Police in October 2009. Maps of at least three temples and CDs of Al-Qaida and Taliban training were also seized.
@Ashish (#34)
This whole topic of “love jihad†is juvenile in my opinionI would be glad to know the basis of this very opinion on a “juvenile” phenomenon.
I start with accepting that this “love jihad†is a real conspiracy.Once again, what is the basis of this theory?1)
What percentage of those girls who married muslim boys were over 18?– Go ahead and ask. Better read something. According to a HC judge in Kerala, there are close 3000-4000 cases like that.2)
If a significant proportion were over 18, aren’t they legally allowed to decide which religion to follow, whom to marry and so on?– Yes, definitely. Nobody questions that.3)
How many of those girls have actually come out to say that they were forcibly abducted and converted to Islam?– Let us see. We have to consider five cases.Case I: A 15-year old girl named Anita Roy in my home state WB was abducted, converted to Islam and got married. Calcutta HC favored the marriage by saying that since the girl was converted to Islam first, it is not case of forced marriage because Hindu marriage laws were not applicable. What is the proof that she was forcibly converted? Because the girl was minor, her own statement does not amount to much. Read: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Youth-gets-bail-in-elopement-caseKolkata/articleshow/5345745.cms
Case II: A girl named Moumita in my home state was abducted, converted and married. The case is still going on court, I know a few more details but can not put that in the public forum.
Case III: Take a look at Kerala: http://expressbuzz.com/Cities/Thiruvananthapuram/two-girls-released-to-parents/96269.html
Case IV: News from another secular community: http://indianchristians.in/news/content/view/2989/47/
Case V: Finally, our much beloved toilet papers of India publishes something useful at times: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Jihadis-luring-Kerala-college-girls-for-love/articleshow/4956222.cms
You want more? What do they indicate?
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If all these girls could so easily convert to another religion, doesn’t it mean that they were anyway never very devout in their earlier religion? And, to be a little provocative here, if they are so gullible, shouldn’t they deserve what they get anyway?– I have a better question. Would you join an effort that would bring those girls back to their eariler religion? Why? Because their parents want so and they are gullible anyway, so that should be easy, no? What do you think?5)
And finally, a little mature question – do anyone here really believe that this “love jihad†is actually going to turn India into an Islamic state?– Naah, as long as we have people who would ask such questions, “love jihad” is a threat that should be considered far less fatal.I think we all got to act a little adult about this issue.– My suggestion? Stick around Dawkins. That makes you somewhat tolerable.If underage girls have been abducted and forcibly converted/married, then they should be rescued and their abductors should be brought to justice.– So what did you do so far to help facilitate that. If you did not do anything, what right do you have to question those who are trying hard to educate people?But if they were adults, fell in love, eloped, converted, got married – on however a large scale – then it was their choice and that’s their life. It’s none of anyone’s business.You have no understanding of what “love jihad” is. And, by the way, there is a provision in Indian marriage laws, that allows the retention of the faith of each partner in an inter-faith marriage. If there is no motive at play, why do you think there is a conversion then? An incident that shocked Kerala in recent months is a revelation that Jihadis kidnapped some women, raped them and after the ghastly act, sent some women to sympathize and advise them to follow the path of Arabian speaking God and help the fighters of the God. You are far less informed than you think you are and your audacity of blank declaration is only matched by your lack of knowledge in the areas under discussion.
Please watch IBN report on this
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC4OXGAalFk
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XSnZAK2FQ&feature=related
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZpWY9zAOI&feature=related
Dhanyawaad,
Jai Hind,
AkhandBhaarat
Look where God’s own country is heading???? http://www.indianexpress.com/news/talibanisation/659686/
It is more than a week now the Bangalore Police is camping at Kollam, Kerala to arrest Abdul Nasser Madani who is an accused in Bangalore Bomb Blast case. He is holed up at Anwarsseri along with his supporters and the police dare not enter for fear of violence. Excuses are coming from them H1N1 affecting the accused to the Holy Month of Ramadan etc., etc., for postponing the arrest.
http://expressbuzz.com/states/kerala/madani-says-he-will-surrender-before-court-soon/198346.html
“Even as Islamist forces like the PDP of Abdul Nasser Madani and the Popular Front of India are allegedly working overtime for Talibanizing Kerala by forcing Muslims to adopt strict conservatism, a revolution is taking place within the community against such efforts.
