Missing Keralites still spreading ISIS ideology using social media: NIA

Keralites, who went missing from Kasargod and is suspected to have joined ISIS camp in Afghanistan, are still propagating the ideology of caliphate, the National Intelligence Agency said. In a report filed with the court, the NIA, which is probing the missing cases of people from Kerala, said the accused are using social media platforms to seek support and promote the ideas of Islamic State. 
 

The national agency has found that 14 persons, who went missing from Kasargod, is still active in spreading the ideologies among Keralites, using various means including social media. The intelligence sleuths have also got information that they are in the Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, which is under the control of ISIS. 
 

Kerala police had registered a case against the disappearance of 14 persons from Kasargod, who is suspected to have travelled to Afghanistan via Dubai and Tehran to join the terrorist group. The charge sheet filed by NIA has named Abdul Rashid, a native of Kasargod and Yasmeen Muhammed Zahid, a native of Bihar, who was apprehended at New Delhi airport, while she was trying to leave for Afghanistan, as the main recruiters from Kerala. 
 

Rashid is currently in Afghanistan and is suspected to have spurred the mass migration. Police allege that he motivates other Keralites to move Afghanistan along with their family to join the terrorist outfit. He also held secret classes, along with his wife, and used online propaganda to spread the materials of ISIS and violent jihad. 
 

"He got attracted to ISIS while in Colombo. He was pursuing Islamic studies at Al-Quma Arabic College in Sri Lanka. He and his like-minded friends were expelled from the campus after they started advocating violent jihad," the NIA report said. 

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