Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Wake up people of Karnataka; Wake Up! Islamist radicalism is an existential threat for Hinduism in Karnataka and on rebound in India.

 

Recent Islamist radical terror module strike in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast busting reconfirms the wide network of “Islamist Radical Terrorist” horror prospects in India. The suspects lived in Bengaluru while on the run in the IS module case from 2020. Of course, Muslim apologists deny “Islamist Radicalization” of youth. They blame terror acts as a phenomenon borne out of “misguided and unemployed youth”, which is rank stupid.

 

Indian Islamist radicals too draw inspiration from the same ‘gene’ as that of AQ and the ISIS – par excellence of Islam, Liberation of J & K and Islamic Caliphate in India. Since the 1970s, the build-up of Islamist radical terrorism took shape in different parts of India. The “Islamic Crescent Envelopment” prophecy of Gen Bipin Chandra Joshi, former Chief of Army Staff, is a reality. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count, particularly media outlets and panelists in denial mode over its overarching influence in today’s India’s geopolitical scenario and its future dangerous portends.

 

Ipso facto, Karnataka is the locus of terrorism in South India delicately perched on the brink sinking into irretrievable Islamist terrorism quagmire. Political stability is quite fragile due to minority appeasement politics of the Congress Party.  In retrospect, strategic paranoia is proverbial.

 

Restating the obvious, partition laid the foundation for resurgence of Islamist radical terrorism. Having ruled India since the 12th Century until the British colonial rule after the 18th Century, quite a few Muslims considered it their right to reclaim its political supremacy or glory in India particularly in Karnataka based on Haider and Tippu Sultan rule. Even today, the Congress party hails TiPPU as a freedom fighter.

 

Let me outline the growth of Islamist groups in Karnataka. The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was formed in 1977, an offshoot of JeI, following the emergency battering in 1977. Babri Masjid demolition and the proscription of SIMI after its extolling Osama Bin Laden as a “true Mujahid” resulted in young people going to LeT camps in Pakistan due to its Maududi ideological orientation.

 

The stated mission of SIMI was the "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. And, the stated mission of the IM is that only Islam has the power to establish a civilized society and this could only be possible under Islamic rule. So, “Islamic Radicalization” is irrefutable.

 

In the aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002, dozens of Muslim youth jumped on the bandwagon of the IM. In 2004, a group of former SIMI cadres – Riyaz Shahbandri, Altaf Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh, Peedical Abdul Shibly and Yahya Kakmutty – became the leading operatives of the IM. The IM was founded after a meeting between Amir of Kolkata and Riyaz Bhatkal by former members of SIMI in 2010 (under ban) to include Shafiq Ahmad, Abdul Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh and the Unani medicine practitioner-turned Islamist proselytizer Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri.

 

Finally, less known is the PFI that was formed in November 2006 in Kerala with alleged links with SIMI/IM. PFI has extended its network covering 15 States. Its network includes Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh among others. There is significant cumulative evidence of progressive extremism in the PFI. On September 6, 2010, the Kerala State Government informed the High Court that investigators had obtained evidence regarding PFI’s connection with the HuM, LeT/JUD and AQ.

 

Next, the “Karachi Project”, conceived in 2003, is a product of joint collaboration between the ISI, Pakistan Army, Lashkar, HUJI and the MCCs. Karachi served as sanctuary for Indian fugitives. The ISI began training terror operatives in small groups of four to five. In two years, intelligence sources estimated infiltration of 40 and 50 jihadists after training. Many of the agents formed sleeper cells, waiting for the command to strike. Lakhvi and other LeT commanders prodded Qureishi, Bhatkal and Sheikh to set up a self-sustaining network in India. On 23 November 2007, the IM and issued the first series of manifestos explaining the rationale – a war of civilization.

 

David Headley, Pakistan-born American Jihadi, has given the FBI details about the project and his role in it as well in December 2009. According to him, the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, Mufti Sufian and underworld don Yaqoob Khan aka Rasool 'Party' were sheltered in Karachi by the LeT and ISI. Headley also told the FBI interrogators about serving and retired Pakistan Army officers being part of the project. The ISI trained the recruits in a remote region of Baluchistan.

 

It is irrefutable fact that the AQ and the ISIS modules are operating in various parts of India under the sponsorship of ISI, Pakistan. The ISIS traces its roots to AQ in Iraq. By 2013, remnants of the AQ affiliate rebranded themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The end objective of the ISIS is creating caliphates. The core tenet of the ISIS organizational philosophy is its oft-repeated mantra, baqiya WA tatamaddad, Arabic for "remain and expand."

 

In retrospect, Indian Muslims suffer from inherited historic “deprivation psyche” syndrome. Their stated objective is quite clear – to regain their historic supremacy in south Asia. Islamic radicalization has taken place cumulatively over the past 75 years. Educated Muslim youth inspired by fundamentalist Islamic ideology are in the forefront of spreading, mobilizing and consolidating their forces based on a 1000-year Jihad.

 

 The list of Islamist radical names is a veritable “Who’s Who” from all parts of the country, particularly Karnataka that figured prominently in the past. Safdar Nagori, founder of SIMI, organized a group that included the Bangalore IT professionals Peedical Abdul Shibli and Yahya Kamakutty. Also, Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Riyaz from Bhatkal in South Karnataka. Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, software engineer helped to design, produces and email several IM manifestos.

