Kerala in shadow of global Jihad

Shravan Shukla Dwitiya, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

By V.R.Jayraj

The sweep of pan-Islamism in the southern State can no longer be ignored by police who have so far been slow to pursue the attackers of the Thodupuzha professor owing to political confusion

More than a month after Prof TJ Joseph was attacked by militant Islamists in Muvattupuzha, the Kerala Police have begun to feel that the incident need not be just a local affair but the top leadership of the radical Muslim outfit Popular Front of India was involved in it. The State Home Department under CPI(M) Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had avoided reaching this conclusion so far despite the persistent allegations that the professor’s right hand was cut off by PFI hitmen with the knowledge of their State committee.

 Popular Front’s State president Nazeeruddin Elamaram, general secretary Abdul Hameed and national council member and theorist P Koya, a professor by profession, have now been summoned for an evidence-gathering exercise in the case.

That the State committee of the PFI had knowledge of the plan to attack Prof Joseph is beyond doubt if one goes by the reports. The Muvattupuzha local unit of the Islamist outfit had prepared a plan to take revenge on him — decreed by a Taliban-model Sharia court as reports say — for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad through a question paper he prepared for an internal examination at the Church-run Newman College.

 The Ernakulam district committee of the PFI had reportedly put this plan before the State committee but it opposed it not because the plan was disgustingly inhuman but because its implementation could bring serious setbacks to the outfit. But when the local unit remained adamant, the State committee was said to have been left with no other option but to endorse it. Elamaram and Koya would be forced to reveal the details of this when they face the police on August 12 and 16, respectively.

The snail-paced probe by the Kerala Police into the case of Taliban-model attack on the professor has, however, given clear indications of how extensive the network of Islamist operatives in god’s own country is. Signs of this have already been there but the police, caught among the labyrinthine interests of their political bosses, either could not see that or had deliberately chosen not to see it for obvious reasons.

 A Kerala Police team last week visited Bangalore to question Sarfraz Nawaz, a Malayalee fund-raiser of the LeT who had part-financed the Bangalore bombings of 2008, in connection with a book seized during a raid at the house of a PFI leader accused in the case of attack on the professor. The translator of the book, Islam and Democracy, was one Sarfaraz Nawaz and the police have got enough evidence to conclude that the translator was the LeT fund-raiser himself.

According to security experts, this one instance is ample proof of how the same Islamists were operating under the umbrellas of different organisations in Kerala. Activists of Popular Front and the PDP of Bangalore blasts-accused Abdul Nasser Madani had been caught in the case relating to the recruitment of youths into the LeT as back as in end-2008.

 When the first terror-related case came up in Kerala after the killing of four Malayalee jihadis in Kashmir in October, 2008, the first man to be arrested was a former activist of the NDF (the former avatar of PFI), Abdul Jaleel. The chief executive of this terror recruitment was none other than LeT’s South Indian boss Thadiyantavide Nazeer, prime accused in several terror cases including that of the Bangalore bombings, who was also a former PDP worker. LeT’s master bomb-maker Abdul Sattar alias Sainuddin was Madani’s close family friend. Madani’s wife Sufiya had even acted as the local guardian of Sainuddin’s daughter in Kochi.

What the Kerala Police have learned by interrogating Sarfaraz Nawaz is not yet known officially but Intelligence sources informally say that they have established that the translator of the book, filled with anti-national content, is no one else. It makes clear the ominous picture of the inter-organisational network of Islamists within Kerala and their connections with terror bases abroad.

 It explains how the Al Qaeda and Taliban campaign CDs had come to the house of a PFI leader near Kochi, unearthed in a police raid. It also explains how these organisations were getting huge amounts of money from abroad for their extensive operations.

“It is a cleverly constituted network,” says a senior official of the Kerala Police. “We see here several organisations and their sub-groups operating in their own names and styles. But they all work for the same goal and they all take their orders from a single command centre, which need not be based in India. What we are looking at a very strong arm of the pan-Islamic movement,” the official adds.

Source: Pioneer

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