“Except Tanki who was an HSC dropout, rest three were engineering students with well-to-do family backgrounds. Shaikh had a mechanical engineering degree from Kalsekar College in Panvel where Majeed and Tandel were students. Shaikh and Majeed’s fathers are doctors while Tandel’s father works in a reputed company in Mumbai and Tanki’s dad is a businessman.” What? But…but…poverty and ignorance cause terrorism, don’t they? John Kerry told me!
“Kalyan youth with ISIS ‘happy with Jihad’, tells family he won’t come back,” India TV, March 22, 2015:
Kalyan: “I am happy with my Jihadi work, I won’t come back to India”, said Fahad Shaikh, who along with three other youths left from Kalyan near Mumbai to join Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
In the last one year since Shaikh left, he had no communication with his family however, according to sources familiar with the case, since last one month he is in constant touch with his family and friends through Skype and other VoIP platforms.
He also confirmed that Saheem Tanki, one of the youths who went with him, is dead. Reportedly, he had sent a photo of the location where Tanki died to his family members.
When NIA investigators managed to contact Shaikh on a phone number he had called from, he told that he won’t return as his community was not treated well here.
He again claimed that he was happy with ‘Jihad’ however refused to elaborate about what he was doing in Raqqa, Syria.
The four youths who joined ISIS were – Areeb Majeed, Fahad Shaikh, Aman Tandel and Shahim Tanki. All of them, educated and from well-established backgrounds, left for a pilgrimage to Baghdad in May 2014 and never looked back.
Out of them Areeb Majeed returned to India in November last year and is currently in Arthur Road jail.
As reported in Hindustan Times daily, Fahad Shaikh told his family members a week ago that he and Tandel are safe there while Tanki has died.
Except Tanki who was an HSC dropout, rest three were engineering students with well-to-do family backgrounds. Shaikh had a mechanical engineering degree from Kalsekar College in Panvel where Majeed and Tandel were students. Shaikh and Majeed’s fathers are doctors while Tandel’s father works in a reputed company in Mumbai and Tanki’s dad is a businessman.
roger says
Ahh.. the old Joblessness, lack of education and marginalisation of these youth is forcing them to kill people in horrible ways to express their unhappiness.
Spot On says
Roger, It is getting bad when people don’t know the difference between poverty and depravity. What is wrong with being honestly poor as long as the poor person works and tries to help himself and his family through it all.
andrew sapia says
I have long held the opinion and I think guys like this bare it out, Muslims for the most part and certainly by western standards are, almost to a man, UGLY. They grow up in a western society and have a western view of beauty and desirability constantly reinforced through the mass media and they are destined to be UGLY. You might find as a youth, say 16 to 21 or so that Arabs Pakistanis can be quite handsome. However, they know their destiny is Saddam Hussein or Yasser Arafat Sheik. Hell, I’d want to blow shit up too. No matter how successful, no matter how much money you make, you are destined to look like Yasser Arafat by the time you are 28.
Spot On says
There is a lot of truth to what you say. In our society, ugly people commit more crimes.
In the ME, where they are almost all ugly, one would think the they would consider ugly to be hansom. But they still inflict evil upon others on a regular basis.
Islam is a cult practice that destroys the brain.
duh_swami says
There is more than one kind of poverty…A fine education and lots of degree’s does not guarantee a decent human being.
sidney penny says
What?
But…but…but….poverty and ignorance cause terrorism, don’t they? John Kerry told me!
Rudra Bhat says
A sucker is born every minute,says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Lioness says
Most Jihadis from western nations are educatated and come from well to do families.
Oliver says
A shame–of the 4, ONLY 1 is dead; others should be also, along with their comrats 9no spelled wrong– they are rats, and scum).
Would hope that the 4th-one in jail- falls on the shower floor.
Dirtbags, all.
Uncle Vladdi says
But … but … everyone knows islam is defensively specific grievance-driven, not general doctrine-driven!
And … and … poverty causes crime, so this poor starving engineering studen had every reason to hate!
(JK)!
gravenimage says
Islamic State jihadi with engineering degree: “I am happy with my Jihadi work”
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What? You mean, this Jihadist isn’t just some kid who “needs a job”?