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Al-Qaeda leaflet calls for intensifying jihad and establishing caliphate in Bangladesh and eastern India

Nov 1, 2014 11:23 am By Robert Spencer

jihadists“If we manage to establish a Syria-like reign here (in Bangladesh) then Muslims from Assam, Arakan (former name of Burma’s Rakhine State) and West Bengal too would be able to come here for hijrat (migration with religious agenda). Simultaneously, anti-India revolts would intensify in seven eastern Indian states. This would be a huge blow for India, one of the key non-Muslim states in the changed situation of the world.” Even if the Islamic State is smashed, the idea of the caliphate, and of jihad to establish the caliphate, is not going to go away. It is too deeply embedded in Sunni Islam. And it is going to bring much more bloodshed to the world in the coming years.

“Al Qaeda leaflets talk of Bengal caliphate,” by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Hindustan Times, October 29, 2014 (thanks to T.S.):

Intelligence officials in West Bengal have found a purported al Qaeda pamphlet, which talks about establishing an ISIS-style Islamic caliphate in Bangladesh – one that eventually includes several eastern and northeastern Indian states.

The pamphlet, written in Bangla and being secretly distributed in West Bengal and Assam, says establishing a caliphate in Bangladesh is crucial for intensifying jihad in Indian states on the eastern border. The text, credited to al-Qaeda’s media wing, specifically mentions West Bengal and Assam, though intelligence officials suspect Bihar and Jharkhand also feature in the terror group’s plans.

“If we manage to establish a Syria-like reign here (in Bangladesh) then Muslims from Assam, Arakan (former name of Burma’s Rakhine State) and West Bengal too would be able to come here for hijrat (migration with religious agenda). Simultaneously, anti-India revolts would intensify in seven eastern Indian states,” says the pamphlet. “This would be a huge blow for India, one of the key non-Muslim states in the changed situation of the world.”

The discovery of the jihadi literature comes after al Qaeda announced its plans in September to open a branch in the Indian subcontinent. The pamphlet, urging people to restore the Islamic rule of pre-colonial India, may raise new security challenges amid growing communal polarisation in West Bengal, analysts said.

“We have got a copy of the leaflet. We will soon send it to New Delhi. This issue has to be discussed at the top level,” a senior officer working with a central intelligence agency told HT on Wednesday.

The pamphlet, suspected to have been smuggled into the state through Bangladesh, was discovered a few days before the October 2 Burdwan blast in which two operatives of the militant outfit, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), were killed while making bombs in a house.

HT has a copy of the seven-page pamphlet but could not verify if it is an al Qaeda document.

“They have active modules in Jharkhand and Bihar. We have specific inputs that many of those operating in West Bengal had also visited Jharkhand,” an intelligence officer told HT.

Analysts say al Qaeda’s efforts are the latest signs of the organisation striving to stay relevant in the face of growing support for ISIS in Iraq and Syria….

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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    The Hindus have muddled through the Moslem Problem thing since the Moghul rolled in from the north and went on to murder a hundred million in the name of Allah and the Holy Prophet.

    Sooner or later they’re gonna have to confront them. My bet is on later. Their is no short-term political profit to be got from doing what ultimately will have to be done. At least not yet.

    • Richie says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 2:43 pm

      the funny thing is Muslims cry that Hindus in India have oppressed Muslims for centuries. Maybe the Muslims feel oppressed when people fight back

    • Jay says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 7:13 pm

      You think that we have nearly 1 billion Hindus in the world, because they sat around and did nothing when Muslim invaders came? Wrong. No Arab polytheists remain, no Zoroastrians rule any part of Persia, Buddhists to the West of India are extinct, not even their stone statues are left by Muslims unviolated. Yet despite the invasions and killings, Hindus fought constantly. It was not out of the goodness of a Muslim fanatic’s heart that there are nearly 1 billion Hindus today, but to Hindus own fighting back throughout the centuries. http://voiceofdharma.org/books/hhrmi/

  2. Richie says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    I thought Muslims in India were given their own Muslim state- Pakistan. Proof positive Muslims want to spread their child rapist death cult everywhere

    • Jay says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 7:15 pm

      They were. Bangladesh was part of Pakistan known as East Pakistan. India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. Indian Muslims got enough Indian land to create two Islamic state, but we see that is not enough. There never is enough land any infidel can give to Muslims that would satisfy them as long as there is an inch of land not under their control.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 1:11 am

        Exactly.

        Islam is a land grab.

        Ex-Muslim Patrick Sookhdeo explains that very clearly in his book about Islam, which he called “Faith, Power and Territory”.

        That’s why both India and Israel should flatly refuse to cede even one more inch of ground to whining Mohammedans. And the Philippines and Thailand should also dig in their heels. Muslims are *never* satisfied; because what they are after is nothing less than Total World Domination.

  3. johnrowe1 says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    I see ISIS plan is like a football or soccer plan, running the Ottoman Empire route, but getting some nukes on the way, America is last Western Country
    at end of route, So what about them nukes they picked up along the way…
    how easy to get that across the pond…. What does Western Countries Vets have
    to do, go over there without country backing to stop ISIS…

    • Glen says

      Nov 2, 2014 at 1:32 am

      The 2 things about nukes are that firstly you have to have an effective one and the technology to match and secondly you have to have a delivery platform. Nukes are not actually that complicated but it is not that easy to get the parts unless you buy them complete. Assuming that they have a nuke and accompanying technology (say ex soviet or pakistani) then they need to be able to get it to where it can be used. You cannot strap a bomb onto someone as is their height of technological advancement in the last 500 years. It is far more complex to use a missile and then if it gets to a target (judging by recent Gaza efforts they have trouble with basic WW2 technology missiles easily shot down by Israel) you have to explode the bomb. They can’t use planes as they will be shot down. So it must be by land. It is not easy to transport a nuclear warhead into territory you want to destroy. Lets face it if you nuke it then the land is contaminated for decades. I’m sure if they let off a bomb in Israel for example there will be no mercy in the response of a highly technical nuclear capable power. God help us all.

  4. Halaku says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 11:59 pm

    This looks more like a disingenuous continuation of Pakistani ISI’s destabilizing project in eastern India. They have been funding and arming the communist insurgency there for decades. Pakistan probably thinks an Al-Qaeda proxy will protect them from retaliation by India, as the “non-state actors” ploy had let them off the hook in the 26/11 Mumbai massacre by LeT operatives working for their ISI.
    They realize that the barmy rule of Dhimmi super idiot TMC government in Bengal is a perfect time to promote Islamic and other insurgencies in eastern India, especially when Bangladesh is turning up the heat on its fundamentalists.

    This kind of proxy Jihad suits Pakistan more, as it also seems to have finally realized by now that one-third of the deaths in case of nuclear bombs dropped on Indian cities will be of Muslims, while Pakistan itself will be obliterated. A conventional war too will be disastrous for Pakistan. They are no doubt busy figuring out internally how to justify the future large-scale killing of Indian Muslims in a Pakistani attack, by potentially categorizing the Indian Muslims as Shaheed martyrs who died for Islam, or as covert Kafirs, who had it coming, or a mixture of both.

  5. KiwiKaffir says

    Nov 2, 2014 at 1:55 am

    It’s the nukes that are owned in this area that could be a game changer!

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