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India-Pakistan

NIA raids continue across several locations in Jammu and Kashmir, separate case in Tamil Nadu

2023-05-09

The police are keeping busy on their various jihadi hunts.

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency is continuing with its raids across several locations in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
The raids pertain to the criminal conspiracy hatched by terror groups operation under various pseudo-names, at the behest of Pakistain's ISI. The raids are taking place in Anantnag, Srinagar, Poonch, Rajouri, Kupwara and Kishtwar.

The raids also are taking place in the backdrop of the Rajouri and Poonch attacks by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in which 10 Army jawans bit the dust.

Earlier this month the NIA conducted raids in Jammu and Kashmir in a case related to the separatist and secessionist activities of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JeI).

The JeI has been carrying out terror funding activities in Jammu and Kashmir even after it was declared an unlawful association. The NIA carried out searches at the premises of the JeI at 16 locations, including 11 in District Baramulla in Kashmir valley and the remaining 5 located in District Kishtwar in Jammu region. Several incriminating materials and digital devices were seized during the searches and were being examined for more clues in the case.

NIA investigations so far have revealed that JeI (J&K) members had been collecting funds domestically and from abroad through donations, particularly in the form of zakat, mowda and bait-ul-mal, as well as for purported charitable purposes, such as promotion of education and health. The funds were, instead, being used for ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful and secessionist activities in J&K. They were also being channelled to proscribed terrorist organizations, such as Hizb- ul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) and others through well organised networks of JeI cadres, an NIA note said.

Further, as per the investigations, JeI was also engaged in motivating impressionable youth of Kashmir and recruiting new members (Rukuns) in J&K for carrying out ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful, disruptive and secessionist activities.

Previous investigations by the NIA had revealed that one of the four arrested accused, identified as Javaid Ahmad Lone, had been soliciting funds and organising meetings in the name of JeI, J&K. He had been delivering hateful anti-India speeches and exhorting people to make donations at these meetings. Along with Aadil Ahmad Lone, he had also acquired firearms and ammunition with ulterior motives from the other two accused, identified as Manzoor Ahmad Dar and Rameez Ahmad Kondu, the NIA note also read.

NIA raids multiple locations in J&K, Tamil Nadu in separate cases

[GreaterKashmir] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was on Tuesday conducting raids in Jammu & Kashmir and Tamil Nadu in separate cases, sources said.

A source said that in Tamil Nadu the NIA was raiding ten locations belonging to the banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization Popular Front of India (PFI).

…the latest identity of Pakistan sock puppet National Development Front (NDF) and the thrice-banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), whose goal was to conquer India to make their very own caliphate. They’re fond of IEDs, swords, Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda, the perverse pleasures of Love Jihad, and have surprisingly well-trained connections with jihadis in Bangladesh and Pakistan...

The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI)

... the political wing of the banned Islamic organization Popular Front of India (PFI)...

premises were also being raided.The NIA teams were examining a number of incriminating documents.

In Jammu and Kashmir, the raids were going on at multiple locations in a terror funding case. As of now the NIA has not officially commented anything on the raids.

Further details are awaited.

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India-Pakistan

Understanding radicalisation in Kerala and how seeds were sown 30 years back

2023-05-03

[OneIndia] The Kerala Story, a movie slated for release on May 5 has already created a controversy with many leaders demanding a ban on the same.

The movie says that nearly 32,000 girls were converted to Islam and sold off as sex slaves. While there is no official count on the numbers, there are documented cases of several women joining the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Afghanistan after being converted.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is probing a case which relates to 24 from Kerala joining the Islamic State in Afghanistan, which is also known as the Islamic State Afghanistan Khorsan Province.

In recent years, radicalisation has been an often debated matter, especially in Kerala. The probe that was conducted into the now banned Popular Front of India and also the activities of radical Islamic preacher, Zakir Naik
Indian Islamic preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, which doesn't rely very heavily on the scientific method. He is also the founder of the oxymoronic Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. He has been called an authority on comparative religion and the most influential Salafi ideologue in India, though usually by himself. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a physician. His preaching is currently banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Antarctica. He is currently holed up in Malaysia, where he's not banned...
by the central agencies showed the extent of radicalisation that had crept into the society.

