Even after the Indian security forces hit hard at terror camps that Pakistan has been promoting in the areas under its control in Kashmir, it has shown no let up in its life’s ambition to deliver more cuts on India hoping to bleed it white.
The continuing terrorist attacks in Kashmir, the Pakistani boats in Gujarat coast that the Indian Coast Guard captured, the detection of IS armed training camp in Kerala forests to launch a series of terror attacks and kill certain targeted VIPs on coming Diwali season all reveal a coordinated low intensity war continuing to be hatched from Pakistani soil.
The anti-terror force NIA succeeded through a bold infiltration into the Kerala training camp for the Diwali attack preparation held in the interior of Kannur district- a region with a strong Muslim presence. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has let it be known that the Anwarul Khalifa organisation linked to IS as its Kerala unit was training 12 young people.
One of the objectives was to follow the example of the French IS group’s recent attack on a public celebration in Nice city by driving in a truck loaded with explosives into the crowd and mow down hundreds of people. This organisation was distributing propaganda leaflets and videos to fuel anti-India feelings among the Muslim community in Kerala and neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
It is significant that the local police was either not aware of the training camp or pretended not to notice it. This is the second such training camp for terrorists that flourished in Kerala state over the last ten years.
An earlier camp in 2008 went undetected but police sources had let the state’s media people know that they did have information on this camp but it was the state government that ignored its implications. Only after the media investigation brought this to public notice, the government woke up and sought to make some arrests but it led to no results.
The recent exposure of the second camp came after the NIA had managed to infiltrate the group and gain massive evidence of radicalising propaganda material, fire arms and bombs and other weapons. The plan to plough through a crowd with a truck full of incendiary material was obtained in right time and NIA managed to avoid the tragedy.
Two months back the state had woken up to the cries of many non-Muslim families that found girls from them had been abducted through a clever plan to lure them through marriage to Muslim boys, convert them and then radicalise them to move to Syria. As many as 21 Kerala young men and women had left to join the IS through a circuitous route.
Let us take a look at how the IS radicalisation is reducing man (including woman) to a beast. Many newspapers across the world (Pakistan excluded) published the other day a clip from a video put out by the IS showing a woman cadre of the jihadi outfit on its order beheading a condemned man- condemned by the outfit and then “cooking” his head as the other armed cadres watched.
The jihadist in Nice event, a recent convert to Islam was taking the name of Allah as he moved into the crowd and mowed down hundreds before the French police shot him down. The Islamic State (IS) propaganda material exhorts their co-religionists to kill all non-Muslims and individuals. Bloodcurdling and repulsive as these set of events are, the man turning to beast does not end there.
The followers of IS are also told to destroy all the pre-Islamic heritage landmarks and sculptures etc. Recall what Taliban power in Afghanistan in the days it ruled Kabul, did. It bombed to dust several Buddhist monuments. Now you can see why Central Asian invaders into India considered it their religious duty to destroy the temples and other historic monuments over 800 years of their rule. Mathura, Kashi, Ayodhya, Somnath—the list is endless.
With so much evidence floating around that a section of jihadists is now determined to convert or exterminate the entire world population groups that do not agree with them— including Muslims themselves as the bombings of mosques of different sects in the community in Pakistan itself reveal, what results can we expect from repeated appeals to Pakistan to shun terror?
The Islamic State sponsors terror in the name of religion, where decades of brainwashing people in the name of jihad had promoted roots for violence to grow to feed into a mass that sees such violence as a mandatory part of its religious existence. Pakistan is happy to be the fulcrum of the emerging jihadi turn around of its religion on a global scale.
So it is time for the global community to review whether repeated appeals to end its sponsorship of terror in the name of religion would ever succeed. In Pakistan a good section of the masses led by the mosque-military combine and brainwashed by three decades old Wahabi lesson dolling out madrasas is now convinced that its destiny lies in the global spread of its version of the religion.It will treat the peace music from global community with the disdain that Nazis treated then British Prime Minister Chamberlain with his totem peace umbrella in the 1930s.