Global jihadism rising on fringes of Indian Islamist movement

[surajmal]

“I take pride,†Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a June 2005 interview, “in the fact that, although we have 150 million Muslims in our country as citizens, not one has been found to have joined the ranks of al-Qaeda or participated in the activities of [the] Taliban.†Nine years on, there is growing doubt over that claim: the Internet is bringing the global jihad home for a new generation of educated radical Islamists in India. The revelations in The Hindu of a Singapore-based jihad cell that recruited Chennai college students to serve with Islamists fighting president Bashar al-Asad’s regime in Syria are just the latest in a long series of incidents which show that Indian jihadists are making common cause with transnational groups. In 2007, Bangalore-origin, London-based Kafeel Ahmad, a post-doctoral scientist, was killed when he crashed a jeep fitted with improvised explosive devices into the Glasgow airport, in the first suicide attack by an Indian national overseas. That summer, north Kashmir resident Aijaz Ahmad Malla was reported killed fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. “This case could add a completely new dimension to the terrorist threat to India,†said Ajai Sahni, at New Delhi’s Institute for Conflict Management. “Trained by jihadists overseas, and able to access their resources, these new recruits could prove the core of a more lethal outfit than any we’ve seen so far.†Earlier this year, National Investigation Agency prosecutors filed evidence that Indian Mujahideen commander Riyaz Ahmad Shahbandri had been in touch with al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists in Afghanistan, seeking support for the organisation’s campaign against India. For India’s government, one particular concern is that many of these recruits are highly educated and economically successful. No one knows precisely what drove Kafeel Ahmed on his journey from being a studious, upper-middle-class Bangalore undergraduate to suicide bomber. He is known, however, to have abandoned the conservative but non-violent religious traditions of his parents in his early 20s, turning instead to a nee-fundamentalist order Tamil Nadu cases Tamil Nadu, interestingly, has had at least one past case involving transnational linkages. In 2011, a Madurai engineering graduate was detained at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, soon after returning to the country from Algeria. French authorities suspected the man, married to a French national, had raised funds for jihadist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. “We are not aware whether charges were pressed against the suspect,†a police official familiar with the case said. “His family in Madurai claimed that he was innocent and got married against their advice. He did not meet his family after 2010.†The most famous case of an Indian jihadist overseas, though, is of Muhammad Abdul Aziz, a one-time Hyderabad electrician who fought in Grozny in 1996, under the command of Saudi Arabia jihadist Samir Saleh Abdullah al-Suwailem. He also took part in combat against Serbian forces at Zentica in 1994, hoping to learn skills he could use at home. Mr. Aziz later told Hyderabad police investigators that he had been radicalised by the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992 — and hoped for revenge. “The last few years,†said Dr. Sahni “have seen several political developments which have stoked fears among Muslims. There are those who have tried to capitalise on these fears, and the Chennai jihad case shows these elements are having some success on the extreme fringes of Muslim political opinion.†Many of the Indian recruits are highly educated and economically successful

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/global-jihadism-rising-on-fringes-of-indian-islamist-movement/article5828487.ece But but but... (I leave that for Lucknow residents)

[diga]

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/global-jihadism-rising-on-fringes-of-indian-islamist-movement/article5828487.ece But but but... (I leave that for Lucknow residents)

& non residents of UP in Amrika

[panther]

Yh 2-3 dari walas are a big internal threat.

[Midfielder]

Learn from Israel. The only language they understand is force. Hit these Jihadis hard and often to fix the problem.

[CSK Fan]

And the solution for this of course, is to strike more fear into Muslims so that more go that way. As the article says, one of the reason was the babri masjid. And people want us to go more right wing? The number of people of that religion in our country is huge. Such huge numbers can never be controlled by force or fear. Plus they are our own countrymen. We cannot move on if they are seperated or sidelined. If you have a weak link in a chain, you strengthen it, you cannot cut it off

[bulbul]

As long as people are there to divert the blame somewhere else i dont see any reason why even Jihafists want to reform :dontknow:

[Detonator]

And the solution for this of course' date=' is to strike more fear into Muslims so that more go that way. As the article says, one of the reason was the babri masjid. And people want us to go more right wing? The number of people of that religion in our country is huge. Such huge numbers can never be controlled by force or fear. Plus they are our own countrymen. We cannot move on if they are seperated or sidelined. If you have a weak link in a chain, you strengthen it, you cannot cut it off[/quote'] I don't get this weak link theory. Here the so called weak link is threatening destroy the other links all the time. Strike fear or hug them, they are gonnna consider them as a muslim first. Agree that only a fraction of the total muslims do turn into terrorists, but they are using the good muslims as a human sheild. I donno why you badly want this high moral ground, but I don't agree with this cuddling the terrorists until some miracle changes them into peace loving angels.

[Midfielder]

You have to distinguish between Indian muslims and jihadist. Inidan muslims are some of the nicest nation loving people who have as much right of citizenship in India as any Hindu or anyone else. They are good nation loving people. the extremist is the one you should be concerned about and take action against.

[Detonator]

^ Completely agree. The problem is the extremists are hiding behind these good people. It's also not easy to differentiate a good muslim and an extremist. And in some cases, the nice muslims help the jihadists unknowingly. Also these radicals, who openly make those hate speeches against Hindus. They shld be thrown out.

[Midfielder]

^ Completely agree. The problem is the extremists are hiding behind these good people. It's also not easy to differentiate a good muslim and an extremist. And in some cases, the nice muslims help the jihadists unknowingly. Also these radicals, who openly make those hate speeches against Hindus. They shld be thrown out.

The moron doctor naik or whatever his name is. He is a threat to India and the whole concept of secularism. His speech is nothing but hate and some muslims should take the lead to stop him.

[Midfielder]

And the solution for this of course' date=' is to strike more fear into Muslims so that more go that way. As the article says, one of the reason was the babri masjid. And people want us to go more right wing? The number of people of that religion in our country is huge. Such huge numbers can never be controlled by force or fear. Plus they are our own countrymen. We cannot move on if they are seperated or sidelined. If you have a weak link in a chain, you strengthen it, you cannot cut it off[/quote'] I was talking about the fringe not main stream.

[rkt.india]

And the solution for this of course' date=' is to strike more fear into Muslims so that more go that way. As the article says, one of the reason was the babri masjid. And people want us to go more right wing? The number of people of that religion in our country is huge. Such huge numbers can never be controlled by force or fear. Plus they are our own countrymen. We cannot move on if they are seperated or sidelined. If you have a weak link in a chain, you strengthen it, you cannot cut it off[/quote'] Bamiyan destruction, did anyone of that community become extremist? attack on hindu temples like Akshardham and Gaya, did they become extremists?

[Detonator]

Bamiyan destruction' date=' did anyone of that community become extremist? attack on hindu temples like [b']Akshardham and Gaya, did they become extremists?

No no, those incidents doesn't count as terrorist activity just like the Godra train massacre. They can bomb, kill and loot anyone but we shld cuddle them to make sure we don't have weak links.