The problem of radicalisation began when the Gulf-funded Wahhabi preachers began visiting Kerala. With them came a change in the mindset of many in the state. It would be completely wrong to say that the problem of radicalisation is spread across Kerala, but yes there are pockets where it is immense, a counter-terror and counter-radicalisation expert explains to OneIndia.

To understand how old the problem is, one has to visit the Lal Singh vs State of Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
case of 1991.

The case relates to one Basheer a resident of Kerala, who was part of the bad boy faction of the Students Islamic Movement of India. He had organised a convention in Mumbai and later on it was found that the same was done to create a liaison between the Khalistan forces and SIMI.

V Balachandran, former officer with the Research and Analysis Wing explains that Lal Singh was brought in by Pakistain, who was part of the Khalistan movement. Pakistain had wanted the SIMI to grow with a particular target on South India. Basheer had even surveyed several targets in South India, including the Madras Stock Exchange with the intention of bombing it. That however did not work out.

Balachandran said that when it comes to Kerala, the two main concerns that the agencies had found was the issue of radicalisation.

Going by the Lal Singh case, it appears as though the phenomenon is not new and the seeds of radicalisation had been sown over 30 years back.

The National Investigation Agency is probing the Kerala Islamic State case. The agency noted that all those who had left for Afghanistan are educated. During the probe the agency learnt that the brainwashing was so strong that many who did not subscribe to the view of the Islamic State finally were convinced.

'#TheKeralaStory': After row, 32,000 missing women changed to 3 https://t.co/R7NJVCLCgb
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) May 2, 2023

Amid the raging controversy over the upcoming film 'The Kerala Story', the producers of the film on Tuesday changed the text of the introduction to the film in its latest teasers on YouTube.

Earlier, the text mentioned that around 32,000 women have gone missing from Kerala. Now the changed version says that three women, who after getting brainwashed, converted and were sent on terror missions in India and abroad.

The film starring Adah Sharma, slated to release on May 5 created a major controversy when it claimed that 32,000 women have left the state.

As soon as the teaser of the film was released, the ruling CPI(M)-led Left and the UDF demanded that the film should not be screened.

Leader of Opposition V.D. Satheesan said their stand has been clear and in the name of expression of freedom, they will not allow anyone to spread canards and it will be appropriately dealt with and they have already asked for a ban of the film.

A petition was filed before the Kerala High Court on Tuesday seeking a ban on the screening of the film.

Certain outfits announced cash prizes to prove the claim. The Kerala State Committee of Moslem Youth League announced a reward of Rs 1 crore for the individual who proves the "allegations" levelled in the movie. A right-wing activist and founder of the Hindu Seva Kendra Pratheesh Viswanath also offered Rs 10 crore to prove the opposite -- that no one from Kerala has gone to Syria to join IS.

The film is directed by Sudipto Sen. It traces the journey of four female college students in Kerala who become part of Islamic State

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India-Pakistan

Islamic State praises PFI, SIMI and there is a reason for it

2023-02-12

[OneIndia] The Islamic State

Voice of Khorasan, an English language magazine which is published by the Afghanistan based, Islamic State in Khoisan Province (ISKP) said in its 20th edition also went on to praise the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The article totted 'Crackdown on Popular Front of India: Lessons for Indian Moslems,' was published in a magazine of 45 pages last week. The publication went on to defend the arrests of the members of the outlawed Death Eater organizations, SIMI and PFI. The article also went on to label them innocents.

The paper also criticised the police administration's actions towards the PFI and SIMI. The magazine notes that during the past seventy years, the Hindu governments have targeted Moslems. Following this pattern the PFI ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s were arrested, the article noted.

The article then went on to praise the PFI by stating that it had made a name for itself as an organization which has been addressing the plight of the Moslems.

The Voice of Khorasan then went on to state that many PFI supporters have embraced the flag of Tawhid (Islamic monotheism) in many parts of the world, and many even gained Shahada (martyrdom).

The PFI was banned in 2022 while the SIMI was proscribed in 2002.

This is however not the first time that the Islamic State has praised the PFI. Even in the aftermath of the ban and recent arrests, the Islamic State has come out in support of the outfit.