The latest example of this intra-community revolution is Riyana R Khasi, a young Muslim woman belonging to Kasaragod, known for strict conservatism among Muslims. Riyana, an aeronautical engineering degree-holder, made history last week when she earned an order from the Kerala High Court against the Islamists who were determined to make her wear burqa and hijab against her will.
Riyana approached the High Court after her complaints to the Kasaragod Police at different levels and the Kerala State Commission for Women proved futile. Last week, the High Court ordered the police to provide security to the girl, her parents and sisters from those who were harassing them with open threats and embarrassing telephone calls.”
This is from the report appeared in the Pioneer. While the Home Minister and the authorities were bending backwards to please PDP Chairman and Bangalore blast accused Abdul Nasser Madani by somehow delaying his arrest, they are least bothered about the Talibanization happening in Kerala.
The girl and her family have now been provided police protection as per the orders of Hon. Court.
http://expressbuzz.com/states/kerala/rayana-gets-police-protection/198807.html
@Shantanu, I hope this is the right thread! This link may have a place under Islamilization of India which I couldn’t find here
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=MIRRORNEW&BaseHref=AMIR/2010/09/13&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00200&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
More than 100 Hindu girl students of Stree Adhyapan Mandir, Opposite Gandhi Ashram, offered namaz on September 9 after a day long roza. However, the girls were denied permission for celebrating Ganesh ustav. The girls aged between 16 and 17 are students of Primary Teacher Course (PTC) and were living at Somnath Girls Hostel of the institute. All girls were invited for the namaz, but many refused to join them.
Though the girls were not used to Muslim religious practice, one of students Swati Patel claimed that she had learned how to offer namaz from her Muslim teacher and the clerk Anees. The girls of the institute wanted to celebrate Ganesh Utsav. But, principal outrightly denied them the permission saying that it was a waste of time and the girls may lose focus on their studies.
another link.
http://deshgujarat.com/2010/09/13/look-whose-college-asks-hindu-girls-to-offer-namazdenying-ganesh-chaturthi/
Thanks for the link Indian…There is no post on “Islamization of India” but if I come across more instances/examples etc, I may consideropening one…
In the meantime, if you cannot find a link to something, this thread may be the most appropriate:
https://satyameva-jayate.org/2010/08/07/this-that-and-other/
Where is Ms Shabana Azmi, Ms Arundhati Roy, Ms Teesta Setalwad, the star anchors on various channels, Natl Women’s Commission etc etc?
I worry for “God’s own country”: She needs better protection against Kerala’s Taliban.
Also reminded me of this article by Kanchan Gupta titled, “Kerala’s slide into radical Islamism” from which these concluding lines:
“It is …a laughable sight to watch Malayalees trying to navigate crowded streets in Kochi wearing white Arab gelabayas, the loose kaftan like dress that along with the kafeyah — or ‘Arab rumal’ — has become a symbol of trans-national radical Islam, their ‘Arab Pardha’ clad wives and daughters in tow. But it is not a laughable matter.
Increasingly, we are witnessing a shifting of loyalties from Malabar to Manipur. Faith in India is being transplanted by belief in Arabia. This should alarm those who believe in the Indian nation as a secular entity.”
Posting this here for the record, a Tehelka report on PFI in Kerala:
Here Come the Pious
Just stumbled on this video: Tracing the roots of radicalism in Kerala. Worrying. Very worrying…
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/148747/tracing-the-roots-of-radicalism-in-kerala.html
Long but worth a read: http://expressbuzz.com/magazine/fundamental-fright/368492.html
Excerpts from Kerala’s new Islamic powerhouse
by Binoo K John Apr 29, 2012:
..Travelling from one religious gathering to another, it will not be wrong to say that the chief minister, facing another byelection next month, spends more time with mullahs, priests and certain swamijis, as if to pretend that the communal tension in the state is not rising alarmingly.
