The dream of the caliphate dies hard. While the Islamic State’s domains in Iraq and Syria have been recovered, the Islamic State threat is by no means extinguished, contrary to the complacency of many Western officials.
“Islamic State claims ‘province’ in India for first time after clash in Kashmir,” by Fayaz Bukhari and Alasdair Pal, Reuters, May 11, 2019:
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Islamic State (IS) claimed for the first time that it has established a “province” in India, after a clash between militants and security forces in the contested Kashmir region killed a militant with alleged ties to the group.
IS’s Amaq News Agency late on Friday announced the new province, that it called “Wilayah of Hind”, in a statement that also claimed IS inflicted casualties on Indian army soldiers in the town of Amshipora in the Shopian district of Kashmir.
The IS statement corresponds with an Indian police statement on Friday that a militant called Ishfaq Ahmad Sofi was killed in an encounter in Shopian.
IS’s statement establishing the new province appears to be designed to bolster its standing after the group was driven from its self-styled “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in April, where at one point it controlled thousands of miles of territory.
IS has stepped up hit-and-run raids and suicide attacks, including taking responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombing in Sri Lanka that killed at least 253 people.
“The establishment of a ‘province’ in a region where it has nothing resembling actual governance is absurd, but it should not be written off,” said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intel Group that tracks Islamic extremists.
“The world may roll its eyes at these developments, but to jihadists in these vulnerable regions, these are significant gestures to help lay the groundwork in rebuilding the map of the IS ‘caliphate’.”…
marble says
Don’t they have a province? Pakistan?
mortimer says
Yes, Pakistan and Bangladesh. However, Pakistan claims all of Punjab which was portioned with India. There should only be one India.
Reziac says
I usually refer to the two Pakistans as “Occupied India”.
Ravi says
Don’t worry. Modi is in charge of India, that means Muslim’s worst nightmare. He will first shoot and then asks questions later – not the other way round. Since the Pakistan sponsored Jihadi agenda from 1989 turned Kashmir into a hellhole, India barely lost its grip militarily. Except 10% of the Kashmir, the other 90% Hindu province of Jammu and Buddhist province of Ladakh don’t have any problems (Surprise…Surprise..Only Islamic area of Kashmir is the problem. Sounds familiar? Mollenbeek, St Denise, Tower Hamlets, Kolenkit, Malmo, Luton etc). Pakistanis have been trying for 75 years to grab the Kashmir province, what they got in return was loss of 40% of their country and it became Bangladesh. Four failed wars and an unsustainable defense budget virtually bankrupted it. Living on the alms of IMF and Saudi bread crumbs and Chinese leftovers. Province of Balochisthan forcibly annexed militarily is fighting a civil war since 1973 and virtually half the province is no go for Pakistani authorities. The NWFP Pashtun tribal region divided by Durand line, separating their Afghan brethren was never an integral part. Afghanistan doesn’t recognize the Durand line. India doesn’t recognize the Kashmir boundary, Iran doesn’t recognize the Balochistan boundary. Pakistan is a real moth eaten republic being held together by force with their Punjabi military. But for how long? India is well equipped to deal with ISIS militarily because it doesn’t care about niceties like ‘Human Rights’ and Islamic scum like ISIS are not human anyway. More than Iran, Go to UN designated terrorists lists and the list is exhaustive and it is dominated by Paki nationals, they have outdone Palestinians, Yemenis and Taliban. ISIS in India sponsored by Pakistani ISI has as much chance as a snowball in hell.
infidel says
Ps stop this absolute nonsense about Modi ,,, He has already started appeasing these creatures..
Banku bhaiya says
Wait for the year end bro and you’ll see that it was just a treat for future surprises
mortimer says
Right. Modi is a politician and politicians make deals with their enemies every day. That’s what politics is for. And it smells bad to the fainthearted.
gravenimage says
Grimly, Modi does seem to be in appeasement mode:
“Modi woos Muslims in speech as house leader”
https://www.dawn.com/news/1484672
kuriakose says
Infidel: Tell me honestly what do you think Modi should do? The idiotic West are already crucifying him for his rightwing stance on Hinduism. And the west is the one pandering the most to the muhameddans. To deal with an estimated 205,503,453 muslims in India, (2nd in muslim world), does anybody have a clue how to deal with them? China’s putting their muslims in reeducation camps has already drawn ire from the West, but strangely enough, largely silence from the islamic world. ‘ The US envoy on religious liberty has slammed the Islamic world for not condemning China’s ongoing mass incarceration of Uighur Muslims.’