The Islamic State by praising outfits such as the PFI and SIMI is looking to take the place of the two. It is appealing to the sympathisers of these groups to join is fold so that it can make its foothold in India. The Islamic State has made many efforts to set its footprint in India, but has failed completely. In this context the outfit is trying to make in-roads in India, an official OneIndia spoke with said.

The agencies had also learnt that many PFI supporters had joined the Islamic State., The PFI would look to make a comeback through its second rung leadership, while the Islamic State will try and take that space which is vacant as of now.

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India-Pakistan

PFI ban: What is Popular Front of India and why has India outlawed it?

2023-01-02

From September of this year.

[BBC] The Indian government has banned the Popular Front of India (PFI)

…the latest identity of Pakistan sock puppet National Development Front (NDF) and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). They’re fond of IEDs, swords, Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda, the perverse pleasures of Love Jihad, and have surprisingly well-trained connections with jihadis in Bangladesh and Pakistan...
- a controversial Moslem group - for five years for allegedly having links with terror groups.

The ban, announced on Wednesday morning, comes amid a crackdown on the organization - over the past week, authorities have twice raided its offices across several states and arrested many of its leaders.

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India-Pakistan

Like in Kashmir, the inner-rot in Kerala needs to be cleaned up to beat down the Islamic radicals

2023-01-02

[OneIndia] In Kashmir
Kashmir

…the latest identity of Pakistan sock puppet National Development Front (NDF) and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). They’re fond of IEDs, swords, Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda, feeding volunteers to Al Qaeda and ISIS, the perverse pleasures of Love Jihad, and have surprisingly well-trained connections with jihadis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Unlike the usual Muslim Brotherhood branches, their political front — the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) — has not won anything...

Earlier this week, when the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a raid at 56 places in Kerala, there were reports which stated that three members of the PFI had managed to escape due to prior information which is suspected was handed out by some members of the local police.

Sources tell OneIndia that the the agencies would also probe the role of the local administration and like was seen in Kashmir, it is important to beat down the inside rot in order to curtail anti-national acts.

We do not rule out the role of the local administration in information leaking said the source cited above. The PFI has been operating for long and has many a time got away since 2006 thanks to support from within, be it the local police or politicians. That in itself explains how the outfit was able to grow to such an extent and carry out its operations.

In Kashmir, following the abrogation of Article 370, the state administration made a lot of efforts to weed out out the rot from within the administration who were passing on information to the hard boyz and their sympathisers. This information came in handy to these persons as a result of which they were able to carry out their activities unabated.

Intelligence Bureau officials say that there are many in the Kerala administration who have sensitive positions and are in close contact with the operatives of the PFI. The problem is that it is not just the money that the PFI has used to lure these officials into their fold. A good number of people are in cahoots with the PFI because they themselves have been radicalised and believe in its ideology.

The PFI like the Urban Naxals too followed the same modus operandi of infiltrating the force. A key document prepared by the naxalites speaks of infiltrating the police force, government offices and even the Indian Army. The PFI has operated text book Urban Naxals in Kerala as a result of which their unprecedented growth can be explained.

While the first raids by the NIA targeted the top rung of the leadership, the second one was in connection with the second rung. In the months to come, the NIA would go after the foot-soldiers as they have the capability of regrouping with instructions from jail from their masters. However the inner rot is the most important to clean up, officials cited above said.

When the first raid took place, the NIA, Enforcement Directorate and the CRPF all under the Centre had not informed the local police before hand. This led to a very successful operation and not one PFI member managed to get away. During the second raid that took place last week, the NIA had intimated the local police and three PFI operatives managed to get away. That tells the story of the inside rot.

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India-Pakistan

Year 2022: At 73, NIA registered highest number of cases since inception in 2009

2023-01-02

[OneIndia] India's premier agency probing terrorism, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2022 registered 73 cases.

This is an increase of 19.67 per cent when compared to 2021 where the NIA registered 61 cases. This is the highest number of case registered by the NIA since its inception following the Mumbai 26/11 attack.

