IS terrorists active in South India, have links to Coimbatore, Mangaluru blast: IS mouthpiece

IS terrorists active in South India, have links to Coimbatore, Mangaluru blast: IS mouthpiece

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, March 5, 2023: Three months after Mangaluru blast and approximately four months after the Coimbatore blast, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), through its mouthpiece, "Voice of Khurasan" magazine, has admitted that its terrorists are present in South India and were involved in those two blasts that happened last year.

ISKP’s Al-Azaim Media Foundation has released a 68-page long issue-No 23 of the Voice of Khurasan propaganda magazine in English.

However, the magazine’s article doesn’t specify in which southern state its ‘mujahedins’ are active, but experts say they are most likely in Kerala and may be spreading to some parts of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

ISKP mentions that last year’s car explosion in Coimbatore on October 23 and the pressure cooker blast in an autorickshaw in Mangaluru on November 19 were carried out by IS-affiliated militants.

"Do you not consider our attacks in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, in Bangalore [the author of the magazine wrote Bangalore instead of Mangaluru], where our brothers took revenge for the honour of our religion and terrorised kufar [non-Muslims and disbelievers] and its followers?" the magazine reads.

The tacit admission of ISKP speaks volumes about the possibility of terrorists’ presence—those affiliated with the Islamic State—in southern states of India.

The admission comes two weeks after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids and searched over 60 locations in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka for suspected IS sympathizers.

Once again, ISKP, in its latest issue of the magazine, has spewed venom against Hindus, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Indian army, provoking its mujahedins in South India to wage war against them.

The magazine’s article on India sought to take revenge on Hindus (as the article termed them enemies of Allah and his Prophet) and also sought to avenge Kashmir (by targeting non-muslims), Babri Masjid, and Gujarat riots.

"Your transgression has crossed all limits, and your hatred of Islam and its people has been shown in words and deeds," the magazine’s article says.

"Your peace will turn into chaos, your security into fear, and your happiness into sorrow, and by the will of Allah, there will be no security or peace for any disbeliever until you worship Allah alone," the ISKP magazine article further reads.

A dedicated article in the magazine talks about the incidents of Chinese surveillance balloons in US airspace while mocking both countries.

While keeping its tirade against Pakistan and its religious scholars going, the Islamic State’s mouthpiece termed Shahbaz Sharif’s country a "tumor cell in the body of the Islamic Ummah".