Marrying him would have required that she convert to Islam. The Qur’an forbids Muslim women to marry “idolaters”: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave is better than an idolater, even though he pleases you. These people invite you to the fire, and Allah invites you to the garden, and to forgiveness by his grace, and explains his signs to mankind so that perhaps they will remember.” (Qur’an 2:221)
Dalit woman stabbed to death in Uttara Kannada after refusing proposal, accused found dead a day later
by Anisha Reddy, South First, January 4, 2026:
A 30-year-old Dalit woman, Ranjitha Bhanasode, was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Yellapur town of Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district on Saturday, January 3, allegedly by a man known to her.
The accused, identified as Rafique Imamsab, was found dead on Sunday, hanging from a tree in a forested area near Yellapur, police told reporters.
The killing triggered protests by Hindu outfits, which called for a Yellapur bandh on Sunday, terming the killing a fallout of ‘love jihad’.
The accused and the murdered woman were friends since their school days, police said.
As per the preliminary investigation, the accused was pressuring the woman to marry him. He allegedly attacked her with a knife in public after she refused his proposal.
The murder took place on Saturday afternoon when Bhanasode, who worked as a mid-day meal helper at a government school, was returning home from her workplace.
Police said she had married in Solapur, Maharashtra, around 12 years ago and had a 10-year-old son, but later separated from her husband and was living with her family in Yellapur.
According to the complaint filed by her sister, Akshata Bansode, the accused had repeatedly insisted on marriage despite objections from Bhanasode and her family….
“It is a 100 percent case of love jihad where single women, widows or divorcees are targeted,” Sri Ram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik told reporters….
As the world prepared to welcome the New Year, Hindu families in Bangladesh continued to fight for their lives, livelihoods, and belongings. In the early hours of December 24, 2025, attackers locked the doors from the outside and set fire to the homes of two Hindu families in Sultanpur village, Raozan upazila of Chattogram. Smoke filled the houses while the occupants slept, but all the residents narrowly escaped by cutting through the tin roof and bamboo fencing. Officials noted this was the sixth arson attack on the minority community in five days, with police saying it followed a pattern of similar incidents in the area, where doors were locked from the outside before the homes were set ablaze.
Again, on December 27, 2025, at least five homes belonging to Hindu families were deliberately set ablaze in Damritala/Dumritola village of Pirojpur district, southern Bangladesh. Police and locals said the families escaped, but their homes, household goods, land documents, and livestock were destroyed entirely. The assailants acted with the same calculated brutality, locking the doors from the outside before setting the houses ablaze, to ensure that those trapped inside would burn to death. The timing and method of the attack sent has shocked the Hindu community across Bangladesh.
Life has become increasingly precarious for religious minorities in Bangladesh, as growing jihadist sentiment among the Bangladeshi youth and the steady rise of Sharia adherence continue to affect the country’s treatment of religious minorities. Hindu communities, in particular, are living under the constant threat of Muslim-driven mob violence, arson, and intimidation. Observers increasingly view what authorities repeatedly describe as “isolated incidents” as part of a wider pattern of Islamic jihad activity taking over the streets.
Islamic hysteria
Earlier in mid-December 2025, we had reported on the brutal mob lynching of Hindu youth Dipu Chandra Das in Bhaluka, Mymensingh district. This incident should have prompted immediate, strong action from the state. While Dipu was abducted, lynched, tied to a tree, and set on fire on allegations of blasphemy against Islam, after subsequent police investigations, the administrative officials revealed publicly that no evidence of the victim indulging in any form of blasphemy towards Islam was found, exposing the lethal consequences of the religious hysteria that drives mob justice and acts based on fabricated accusations in Bangaldesh.
Again, the media narrative, from both national and international, left-leaning establishments, quickly shifted as well. Coverage of Dipu Chandra Das’s killing was hurriedly buried as headlines became dominated by the political assassination of jihadist student leader Sharif Osman Hadi. The sustained focus on Hadi’s killing and the surrounding political unrest drowned out scrutiny of Islamic mob violence against minorities, allowing the issue to fade from public debate without resolution.