These cases include 35 related to Jihadi terror in the various such as Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

following which the outfit was banned. During the three different raids conducted since September, the NIA has raided nearly 200 locations and arrested over a 100 persons associated with the PFI.

The NIA was set up in 2009 following the Mumbai 26/11 attacks.

That was when members of Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai, controlled by Pakistan’s ISI, murdering 166 and maiming over 300.

In the year 2019 the government amended Schedule 6 of the Unlawful Prevention (Activities) Act following which the NIA is able designate an individual as a terrorist. Prior to this only organizations were designated as terrorist organizations.

As of August 2022, the conviction rate of the NIA stood at 93.25 per cent which is the highest for any central agency. In all the the agency has apprehended nearly 3,000 persons and among those 391 were convicted as per data available until August 2022.

Speaking at the NIA Raising Day in April, Union Home Minister, Amit Shah said that in a span of 13 years, the agency has performed exceptionally. He said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for a terror-free India, the NIA and the UAPA were amended to strengthen the agency.

One of the key successes that the NIA was able to achieve is in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). It has literally wiped out separatism in the Union Territory since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. The NIA targeted the funding routes as a result of which the separatists lost interest in their so-called cause.

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India-Pakistan

India bans Muslim group PFI, accuses it of ‘terrorism’

2022-09-29

Yesterday the big crackdown, today the five year ban. By Sunday, no doubt, they will reappear under yet another name.

[Dawn] India declared the Popular Front of India (PFI)

Moslem group and its affiliates unlawful on Wednesday, accusing them of involvement in terrorism and banning them for five years, after authorities detained more than 100 PFI members this month.

The PFI said it had dissolved itself and asked its members to stop their activities.

"As law-abiding citizens of our great country, the organization accepts the decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs," the PFI’s branch in Kerala state, where it has a big presence, said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the PFI denied accusations of violence and anti-national activities when its offices were raided and dozens of its members were detained in various states.

The home ministry, in announcing the ban, said in a statement the PFI and its affiliates had "been found to be involved in serious offences, including terrorism and its financing, targeted gruesome killings, disregarding the constitutional set up".

The PFI’s now-banned student wing, the Campus Front of India (CFI), called the government action a political vendetta and propaganda. It denied the accusations of involvement in terrorism.

The PFI has supported causes such as protests against a 2019 citizenship law that many Moslems deem discriminatory, as well as protests in the southern state of Karnataka this year demanding the right for Moslem women students to wear the hijab in class.

The ban is likely to stir an outcry among opponents of the government, which retains broad public support and a comfortable majority in parliament eight years after Modi first became prime minister.

’RUTHLESSLY SUPPRESSED’
The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), which works with the PFI on some issues but was not included in the ban, said the government had struck a blow against democracy and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
"Freedom of speech, protests and organizations have been ruthlessly suppressed by the regime against the basic principles of the Indian constitution," the SDPI said in a statement.

The SDPI is apparently the political wing of the PFI.

Some SDPI office were raided and some of its members were detained this month.

The government said in a notification it had banned the PFI and affiliates CFI, Rehab India Foundation, All India Imams Council, National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation, National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala.

More names for future archive searches. :-)

The government said it found a "number of instances of international linkages of PFI with global terrorist groups", adding that some of its members had joined turban Islamic State

Yet another feeder organization for International Jihad, Inc.

India has been the victim of some major turban attacks over the past two decades.

The PFI came together in late 2006 and was launched formally the next year with the merger of three organizations based in south India. It calls itself a "social movement striving for total empowerment" on its website.

PFI banned: A demand that began in 2010 comes into force in 2022
[OneIndia] The culprits were the Popular Front of India. The government at that time said that they were aware of a local Dar-ul-Khada

...sharia court paralleling India’s civil courts...

set up by the Popular Front of India which was functioning to resolve civil disputes.

Document to make India an Islamic State among other material recovered during raid on PFI
[OneIndia] From the UP leadership the NIA seized pen drives containing videos relating to the Islamic State and Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind is an Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist militant group active in Kashmir..

The National Investigation Agency which carried out the raids along with the Enforcement Directorate seized incriminating material including bomb making manuals. The agencies in a note said that it had seized hundreds of incriminating materials. It listed a brochure and a CD related to Mission 2047. This was a document containing material to covert India into an Islamic State by 2047. This was seized from the vice-president of the PFI Maharashtra.

