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Chicken shop worker Syed Moin becomes first to be arrested under Karnataka’s Freedom of Religion Act for illegally converting Hindu Yadav girl in dargah

A 24-year-old Muslim man, Syed Moin, has been arrested for forcing an 18-year-old Hindu girl to elope from Bengaluru and then convert to Islam at a dargah in Andhra Pradesh for ‘marriage’. This is the first arrest under the recently promulgated Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act.

As per reports, Moin has been charged with two cases, one under the new act, and the other on a kidnapping charge. The new Act, also dubbed the ‘anti-conversion law’, came into force in Karnataka on September 30.

The case came to light when the Hindu girl from an OBC community, Khushboo Yadav, went missing from her home in Yeshwanthpur, north Bengaluru on October 5. Moin works at a chicken shop, and he and the girl were neighbors at B K Nagar area of Yeshwanthpur. The girl, one of the four children of a painter from Uttar Pradesh, had dropped out of school.

Her distraught mother Gyantidevi filed a missing complaint at Yeshwanthpur Police Station the following day, stating that she suspected Syed Moin had taken her away after brainwashing her. Later on October 8, Moin and Khushboo appeared before the police and claimed that they got married under Muslim law, police said.

Following this, Gyantidevi filed a second police complaint on October 13, under the anti-conversion law, stating that Moin duped Khushboo into converting to Islam to marry him. Khushboo was taken to a dargah near Penukonda in Andhra Pradesh on October 5 and forced to convert to Islam and later brought back to Bengaluru by Moin.

Grooming Jihad accused chicken shop worker Syed Moin (Image Source: Urduduniya)

“A report must be given to the district commissioner regarding any conversion from one religion to another to facilitate inter-religious marriages. However, my daughter was converted without following these rules. My daughter has been converted from Hinduism to Islam under the promise of marriage which is a violation of law,” the mother stated in her complaint which named Moin and others who abetted the elopement and illegal conversion.

Subsequently, a case was registered under section 5 of the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act and the accused Syed Moin has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody.

As per the anti-conversion law, “No person shall convert or attempt to convert either directly or otherwise any other person from one religion to another by use of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage, nor shall any person abet or conspire for conversions”. Complaints against such fraudulent conversions can be filed by family members of a person who gets converted or any other person related to him or her, including a colleague.

The law says a marriage involving conversion will have legal recognition only if the conversion is brought to the notice of a district magistrate, both 30 days in advance and 30 days post-conversion, and gets his approval.

Gyantidevi said her daughter lacked the intelligence of other girls, and thus became an easy prey for the Islamist youth. In fact, it is often seen in such cases that the Islamist ecosystem traps even intelligent girls – both minors and young adults – through myriad means such as blackmail via intimate photos/videos; threats by the man to commit self-harm or harm the girl’s family; and Islamist indoctrination at centers like Sathya Sarini. Both informal and formal networks of lawyers, safe houses, maulanas and organizations like now-banned PFI, Islamic Dawah Center, Jamia Imam Waliullah Trust facilitate this racket.

HinduPost has long held the position that inter-faith marriages should only be permissible under Special Marriage Act (SMA), which allows both spouses to retain their religious identity and ensures that rights of the woman are well guarded, unlike the precarious position of women in marriages governed by sharia. It is also incumbent on Hindu Dharmic and social organizations to spread awareness among Hindu families on this crucial issue, and not shy away from performing their duty towards society due to fear of being labelled ‘communal’ or offending secular-minded ‘Hindus’.

Abrahamic supremacists oppose law that promotes inter-faith harmony

This much-needed law, which follows similar ones introduced recently in UP, MP, Gujarat, Haryana and HP, has been hotly opposed by Abrahamic supremacists who see it as an obstruction to their goal of converting ‘pagan/kafir’ Bharat into followers of their respective ‘one true God’.

The Christian Catholic Archdiocese of Bengaluru has stated it is ‘deeply disturbed and pained’ by the new law and claimed that the Christian community “feels betrayed for all its selfless services to society in the fields of education, health and social service”. This deeply disturbing attitude shows exactly why all Christian social work is tainted because the end goal remains the conversion of native populations contemptuously labelled ‘heathen/pagan’. Beneath the suave facade of secularism and ‘inter-faith harmony’, lurks this ugly reality.

Missionaries played a crucial part in the ‘civilizing mission’ of brutal European colonial powers, and they have become even more aggressive in their mission since the mid-90s after launch of ‘AD2000 and Beyond Movement/Joshua Project‘, Pope’s call for planting the cross in Asia in third millennium, and Vatican’s launch of the Rights-based Approach to Global Evangelization in 2004. The anti-Hindu and pro-missionary Sonia Gandhi-led UPA coming to power in Bharat in 2004 infused supremacist evangelicals – both Protestant and Catholic – with even more vigor to unleash their bigoted assault on Hindus and other Dharmiks from Bharat’s diverse janjatis.

Jamaat-e-Ulema-Hind, the central body of Deobandi maulanas, has also been waging its own legal battle against these new laws in various states. In Gujarat, they managed to convince left-liberal judges of the Gujarat HC to strike down key provisions of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act 2021 – the HC order has been challenged in SC by Gujarat govt.

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