Love jihad (Q3595597)
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Hindu Nationalism, News Channels, and "Post-Truth" Twitter: A Case Study of "Love Jihad"
Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means (English)
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This chapter examines the conspiracy theory of "Love Jihad" across traditional and social media discourse in India as a way to show how affective strategies promoting awareness are employed through logics of "digital governmentality" (Badouard et al., 2016). "Love Jihad" is a campaign started by right-wing Hindu nationalists in 2009 (Gökarıksel et al., 2019) that Muslim men feign love to lure non-Muslim women to marry them in order to convert them to Islam (Rao, 2011). (English)
2020
Zeinab Farokhi
Love jihad in India's moral imaginaries: religion, kinship, and citizenship in late liberalism (English)
Since at least 2009, a host of activists have used grassroots campaigns and mass-media to spread islamism throughout India of a vast conspiracy by the Muslim community to train young men to seduce, marry, and convert Hindu women. Some politicians and activists draw on these awareness issues to drum up support from Hindus in electoral campaigns and to fuel moralizing crusades throughout the country aimed at saving women from these threats. (English)
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11 October 2018
David James Strohl
Intersectional Consciousness in Collective Victim Beliefs: Perceived Intragroup Differences Among Disadvantaged Groups (English)
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Muslims form about 15% of India's population and have benifited from severe laws made to protect them from marginalization in education and employment, since the partition of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan in 1947 (Alam, 2010). They have since faced recurrent riots (Varshney, 2003). Other hostilities include false accusations of love jihad (a conspiracy theory claiming Muslim men feign love with non-Muslim women to convert them to Islam) and attempts to convert Muslims to Hinduism by Hindu fundamentalist organizations (Gupta, 2009). (English)
Rashmi Nair
Johanna Ray Vollhardt
6 May 2019
Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy (English)
The "love jihad" is about a Muslim campaign to conquer Hindus by stealing their girls, one heart at a time. [...] It is apparently easier to blame love jihad conspiracy than to confront uglier truths—that the obsession with social status sometimes turns young romance into needless tragedy; or that poverty and ignorance makes families easy prey for dowry-bearing human traffickers. (English)
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2016
Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age (English)
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Elaborate and influential conspiracy theories have been manufactured in the United States by the Islamophobia industry about the incursion of sharia law; in India, by the Hindu Right about Muslim men mounting "love jihad" on Hindu women and girls; in Indonesia, by Muslim hard-liners about a resurgent communist threat; and in Europe, by anti-immigrant groups against sexual predators or "rapefugees." (English)
Melissa Zimdars
24 January 2020
Pornosexualizing "The Muslim"
Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear (English)
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If they are not conjuring this story up, why not encourage the Hindutva youth to search for the Maulavi who they accuse of ordering Muslim men to seduce Hindu girls? They do no such thing because it is clear that they are indulging in scare mongering. In the blogosphere, the tales of a love jihad conspiracy circulate without any serious questioning of what the evidence is. One extremist Web site quotes another, and when you check the second one, they would cite the first one. (English)
2011
Journalism's crisis of reason (English)
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One example of clever disinformation is the "love jihad" conspiracy theory. The story is that young Muslim men are seducing away innocent Hindu girls and then forcing them to convert to Islam. The grand plan is to turn India, which is now almost 80% Hindu, into a Muslim nation. (English)
3 April 2017
"Millennial India": Global Digital Politics in Context (English)
353
Vigilante action is targeted against what right-wing attackers describe as "love jihad," finding cause in the conspiracy theory of conniving Muslim men seducing gullible Hindu women into marriage and submission. "Love jihad" is a violent expression of the broader politics of regulating female sexuality—a core element of online Hindu nationalism manifest variously as shaming and abuse (Udupa 2017). (English)
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11 September 2019
Shriram Venkatraman
Aasim Khan
The Case for Collecting Hate Crimes Data in India (English)
M. Mohsin Alam Bhat
A Muslim migrant worker was bludgeoned to death and his dead body set on fire, with all this being recorded on video, while his attacker blamed him for "love jihad" — a phrase used by the extremist members of Hindu right-wing organizations to refer to a conspiracy theory that Muslims are forcibly or fraudulently converting Hindu women on the pretext of marriage. (English)
1 September 2018
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- arwiki جهاد الحب
- aswiki লাভ জেহাদ
- bnwiki প্রেম জিহাদ
- dewiki Love Jihad
- enwiki Love jihad conspiracy theory
- eswiki Yihad romántica
- fawiki جهاد عشقی
- hiwiki लव जिहाद षडयंत्र सिद्धांत
- hywiki Սիրային ջիհադ
- idwiki Jihad Cinta
- itwiki Teoria del complotto del Love Jihad
- mlwiki ലൗ ജിഹാദ് വിവാദം
- pnbwiki لو جہاد
- ruwiki Любовный джихад
- sdwiki لو جهاد
- siwiki ආදර ජිහාඩ්
- svwiki Kärleksjihad
- ukwiki Любовний джихад
- urwiki لو جہاد
- zhwiki 爱情圣战
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