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ISIS releases new video threatening India to take revenge against Babri Masjid demolition




MUMBAI: Terrorist group Islamic State has released a new video to threaten India to take revenge against the atrocities meted out to Muslims in Kashmir, demolition of Babri Masjid, communal riots in Gujarat and Muzaffarnagar.

The 22-minute video titled ‘Bilad al-Hind, between pain and hope’ shows five Kalashnikov-wielding Indian jihadists fighting in Syria and an interview of one of the five Indian nationals who joined the terrorist group in 2014.

Fahad Tanveer Sheikh, an Indian national and engineering student from Thane and his three colleagues joined ISIS in 2014. In the video, Fahad introduces himself as Abu Amra Al-Hindi.

Sheikh addresses at the start of the video: “We will return…but with a sword in hand, to avenge the Babri Masjid, and the killings of Muslims in Kashmir, in Gujarat, and in Muzaffarnagar.”

The video is part of ISIS propaganda campaign on foreign fighters in their ranks, US-based private SITE Intelligence Group said on Thursday.

“The interviewed ISIS fighters called on Indians to leave their country and join the ‘jihad’ in Syria against the ‘kuffar’ (infidels),” the group said adding that it is not clear how many Indians are actually fighting with the ISIS inside Syria.

On December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Kar Sevaks (volunteers) demolished the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh. The demolition occurred after a political rally at the site turned violent.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.