Another Hindu converted. Another life lost to Islam. Another family destroyed. In Shamli, a pleading, enraged father approached the police after his 25-year-old son was brainwashed into converting to Islam by his 25-year-old gym trainer – Chandni Qureshi.
Ayush Malik met Chandni Qureshi in a local gym 5 years ago. Soon, they fell in love. But this love was a little different from the love in the novels we read. This love involved Ayush becoming Rehman. This love involved Chandni, 6 of her family members, including her father and 3 Islamic clerics brainwashing Ayush to become a Muslim. This love involved a secret nikah 4 years ago, fake marriage documents, an alleged extortion bid and death threats to Ayush’s family.
Chandni, her family members and mullah maulanas sat Ayush down day after day and spoke to him about following Islamic practices, about how he should abandon Hinduism and convert to Islam. They showed him videos of Pakistani cleric Dr Israr –Zakir Naik’s mentor.
If that name sounds familiar, don’t be too surprised. The victim in the TCS Nashik case was also made to watch videos of Dr Israr and Zakir Naik while she was being taught to offer Namaz and spit on her own religion.
This has all of the markings of predatory proselytisation. Basically, based on the father’s revelations, it seems that this is a classic case of a Jihadi doing what Jihadis do best – subvert the faith of Hindus to effect either submission or conversion.
Ayush, however, has a very different version to tell the world.
Here is what he said:
According to Ayush, he was genuinely influenced by Islam and therefore adopted it as his faith. For those like Zubair and his Jihadi brethren, that statement is the asmani truth. But that is not how brainwashing works. A victim who has been brainwashed won’t necessarily know he has been brainwashed. That is the very nature of brainwashing. It is altering a person’s belief system by applying acute psychological pressure and manipulation. But there are going to be signs. Signs which those motivated to subvert the Hindu faith might overlook, but we won’t.
Now let’s consider Ayush’s statements carefully and break down what they indicate.
First, he says, “Dr Israr ki baat zyada log kaaTte nahi”.
Right off the bat, he has revealed intent. Why would Chandni, her family and her cohort of Maulanas show Ayush videos of Dr Israr if their intent was not to convert him? Consider this apple-to-apple parallel. You know how ISIS recruits Jihadis? They show them a slick production of war-like combat videos. Videos which glorify violence in search for a utopian version of the Islamic caliphate – well, whatever passes for utopian in Islam, that is. The slick production mimics first-person video games and appeals to thrill seekers, while normalizingextreme violence for the insecure seeking ideological purity. They make ISIS Jihadis appear culty, valorous and cool through professionally edited videos, exploiting grievances and insecurities to instill religious fanaticism and a zeal to die and kill, brutally so, for a horrific cause – establishing Sharia law, killing or converting Kafirs and ushering in the Islamic caliphate.
The intent behind producing and showing these videos is simple – to recruit more Jihadis.
We need to apply the same logic here. What was the purpose behind showing Ayush videos of Dr Israr Ahmed – a Maulana who believes in the two-nation theory, preaches that conversion to Islam and ushering in the Islamic caliphate in the Indian sub-continent is a religious duty? What was the purpose of showing Ayush videos of a cleric who claims that the metaphysical beliefs of Hinduism are Islamic tenets? Is idol worship a bastardised version of the original Islamic tenets, and therefore shirk? What was the purpose of showing videos to Ashish where the Maulana draws horrifying visuals of eternal hell, instilling fear that other than conversion to Islam, there is no path to saving oneself from damnation?
Another revealing aspect of this statement is the crafty loop that Muslims create. Ayush says that he was made to watch videos of Dr Israr, but there aren’t many which disagree with what he says. This is the most potent weapon of Islam, if you really think about it. If you counter their belief system, they will claim blasphemy and murder you. And in the absence of a robust and aggressive counter to the nonsense propounded by such preachers, those like Ayush conclude that the arguments and beliefs are strong, which is why no one is trying to prove them invalid.
Does this sound like a willing acceptance of the Islamic faith?
Let’s move on to his second statement – “Mandir mein jaana koi compulsory nahi hai.. Islam mein aapko pura nibhaana padega”.
Again, a beautifully revealing statement about not only what ails the Hindu society, making it vulnerable, but also what the Muslim world uses to its benefit.
What Ayush was told is basically this – you can be a Hindu and follow rituals as an option,but as a Muslim, it is your duty to follow every aspect of the religion – he says.
Now, as a Hindu, recall how many times you have heard punchlines like, “Hinduism is the most liberal religion”. “Hinduism has no place for rigidity”. “You can follow your own version of Hinduism”. “There is no need to go to a temple; God resides within us”. “Rituals are not essential to Hinduism”, “Man makes religion, religion does not make a man”, and so on and so forth.
Did you realise that these punchlines used to make one appear cool and contemporary areperhaps the root of all subjugation of Hindus?
What is the purpose of structure in a religion? Structure preserves faith. It preserves sanctity and connects one to the community – past and present. In essence, structure in a religion provides stability and moral clarity. After all, Shatrubodh cannot exist without Swayambodh. It is the Swayambodh which helps one recognise who one is, and who the other is. When one is repeatedly told that Hinduism has no structure, no boundaries, no limits, no dos and no don’ts, no compulsions and no exclusions, it ceases to be a religion which binds its followers. One is left without faith, without moral clarity, without Swayambodh, without Shatrubodhand essentially, without an identity. Think of it this way – how easy would it be to encroach on land with no peripheral markings, no boundaries, no limits and no margins? How easy would it be to cross a threshold that has never been defined? How easy would it be to cross the Rubicon when the limits of the acceptable have been shattered?