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Kantapuram has a huge office complex near Kozhikode (Calicut) where his organisation has brought in about 200 orphans from Kashmir to educate them a few years back. His intentions may be noble but his preaching of a slightly unclear humanist politics and moral values may hide certain other texts. For instance he follows the generally anti-women line and a few years back defended the Muslims right to marry more than once, going to the extent of saying that it is acceptable practice because a man has the right to have sex even when his wife is not in a position to have sex. His gatherings are attended only by men and clearly in a state where Muslim women are empowered, mostly independent and work in government and private jobs, his attempt may be to reign them in at some stage in line with ultra-Islamic practises.
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The Muslims and Christians cannot really be called minority communities in Kerala because of their affluence and influence in politics and governance. Higher Education and medical services in the state are dominated by these two communities.
Deeply disturbing & thought-provoking: The Southern Jihad” by Aravindan Neelakandan
Part II of Aravindan’s report. Pl do read.
Placing this here for the record:
FATWAS BAN OUTSIDERS’ ENTRY INTO RAMESWARAM VILLAGES by Kumar Chellappan, dt Monday, 16 December 2013:
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Ramanathapuram district, 527 km south of Chennai, which houses Rameswaram Temple and many holy shrines, is getting out of bound for outsiders. Local Jamaath Councils have issued ‘fatwas’ declaring Muslim-majority villages out of bound for people even from the district itself.
Entrances to Athiyuthu, Puthuvalassai, Panaikulam, Azhagankulam and Sitharkottai sport such boards, all put up by the local Jamaath Councils. “There are boards deep inside these villages which declare outsiders are not allowed,†said B Arumugam, who acted as a guide to this correspondent. Interestingly, all these villages have a strong Muslim population.
“Advertising (banners, posters and pamphlets) and honking (from vehicles) without permission is prohibited inside the Panchayath. By Order – Muslim Jamaath Thajul Islam Sangh, Pottakavayalâ€, is the board which welcomes the visitor to the village entrance on the Attrankarai Road, hardly 10 kilometre from Ramanathapuram town. “For the last 20 years, only Muslim candidates had been elected from this constituency. Only Muslims could be elected from this Assembly constituency,†said N Suriyaprakash, a civil engineer-turned-politician.
Ramanathapuram is represented in the Tamil Nadu Assembly by MH Jawahirullah of the Muslaim Munnetra Kazhagam (MMK), an Islamic outfit. The MMK was an ally of the AIADMK in the 2011 Assembly election and switched over to the DMK camp during the July 2012 Rajya Sabha election. “Both the Dravida parties are responsible for this sad state of affairs,†said Kuppuramu, a lawyer. He said the DMK, the Congress and the AIADMK, in order to appease the minorities look the other way when Islamic fundamentalists unleash a reign of terror…
Looks like this is now a problem in Britain too..
Link to a “BBC Inside Out” documentary on how Pakistani gangs target young non-Muslim girls in Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hXTM7ehvtk
From PFI wants Kerala to be Muslim-majority state: VS, By IANS, 24th July 2010:
..Radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) is aiming to convert Kerala into a Muslim majority state in the next 20 years, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said here Saturday.
“For achieving that goal, the outfit is pumping money to attract youth and give them weapons. They also try to convert youth from other communities and persuade them to marry Muslim girls”, Achuthanandan told reporters here.
Excerpts from Over 2500 women converted to Islam in Kerala since 2006, says Oommen Chandy, M G Radhakrishnan Trivandrum, September 4, 2012:
…On June 25, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy informed the state legislature that 2667 young women were converted to Islam in the state since 2006.
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According to Chief Minister a total number of 7713 persons were converted to Islam during 2006-2012 as against 2803 conversions to Hinduism. Interestingly he said no statistics was available as to the number converted to Christianity during the period. Among those converted to Islam during 2009-12, as many as 2667 were young women of which 2195 were Hindus and 492 were Christians. As against this number of young women converted during 2009-12 to Christianity and Hinduism were 79 and two respectively.