 

Their cadres included several educated figures. Altaf Subhan Qureishi, son of a North India Migrant, who obtained a Diploma in Industrial electronics in 1995 and worked in a computer firm DATAMATICS on a WIPRO project to set up an Intranet at Bharat Petrochemicals and edited SIMI-affiliated journal Islamic Voice, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri from Karnataka.  Qureishi performed the critical task of networking jihadist’s modules in a single unity. He coordinated with Bhatkal and bomb-making assets raised by computer graphics designer Qayamuddin Kapadia, who provided safe houses and logistical support for Atif Amin’s assault team in the Ahmadabad attacks.

 

Bhatkal brothers recruited Kerala’s Abdul Sattar, a Kannur resident and his long standing associate T. Nassir who also formed a key part of the circle of South Indian jihadists. Sattar fabricated the pipe bombs used in a series of attacks after 1993 and alleged to have participated in a plot to assassinate former Kerala Chief Minister – E K Nayanar. They had sent over 40 men for training to Lashkar camps in Pakistan.

 

Riyaz had also met gang lord-turned-jihadist Amir Raza Khan after Gujarat violence. Also, Riyaz had met Pakistan based Mafioso Amir Raza Khan in 2001. Following training alongside the LeT in Dubai, Riyaz recruited men from Mangalore – mostly small businesspersons – Ahmad Baba Abu Bakr, Ali Mohammad Ahmad, Javed Mohammad Ali and Syed Mohammad Naushad, to form the bomb manufacturing cell of the IM.

 

To sum up, never too late for political parties and their leaders to realize that the minority appeasement will pave the ways for the “Doomsday” for Karnataka in future, particularly with 2-time Congress Party MP, DK Suresh, brother of Chief Minister aspirant in waiting D K Shivakumar on record by “Hook or Crook” attempting to consolidate their stranglehold on Karnataka politics.

 

Wake Up – We the People of Karnataka to sav3e yourself from the impending doom.   Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Wake up people of Karnataka; Wake Up! Islamist radicalism is an existential threat for Hinduism in Karnataka and on rebound in India.

 

Recent Islamist radical terror module strike in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast busting reconfirms the wide network of “Islamist Radical Terrorist” horror prospects in India. The suspects lived in Bengaluru while on the run in the IS module case from 2020. Of course, Muslim apologists deny “Islamist Radicalization” of youth. They blame terror acts as a phenomenon borne out of “misguided and unemployed youth”, which is rank stupid.

 

Indian Islamist radicals too draw inspiration from the same ‘gene’ as that of AQ and the ISIS – par excellence of Islam, Liberation of J & K and Islamic Caliphate in India. Since the 1970s, the build-up of Islamist radical terrorism took shape in different parts of India. The “Islamic Crescent Envelopment” prophecy of Gen Bipin Chandra Joshi, former Chief of Army Staff, is a reality. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count, particularly media outlets and panelists in denial mode over its overarching influence in today’s India’s geopolitical scenario and its future dangerous portends.

 

Ipso facto, Karnataka is the locus of terrorism in South India delicately perched on the brink sinking into irretrievable Islamist terrorism quagmire. Political stability is quite fragile due to minority appeasement politics of the Congress Party.  In retrospect, strategic paranoia is proverbial.

 

Restating the obvious, partition laid the foundation for resurgence of Islamist radical terrorism. Having ruled India since the 12th Century until the British colonial rule after the 18th Century, quite a few Muslims considered it their right to reclaim its political supremacy or glory in India particularly in Karnataka based on Haider and Tippu Sultan rule. Even today, the Congress party hails TiPPU as a freedom fighter.

 

Let me outline the growth of Islamist groups in Karnataka. The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was formed in 1977, an offshoot of JeI, following the emergency battering in 1977. Babri Masjid demolition and the proscription of SIMI after its extolling Osama Bin Laden as a “true Mujahid” resulted in young people going to LeT camps in Pakistan due to its Maududi ideological orientation.

 

The stated mission of SIMI was the "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. And, the stated mission of the IM is that only Islam has the power to establish a civilized society and this could only be possible under Islamic rule. So, “Islamic Radicalization” is irrefutable.

 

In the aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002, dozens of Muslim youth jumped on the bandwagon of the IM. In 2004, a group of former SIMI cadres – Riyaz Shahbandri, Altaf Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh, Peedical Abdul Shibly and Yahya Kakmutty – became the leading operatives of the IM. The IM was founded after a meeting between Amir of Kolkata and Riyaz Bhatkal by former members of SIMI in 2010 (under ban) to include Shafiq Ahmad, Abdul Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh and the Unani medicine practitioner-turned Islamist proselytizer Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri.

 

Finally, less known is the PFI that was formed in November 2006 in Kerala with alleged links with SIMI/IM. PFI has extended its network covering 15 States. Its network includes Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh among others. There is significant cumulative evidence of progressive extremism in the PFI. On September 6, 2010, the Kerala State Government informed the High Court that investigators had obtained evidence regarding PFI’s connection with the HuM, LeT/JUD and AQ.

 

Next, the “Karachi Project”, conceived in 2003, is a product of joint collaboration between the ISI, Pakistan Army, Lashkar, HUJI and the MCCs. Karachi served as sanctuary for Indian fugitives. The ISI began training terror operatives in small groups of four to five. In two years, intelligence sources estimated infiltration of 40 and 50 jihadists after training. Many of the agents formed sleeper cells, waiting for the command to strike. Lakhvi and other LeT commanders prodded Qureishi, Bhatkal and Sheikh to set up a self-sustaining network in India. On 23 November 2007, the IM and issued the first series of manifestos explaining the rationale – a war of civilization.