Sam Brownback, ambassador at large for international religious freedom, said he is “disappointed” by the response of majority-Muslim states, The Guardian reported.. ( https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/6/11/us-envoy-slams-muslim-world-for-not-condemning-china )
Deceitful that’s what the West is, how can you ever trust them? Modi will have to tread very carefully. Aung San Su Kyi is being condemned by the West for her action against the so called Rohingyas.
CRUSADER says
Islam speed of dread by jihad is on the rise, it would seem.
(Not sure why Daniel Pipes would think that “Islamism” is in decline…)
Meanwhile, ISIS also has grown in parts of Afghanistan….
And, Iran is consistently in the news as well…
“I’ve been watching for years as Iran moves weapons to proxies around the region, looking for opportunities to destabilize & wreak havoc, and then claim innocence. This is not new. And the Administration is right to strengthen our regional presence as a deterrence,” said U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw, former SEAL.
gravenimage says
Yes–while I’m glad that the Islamic State is no more, ISIS is spreading and is in some ways as dangerous as ever.
Paul N Silas says
It is estimated that the Islamic Killing Machine murdered around 80 million in India when they conquered it. I guess that wasn’t enough ?
CRUSADER says
Memory seems so short when it comes to genocidal history.
Even during the years after WW2, there were many Holocaust denials.
But many of Greeks and Armenians and Hindus remember.
Without support from the rest of the Globe, there’s not much to do about it.
Such is the consequence of the rise of OPEC’s influence, and the merging of
Globalism/Communism/Islamism… propaganda withers resistance away while
money’s power dwindles any significance of swimming against the stream….
This is why there has to be more to living in this existence —- something behind it all.
infidel says
Animal Muslim butchers a policewoman in the Southern Indian state of Kerala and burns her alive in a horrible case of LOVE JEHAAD,,
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/woman-civil-police-officer-murdered-in-alappuzha/articleshow/69802796.cms
gravenimage says
*Horrifying*, infidel.
Pete says
Read it online but the perpetrator was never identified as moooslim.
Darn.
Walter Sieruk says
Now that it’s known that ISIS has established a province in India , this hideous phenomenon may be explained and Illustrated in the way that is symbolic of a plague of an infectious disease that spreads from country to country .
The jihadist Muslims who compose the violent and deadly jihad entity ISIS detest all who say that they are Christians. The jihadists who make up ISIS don’t care if that person who professes to be a Christian is a Catholic or Protestant. The jihadists of ISIS hate them all. One of the reasons why the Muslims who compose ISIS are so much against Christians is that some Christians teach the Bible with its many doctrines to others. The Bible that is so very damaging to Islamic doctrine that the Muslim clerics sand strongly against the people obtaining Bible’s. For example, Islamic [Koranic] doctrine denies the Jesus is God. In other words Islam denies the Deity of Christ. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Colossians 2:9. [N.I.V.]
Moreover, the Jesus is God may further be seen in the Bible. As in, for example, John 1:1-3. Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 9:5. Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20.
In addition, for a person to further find out that Jesus is God all a she or he has to do in to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. As by comparing Isaiah 45:22, 23 with Philippians 2:5-11. Likewise by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. Will also confirm that Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 62. 5-7.with First Corinthians 10:4. Just by comparing the New Testament books together will like show that Jesus is God .For example, comparing John 5:22. with Romans 14:12 shows the Deity of Christ. The list can go on but this should be enough for anyone who is willing to see, and not as those who Bible calls those who are willingly ignorant, II Peter 3:5., that Jesus is God.
The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain “ all this away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians, through time, and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. This claim they make very much underestimate the Power of God to preserve His Word and keep it safe and intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, The Muslim clerics strongly dislike the Bile because the Bible greatly exposes the terrible doctrinal errors that Islam with the Koran as Islam’s foundation have concerning the nature of Jesus. Likewise the Bible exposes Islam as a false religion, Isaiah 8:20. Proverbs 14:12. All Muslims be they jihadist /ISIS Muslim or non-violent peaceful Muslims are invited to turn away for the false religion of Islam and come to and receive the real Jesus of the Bible. Who is the True Light to the world, John 8:12. and the only way to God the Father , John 14:6.
gravenimage says
The Islamic State claims to have established a province in India
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Damn disturbing claim. Any Indians here who can give us a view on the ground?
peter says
Who is supplying weapons to ISIS in their new home . My guess is it is the land of the sacred . .Their turn will come very soon !