The NIA also said that the PFI and its various front organizations had a presence in over 17 states in the country [and] over 1,300 criminal cases had been registered by Police and NIA against cadres of PFI and its front organizations in different states.

The NIA and ED carried out raids across the country in the past two weeks. Over 300 arrests were carried out following the raids.

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India-Pakistan

India cracks down on Muslim group for ‘anti-national activities’

2022-09-28

[Dawn] Indian authorities detained scores of members of a Moslem organization on Tuesday, accusing them of violence and anti-national activities.

The arrests follow a crackdown earlier this month on the Popular Front of India (PFI)

in which about 100 people were detained.

The PFI has condemned the detentions and related raids as harassment and held street protests.

"This is nothing but prevention of the right to democratic protests against the central government’s witch-hunt targeting PFI and is quite natural and expected under this autocratic system," PFI said on Twitter on Tuesday after what it called "massive arrests".

Police in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh said they detained 57 persons linked to the PFI on Tuesday because of "~~violent~~ mostly peaceful acts conducted by them and their rising anti-national activities across the country".

Similar detentions were made in the northeastern state of Assam, its chief minister told news hounds, days after he asked for a ban on the PFI.

Earlier this month, the federal National Investigation Agency raided locations in the states of Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and detained some PFI members, accusing them of organising training camps to "commit terrorist acts" or being involved in "anti-national activities".

The PFI has supported causes like street protests against a 2019 citizenship law that many Moslems see as discriminatory.

Moslems account for 13 per cent of India’s 1.4 billion people and many have complained of marginalisation under the rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

The party denies the charges and points to data that all Indians irrespective of religion are benefiting from Modi’s focus on economic development and social welfare.

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India-Pakistan

Nearly 100 arrested in NIA's 'largest-ever' raids in 11 states over terror funding charges

2022-09-23

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Nearly 100 arrested in #NIA's 'largest-ever' raids in 11 states over terror funding charges #PFI https://t.co/Vfnwi5NM2r
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) September 22, 2022

In near simultaneous raids across the length and breadth of the country, a multi-agency operation spearheaded by the National Investigation Agency on Thursday led to the arrest of 106 ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s of the Popular Front of India in 11 states for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country, officials said.

The maximum number of arrests were made in Kerala (22) followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka (20 each), Tamil Nadu (10), Assam (9), Uttar Pradesh (8), Andhra Pradesh (5), Madhya Pradesh (4), Puducherry and Delhi (3 each) and Rajasthan (2).

According to the officials, the arrests were made during the raids which have been termed as the "largest-ever investigation process till date".

Details of the arrested ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s were not available immediately, but officials said the arrests were done by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the police forces of 11 states so far.

The officials said the searches are taking place at the premises of persons involved in terror funding, organising training camps, and radicalising people to join proscribed organizations.

Formed in 2006, the PFI claims to strive for a neo-social movement ostensibly for the empowerment of marginalised sections of India. It is, however, often accused by law enforcement agencies of promoting radical Islam. In a statement, the PFI said "the raids are taking place at the homes of national, state and local leaders of PFI. The state committee office is also being raided".

"We strongly protest the fascist
fascist

...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
regime's move to use agencies to silence dissenting voices," it said.

The ED has been investigating the PFI's alleged "financial links" on charges of fuelling the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in the country, the 2020 Delhi riots, alleged conspiracy in Hathras (a district in Uttar Pradesh) over alleged gang-rape and death of a Dalit woman, and a few other instances.

The Popular Front of India was formed in 2006 in Kerala and is headquartered in Delhi.

The probe agency has filed two charge sheets against PFI and its office-bearers before a special PMLA court in Lucknow.

In February last year, the ED filed its first charge sheet against PFI and its student-wing Campus Front of India (CFI)

..the student/campus wing of an Islamist organization, the Popular Front of India. PFI is an Indian jihadi group, the latest identity of the National Development Front (NDF) and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). They’re fond of IEDs, swords, Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda, the perverse pleasures of Love Jihad, and have surprisingly well-trained connections with jihadis in Bangladesh and Pakistan...

on money laundering charges, claiming its members wanted to "incite communal riots and spread terror" in the aftermath of the Hathras gang rape case of 2020.

