After the Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorist squad (ATS) arrested two Islamic clerics who ran the ‘Islamic Dawah Center’ in Delhi who has been of mass religious conversion racket a new development has emerged that has national security implications.
The accused Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautamware had devised a sinister plan to first convert the hearing and speech impaired children into Islam and then use them as human suicide bombers in the name of Islamic Jihad, reports Dainik Jagran.
Also, there are reports that Qasmi and Umar Gautam received funding from Pakistan’s spy agency the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), and other global sources. Both lived in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar and using coercive tactics converted around 1000 people to Islam and especially targeting deaf and mute individuals along with women and children for the same.
A senior official said, both Islamists wanted to brainwash these children into accepting Islam and later use them as human bombs in India and around the world in the name of Islam and Jihad.
The conversion gang is said to have targeted people in Noida, Varanasi, Mathura, and Kanpur. Earlier, the UP ATS had arrested the said individuals following the registration of an FIR in the case at Lucknow’s ATS police station.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar had stated that Gautam, who is himself a convert to Islam from Hinduism, boasted to the police of having converted at least 1,000 people to Islam, luring them with marriage, money, and jobs.
“I converted at least 1,000 non-Muslims to Islam, marrying them all to Muslims,” Kumar quoted Gautam as saying.
According to the ADG, the ATS had been working on the intelligence inputs that some people were getting funds from the ISI and other foreign agencies for converting poor people to Islam and spreading communal enmity in the society.
As of now, both Jihadists have been booked under the Gangster Act and National Security Act (NSA).
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