While Newslaundry and the Islamists deem “Sanatani only” restrictions in Garba events as discriminatory, and dismiss incidents of targeted harassment of Hindu women by Muslims as ‘Garba Jihad Hindutva Conspiracy Theory’, there is ample evidence to suggest that the ‘Jihadi’ threat is real.  

AILAJ and Scroll oppose a Bareilly court's love jihad ruling, dismissing it as a political tool, but the judgment emphasises the real threat of religious coercion and deception.