In 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau, charges for domestic violence were filed with the Indian police every four minutes. Forced marriages involve nine couples out of ten and remain the norm. Since 2020, eleven States have adopted anti-conversion laws. Ironically, ‘Love Jihad’ was a reference first used in the socially and politically most progressive state in India. According to the India Spend Initiative, an independent research body, 90% of all crimes motivated by religious hatred perpetrated since 2009 have taken place during Modi’s term of office. According to the statistics compiled by Hate Crime Watch, an independent database which was shut down in 2019, 74% of the victims are Muslims, who only constitute 14% of the population. A crusade against mixed marriages Related Arundhati Roy on religious nationalism and dissent
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51