As media houses and narrative-building machinery remained fixated on the glorification of the deceased Islamic youth leader, violence against Hindus continued to escalate. On December 29, 2025, Bajendra Biswas (40), a Hindu worker deployed at Sultana Sweaters Limited, a garment factory in the Mehrabari area of Bhaluka Upazila, Mymensingh district, was shot dead inside the factory premises. Police identified the accused as Noman Mia (29), a fellow member of the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Force, an auxiliary paramilitary unit assigned to factory security. The fatal shooting occurred around 6:30 pm, after which Biswas was rushed to a local health facility, where he was declared dead. Though Noman Mia has been arrested, authorities are attempting to downplay this case, suggesting that the shooting was an internal dispute. Watering down the murders of Hindu victims is nothing new in Bangladesh, and shocks no one. This killing marked yet another violent death of a Hindu man in the same region within days, further reinforcing fears of unbridled Islamic violence and jihad activity.
On December 31, 2025, a Muslim mob brutally attacked a 50-year-old Hindu businessman, Khokon Chandra Das, in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur district in Bangladesh while he was returning home after closing his pharmacy and mobile banking shop. The assailants beat and stabbed him with sharp weapons, doused him with petrol, and set him on fire, forcing him to jump into a nearby pond to extinguish the flames and save his life. Locals later rescued him and took him to Shariatpur Sadar Hospital before he was referred to Dhaka in critical condition. The victim’s wife stated that the attackers were Muslims and said the family had no personal or business disputes with anyone. Police have identified two suspects named Rabbi and Sohag, and continue further investigation.
What emerges from these events is a disturbing continuum of violence, including mob lynchings, targeted arson, and fatal attacks taking place within days of each other, all amid rising Islamic jihad activity in the country. A Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) report has noted at least 71 incidents linked to blasphemy allegations against Hindus from June through December 2025, across more than 30 districts, including Chandpur, Chattogram, Dinajpur, Lalmonirhat, Sunamganj, Khulna, Comilla, Gazipur, Tangail, and Sylhet.
Media reports also highlight a desperate appeal from the Hindus in Bangladesh, who say they feel trapped in the midst of rising violence and fear for their lives following recent brutal mob lynchings. They have made an emotional plea to the government of India to open its borders so they can flee persecution and find safety. “We face constant insults for our faith, but cannot react to repeated humiliation. The mere taunts we face while walking down the road may soon turn into mob killings. We are trapped and have nowhere to go. We swallow insults as we fear we could meet the same fate as Dipu or Amrit.”… “We are helpless. We can only escape to India, but there is strict control at the borders,” says a 52-year-old resident speaking to The Times of India.
The appeal reflects deep anxiety within the Hindu community, as rising support for hardline political figures known for emboldening jihadist elements has intensified fears that violence and discrimination against Hindus will further escalate.
In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
And according to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
Woman shot dead in Wah Cantt in suspected honour killing
by Saleh Mughal, Express Tribune, January 2, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A married woman was shot dead at her father’s home in Rawalpindi on Friday in what police described as an honour killing allegedly orchestrated by her husband and uncle through phone and video calls from Qatar.
Samira Aziz, who had been residing in Qatar with her husband, was brought to Pakistan a week earlier by two uncles under what her sister later alleged was a pretext. On the night of the incident, relatives arrived at the family home in the Lalazar area of Wah Cantt and, acting on instructions delivered via video call from Qatar, allegedly shot her multiple times.
According to the first information report lodged by Sub-Inspector Asif Iqbal Khan, the attackers, identified as Waleed and Asrar, who are close relatives of Aziz’s father, entered the house after her aunt was instructed by phone to open the door. The FIR states that Aziz’s husband, Suleman, then made a video call and directed the aunt to remove Aziz’s sister from the room and “let them finish Samira off”.
The two men allegedly drew pistols and opened fire, hitting Aziz in various parts of her body. She died at the scene.
The motive, as cited in the police report, stemmed from suspicions by Aziz’s husband, who had allegedly found her speaking on the phone with another man while in Qatar….
