Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

“The Hindu community should protect their daughters from the influence of non- believers,” she said at a religious function in Kerala. It was a wafer-thin attempt to borrow an old trope from the ‘Love Jihad’ campaign: Hindu girls are but vulnerable creatures who wear their hearts on their sleeves, thus making them susceptible to Muslim men who marry and convert them. If people had any doubt about which group of ‘non-believers’ she was warning them against, she quickly clarified herself by adding that the findings of the Census were “disturbing and would destroy the moral fabric of the country”.