Then came a nationwide scare about “love jihad” – an alleged Muslim ploy to make India a Muslim-majority country by seducing Hindu girls into romantic entanglements that would lead to their conversion to Islam. No sooner had this BJP-fueled hysteria been widely dismissed – Muslims comprise 13% of India’s population, and there have been only a handful of such marriages – than the inflammatory rhetoric mounted.
接着是对“爱圣战”（love jihad）的全国性恐慌。“爱圣战”据称是一场以让印度成为穆斯林多数国家为目标的穆斯林运动，其手段是引诱印度教女孩陷入浪漫陷阱，把她们转变为伊斯兰教徒。这场印度人民党推波助澜的歇斯底里刚刚大致消散——穆斯林只占印度人口的13%，这类婚姻的数量也很少——煽动性的言辞就乘势而起。