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For Indians Who Joined Islamic State, It Is Pure Dejection Out There

2023-05-20

[OneIndia] The Kerala Story is creating quite the storm at the box office. It is on its way to mint at least Rs 200 crore soon.

While there are questions being asked on the exact number of persons from India who have joined the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
either in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, an Intelligence Bureau dossier says that the number of those who joined or tried to join is 133.

An Intelligence Bureau official explains to OneIndia that while many had got carried away and left their land to be part of the Islamic State, there is one common tale and that is each one of them has regretted their decision. Take the case of Ayesha alias Sonia Sebastin who was converted and then sent off to Afghanistan. She said in a video that she and her husband Abdullah Rashi were disappointed after reaching the country. She says that she had moved thinking that she would lead an Islamic life under the Caliphate. However we found that none were even visiting the Mosques here.

She also said that at first her husband would prepare audio and video clips to Kerala so that more people would be inspired to join. However he got fed up and told her that he is done with this world. That was the extent of his disenchantment, she said.

Nimisha alias Fathima said after reaching Afghanistan that this country does not feel like her own. I want to return to India badly she had said in a message. Things have changed, she also added.

The Indians were targeted by the Islamic State not to hold guns on the battlefield and wage a war. They wanted them more for numbers. Many of the recruits who have reached places such as Kabul or djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
realised that they were only being allowed to hold guns and pose so that the recruitment drive back in India continues unabated. Interviews and Intelligence reports reveal that in reality the Indians are made to do menial jobs in these lands.

Take the case of Areeb Majid, the Mumbai youth who managed to return to India back in 2015. He had told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that he was extremely disenchanted as he was not told to do what he had been promised. While in Mosul, he never fought for the Caliphate. Instead he was asked to do menial jobs.

The women from Kerala are being roped by the Islamic State so that they work as nurses and sex slaves. A 26 Hindu girl from Pathanamthitta district had alleged that she was being forced to join the Islamic State as a nurse. She however managed to escape from the clutches of the outfit.

Nimisha Fathima during her questioning at a Kabul jail said that she felt that she became a victim of a conspiracy. She said that when she was being told to go to Kabul, she was told that she would lead a truly Islamic life. However once in Kabul, the outfit wanted her to train for Jihad and this had come as a shock to her. Sonia who had travelled with her too said that she wants to have nothing to do with the outfit.

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