Jamitha Teacher, a former Islamic educator turned rationalist activist, has provided one of the most detailed exposés of how Islamist groups systematically groom and convert young people, particularly Hindus and Christians, in Kerala. Speaking from personal experience and years of observation, she has outlined a chillingly methodical approach that operates beneath the surface of everyday social interactions.
What makes her testimony uniquely credible is that she was once on the other side – a devout Muslim who studied in Arabic colleges, taught in madrasas, and witnessed firsthand how the system operates. Her revelations expose a conversion machinery that relies not on theological persuasion but on psychological manipulation, gradual isolation, and exploitation of emotional vulnerability.
This article is based on the interview series published on Janam Online YouTube channel – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
The Six-Stage Grooming Process
Before we understand the grooming process, Jamitha explains about adolescent psychology. She argues that organised conversion, as she describes it, rarely begins with theology. Instead, it begins with human biology.
The Biological Window: Why Teenagers Are Vulnerable
According to Jamitha, teenagers and young adults experience intense emotional and hormonal changes that make them particularly susceptible to forming deep romantic attachments. She contends that this period of life is characterised by heightened emotional dependence, a desire for acceptance and an increased willingness to trust those with whom they develop intimate relationships.
In her view, these natural emotions are sometimes deliberately exploited. She claims that the initial objective is not religious conversion but emotional attachment. Once trust, affection and dependency are established, discussions gradually shift towards religion, lifestyle and eventually marriage. By the time conversion is introduced, she argues, the individual has already undergone significant psychological conditioning through the relationship itself.
For this reason, Jamitha frequently advises parents not merely to warn their children about conversion but to understand adolescent psychology. She argues that awareness of emotional vulnerability, open communication within families and critical thinking are more effective safeguards than fear or coercion.
Stage One: Building Trust Through Friendship
The conversion process begins innocuously. According to Jamitha, Muslim youth are strategically placed as “friends” in schools, colleges, and neighbourhoods. These individuals maintain relationships for months or years without any visible religious agenda. They participate in festivals, attend social gatherings, and become trusted companions.
Jamitha recounts how Hindu children in engineering colleges were systematically approached by Muslim friends. These friendships were not accidental. They were orchestrated. The Muslim friend would slowly introduce religious topics, frame them as casual curiosity, and gauge the target’s receptiveness.
“You don’t have to tell them, ‘Who told you this?’ ‘Where did you get this from?'” Jamitha explains. “If you know a friend has put it on, then when you look at it, Muslim friends are always female spiders. These are people who have been female friends. They put it on little by little. If you think we will listen to it, then put it on again and again.”
Stage Two: Incremental Exposure to Religious Content
Once trust is established, the exposure begins. It starts with seemingly benign discussions: “What does your religion say about this?” and gradually becomes more pointed. The Muslim friend frames Islam as a complete, logical, and fair system while subtly undermining the target’s own faith.
Jamitha notes that the target is never asked to convert directly. Instead, the friend presents Islam as offering something lacking in their current belief system. This approach is calculated to avoid triggering defensive reactions.
“Now I am telling my sister that if others ask me if I have heard this or not, I will tell you a little more. On the other hand, if I ask someone about myself, I will say that if someone tells you something about me, let it sit in your mind. I don’t want to hear it. It is a curiosity to know what is the rest. I don’t need it.”
Stage Three: Introducing Sources and “Scholars”
The next stage involves introducing the target to online content, YouTube channels, and “scholars.” The Muslim friend carefully curates this content, presenting it as authentic and authoritative. The target is encouraged to ask questions, creating an illusion of intellectual openness.
Jamitha describes how children who approached her with doubts were told, “Teacher has many doubts, we need to clear up our doubts.” The children were then directed to specific videos and materials. What began as casual curiosity became a structured learning process.
“They say, ‘Let me learn a little more. This is right, Islam is right.’ Gradually, they start wearing full slave clothes. They start wearing clothes with collars that don’t come down. They don’t go to the temple, they avoid mingling with others a little and then they reduce their talk.”
