{"id":119078,"date":"2018-05-06T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T07:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119078"},"modified":"2018-05-06T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T07:51:07","slug":"sadhvi-speaks-in-kerala-inundated-with-hate-messages-threats-to-rape-murder-hindu-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119078","title":{"rendered":"Sadhvi Speaks in Kerala \u2013 Inundated with Hate Messages, Threats to Rape\/Murder | Hindu Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadhvi Saraswati, the president of the\u00a0\u00a0Sanatan Dharma Prachar Seva Samiti, made a passionate speech against cow slaughter and Love Jihad, while\u00a0addressing<\/a>\u00a0a Hindu Convention organized by VHP and attended by even Congress workers in Kerala on Friday. In response, her Facebook page was inundated with hate messages and open threats of rape & murder.<\/p>\n

The sadhvi first called for girls to arm themselves to protect against sexual assault and Love Jihad. Love Jihad, i.e. the targeting of non-Muslim girls by radical Muslims for sexual grooming or conversion & marriage, is a phenomenon that has been a source of social tensions in North Kerala and neighbouring districts of Karnataka for over a decade now.\u00a0Many other parts of the country, such as West UP, Bengal etc are also battling this problem.<\/p>\n

The Love Jihad menace in Kerala rose to national prominence through several cases in which Hindu\/Christian girls converted to Islam and married Muslim men after spending time in the controversial Islamic education centre \u2018Sathya Sarani\u2019 in Malappuram which is linked to Islamist organization PFI. Some of those girls later left the country and are reported to have joined terror group ISIS in Afghanistan and Syria.<\/p>\n

Referring to the\u00a0gory public slaughter<\/a>\u00a0of a calf by Kerala Youth Congress last year, the sadhvi said \u201c\u201cNow I would say something which might sound bitter or wrong\u2026 You all consider cow as your mother. If your mother is standing in junction and goons are teasing her, what would you do? But in Kerala, cows are publicly slaughtered. In front of your eyes\u2026 those who slaughter cow, they should also be slaughtered publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mere presence of a\u00a0 Hindu sadhvi in Kerala and her speaking against cow slaughter and Love Jihad led to a vitriolic response by the Islamist-Marxist lobby which dominates the discourse in Kerala. Soon, what followed on the sadhvi\u2019s FB page and elsewhere on social media were threats of rape, murder, sexually explicit proposals, beef recipes, and abuses like \u201cyou are a cow-urine drinker with cow-dung in the head\u201d.\u00a0One of her FB posts has 15,000 such comments on it.<\/p>\n

But this was not all \u2013 news outlets like\u00a0The\u00a0News Minute<\/em>\u00a0cheered the ugly verbal attack on the young sadhvi. The whole matter was presented as \u2018progressive Keralites\u2019 mocking a \u2018regressive sadhvi\u2019 \u2013 the rape & murder threats were completely censored, while the deeply offensive abuses & offer of beef to a Hindu ascetic were normalized.<\/p>\n

This is how twitter exposed the hateful comments against the sadhvi & media\u2019s double standards<\/p>\n

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What'ld be the reaction of Indian media if any group of people threaten to rape a Nun? I suppose hell will break out & medias will write opeds against such cultureless group of men.
A Sadhwi is such a revered figure for many Hindus. But media cheers the men who want to rape her pic.twitter.com\/ob0sPz45ry<\/a><\/p>\n

— ? (@Kuvalayamala) May 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n