…However Chandy said that there was no evidence for forced conversions in the state and the fears about love jihad were baseless. …
“Love Jihad in Kerala is part of global Islamisation project” said Global Council of Indian Christians. In 2009 Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) had stated that more than 2600 young Christian women were converted to Islam since 2006…
Excerpts from Love Jihad: Is it all smoke without fire?, BY VIKAS SARASWAT, August 26, 2014:
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Though various state governments have denied the existence of an organised Love Jihad, the issue has cropped up at administrative, political and judicial levels. In “Shahanshah and Sirajuddin†vs “State of Keralaâ€, the Division Bench of Kerala High Court, directed the Director General of Police to investigate and submit a report on “Love Jihadâ€. Justice K T Shankaran quotes the report filed by DGP in his order dated 09/12/2009 as follows “I have examined the eighteen number of reports produced in the sealed cover. Fourteen out of the eighteen reports are cryptic… Three out of eighteen reports provide some details. One report says about the functioning of an organization called “Smart Front†in two colleges.â€
“Another report says that the enquiry by the Special Branch reveals that fundamental outfits like NDF, PFI, Campus Front has (sic) roots in the college campuses in the city referred to therein. Referring to Campus Front, it is stated in the report thus (sic): ‘As per the available information, the plan of this organization is to trap brilliant upper caste Hindu and Christian girls from the well to do family (sic), especially those who are studying for professional courses and employed in IT sectors’. It is also stated in the report thus (sic): ‘It is believed that Muslim Organisations like Muslim Youth Forum and Muslim Women’s Organisations like Thasreen Millat, Shaheen Force, Popular Front of India, National Democratic Front and its students organizations like Campus Front are the organizations behind the so called Love Jihad movement’ (sic)â€
Justice Sankaran concluded that there were enough indications of forceful conversions through “Love Jihadâ€. He asked Kerala government to consider enacting a law against forced conversions and DGP Jacob Punnoose to continue with further investigations. Interestingly, just after eight days another High Court Judge Justice M Shashidharan Nambiar stayed all investigations into “Love Jihad†stating “criminal justice was being taken for a ride and that the investigations targeted a particular community.†At the same time there was another inquiry ordered by Karnataka High Court. I am not aware as to whether any report has been submitted to the Court. Quite interestingly the Investigating Officer in Meerut rape and conversion case had also revealed that Sanaullah, the main accused was preaching “Love Jihad†in various Madarsas and Mosques.
Several senior IPS officers and politicians have expressed their concerns over “Love Jihad†and it is not that the saffronites or Christian priests alone are complaining. CPI (M) MLA KK Latika and former Communist Chief Minister of Kerala V S Achutanandan have voiced their concerns explicitly. Achutanandan accused the PFI of planning to Islamize Kerala with money and marriages. He accused the organisation, which was involved in the chopping off of a college Professor’s hand, of trying to multiply Muslim numbers in the state “by influencing youth of other religions and converting them by giving money, marrying them to Muslim women and thus producing kids of the community.â€
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Excerpts from BJP’s Charge Against League by Express News Service, 31st August 2014:
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Addressing a news conference here, Rajesh (BJP States Spokesman) said that the Education Dept, under the Muslim League, had demoted and transferred the teachers who had served noon meal to students during Ramzan season.
Rajesh said Vadakara AEO Vijayalakshmi was demoted and transferred as head mistress, Azhchavattom High School. Last year, noon meal had not been served in many schools in Chombala-Vadakara area. Following complaints from parents, the AEO had convened a meeting of head masters and head mistresses and had arrived at a decision to provide noon meal to students who were not observing fast.
After the meeting, certain League leaders came out against the decision to serve noon meal to students during Ramzan. Rajesh said the Education Minister was behind the punitive transfer of AEO and head masters.
Investigate Love Jihad and Religious Conversions: Kerala HC To Top Cop by Utkarsh Anand, May 30, 2017
Christian group in Kerala launches helpline to save ‘their’ girls from Muslim boys by Team Asianet Newsable, June 05, 2017