When those seeking moral clarity are told that the system of faith they have been following by virtue of their birth has nothing to offer, what the Muslims essentially do is create a fertile ground for conversion, aided by Leftist manipulation of Sanatan Dharma. Ayush was repeatedly told that Hinduism has no system, no ritualistic demands and therefore, it is not particularly wrong to leave that religious fold. After all, when nothing is mandated and no edges have been defined, painting outside the margins can’t be wrong, can it? Ayush was basically manipulated into believing that leaving Hinduism is not wrong because Hinduism, in and of itself, has no religious requirement that needs to be fulfilled. With that divorce from duty, conversion becomes easy because morally, it does not weigh on the faithful.
This, of course, isn’t true. But it is a potent tool to manipulate and brainwash the lost and of course, the ones in love. Ayush fell in love with a Muslim woman. He wanted to be with her almost desperately. In that mental state, the woman he loved, 6 members of her family and 3 Mualanas convinced him that Islam not only provides him the opportunity to be with the woman he loves, but is also a structured system that would provide him what his faith, Hinduism, cannot.
If that isn’t manipulation, if that isn’t brainwashing – what is?
With this in mind, lets move on to the 4th statement – “Agar aap Musalmaan ban gaye toh(wapis Hindu) ho nahi sakte”
The Maulanas already convinced Ayush that there is nothing morally wrong in leaving the fold of Hinduism – the fluid, free-for-all faith which has no boundaries at all, per them. However, they also convinced him that since Islam is a higher form of religious faith, it would be morally corrupt to leave its fold. It would be wrong. It would be a sin, a sin that is rewarded only with death.
Psychologically, sociologically, and economically, individuals thrive most when pursuing goals that transcend their limited understanding. When they convinced Ayush that Hinduism is merely a choice one makes for “personal” fulfilment, they also convinced him that Islam would give his life existential meaning – a faith in which every act of his would be structured to serve a higher purpose. And also, that since converting out of Hinduism comes with no moral harm, it is truly the least he can do for the woman he loves.
If that isn’t manipulation, if that isn’t brainwashing – what is?
I now come to the last statement that I would like to analyse, a statement by Ayush which confirms why his conversion and brainwashing happened behind closed doors, confirms that those who converted him hid their true intentions.
Ayush says, “Chhupaane ki ijaazat hai maahaul ke hisaab se”.
He confirms what is known as “Al Taqqiyaa” – where Islam allows Muslims to lie and pretend to be something else, in order to hide their true intentions. And what are those “true intentions”? The spread of Islam all over the world. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s Islamic theology, and even the newest entrants to the fold know it. Do you think the 3 maulanas and 6 family members did not? Do you think they would tell Ayush why they are brainwashing him, manipulating him to convert out of Hinduism and accept Islam? Do you think they would tell him that it is not love for which they want him to convert, but because he is another pawn in their wet dreams of turning India into Dar-Ul-Islam?
Carl Jung said that every human being goes through a moment of deep psychological crisis, a moment when the identity they built to survive in the world, what he called the Persona, starts to crack from inside. Think about a young, educated Hindu man who has done everything his family asked of him, but is privately empty and quietly burning with anger — because it is his own Hindu identity, his own upbringing, that is stopping him from being with the woman he loves. His old self no longer fits. But a new one hasn’t been built yet. Jung called this the Dark Night of the Soul, and he warned that this is the most dangerous moment a person can live through, because the mind is desperately grabbing at anything that will give it meaning, certainty, and peace. This is exactly where Dr Israr Ahmed’s lectures move in like a predator. He is calm, scholarly, soft-spoken — the wise, reassuring father figure that a broken, searching mind has been waiting for. He hands this young man a complete intellectual framework that makes conversion feel logical, inevitable, even liberating. To someone in that much pain, it doesn’t feel like manipulation. It feels like rescue. But make no mistake — it is manipulation, cold and calculated.
In fact, Jung’s theory tells us it goes even deeper than that. All of us carry a Shadow — a dark interior space stuffed with everything we were told to suppress: rage, shame, rebellionand of course, forbidden love.
Dr Israr’s thundering prophecy of a global Islamic revolution, of a rotten world order being smashed and replaced, speaks directly into that Shadow. It takes the young man’s buried anger and dresses it up as a holy purpose.
And then there is what Jung called the Anima, the deep psychological pull toward the romantic opposite. When this vulnerable Hindu man falls for a Muslim woman who offers him warmth, intellectual fire, and a completely new vision of the world, his rational mind shuts down entirely. She is no longer just a woman he loves. In his psyche, she has become the answer to every question he has ever had about himself. Accepting her faith then feels less like surrendering to outside pressure and more like becoming whole.
This is where the real crime of this manipulation lies. The young man’s pain is genuine. His hunger for meaning is genuine. His love is genuine. What Dr. Israr’s machine does is reach into that genuine, raw human longing and weaponise it, turning a man’s most vulnerable moment into a conversion opportunity.
Essentially, Chandni, her family and the maulanas ensured that Ayush is first put in a vulnerable psychological position and then handed him the framework to convert to Islam. A well-thought-out manipulation strategy crafted over 1500 years.
This is not love. This is not homecoming. This isn’t religious fulfilment of the battered soul. This is brainwashing. Manipulation. A step perfected to turn Dar-ul-Harb into Dar-ul-Islam. This is Islam, and Ayush is not a hero – but a victim of the cult of death.
