The Mangaluru police are investigating into a speech made by an Islamic cleric Ismail Shafi stating that an outfit like the ones in Kerala is operating in secrecy in Bantwal B S Road, luring Muslim youths to join ISIS and hence warning Muslim youths to be careful, reported Kannada Prabha.
City police commissionarate and district police detained Ismail Shafi and questioned him for a marathon 6 hours. He had made a speech warning Muslim youths about the ISIS outfit and somebody had uploaded it on the net. It went viral. The talk was in Byari language and claimed the group had a mosque on B C Road and was operating in secrecy.