Bibhu Prasad Routray
Agni: Studies in International Strategic Issues, October- December 2013, page: 27-38
Abstract
On 23 July 2013, As-Sahab, Al Qaeda's media arm, released the
English translation of a video statement it had posted in June 2013 calling
upon the Indian Muslims to join the Jihad in Syria. Titled, "Why is There
No Storm in Your Ocean?", the
video featured Maulana Aasim Umar, an Al Qaeda ideologue believed to be based
in northwest Pakistan. The 11-page translation of the original video in Urdu,
specifically exhorted the Muslims of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar , Southern India and Gujarat to "join the
forces of global Jihad." While Umar's statement was more of an expression
of Al Qaeda's frustration regarding its inability to recruit Indian Muslims
into global Jihad, this also represented one of the many ways the Jihadi
organisations have attempted to find support among and instigate India's Muslim
youths to join global Jihad as well as take up arms against the Indian state. Such
attempts, over the years, have grown in their intensity as well as sophistication.
To dismiss them as irrelevant and unaffecting is strategically injudicious.
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