 

David Headley, Pakistan-born American Jihadi, has given the FBI details about the project and his role in it as well in December 2009. According to him, the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, Mufti Sufian and underworld don Yaqoob Khan aka Rasool 'Party' were sheltered in Karachi by the LeT and ISI. Headley also told the FBI interrogators about serving and retired Pakistan Army officers being part of the project. The ISI trained the recruits in a remote region of Baluchistan.

 

It is irrefutable fact that the AQ and the ISIS modules are operating in various parts of India under the sponsorship of ISI, Pakistan. The ISIS traces its roots to AQ in Iraq. By 2013, remnants of the AQ affiliate rebranded themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The end objective of the ISIS is creating caliphates. The core tenet of the ISIS organizational philosophy is its oft-repeated mantra, baqiya WA tatamaddad, Arabic for "remain and expand."

 

In retrospect, Indian Muslims suffer from inherited historic “deprivation psyche” syndrome. Their stated objective is quite clear – to regain their historic supremacy in south Asia. Islamic radicalization has taken place cumulatively over the past 75 years. Educated Muslim youth inspired by fundamentalist Islamic ideology are in the forefront of spreading, mobilizing and consolidating their forces based on a 1000-year Jihad.

 

 The list of Islamist radical names is a veritable “Who’s Who” from all parts of the country, particularly Karnataka that figured prominently in the past. Safdar Nagori, founder of SIMI, organized a group that included the Bangalore IT professionals Peedical Abdul Shibli and Yahya Kamakutty. Also, Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Riyaz from Bhatkal in South Karnataka. Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, software engineer helped to design, produces and email several IM manifestos.

 

Their cadres included several educated figures. Altaf Subhan Qureishi, son of a North India Migrant, who obtained a Diploma in Industrial electronics in 1995 and worked in a computer firm DATAMATICS on a WIPRO project to set up an Intranet at Bharat Petrochemicals and edited SIMI-affiliated journal Islamic Voice, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri from Karnataka.  Qureishi performed the critical task of networking jihadist’s modules in a single unity. He coordinated with Bhatkal and bomb-making assets raised by computer graphics designer Qayamuddin Kapadia, who provided safe houses and logistical support for Atif Amin’s assault team in the Ahmadabad attacks.

 

Bhatkal brothers recruited Kerala’s Abdul Sattar, a Kannur resident and his long standing associate T. Nassir who also formed a key part of the circle of South Indian jihadists. Sattar fabricated the pipe bombs used in a series of attacks after 1993 and alleged to have participated in a plot to assassinate former Kerala Chief Minister – E K Nayanar. They had sent over 40 men for training to Lashkar camps in Pakistan.

 

Riyaz had also met gang lord-turned-jihadist Amir Raza Khan after Gujarat violence. Also, Riyaz had met Pakistan based Mafioso Amir Raza Khan in 2001. Following training alongside the LeT in Dubai, Riyaz recruited men from Mangalore – mostly small businesspersons – Ahmad Baba Abu Bakr, Ali Mohammad Ahmad, Javed Mohammad Ali and Syed Mohammad Naushad, to form the bomb manufacturing cell of the IM.

 

To sum up, never too late for political parties and their leaders to realize that the minority appeasement will pave the ways for the “Doomsday” for Karnataka in future, particularly with 2-time Congress Party MP, DK Suresh, brother of Chief Minister aspirant in waiting D K Shivakumar on record by “Hook or Crook” attempting to consolidate their stranglehold on Karnataka politics.

 

Wake Up – We the People of Karnataka to sav3e yourself from the impending doom.   Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Wake up people of Karnataka; Wake Up! Islamist radicalism is an existential threat for Hinduism in Karnataka and on rebound in India.

 

Recent Islamist radical terror module strike in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast busting reconfirms the wide network of “Islamist Radical Terrorist” horror prospects in India. The suspects lived in Bengaluru while on the run in the IS module case from 2020. Of course, Muslim apologists deny “Islamist Radicalization” of youth. They blame terror acts as a phenomenon borne out of “misguided and unemployed youth”, which is rank stupid.

 

Indian Islamist radicals too draw inspiration from the same ‘gene’ as that of AQ and the ISIS – par excellence of Islam, Liberation of J & K and Islamic Caliphate in India. Since the 1970s, the build-up of Islamist radical terrorism took shape in different parts of India. The “Islamic Crescent Envelopment” prophecy of Gen Bipin Chandra Joshi, former Chief of Army Staff, is a reality. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count, particularly media outlets and panelists in denial mode over its overarching influence in today’s India’s geopolitical scenario and its future dangerous portends.

 

Ipso facto, Karnataka is the locus of terrorism in South India delicately perched on the brink sinking into irretrievable Islamist terrorism quagmire. Political stability is quite fragile due to minority appeasement politics of the Congress Party.  In retrospect, strategic paranoia is proverbial.

 

Restating the obvious, partition laid the foundation for resurgence of Islamist radical terrorism. Having ruled India since the 12th Century until the British colonial rule after the 18th Century, quite a few Muslims considered it their right to reclaim its political supremacy or glory in India particularly in Karnataka based on Haider and Tippu Sultan rule. Even today, the Congress party hails TiPPU as a freedom fighter.

 

Let me outline the growth of Islamist groups in Karnataka. The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was formed in 1977, an offshoot of JeI, following the emergency battering in 1977. Babri Masjid demolition and the proscription of SIMI after its extolling Osama Bin Laden as a “true Mujahid” resulted in young people going to LeT camps in Pakistan due to its Maududi ideological orientation.

