Kasaragod, Jul 9: At least 13 Muslims from Kasaragod district, who have been missing for a month now, are suspected to have joined the IS, a terror group based in Middle East.
Their relatives said they had received messages from them that they had reached their final destination — the Caliphate' that the IS projects to establish. They are suspected to have gone in groups via Dubai or Sri Lanka.
“Those missing include nine men, four of their wives, a child and an infant. Three of the women are pregnant. One of the missing is the manager of a local school; he and his wife had recently converted to Islam. All are in their 20s,” said Abdul Salam from Padanna.
His nephew, Haseesudeen, 23, is also suspected to be part of this group. State and Central intelligence agencies have begun probing the veracity of this information.
Kasaragod's CPI (M) MP P. Karunakaran, Trikkarippur's MLA K. Rajagopal and Kasaragod district panchayat member V.P.P. Mustafa called on CM Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday.
Couple from Palakkad missing
Kasaragod MP P. Karunakaran, who brought the issue of the 13 missing Kerala Muslims to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's attention said: This is serious. I submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister. I have also messaged Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh urging him to take up this issue. Besides these people from Kasargod, a couple from Palakkad have also gone missing now.”
A senior intelligence officer, who confirmed being privy to this information, however declined to confirm the apprehensions about the IS link.
“We can't confirm that they have indeed joined the IS. There have been many complaints about youths who went to the Gulf having gone missing. We can't just assume that they all have joined the IS, though Kerala is a fertile ground for radicalisation,” he said.
When contacted State Police Chief Loknath Behera said there was no “actionable intelligence.”
“The information is not right. I spoke to the SP Kasaragod. The police have no such information as of now,” he said.
But Abdul Salam, whose nephew is suspected to be in the missing group of 13, and who is bringing together the families at Padanna and Trikkarippur, said that many of these youths had frequented radical training programmes at a farm house at Tirur in Malappuram.
“Haseesudeen used to say that he wanted to study religion in Egypt. We suspect that there could be more youths from the State who went that way,” he said.
Incidentally, the Union government had alerted Kerala that a dormant radical module with links to Islamic State militia may plan to recruit fighters for strife-torn Syria and Iraq.
Comments
May be Bajarangdal terrorists kidnapped them
Helo dear friends,who is the real terorist? who did naga saki hirosima blast? who is the hitlor? (the father of RSS)who is the sadwi? (the mother of RSS) Isrel and jewis trying to spoil islam names.ISIS is born from isrel,Bopanna your name also telling you are real bopa and kotian you are the cancer of the socity you sould clean your heart other way your cancer will grou up and will impact brain....
UmmarSahil,
Explain how the Banu quraish were cheated by Mohammad
What is taqiiyya mean
Haha Mohammed ...sadhvi killed those guys who don't say bharath mata ki jai ..moreover she is just accused ..not culprit .. Haha...we don't give damn for the people killed who don't say Bharath mata ki jai...as viren and bopanna said 72 virgins + rape madodakke yazidi women sigthare antha hogirbahudu ...haha...anyways as a die hard nationalist ...we must say death to Islamic state ...death to jihadist forces ...death to kashmiri terrorists ....bholo Bharath mata ki ...hara hara modi ...long live Zionist regime ...
@ viren kotian & bopanna
dont talk nonsense if u dont know about quran ,
u people talk useless about islam & holy book.
first study about yourself and ur holy book then u blame on others.
bopanna and koti anna..if you are free, try to read holybook QURAN,
then you will come to know what is QURAN. Islam only spreads peace but some non muslims are converting to muslim just to spoil name of ISLAM- muslims.
Bopanna viranna by the way how is your Mother Prajnya Sadvi the bomb specialist and terrorst no.1 doing in the jail.
Those who go against India or killing Indians will follow Saadvini. Dont worry.
Until koran is there nothing can be done to help these muslim community. All that book teaches is violence and hatred for the Kuffar. Rape and pillage of innocents. Telling lies - Kittman, Taqiah etc etc. Zakir Naik will explain all this to any Muslims here who would not want to defned the quran.
I hope that all these young people who left India for ISIS quickly get a bullet through their empty Madrassa educated heads and quickly attain jannat where they will get 72 virgin sows waiting for them
The true followers of the religion of piece piece kabab finally reached their ultimate goal. Madrasa education konegoo saarthaka aayithu. 72 virgins are only one gun shot away for them. by the they what women will get??? what they have to do with 72 virgins???
I think they might have gone to relative home.
I think in future if children will not come to home on time may all say they joined iss
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