Those named in the charge sheet include K A Rauf Sherif, national general secretary of CFI and a member of PFI; Atikur Rahman, national treasurer of CFI; Masud Ahmed, Delhi-based general secretary of CFI; journalist "associated with PFI" Siddique Kappan; and Mohammed Alam, another CFI/PFI member.

In the second charge sheet filed this year, the ED had claimed that a hotel based in the UAE "served" as a money laundering front for the PFI.

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India-Pakistan

Bihar and Kerala: Where terror groups find ample loopholes to plan, plot and execute

2022-07-26

[OneIndia] The connection between Bihar and Kerala can be seen in the fact that the Indian Mujahideen
A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor...
being formed in Kerala and then it went on to form its strongest module in Bihar.

The Bihar police recently busted a major module following which it was learnt that the accused persons had plotted the liquidation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also planned on setting up an Islamic nation by 2047.

The National Investigation Agency is also investigating a case relating to a Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
(JMB) module and has made seven arrests so far. The latest person to be arrested is Ali Asgar a resident of Siswaniya village of Bihar.

Incidents of radical Islamic modules being busted in Bihar is nothing new. It dates back to the late 2000s when the Indian Mujahideen and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had a free run in the state.

The agencies had complained back then that it was the politics of appeasement which had made it very hard for modules to be busted in the state. Yasin Bhatkal who headed the Indian Mujahideen (IM) had said in his interrogation that the Darbhanga module had been set up in 2009 and they chose the area as the atmosphere in the state was conducive for them to set up such a module.

This module was never used for any terror strikes within the state as they feared that the trail would lead to them.

An Intelligence Bureau official tells OneIndia that like in the case of Kerala, certain places in Bihar are extremely difficult to deal with. In certain places in northern Kerala and areas such as Darbhanga a lot depends on human intelligence and this is very hard to come by because a large number of the local politicians and locals back such modules.

Another official says that these areas have been a free-for-all. While on one hand illegal im~~migrants~~ colonists keep infiltrating into such areas in Bihar, in Kerala it has been the problem of Wahhabism and its radical preachers from the Gulf.

The connection between Bihar and Kerala can be seen in the fact that the Indian Mujahideen being formed in Kerala and then it went on to form its strongest module in Bihar.

In August 2013, an operative of the Students Islamic Movement of India, Abdul Sattar was deported from the United Arab Emirates. He was charged in a case relating to the Wagamon Camp. This camp was held in 2007 during his interrogation, Sattar told the agencies that the IM was formed in 2007. He also said that 40 persons had attended that camp and later they decided to break up into different groups and arrange terror strikes.

It was also decided that Kerala would remain the base camp and all plans would be executed from Bihar and both these states would not be targeted as the agencies would lead up to their main modules.

Senior officials say that for long they have had a hostile feedback from the local agencies of both the states. In Kerala the officials say that the political backing for such local modules was so strong that if they did try busting it there was a better chance of them being tripped over rather than the problem being solved.

For long the problem was faced in Bihar too. In this context one much recall that when Yasin Bhatkal was arrested in 2013, the agencies wanted the Bihar police to probe him first for setting up the module in Darbhanga. The result: They refused.

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India-Pakistan

Retired cop among two arrested in Bihar for plotting to target PM Modi

2022-07-15

[OneIndia] The Bihar police have busted a terror module in Patna and arrested two terrorists. The police said that the module was planning on creating an Islamic nation by 2047 and they also had Prime Minister Modi on their target.

The two arrested ~~bandidos~~ faceless myrmidons have been identified a Athar Parvez and Mohammad Jallauddin. The police said that they were being trained in Phulwari Sharif ahead of the PM's visit. They held meetings on July 6 and 7 and discussed ways to target PM Modi.

During the raids the police recovered incriminating material and one of them was a document called '2047 India Towards Rule of Islamic India.' The police also recovered 25 pamphlets of the Popular Front of India (PFI).