Eric Jones says
India should add more troops to this region and be prepared to resupply them. Hit the Islamist continually and do not allow them to resupply their terrorist. India must not allow the Islamist province to become a fact on the ground.
Eric
Harold Armitage says
Central Africa is the place to watch for a new”caliphate” IMV
Rolf Wittwer says
On the long term – i only see one solution which could/should end the wordlwide struggle with these satanic islamic blood thirsty fanatics. They want conquer the world – and are on its way! Look just now around!!!
The U.S.Forces, the NATO combined with the Russian and evtl. Chinese Superpowers should stand together and eradicate this worldcancer. Their “game” with us has to stop!
There is/can never be a way to discuss or talk with them in a human way – it never will change.
The free world will suffer in future even much more – if we are not waking up to fight the coming desaster NOW !
latha says
I am only giving the English translation of news that appeared in a Tamil paper
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/tamil-nadu-nia-raids-4-places-in-chennai-nagapattinam-in-ansarulla-terrorist-gang-case/articleshow/70207913.cms
by right clicking & opting for “Translation in English”. There are other news items as well below this particular news :
Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NID) yesterday landed in Chennai and Naga. Based on the clues available in Dubai, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is on a quest to detect terrorist links.
An intensive investigation into the raids has revealed that the International Terrorist Movement is planning to engage in conspiracies in India. This was followed by a series of bombings in churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Day, April 21st. Of these, more than 250 were killed. Officials of the National Investigation Agency of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) visited Sri Lanka to investigate the incident.
At that time, it was revealed that the Tamil people of Kerala and Kerala were involved in the blast, through social networks. Subsequently, NIA officials engaged in a series of surveillance, gathering information on those individuals. In June, two men were arrested in a raid in Goa. Investigations conducted on them revealed information about money laundering and brainwashing. It was also revealed that the gang was changing the names of the banned organization and working on new names.
In this case, the ‘Wahtate Islami Hind’ was launched six months ago. The organization operates in a building belonging to Rahamatullah, located at Linky Chetty Street, Mannadi, Chennai. It was through this organization that money transfers went to Sri Lanka via Coimbatore, NIA investigations revealed. Further, confidential information was also obtained regarding the organization, the IS and the Al Qaeda terrorist organization.
Subsequently, more than 10 officers, led by NIA, SP, Rahul, from Chennai, at the office of the agency in Chennai, from Chennai, raided the station at 7:00 am. Adepola, Vepery, Poonthamalli Highway They also raided the house of the head of the organization, Syed Bukhar. The test lasted until 3:00 pm. In the test, in the office and at home, important documents for cash transactions were seized.
It has been linked to the conservative organization in Kerala and the Wahdatte Islami Hind. Subsequently, the head of the organization, Saidu, took the complaint to the NIA office in Kindi.
Also, the Secretary of State of the organization, Usman and the Organization Administrator Ismail, appeared at the NIA office and sent ‘Samman’.
In the evening, NIA officials conducted an investigation into them. Similarly, NIA – – ATSB, Saugat Ali, DSP, Sahul Hameed in the houses of Muhammad Yusufdeen Haris Mohamad and Hasan Ali Yunus Marikayar from Nagapattinam, Manjakkollai, School Street The officers, led by them, raided yesterday. They also raided the house of Gurgaon Udeen in the Borowach slum.
In this, Mohammed Yusufdeen Haris Mohammed was questioned by his relatives after his stay abroad. Hasan Ali Yunus has seized ‘Bendrive, Laptop’ and important documents from Marikayar’s home. Hasan Ali
is suspected of involvement in terrorist activities , so he is taken to the Naga, SP, office, and investigated by NIA officials. The International Terrorist Movement, IS Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are investigating the background of the 15 arrested youth, 15 Nranar. In Tamil Nadu alone, 100 youths Reportedly brought under surveillance.
After eight hours of raids, NIA officials have filed cases under various sections against three persons – Syed Bukhari from Chennai, Mohammed Yusufdeen Haris Mohammed and Hasan Ali Yunus Marikayar from Naga.