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Asking PFI members to openly embrace terrorism, it further claims “We have seen many PFI supporters join the banner of Tawheed (Islamic concept of monotheism) in different parts of the world and many have attained Shahadah. So don’t be discouraged.”
Calling the Indian government’s crackdown on members of the Popular Front of India, which have been involved in radicalizing Muslim youth and planning terror attacks across India, as “violence unleashed over Muslims by the radical Hindu state for last seven decades”, Islamic State Khorasan Province gave an open call to the cadre of the banned outfit to join its ranks.
An article published in the ISKP’s mouthpiece ‘ “The Voice of Khorasan”‘ penned by someone who refers to himself/herself as “us, Muslim Indians”, makes several insinuations to convince Indian Muslims that the crackdown on PFI is an apparent example of “Muslim genocide” in the country.
Playing up the victimhood narrative over the ban on PFI by the central government it states that “The nationwide arrest of activists and subsequent banning of an organization of the caliber of PFI follows a similar pattern of violence unleashed over Muslims by the radical Hindu state for the last seven decades”.
It further goes on to blame the mainstream media, judiciary, and society at large to have made peace with this as being normal. It also lambasts the liberal Muslims of the country and calls them as good as Kuffars (nonbelievers of Islam).
While praising the banned terror outfit SIMI for fighting with courage, it further incites Indian Muslims to keep on fighting against the Indian State.
It further justifies terror against the State by claiming issues of Muslims cannot be addressed by peaceful demonstrations or by holding placards. The article confirms that PFI members in the past have joined their terror ranks and have died fighting.
Asking PFI members to openly embrace terrorism, it further claims “We have seen many PFI supporters join the banner of Tawheed (Islamic concept of monotheism) in different parts of the world and many have attained Shahadah. So don’t be discouraged.”
“Leave placards and grab possible means to terrorize the polytheists in your land,” it said.
The Islamic State – Khorasan Province is an affiliate of the Islamic State militant group active in South Asia and Central Asia.
PFI was recently banned by the Central Government after an exhaustive investigation by the premier agency National Investigative agency found undeniable links between PFI and different global radical Islamic terror organizations.
More than 1400 cases are registered against PFI under UAPA, Explosives Act, Arms Act, and IPC. In April 2015 Mohd Sameer along with his family boarded a flight from Kerala to Saudi Arabia under the pretext of performing “Umrah”. For the next year or so he kept on traveling from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia and Turkey.
Finally, after crossing the Turkish border, he crossed over the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controlled territory in Syria. He was subsequently killed there in fighting against government forces in April 2017, two years after he performed so-called ‘Hijrah’ in the Islamic state.
The fate of the rest of his family was also sealed after their arrest and imprisonment. Mohd Sameer alias Abu Safvan was the Divisional President of now banned outfit Popular Front of India (PFI). Subsequently, many members of PFI joined ISIS in Syria and Afghanistan.
They were either killed or arrested. Some were even handed over to Indian Agencies after their arrest in Turkey. Over the years several other members and supporters of PFI left the country to join the proscribed terror outfit ISIS and its affiliate organizations.
For years PFI has denied any involvement with any terror organisation but the recent claim by ISIS mouthpiece further substantiates the deep entrenchment between PFI and ISIS. Recently the Ministry of External Affairs seized 372 passports from travellers across the country who had frequented ISIS-infested Yemen.
Out of 372 seizures, the three South Indian states — Kerala with 240, Tamil Nadu with 40, and Karnataka with 23 travellers topped the list. These three states were the hotbed of PFI activities and were the hub of extremist Islamic radicalization for the PFI.
