Secular Hindus allies, don't need al-Qaida: Indian Muslims

[illusion8]

MUMBAI: The country's Muslim leaders say they're allied with secular forces and don't need a foreign, jihadist outfit like al-Qaida to fight for them. Denouncing the creation of AQ's wing in the Indian subcontinent, clerics, progressive activists and community leaders said AQ is a terror group and can't be friends of Muslims, either in India or anywhere else.

"Muslims in India believe in the Constitution that guarantees freedom to preach and practise their religion. We're self-sufficient and can solve our problems within the Indian framework. We don't need AQ," said Maulana Mehmood Daryabi, general secretary, All India Ulema Council.

Some activists said AQ had earlier declared India among its "enemies". "India with its large Muslim population is an ideal territory for terrorist outfits to target. I'm optimistic AQ won't get much traction here. The overwhelming majority of Muslims don't accept AQ ideology ," said Javed Anand of Muslims for Secular Democracy (MSD), a think tank.

Anand added this is the time Muslim religious leaders must denounce jihadist groups like AQ and ISIS.

"Al-Qaida cannot be our friend. They're not even true Muslims. They kill innocents. They damage Islam, for they carry out carnage in the name of Islam. If they try to entice our youth, they'll be repulsed. They're enemies of Muslims and we don't need their sympathy ," said M A Khalid of All India Milli Council. Commentators within the community aren't surprised that AQ is trying to entice some Muslim youth to its so-called jihad, but are confident that barring some misguided youth like the four Kalyan boys who allegedly joined ISIS in Syria, Muslims will never get attracted to jihadist cause.

"Our best allies are secular Hindus. They've fought our battles whenever injustice has been done to minorities. AQ has no credibility to find a foothold in India," said Urdu columnist Hasan Kamal. Kamal urged Indian Muslims, especially clerics, to speak out against the dangerous designs of al-Qaida and ISIS. "They should rise against AQ's attempt to entrap them in their dangerous terror game," added Kamal.

Abdul Hafeez Farroqui of Jamaat-e-Islami (Hind) said AQ would give communal forces another reason to further polarize Indian society. "There's no reason for Indian Muslims to be influenced by al-Qaida ideology ," said Farooqui.

Secular Hindus allies, don't need al-Qaida: Indian Muslims - The Times of India

@Irfan Baloch, @waz, @nair - Indian Muslims are up to the task, terrorists will not get a base in India.

 

[APS]

Kitman?

These are the same people who start protesting when Muslims get arrested on terrorism charges.

 

[illusion8]

NEW DELHI: The chilling ISIS videos showing the beheading of two US journalists, which drew condemnation from Barack Obama and other world leaders, appear to have driven al-Qaida to match the sensationalism announcing the launch of its branch in the Indian subcontinent.

The security establishment is of the view that the brazen use of the social media by ISIS to establish its prominence in global jihad may have only added to al-Qaida's marginalisation as the face of transnational terrorism.

"The Qaida video was possibly meant to match the brutal IS posts, and make the world take notice of its potential to reinvent itself by expanding its arc of infl uence," an intelligence official said.

The Indian agencies fear that the Zawahiri video is only the beginning and may be followed by far more brazen posts online. "The coming days may see ISIS and al-Qaida indulging in competitive aggressiveness on social media, exposing the average net user to much more ruthless styles of propaganda," warned an official.

Given that social media posts play a major role in radicalization of minority youths, the prospects of IS and al-Qaida trying to resort to sensationalism to project themselves as the more ruthless outfit have led the security establishment to alert the cyber monitoring agencies.

"Cyber surveillance has to be more aggressive and such campaigns must be tracked in real time. The agencies have been told to scan Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other social media websites for any objectionable or infl ammatory posts and tackle the issue domestically...We are competent enough to do this," an offi cial said. "For now, we are geared up to counter the increased jihadi activity online with our cyber monitoring mechanisms. But with time we may need to get countries like the US on board, since most social website servers are located there...," the official told TOI.

Incidentally, the capability of Indian agencies to monitor and block incendiary posts remains in question.

 

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Intelligence sees ISI hand behind Al Qaeda video

enemy is trying its best to create tension. .

 

[Yogijaat]

Al-Qaida cannot be our friend. They're not even true Muslims.

al qaida has the same opinion about them

 

[APS]

Intelligence sees ISI hand behind Al Qaeda video
enemy is trying its best to create tension. .

When Muslims in India do something bad, we need to blame ISI or Pakistan. Shield them more and we will end up more worse than Iraq.

 

[Etilla]

Indian muslims scared they are getting competition from Al-Qaida? They think AQ will have better luck than SIMI?

Nope both will be shot with impunity. Time India makes a full scale pre-emptive strike on all possible and probable AQ recruits. ALL of them.

 

[illusion8]

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has refreshed his call for jihad against India and announced the formation of a new wing of his group in the subcontinent. In a 55-minute video posted online, Zawahiri described this development as glad tidings for Muslims in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad and Kashmir and said this was a message that al Qaeda had not forgotten its brothers in India. The video has evoked interest among experts on terrorism who reckon that this is a publicity exercise meant to remind the world — and potential recruits — that al Qaeda is still alive and kicking, even as its ‘competitor’ Islamic State (ISIS) captures the imagination of radicals across the world by ruthlessly taking over parts of Syria and Iraq.