Stage Four: Physical Transformation and Isolation
This is the critical turning point. The target begins adopting visible markers of Islamic identity: headscarves for women, specific clothing, beard styles for men. Jamitha describes how a Plus One student who was groomed through friendship began wearing “an over-caring headscarf and full sleeves” at the insistence of her Muslim boyfriend.
Once the physical transformation begins, the isolation intensifies. The target is encouraged to stop visiting temples or churches, reduce contact with non-Muslim friends and family, and increasingly depend on the Muslim community for social connection.
Jamitha recounts the case of a young girl who stopped going to the temple, stopped talking to her brother, and stopped interacting with relatives. When her family questioned her, she took poison. Two men later attacked her for “going to her father without a shawl.”
Stage Five: Emotional Manipulation and Dependency
As isolation deepens, emotional manipulation becomes the primary tool. The target is made to feel that their family and former friends are enemies of their newfound faith. They are told that only the Muslim community understands them. This creates psychological dependency.
Jamitha describes how groomers use threats and emotional blackmail. One young man threatened suicide if his target broke contact, writing a 22-page letter before climbing a rock and declaring, “I am going to commit suicide after writing your name.”
The target is made to feel that leaving the new “community” would mean losing everything: friends, identity, and purpose. This dependency is deliberately cultivated.
Stage Six: Complete Assimilation
The final stage is complete assimilation. The target has been psychologically and socially transformed. They have cut ties with their birth family, adopted Islamic practices, and become part of a new community. Any lingering doubts are suppressed through constant reinforcement and the threat of social exile.
Jamitha notes that these individuals often become the most ardent evangelists. They are living proof of the “truth” of Islam, and their conversion is presented as a triumph. The cycle then begins anew as they become agents of further conversions.
Case Studies That Prove The Pattern
Throughout the interview, Jamitha refers to multiple incidents which she presents as examples supporting her argument.
The Surya Pratap Murder: When Friendship Ends in Death
Jamitha recounts the case of Surya Pratap, a 17-year-old from Uttar Pradesh. His Muslim friend Azad, his playmate for 17 years, invited him to an Eid celebration. When Surya arrived, 16 Muslim youths held him down and cut his throat. None objected. Jamitha emphasizes: “If any of them had said, ‘No, our friend, don’t do it,’ then we should understand that these 16 people had a single opinion in cutting him off.”
The Ashkar Case: Conversion, Murder, and Brutality
Ashkar killed Akhila’s husband, then killed her when she rejected his proposal. He married Amina and drowned a 15-year-old boy. Finally, he tortured and killed Akhila’s one-and-a-half-year-old toddler – breaking both arms, burning with cigarettes, peeling skin. The child suffered for 12 days. Ashkar’s mother and sister were complicit. Despite the brutality, police could not even file an FIR against him due to his influence and political connections.
The Kerala Story and Kashmir Files Are True
Jamitha made a significant statement affirming the truth of films like The Kerala Story and The Kashmir Files. When asked about the veracity of these films, she responded emphatically: “The Kerala story is definitely true. The Kashmir Files is true.”
She argues that these films expose realities that religious extremists want to suppress. “That is why these people are not catching the parrots in the mango orchards. Stoners will come. People should not know this. For a long time, you cannot fool everyone. You can fool a few people for a short time.”
She credits social media for bringing these truths to light. “Today, all this has come out due to the influence of social media.”
The Ideological Foundation: What Makes This Possible
Jamitha identifies the ideological roots of this conversion machinery. The Quran and Hadith provide theological justification. Islamic supremacism teaches that non-Muslims are inferior and that conversion is a religious duty.
She describes how the 22-year-old B.Tech graduate Jamesa Mubin from Coimbatore planned a suicide bomb attack on a temple during Diwali. He had been waiting for five years, preparing explosives, and dreaming of the houris he would receive in paradise. He did not touch his wife during that time because he was saving himself for paradise.
“When a 22-year-old does not even touch the woman he brought with him, at the age of 22, this idea accumulated in his brain. We cannot blame him. Its base and capital are in this book.”
