Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)

Why is it in news?
  • A top intelligence official dismissed U.S.-based think tank’s report that contends that the Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) was exploiting the growing incidents of violence against Muslims in India and attacks in the name of “cow vigilantism” to recruit cadres.
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  • What report says?
    (1) The report titled ‘AQIS-The Nucleus of Jihad in South Asia’ asserts that the rise in inter-religious clashes in India due to a changing political discourse had resulted in further divisions between Hindus and Muslims.
    (2) Increasing incidents of violent attacks on Muslims in India, who are accused of eating beef, was being exploited by groups like AQIS to “incite Indian Muslims to join what is being called a fight for their honour.
  • What intelligence official says?
    (1) India is a pluralist country with 180 million Muslims.
    (2) Indian Islam is based on rich Sufistic traditions of pluralism, inclusivism and composite nationalism.
    (3) The wave of Al Qaeda in the 1990s and 2000s did not impact the Indian Muslim.
    (4) The wave of Islamic State had minimal impact, with only about 108 individuals succumbing to its lure.
    (5) In the past few decades, global Islamist uprisings and terrorism have not impacted the Indian Muslim, as they were based on Jihadism, born out of exclusionism.
Source
The Hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 25th Jan 2019
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