The Narendra Modi government will be looking keenly at the import of Zawahiri’s message for India. Al Qaeda’s capacities have been significantly degraded over the years and its appeal has waned after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Experts now see the group less as a coherent organisation and more as an idea and method that other jihadi groups emulate and appropriate, as if it were a franchise. Zawahiri’s statement, however, assumes significance in the light of reports that a section of the Indian Mujahideen’s leadership in Pakistan has gravitated to al Qaeda after being disillusioned by Islamabad’s efforts to restrain anti-India attacks. Even if al Qaeda is unable to wage jihad directly, Zawahiri’s message may point to the possibility of indigenous and Pakistan-based elements stepping up jihad in India under the al Qaeda banner in order to attract more recruits.

The chilling reiteration of terrorist rhetoric should compel the Modi government to plug the gaps in India’s security preparedness. India has made progress after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but severe deficits remain. Key agencies like the National Investigation Agency, state criminal investigation departments and police forces are still woefully short-staffed. Budgets for training and modernisation of forces are deficient. Coordination between the Centre and states is a work in progress as is developing infrastructure for coastal security. These are all certainly big challenges but the government should know that there is not a moment to lose.

- See more at: Govt should plug the gaps in India’s security preparedness - Hindustan Times

 

[waz]

MUMBAI: The country's Muslim leaders say they're allied with secular forces and don't need a foreign, jihadist outfit like al-Qaida to fight for them. Denouncing the creation of AQ's wing in the Indian subcontinent, clerics, progressive activists and community leaders said AQ is a terror group and can't be friends of Muslims, either in India or anywhere else.

"Muslims in India believe in the Constitution that guarantees freedom to preach and practise their religion. We're self-sufficient and can solve our problems within the Indian framework. We don't need AQ," said Maulana Mehmood Daryabi, general secretary, All India Ulema Council.

Some activists said AQ had earlier declared India among its "enemies". "India with its large Muslim population is an ideal territory for terrorist outfits to target. I'm optimistic AQ won't get much traction here. The overwhelming majority of Muslims don't accept AQ ideology ," said Javed Anand of Muslims for Secular Democracy (MSD), a think tank.

Anand added this is the time Muslim religious leaders must denounce jihadist groups like AQ and ISIS.

"Al-Qaida cannot be our friend. They're not even true Muslims. They kill innocents. They damage Islam, for they carry out carnage in the name of Islam. If they try to entice our youth, they'll be repulsed. They're enemies of Muslims and we don't need their sympathy ," said M A Khalid of All India Milli Council. Commentators within the community aren't surprised that AQ is trying to entice some Muslim youth to its so-called jihad, but are confident that barring some misguided youth like the four Kalyan boys who allegedly joined ISIS in Syria, Muslims will never get attracted to jihadist cause.

"Our best allies are secular Hindus. They've fought our battles whenever injustice has been done to minorities. AQ has no credibility to find a foothold in India," said Urdu columnist Hasan Kamal. Kamal urged Indian Muslims, especially clerics, to speak out against the dangerous designs of al-Qaida and ISIS. "They should rise against AQ's attempt to entrap them in their dangerous terror game," added Kamal.

Abdul Hafeez Farroqui of Jamaat-e-Islami (Hind) said AQ would give communal forces another reason to further polarize Indian society. "There's no reason for Indian Muslims to be influenced by al-Qaida ideology ," said Farooqui.

Secular Hindus allies, don't need al-Qaida: Indian Muslims - The Times of India

@Irfan Baloch, @waz, @nair - Indian Muslims are up to the task, terrorists will not get a base in India.

I hope these savages don't. I also think the whole "secular" forces shouldn't be stated again and again. Religious Hindu organisations should also be talked to. I feel the whole thing of being a religious Hindu has been tarnished with the Hindutva debate.

The greater threat is not these Al-Queda clowns, but the ISIS franchise. In the ISIS franchise people see success and strength, which empowers the would be Jihadist.

 

[ranjeet]

ISI bogey was raised by the secular journalists to take the heat away from the wayward Muslim youth.

 

[APS]

Nope both will be shot with impunity. Time India makes a full scale pre-emptive strike on all possible and probable AQ recruits. ALL of them.

ISIS recruits were released by Hyderabad police. Unfortunately Al-qaeda's mission will become easier.

 

[arp2041]

only SECULAR Hindus are ALLIES??? What about a COMMUNAL Hindu like me???

 

[extra terrestrial]

Meanwhile, their "ally" Hindus developing other plans!

India's Hindu nationalists aim to 'convert' Muslims

 

[Areesh]

Meanwhile, their "ally" Hindus developing other plans!

India's Hindu nationalists aim to 'convert' Muslims

Haha good one.

 

[ranjeet]

Meanwhile, their "ally" Hindus developing other plans!

India's Hindu nationalists aim to 'convert' Muslims

what you got to worry about?