 

The stated mission of SIMI was the "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. And, the stated mission of the IM is that only Islam has the power to establish a civilized society and this could only be possible under Islamic rule. So, “Islamic Radicalization” is irrefutable.

 

In the aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002, dozens of Muslim youth jumped on the bandwagon of the IM. In 2004, a group of former SIMI cadres – Riyaz Shahbandri, Altaf Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh, Peedical Abdul Shibly and Yahya Kakmutty – became the leading operatives of the IM. The IM was founded after a meeting between Amir of Kolkata and Riyaz Bhatkal by former members of SIMI in 2010 (under ban) to include Shafiq Ahmad, Abdul Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh and the Unani medicine practitioner-turned Islamist proselytizer Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri.

 

Finally, less known is the PFI that was formed in November 2006 in Kerala with alleged links with SIMI/IM. PFI has extended its network covering 15 States. Its network includes Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh among others. There is significant cumulative evidence of progressive extremism in the PFI. On September 6, 2010, the Kerala State Government informed the High Court that investigators had obtained evidence regarding PFI’s connection with the HuM, LeT/JUD and AQ.

 

Next, the “Karachi Project”, conceived in 2003, is a product of joint collaboration between the ISI, Pakistan Army, Lashkar, HUJI and the MCCs. Karachi served as sanctuary for Indian fugitives. The ISI began training terror operatives in small groups of four to five. In two years, intelligence sources estimated infiltration of 40 and 50 jihadists after training. Many of the agents formed sleeper cells, waiting for the command to strike. Lakhvi and other LeT commanders prodded Qureishi, Bhatkal and Sheikh to set up a self-sustaining network in India. On 23 November 2007, the IM and issued the first series of manifestos explaining the rationale – a war of civilization.

 

David Headley, Pakistan-born American Jihadi, has given the FBI details about the project and his role in it as well in December 2009. According to him, the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, Mufti Sufian and underworld don Yaqoob Khan aka Rasool 'Party' were sheltered in Karachi by the LeT and ISI. Headley also told the FBI interrogators about serving and retired Pakistan Army officers being part of the project. The ISI trained the recruits in a remote region of Baluchistan.

 

It is irrefutable fact that the AQ and the ISIS modules are operating in various parts of India under the sponsorship of ISI, Pakistan. The ISIS traces its roots to AQ in Iraq. By 2013, remnants of the AQ affiliate rebranded themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The end objective of the ISIS is creating caliphates. The core tenet of the ISIS organizational philosophy is its oft-repeated mantra, baqiya WA tatamaddad, Arabic for "remain and expand."

 

In retrospect, Indian Muslims suffer from inherited historic “deprivation psyche” syndrome. Their stated objective is quite clear – to regain their historic supremacy in south Asia. Islamic radicalization has taken place cumulatively over the past 75 years. Educated Muslim youth inspired by fundamentalist Islamic ideology are in the forefront of spreading, mobilizing and consolidating their forces based on a 1000-year Jihad.

 

 The list of Islamist radical names is a veritable “Who’s Who” from all parts of the country, particularly Karnataka that figured prominently in the past. Safdar Nagori, founder of SIMI, organized a group that included the Bangalore IT professionals Peedical Abdul Shibli and Yahya Kamakutty. Also, Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Riyaz from Bhatkal in South Karnataka. Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, software engineer helped to design, produces and email several IM manifestos.

 

Their cadres included several educated figures. Altaf Subhan Qureishi, son of a North India Migrant, who obtained a Diploma in Industrial electronics in 1995 and worked in a computer firm DATAMATICS on a WIPRO project to set up an Intranet at Bharat Petrochemicals and edited SIMI-affiliated journal Islamic Voice, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri from Karnataka.  Qureishi performed the critical task of networking jihadist’s modules in a single unity. He coordinated with Bhatkal and bomb-making assets raised by computer graphics designer Qayamuddin Kapadia, who provided safe houses and logistical support for Atif Amin’s assault team in the Ahmadabad attacks.

 

Bhatkal brothers recruited Kerala’s Abdul Sattar, a Kannur resident and his long standing associate T. Nassir who also formed a key part of the circle of South Indian jihadists. Sattar fabricated the pipe bombs used in a series of attacks after 1993 and alleged to have participated in a plot to assassinate former Kerala Chief Minister – E K Nayanar. They had sent over 40 men for training to Lashkar camps in Pakistan.

 

Riyaz had also met gang lord-turned-jihadist Amir Raza Khan after Gujarat violence. Also, Riyaz had met Pakistan based Mafioso Amir Raza Khan in 2001. Following training alongside the LeT in Dubai, Riyaz recruited men from Mangalore – mostly small businesspersons – Ahmad Baba Abu Bakr, Ali Mohammad Ahmad, Javed Mohammad Ali and Syed Mohammad Naushad, to form the bomb manufacturing cell of the IM.

 

To sum up, never too late for political parties and their leaders to realize that the minority appeasement will pave the ways for the “Doomsday” for Karnataka in future, particularly with 2-time Congress Party MP, DK Suresh, brother of Chief Minister aspirant in waiting D K Shivakumar on record by “Hook or Crook” attempting to consolidate their stranglehold on Karnataka politics.

 

Wake Up – We the People of Karnataka to sav3e yourself from the impending doom.   Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Wake up people of Karnataka; Wake Up! Islamist radicalism is an existential threat for Hinduism in Karnataka and on rebound in India.

