India: Hindutva laced monk with feathers sells 'cure' to control women going astray

The monk who sold a love 'cure'
Vasudha Venugopal, TNN | Aug 10, 2014

Armed with peacock feathers and blessed water, a Saharanpur godman is on a love jihad to 'save' Hindu girls

In riot-hit Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, it's important to read the writing on the wall. On an old building near the railway station is scrawled, 'Dharam bechne ka paap na kare.'(Don't commit the sin of converting.) Barely a kilometre away, the portly Baba Rijakdas reiterates the warning. "Young Hindu girls get easily carried away by Muslim boys here. They don't understand they are being exploited," he claims. Rijakdas' disciples revere him for his 'expertise' in 'rescuing' Hindu women. [. . .]

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