Jamitha argues that Islam is inherently expansionist. “In Islam, the only thing is not nationalism. This is not your world. Your world is your world. It is a world that implements only the laws of Allah according to the Islamic constitution, which only Muslims have. It is based on religion. This is the journey to conquer Islam, that world, we must conquer it, our efforts will not end until we bring the whole world under the feet of Islam.”
The Kerala Government’s Complicity
Jamitha criticizes the Congress-led Kerala government for its silence and complicity. She notes that Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan cannot control the Muslim League. When extreme groups like NDF, SIMI, Popular Front, and PDP grew in Kerala, it was during periods of League influence.
“VD Satheesan says that the Muslim League is not secular. The Muslim League is secular. Jamaat-e-Islami has no terrorism. Jamaat-e-Islami now has no idea that it is an Islamic state. A Chief Minister who does not come down from Panakkad and says this can never serve this country.”
The Role of Women: Both Victims and Perpetrators
Jamitha makes a crucial point about women’s role in the conversion machinery. Women are both victims and perpetrators. Some women actively participate in the grooming process. The Ashkar case involved his mother, sister, and first wife – all complicit in the torture and murder of a toddler.
But women are also the primary victims. They are subjected to forced conversion, forced marriage, and systematic domestic abuse. Jamitha notes that Muslim women are taught to submit to their husbands unconditionally, to hand over their salaries, and to accept all forms of abuse without complaint.
“Women generally have the ability and capacity to defend themselves. My daughter went to Russia alone; she has the capacity to defend herself. So instead of being raised like that, women are always slaves. Oh, if there is no husband, she will go astray. If there is no brother, she will be attacked. This tendency should change.”
Why This Matters: The Scale of the Problem
Jamitha reveals that the scale of conversions and radicalization is enormous. A religious priest named Aliyar Kazmi admitted that tens of thousands of Muslim youth have left the religion in Kerala alone. If they declared it openly, the numbers would be in the lakhs.
But the same priest ignores the many more who have been radicalized. Every year, thousands of students graduate from Arabic colleges without any general education. They know nothing about the Prime Minister of India, basic science, or world history. All they know is a sixth-century ideology that justifies war, looting, and murder.
“Our future scientists, doctors, engineers, collectors, and freedom fighters are all those we are losing. They are still willing to justify the Prophet’s affair with a six-year-old girl. They are justifying it by putting on this coat. They have degraded to the point of asking, ‘What’s wrong with you when a 53-year-old man ties up a six-year-old girl?'”
The Way Forward: Awareness and Education
Jamitha advocates for education and awareness as the only solution. She has personally mentored young people who were being groomed, helping them understand the true nature of the ideology they were being drawn into.
She advises parents to teach their children to recognize the signs of grooming. When a friend starts talking about religion or Islam, that is a red flag. When friendship becomes an exercise in religious evangelism, it is time to question the relationship.
“I also give them this kind of awareness. You should not talk about religion. My religion is something big. Is your religion like this? Why did Ganesha get a human head? Why did an elephant get a human head? What is the shape of a human being? When you start asking questions like this, you should understand that there is something wrong with that relationship.”
Conclusion
Jamitha Teacher’s testimony exposes a sophisticated, multi-stage conversion machinery operating within Kerala. It relies on friendship, incremental exposure, physical transformation, isolation, emotional manipulation, and complete assimilation. The process is not about genuine spiritual seeking; it is about creating converts through psychological coercion.
The ideological foundation lies in the Quran and Hadith, which sanction violence against non-Muslims and mandate Islamic expansion. The Kerala government’s complicity and the Muslim League’s political protection make this machinery possible.
The victims are primarily young people, Hindu and Christian boys and girls who are groomed through friendship, then isolated from their families, and finally absorbed into a system that denies their basic dignity and human rights.
The solution, according to Jamitha, is education and awareness. Parents must teach their children to recognize grooming patterns. Society must understand that religious conversion in these cases is not about faith – it is about control, exploitation, and ultimately, the destruction of India’s secular fabric.
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