 

Recent Islamist radical terror module strike in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast busting reconfirms the wide network of “Islamist Radical Terrorist” horror prospects in India. The suspects lived in Bengaluru while on the run in the IS module case from 2020. Of course, Muslim apologists deny “Islamist Radicalization” of youth. They blame terror acts as a phenomenon borne out of “misguided and unemployed youth”, which is rank stupid.

 

Indian Islamist radicals too draw inspiration from the same ‘gene’ as that of AQ and the ISIS – par excellence of Islam, Liberation of J & K and Islamic Caliphate in India. Since the 1970s, the build-up of Islamist radical terrorism took shape in different parts of India. The “Islamic Crescent Envelopment” prophecy of Gen Bipin Chandra Joshi, former Chief of Army Staff, is a reality. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count, particularly media outlets and panelists in denial mode over its overarching influence in today’s India’s geopolitical scenario and its future dangerous portends.

 

Ipso facto, Karnataka is the locus of terrorism in South India delicately perched on the brink sinking into irretrievable Islamist terrorism quagmire. Political stability is quite fragile due to minority appeasement politics of the Congress Party.  In retrospect, strategic paranoia is proverbial.

 

Restating the obvious, partition laid the foundation for resurgence of Islamist radical terrorism. Having ruled India since the 12th Century until the British colonial rule after the 18th Century, quite a few Muslims considered it their right to reclaim its political supremacy or glory in India particularly in Karnataka based on Haider and Tippu Sultan rule. Even today, the Congress party hails TiPPU as a freedom fighter.

 

Let me outline the growth of Islamist groups in Karnataka. The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was formed in 1977, an offshoot of JeI, following the emergency battering in 1977. Babri Masjid demolition and the proscription of SIMI after its extolling Osama Bin Laden as a “true Mujahid” resulted in young people going to LeT camps in Pakistan due to its Maududi ideological orientation.

 

The stated mission of SIMI was the "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. And, the stated mission of the IM is that only Islam has the power to establish a civilized society and this could only be possible under Islamic rule. So, “Islamic Radicalization” is irrefutable.

 

In the aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002, dozens of Muslim youth jumped on the bandwagon of the IM. In 2004, a group of former SIMI cadres – Riyaz Shahbandri, Altaf Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh, Peedical Abdul Shibly and Yahya Kakmutty – became the leading operatives of the IM. The IM was founded after a meeting between Amir of Kolkata and Riyaz Bhatkal by former members of SIMI in 2010 (under ban) to include Shafiq Ahmad, Abdul Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh and the Unani medicine practitioner-turned Islamist proselytizer Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri.

 

Finally, less known is the PFI that was formed in November 2006 in Kerala with alleged links with SIMI/IM. PFI has extended its network covering 15 States. Its network includes Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh among others. There is significant cumulative evidence of progressive extremism in the PFI. On September 6, 2010, the Kerala State Government informed the High Court that investigators had obtained evidence regarding PFI’s connection with the HuM, LeT/JUD and AQ.

 

Next, the “Karachi Project”, conceived in 2003, is a product of joint collaboration between the ISI, Pakistan Army, Lashkar, HUJI and the MCCs. Karachi served as sanctuary for Indian fugitives. The ISI began training terror operatives in small groups of four to five. In two years, intelligence sources estimated infiltration of 40 and 50 jihadists after training. Many of the agents formed sleeper cells, waiting for the command to strike. Lakhvi and other LeT commanders prodded Qureishi, Bhatkal and Sheikh to set up a self-sustaining network in India. On 23 November 2007, the IM and issued the first series of manifestos explaining the rationale – a war of civilization.

 

David Headley, Pakistan-born American Jihadi, has given the FBI details about the project and his role in it as well in December 2009. According to him, the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, Mufti Sufian and underworld don Yaqoob Khan aka Rasool 'Party' were sheltered in Karachi by the LeT and ISI. Headley also told the FBI interrogators about serving and retired Pakistan Army officers being part of the project. The ISI trained the recruits in a remote region of Baluchistan.

 

It is irrefutable fact that the AQ and the ISIS modules are operating in various parts of India under the sponsorship of ISI, Pakistan. The ISIS traces its roots to AQ in Iraq. By 2013, remnants of the AQ affiliate rebranded themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The end objective of the ISIS is creating caliphates. The core tenet of the ISIS organizational philosophy is its oft-repeated mantra, baqiya WA tatamaddad, Arabic for "remain and expand."

 

In retrospect, Indian Muslims suffer from inherited historic “deprivation psyche” syndrome. Their stated objective is quite clear – to regain their historic supremacy in south Asia. Islamic radicalization has taken place cumulatively over the past 75 years. Educated Muslim youth inspired by fundamentalist Islamic ideology are in the forefront of spreading, mobilizing and consolidating their forces based on a 1000-year Jihad.

 

 The list of Islamist radical names is a veritable “Who’s Who” from all parts of the country, particularly Karnataka that figured prominently in the past. Safdar Nagori, founder of SIMI, organized a group that included the Bangalore IT professionals Peedical Abdul Shibli and Yahya Kamakutty. Also, Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Riyaz from Bhatkal in South Karnataka. Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, software engineer helped to design, produces and email several IM manifestos.

