When Tara Sahdev refused to convert to Islam, Rakibul Hasan made her starve, kept her in isolation and threatened her with more physical pain.  After a month of torture, Tara was ready to accept negative public spotlight and decided to report her saga to Mahua Manjhi, the chief of the largest woman rights group in India – The State National Commission for Women.

Tara said that she met Rakibul Hasan when he and a few friends came daily to watch her warm-up and practice shooting on the local shooting grounds. Gradually Rakibul (aka Ranjit Kumar) began talking and then go on dates. After some time they decided to get married and got married July 7th.

After their marriage night, the horror and real nightmare began when  Rakibul Hasan (alias Ranjit Kumar) invited 20-25 Muslim priests and hardliners and forced Tara to convert to Islam. And when she immediately refused, she was violently assaulted by the men as well as had dogs unleashed on her, causing her to be bitten and leaving her with marks and bruises. Mr. Hasan also tried to rape her.

This case has happened in the midst of a national crises called ‘Love Jihad’ where there have been thousands of reported cases where Muslim youth are trained and rewarded by radical Islamic groups to marry and convert infidel (non-Muslim) girls to Islam. Most of the girls targeted have been Hindu, with some Christian and Sikh girls. Just last month  in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a horrifying case where a Hindu teacher was forcefully gang-raped then converted by a group of Muslim men, including a priest in an Islamic school was reported.

‘Love Jihad’ is not new and has even been a major issue outside India, like the UK (Britain), where many non-Muslim women have been aggressive targeted by young Muslim men to convert to Islam.

Here are some articles of the concerning issue in Britain:
‘Not just White girls, Pak Muslim men sexually target Hindu and Sikh girls as well‘ (TOI)
London Police protect girls forced to convert to Islam (London Evening Standard)

You can view more details about the Tara Sachdev forced conversion to Islam story here:

Love Jihad – A tool used by islamic extremists to target non-muslim girls by romance

By Thomas Cherian

In a single week there have been two high profile cases where girls were brutally raped, stabbed as even set on fire. The first case occurred in Uttar Pradesh (UP) where a college student of a specific religion was invited over by a Muslim boy named Irfan where him and his friends brutally raped her. When the girl notified her rapists of going to authorities, she was then doused her with kerosene and set her on fire where she later died from her injuries. Many critics have complained that Hindu girls being raped by Muslim boys is way to common and many times fueled by islamic extremists that propagate to younger muslim boys that they are fighting a jihad on infidels by converting or raping non-muslim (eg.Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist) girls. More about this rape case can be read here:  http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/20-yr-old-gangraped-burnt-alive-in-akhilesh-uttar-pradesh/1/290940.html.

The 2nd major incident that has taken Mumbai by storm is where a  22 year old women was kidnapped, tortured and slashed with a razor blade over 100 times over 9 days.  The girl has been given an alias ‘Sarita Sharma’ to protect her identity. The accused is a 23 year old Muslim man named  Uzaman Akbar. Media reports have indicated that Uzaman met ‘Sarita’ on the internet and lied to her about various things around his school and work status. It has come to light that Uzaman Akbar may have close connections to Islamic extremist since based on various media reports his father was one of the accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts. The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of 13 bomb explosions that took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India on Friday, 12 March 1993 where over 250 people (mostly Hindus) were killed and hundreds injured. The accused were Islamic terrorists targeting Hindus. More about this atrocity can be read here: http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-man-kidnaps-tortures-and-slashes-ex-wife-with-razor-blade-100-times-391186?pfrom=home-topstories.

Love Jihad also called Romeo Jihad, is an alleged activity under which some young Muslim boys and men reportedly target college girls belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love or abuse by rape. While similar activities and intent have been reported in places like United Kingdom, the term has been used to describe the activity in India. The allegations have raised concerns in various Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Christian organizations.