Indian police ask interfaith couples: Is it love or terror?https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-religion-conversion/indian-police-ask-interfaith-couples-is-it-love-or-terror-idUSKBN1DQ05YQuote
NEW DELHI/ KOCHI, India (Reuters) - India’s Supreme Court will begin hearing a case on Monday that prosecutors say shows how Islamic State sympathizers are using “Love Jihad” – marrying Hindu women and converting them to Islam – to win recruits and spread their message.
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The NIA’s nine “Love Jihad” cases were based on complaints lodged by the parents of the Hindu girls and all were found to have links with IS, the NIA police sources said. The agency dropped the investigations into the other 80 cases because no links to militants were found, the sources said.
Across India, over 270 men and 20 women have been arrested for working directly or indirectly with the IS, according to data at the federal Home Ministry. But Kerala was the only state where the NIA found a direct link between cases of “Love Jihad” and the IS, the NIA sources said.
The agency says it has uncovered attempts by IS sympathizers to possibly send the women in “Love Jihad” marriages off to marry or stay with fighters from the militant group, the NIA sources said.
Is this over-reaction, or a legitimate concern? Are Islamic militants, jihadists, whatever actually using marriage as a method or ...recruitment?
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This post was edited by Ghot on Nov 26 2017 07:41am