 

Their cadres included several educated figures. Altaf Subhan Qureishi, son of a North India Migrant, who obtained a Diploma in Industrial electronics in 1995 and worked in a computer firm DATAMATICS on a WIPRO project to set up an Intranet at Bharat Petrochemicals and edited SIMI-affiliated journal Islamic Voice, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri from Karnataka.  Qureishi performed the critical task of networking jihadist’s modules in a single unity. He coordinated with Bhatkal and bomb-making assets raised by computer graphics designer Qayamuddin Kapadia, who provided safe houses and logistical support for Atif Amin’s assault team in the Ahmadabad attacks.

 

Bhatkal brothers recruited Kerala’s Abdul Sattar, a Kannur resident and his long standing associate T. Nassir who also formed a key part of the circle of South Indian jihadists. Sattar fabricated the pipe bombs used in a series of attacks after 1993 and alleged to have participated in a plot to assassinate former Kerala Chief Minister – E K Nayanar. They had sent over 40 men for training to Lashkar camps in Pakistan.

 

Riyaz had also met gang lord-turned-jihadist Amir Raza Khan after Gujarat violence. Also, Riyaz had met Pakistan based Mafioso Amir Raza Khan in 2001. Following training alongside the LeT in Dubai, Riyaz recruited men from Mangalore – mostly small businesspersons – Ahmad Baba Abu Bakr, Ali Mohammad Ahmad, Javed Mohammad Ali and Syed Mohammad Naushad, to form the bomb manufacturing cell of the IM.

 

To sum up, never too late for political parties and their leaders to realize that the minority appeasement will pave the ways for the “Doomsday” for Karnataka in future, particularly with 2-time Congress Party MP, DK Suresh, brother of Chief Minister aspirant in waiting D K Shivakumar on record by “Hook or Crook” attempting to consolidate their stranglehold on Karnataka politics.

 

Wake Up – We the People of Karnataka to sav3e yourself from the impending doom.   Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Wake up people of Karnataka; Wake Up! Islamist radicalism is an existential threat for Hinduism in Karnataka and on rebound in India.

 

Recent Islamist radical terror module strike in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast busting reconfirms the wide network of “Islamist Radical Terrorist” horror prospects in India. The suspects lived in Bengaluru while on the run in the IS module case from 2020. Of course, Muslim apologists deny “Islamist Radicalization” of youth. They blame terror acts as a phenomenon borne out of “misguided and unemployed youth”, which is rank stupid.

 

Indian Islamist radicals too draw inspiration from the same ‘gene’ as that of AQ and the ISIS – par excellence of Islam, Liberation of J & K and Islamic Caliphate in India. Since the 1970s, the build-up of Islamist radical terrorism took shape in different parts of India. The “Islamic Crescent Envelopment” prophecy of Gen Bipin Chandra Joshi, former Chief of Army Staff, is a reality. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count, particularly media outlets and panelists in denial mode over its overarching influence in today’s India’s geopolitical scenario and its future dangerous portends.

 

Ipso facto, Karnataka is the locus of terrorism in South India delicately perched on the brink sinking into irretrievable Islamist terrorism quagmire. Political stability is quite fragile due to minority appeasement politics of the Congress Party.  In retrospect, strategic paranoia is proverbial.

 

Restating the obvious, partition laid the foundation for resurgence of Islamist radical terrorism. Having ruled India since the 12th Century until the British colonial rule after the 18th Century, quite a few Muslims considered it their right to reclaim its political supremacy or glory in India particularly in Karnataka based on Haider and Tippu Sultan rule. Even today, the Congress party hails TiPPU as a freedom fighter.

 

Let me outline the growth of Islamist groups in Karnataka. The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was formed in 1977, an offshoot of JeI, following the emergency battering in 1977. Babri Masjid demolition and the proscription of SIMI after its extolling Osama Bin Laden as a “true Mujahid” resulted in young people going to LeT camps in Pakistan due to its Maududi ideological orientation.

 

The stated mission of SIMI was the "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. And, the stated mission of the IM is that only Islam has the power to establish a civilized society and this could only be possible under Islamic rule. So, “Islamic Radicalization” is irrefutable.

 

In the aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002, dozens of Muslim youth jumped on the bandwagon of the IM. In 2004, a group of former SIMI cadres – Riyaz Shahbandri, Altaf Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh, Peedical Abdul Shibly and Yahya Kakmutty – became the leading operatives of the IM. The IM was founded after a meeting between Amir of Kolkata and Riyaz Bhatkal by former members of SIMI in 2010 (under ban) to include Shafiq Ahmad, Abdul Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh and the Unani medicine practitioner-turned Islamist proselytizer Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri.

 

Finally, less known is the PFI that was formed in November 2006 in Kerala with alleged links with SIMI/IM. PFI has extended its network covering 15 States. Its network includes Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh among others. There is significant cumulative evidence of progressive extremism in the PFI. On September 6, 2010, the Kerala State Government informed the High Court that investigators had obtained evidence regarding PFI’s connection with the HuM, LeT/JUD and AQ.

 

Next, the “Karachi Project”, conceived in 2003, is a product of joint collaboration between the ISI, Pakistan Army, Lashkar, HUJI and the MCCs. Karachi served as sanctuary for Indian fugitives. The ISI began training terror operatives in small groups of four to five. In two years, intelligence sources estimated infiltration of 40 and 50 jihadists after training. Many of the agents formed sleeper cells, waiting for the command to strike. Lakhvi and other LeT commanders prodded Qureishi, Bhatkal and Sheikh to set up a self-sustaining network in India. On 23 November 2007, the IM and issued the first series of manifestos explaining the rationale – a war of civilization.

