It was easy to whip up frenzy among Jats—the only rumour that needed to be broadcast was that a Jat woman had been seduced by a circumcized Muslim. Over the decades, circumcision has been built up as a challenge to Hindu virility. Acharya Giriraj Kishore warned women journalists to steer clear of Muslim men ‘who get themselves circumcised to give our girls greater pleasure as part of their love jihad’. This is demoralizing stuff, inducing great psychological anxieties. As it is Jat women are in short supply. Poaching by outsiders would lead to further depletion.
