Despite being the dominant
demography in India, where Muslims form the second-largest religious
group, Hindus often become victims of Islamic terror and violence.
On Tuesday, January 25, a Hindu youth named Kishan Boliya was brutally
murdered by assailants on bicycles in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district.
Allegedly, the youth had shared an image of Islam’s prophet Mohammed on
social media – a seemingly harmless act that is known to trigger many
Muslims worldwide, and often results in the beheading or killing of the
person responsible for the act, or others who had nothing to do with it.
Some Muslims justify the killing because the act was “blasphemous.”
Kishan’s post whipped up a huge controversy, after which he did not
step out of his house for several days. According to witnesses, two
bikers were following Kishan as he was returning home on his bike on the
day of his murder. They fired at him twice. Though they missed the
first shot, they took him down with the second. Kishan died on the spot.
Police have initiated an investigation, but the locals are not
satisfied with it.
Kishan’s family initially refused his mortal remains; later,
prominent members of various Hindu organizations intervened, spoke to
the police, and assured proper investigation on the case. The family
then accepted the mortal remains and performed Kishan’s last rites on
Wednesday, January 26. Gujarat Police have arrested a few suspects, but
their identities have not been disclosed.
This cold-blooded killing in broad daylight brings back memories of
the 2019 Kamlesh Tiwari murder case, in which a Hindu leader was
slaughtered by Muslims for making “objectionable” remarks about their
prophet.
Apart from murders for alleged blasphemy, the second most rapidly
rising social evil witnessed in this geography is Grooming Jihad. A
31-year-old private bus conductor, Afzal, was arrested
by the police last week on charges of grooming and raping a 13-year-old
girl on the afternoon of January 15. Afzal had reportedly lured the
8th-grader inside the bus and sexually assaulted her with the help of
two of his accomplices.
Afzal, who is a married man with a child, groomed the minor, a daily
commuter in the bus, by pretending to be in love with her. On the day of
the crime, he asked her to meet him at the bus stand.
Afzal and his accomplices cancelled the trip, telling the bus owner
that there weren’t enough commuters. Now that they had the bus to
themselves, they brought down the window shutters and exited; the victim
was left in the bus with Afzal, who molested her.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shaju Jose, who received a tipoff
about the crime, sent a team of officials to the site and caught the
accused and his victim inside the bus. By the time the police reached
the spot, Afzal had already raped the girl twice and was forcing
unnatural sex on her. This, apparently, isn’t the first time; Afzal has
raped a minor earlier as well.
In another incident of grooming jihad, Mohammad Isaaq, a Muslim man from Nepal, initiated
a relationship with a Hindu Nepalese woman named Shiva Vishwakarma.
Shiva was working with him as a typist in Nepal. He convinced her to
marry him, concealing the fact that he was still married to his first
wife. Shiva converted to Islam after the Islamic wedding ceremony and
was given a new name, Sofia. Mohammad Isaaq then migrated to India with
Shiva and procured counterfeit identification cards for both. They were
living in Uttar Pradesh as Mohammad Yasin and Zara Khan; Mohammad took
up a job as a supplier of Ayurvedic medicines.
A few days ago, Mohammad was joined by his first wife, Shahar Bano,
in India. On Thursday, January 20, Shiva’s brother from Nepal approached
local police, suspecting that something untoward had happened to his
sister, as she was not answering his calls. The police reached the house
Shiva had been sharing with her husband and his first wife, and
recovered her body wrapped in a mattress; medical reports reveal that
she had been strangled to death.
Mohammad Issac, aka Mohammad Yasin, had fled; he was about to cross
the border and enter Nepal when Uttar Pradesh police apprehended him.
Mohammad and Shahar Bano have been arrested and accused of Shiva’s
murder; several other charges under the Indian Penal Code have also been
levied on the couple. The deceased is survived by a three-year-old
daughter, who is in state custody.
Such cases have become so common on the Indian subcontinent that
people have grown immune to such news.
Unfortunately, the government is
still struggling to recognize Grooming Jihad or Love Jihad as an
established criminal practice and formulate laws against it.