 

David Headley, Pakistan-born American Jihadi, has given the FBI details about the project and his role in it as well in December 2009. According to him, the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, Mufti Sufian and underworld don Yaqoob Khan aka Rasool 'Party' were sheltered in Karachi by the LeT and ISI. Headley also told the FBI interrogators about serving and retired Pakistan Army officers being part of the project. The ISI trained the recruits in a remote region of Baluchistan.

 

It is irrefutable fact that the AQ and the ISIS modules are operating in various parts of India under the sponsorship of ISI, Pakistan. The ISIS traces its roots to AQ in Iraq. By 2013, remnants of the AQ affiliate rebranded themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The end objective of the ISIS is creating caliphates. The core tenet of the ISIS organizational philosophy is its oft-repeated mantra, baqiya WA tatamaddad, Arabic for "remain and expand."

 

In retrospect, Indian Muslims suffer from inherited historic “deprivation psyche” syndrome. Their stated objective is quite clear – to regain their historic supremacy in south Asia. Islamic radicalization has taken place cumulatively over the past 75 years. Educated Muslim youth inspired by fundamentalist Islamic ideology are in the forefront of spreading, mobilizing and consolidating their forces based on a 1000-year Jihad.

 

 The list of Islamist radical names is a veritable “Who’s Who” from all parts of the country, particularly Karnataka that figured prominently in the past. Safdar Nagori, founder of SIMI, organized a group that included the Bangalore IT professionals Peedical Abdul Shibli and Yahya Kamakutty. Also, Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Riyaz from Bhatkal in South Karnataka. Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, software engineer helped to design, produces and email several IM manifestos.

 

Their cadres included several educated figures. Altaf Subhan Qureishi, son of a North India Migrant, who obtained a Diploma in Industrial electronics in 1995 and worked in a computer firm DATAMATICS on a WIPRO project to set up an Intranet at Bharat Petrochemicals and edited SIMI-affiliated journal Islamic Voice, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri from Karnataka.  Qureishi performed the critical task of networking jihadist’s modules in a single unity. He coordinated with Bhatkal and bomb-making assets raised by computer graphics designer Qayamuddin Kapadia, who provided safe houses and logistical support for Atif Amin’s assault team in the Ahmadabad attacks.

 

Bhatkal brothers recruited Kerala’s Abdul Sattar, a Kannur resident and his long standing associate T. Nassir who also formed a key part of the circle of South Indian jihadists. Sattar fabricated the pipe bombs used in a series of attacks after 1993 and alleged to have participated in a plot to assassinate former Kerala Chief Minister – E K Nayanar. They had sent over 40 men for training to Lashkar camps in Pakistan.

 

Riyaz had also met gang lord-turned-jihadist Amir Raza Khan after Gujarat violence. Also, Riyaz had met Pakistan based Mafioso Amir Raza Khan in 2001. Following training alongside the LeT in Dubai, Riyaz recruited men from Mangalore – mostly small businesspersons – Ahmad Baba Abu Bakr, Ali Mohammad Ahmad, Javed Mohammad Ali and Syed Mohammad Naushad, to form the bomb manufacturing cell of the IM.

 

To sum up, never too late for political parties and their leaders to realize that the minority appeasement will pave the ways for the “Doomsday” for Karnataka in future, particularly with 2-time Congress Party MP, DK Suresh, brother of Chief Minister aspirant in waiting D K Shivakumar on record by “Hook or Crook” attempting to consolidate their stranglehold on Karnataka politics.

 

Wake Up – We the People of Karnataka to sav3e yourself from the impending doom.   Islamist Radicalism – Existential Threat IN Karnataka

 

Wake up people of Karnataka; Wake Up! Islamist radicalism is an existential threat for Hinduism in Karnataka and on rebound in India.

 

Recent Islamist radical terror module strike in Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe blast busting reconfirms the wide network of “Islamist Radical Terrorist” horror prospects in India. The suspects lived in Bengaluru while on the run in the IS module case from 2020. Of course, Muslim apologists deny “Islamist Radicalization” of youth. They blame terror acts as a phenomenon borne out of “misguided and unemployed youth”, which is rank stupid.

 

Indian Islamist radicals too draw inspiration from the same ‘gene’ as that of AQ and the ISIS – par excellence of Islam, Liberation of J & K and Islamic Caliphate in India. Since the 1970s, the build-up of Islamist radical terrorism took shape in different parts of India. The “Islamic Crescent Envelopment” prophecy of Gen Bipin Chandra Joshi, former Chief of Army Staff, is a reality. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count, particularly media outlets and panelists in denial mode over its overarching influence in today’s India’s geopolitical scenario and its future dangerous portends.

 

Ipso facto, Karnataka is the locus of terrorism in South India delicately perched on the brink sinking into irretrievable Islamist terrorism quagmire. Political stability is quite fragile due to minority appeasement politics of the Congress Party.  In retrospect, strategic paranoia is proverbial.

 

Restating the obvious, partition laid the foundation for resurgence of Islamist radical terrorism. Having ruled India since the 12th Century until the British colonial rule after the 18th Century, quite a few Muslims considered it their right to reclaim its political supremacy or glory in India particularly in Karnataka based on Haider and Tippu Sultan rule. Even today, the Congress party hails TiPPU as a freedom fighter.

 

Let me outline the growth of Islamist groups in Karnataka. The Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was formed in 1977, an offshoot of JeI, following the emergency battering in 1977. Babri Masjid demolition and the proscription of SIMI after its extolling Osama Bin Laden as a “true Mujahid” resulted in young people going to LeT camps in Pakistan due to its Maududi ideological orientation.

