Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses - Ideological Convergence in the Extreme Right

Image 1 shows four girls, with the one dressed in pink and donning IS’ black banner headband being the Image 2 main subject and the rest in the background in the video, the girl dressed in pink is seen Images 1 and 2 are screenshots from “Education under the reciting verses from the Quran and becomes Caliphate” video by IS in Raqqah. [...] The between the man in brown in the foreground appearance of two fire trucks is meant to and the children in the middle ground creates illustrate that IS has the necessary equipment an environment that illustrates the rigorous IS- for its civil defence. [...] According to a recent UN Introduction report, IS has between 180 and 200 members in the country, mostly in Kerala and “O Muslims of Hind come rushing out of your Karnataka.8 IS’ messaging in the Indian houses and rebel against the unjust rule of the context is useful to understand how the disbelievers,” reads a statement from the terrorist group exploits communal cleavages, Voice of Hind, a flagsh. [...] The ul-Khalifa-e-Hind (Army of the Caliph of India) primary goal of the articles in the Voice of Hind 29 and the more recently formed Harkat-ul- is to instil in the minds of Indian Muslims that Harb-e-Islam (Movement for the War of Islam) the Indian state had made the community a and Ummat-e-Mohammadiya (Followers of subservient population and that it is only in an the Prophet Mohammed).30 In exch. [...] The articles call on IS to as effectively counter the emerging IS followers to be “carriers” of the virus and narratives intended to capitalise on Muslim deliberately spread the infections to “make it grievances and vulnerabilities in the country.