The raids were conducted following a tip-off from the Intelligence Bureau. The probe revealed that most of the youth who came to this place were from Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. It was also revealed that the arrested persons got money from several nations including Pakistain, Bangladesh and ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
to run campaigns against India.

The police said that Jallauddin is a retired police officer from Jharkhand. Both were associated with the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and later the PFI, Phulwari Sharif Assistant Superintendent of Police, Manish Kumar.

Meanwhile the National Investigation Agency has joined the probe and sources tell OneIndia that they have picked up a third suspect in the case.

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Karnataka HC upholds Hijab ban: A look at countries where veils are barred

2022-03-16

[OneIndia] Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ruled that the hijab is not essential to Islam in a landmark case that could have implications across the country.

The prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible which the students cannot object to, a three-judge bench of the court further noted.

Prescription of uniform is a reasonable restriction on fundamental rights under Article 25, the court said.

No case is made out for invalidating the government order of February 5, the court said.

The demand by a section of Moslem girls in an Udupi pre-university college to wear Hijab inside their classrooms erupted into a major row after some Hindu students turned up in saffron shawls with the issue spreading to other parts of the state, even as the government insisted on a uniform norm.

LET US HAVE A LOOK AT THE NATIONS THAT HAVE BARRED FACE AND HEAD COVERINGS
France
Switzerland
Turkey
Denmark
Belgium
The Netherlands
Italy
Austria
Bulgaria
Sri Lanka
Russia

Hijab verdict: 4 Key questions and their answers by Karnataka high court

[OneIndia] The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ruled that the wearing of the hijab is not an essential practice in Islam. Advocate KV Dhananjay, appearing for the petitioners, said, 'We will move the Supreme Court after the full high court order is out".

The four questions were:

1. Whether wearing hijab/head-scarf is a part of 'essential religious practice' in Islamic Faith protected under Article 25 of the Constitution?

2. Whether prescription of school uniform is not legally permissible, as being violative of petitioners Fundamental Rights inter alia guaranteed under Articles, 19(1)(a), (i.e., freedom of expression) and 21, (i.e., privacy) of the Constitution?

3. Whether the Government Order dated 05.02.2022 apart from being incompetent is issued without application of mind and further is manifestly arbitrary and therefore, violates Articles 14 & 15 of the Constitution?

4. Whether any case is made out in W.P.No.2146/2022 for issuance of a direction for initiating disciplinary enquiry against respondent Nos.6 to 14 and for issuance of a Writ of Quo Warranto against respondent Nos.15 & 16?

What the court said:

1. "We are of the considered opinion that wearing of Hijab by Muslim women does not form a part of essential religious practice in Islamic faith," Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi who headed the full bench of the High Court said reading out portion of the order.

2. The prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible which the students cannot object to, a three-judge bench of the court further noted.

3. The bench maintained that the government has power to issue impugned government order dated February 5, 2022 and no case is made out for its invalidation. By the said order, the state government had banned wearing clothes which disturb equality, integrity and public order in schools and colleges.

4. The court also rejected the plea to initiate a disciplinary inquiry against the college, its principal and a teacher. "In the above circumstances, all these writ petitions being devoid of merits are liable to be and accordingly are dismissed.

In view of the dismissal of the writ petition, all the pending applications fell into insignificance and are accordingly disposed off," the bench said in its

On January 1, six girl students of a college in Udupi attended a press conference held by Campus Front of India (CFI)

...the student/campus wing of an Islamist organization, the Popular Front of India. PFI is an Indian jihadi group, the latest identity of the National Development Front (NDF) and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). They’re fond of IEDs, swords, Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda, the perverse pleasures of Love Jihad, and have surprisingly well-trained connections with jihadis in Bangladesh and Pakistan...

in the coastal town protesting against the college authorities denying them entry into the classroom wearing Hijab. This was four days after they requested the principal permission to wear Hijabs in classrooms which was not allowed.

Till then, students used to wear Hijab to the campus and entered the classroom after removing the scarves, the college principal Rudre Gowda had said. "The institution did not have any rule on Hijab-wearing as such and no one used to wear it to the classroom in the last 35 years. The students who came with the demand had the backing of outside forces," Gowda had said.

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