 

The stated mission of SIMI was the "liberation of India" from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert its Muslim society to live according to the Muslim code of conduct. And, the stated mission of the IM is that only Islam has the power to establish a civilized society and this could only be possible under Islamic rule. So, “Islamic Radicalization” is irrefutable.

 

In the aftermath of violence in Gujarat in 2002, dozens of Muslim youth jumped on the bandwagon of the IM. In 2004, a group of former SIMI cadres – Riyaz Shahbandri, Altaf Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh, Peedical Abdul Shibly and Yahya Kakmutty – became the leading operatives of the IM. The IM was founded after a meeting between Amir of Kolkata and Riyaz Bhatkal by former members of SIMI in 2010 (under ban) to include Shafiq Ahmad, Abdul Subhan Qureishi, Sadiq Israr Sheikh and the Unani medicine practitioner-turned Islamist proselytizer Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri.

 

Finally, less known is the PFI that was formed in November 2006 in Kerala with alleged links with SIMI/IM. PFI has extended its network covering 15 States. Its network includes Goa, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh among others. There is significant cumulative evidence of progressive extremism in the PFI. On September 6, 2010, the Kerala State Government informed the High Court that investigators had obtained evidence regarding PFI’s connection with the HuM, LeT/JUD and AQ.

 

Next, the “Karachi Project”, conceived in 2003, is a product of joint collaboration between the ISI, Pakistan Army, Lashkar, HUJI and the MCCs. Karachi served as sanctuary for Indian fugitives. The ISI began training terror operatives in small groups of four to five. In two years, intelligence sources estimated infiltration of 40 and 50 jihadists after training. Many of the agents formed sleeper cells, waiting for the command to strike. Lakhvi and other LeT commanders prodded Qureishi, Bhatkal and Sheikh to set up a self-sustaining network in India. On 23 November 2007, the IM and issued the first series of manifestos explaining the rationale – a war of civilization.

 

David Headley, Pakistan-born American Jihadi, has given the FBI details about the project and his role in it as well in December 2009. According to him, the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, Mufti Sufian and underworld don Yaqoob Khan aka Rasool 'Party' were sheltered in Karachi by the LeT and ISI. Headley also told the FBI interrogators about serving and retired Pakistan Army officers being part of the project. The ISI trained the recruits in a remote region of Baluchistan.

 

It is irrefutable fact that the AQ and the ISIS modules are operating in various parts of India under the sponsorship of ISI, Pakistan. The ISIS traces its roots to AQ in Iraq. By 2013, remnants of the AQ affiliate rebranded themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The end objective of the ISIS is creating caliphates. The core tenet of the ISIS organizational philosophy is its oft-repeated mantra, baqiya WA tatamaddad, Arabic for "remain and expand."

 

In retrospect, Indian Muslims suffer from inherited historic “deprivation psyche” syndrome. Their stated objective is quite clear – to regain their historic supremacy in south Asia. Islamic radicalization has taken place cumulatively over the past 75 years. Educated Muslim youth inspired by fundamentalist Islamic ideology are in the forefront of spreading, mobilizing and consolidating their forces based on a 1000-year Jihad.

 

 The list of Islamist radical names is a veritable “Who’s Who” from all parts of the country, particularly Karnataka that figured prominently in the past. Safdar Nagori, founder of SIMI, organized a group that included the Bangalore IT professionals Peedical Abdul Shibli and Yahya Kamakutty. Also, Iqbal Ismail Shahbandri and his brother Riyaz from Bhatkal in South Karnataka. Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, software engineer helped to design, produces and email several IM manifestos.

 

Their cadres included several educated figures. Altaf Subhan Qureishi, son of a North India Migrant, who obtained a Diploma in Industrial electronics in 1995 and worked in a computer firm DATAMATICS on a WIPRO project to set up an Intranet at Bharat Petrochemicals and edited SIMI-affiliated journal Islamic Voice, Riyaz Ismail Shahbandri from Karnataka.  Qureishi performed the critical task of networking jihadist’s modules in a single unity. He coordinated with Bhatkal and bomb-making assets raised by computer graphics designer Qayamuddin Kapadia, who provided safe houses and logistical support for Atif Amin’s assault team in the Ahmadabad attacks.

 

Bhatkal brothers recruited Kerala’s Abdul Sattar, a Kannur resident and his long standing associate T. Nassir who also formed a key part of the circle of South Indian jihadists. Sattar fabricated the pipe bombs used in a series of attacks after 1993 and alleged to have participated in a plot to assassinate former Kerala Chief Minister – E K Nayanar. They had sent over 40 men for training to Lashkar camps in Pakistan.

 

Riyaz had also met gang lord-turned-jihadist Amir Raza Khan after Gujarat violence. Also, Riyaz had met Pakistan based Mafioso Amir Raza Khan in 2001. Following training alongside the LeT in Dubai, Riyaz recruited men from Mangalore – mostly small businesspersons – Ahmad Baba Abu Bakr, Ali Mohammad Ahmad, Javed Mohammad Ali and Syed Mohammad Naushad, to form the bomb manufacturing cell of the IM.

 

To sum up, never too late for political parties and their leaders to realize that the minority appeasement will pave the ways for the “Doomsday” for Karnataka in future, particularly with 2-time Congress Party MP, DK Suresh, brother of Chief Minister aspirant in waiting D K Shivakumar on record by “Hook or Crook” attempting to consolidate their stranglehold on Karnataka politics.

 

Wake Up – We the People of Karnataka to sav3e yourself from the impending doom.