The Sawt-al-Hind “Voice of Hind” of ISIS, an online publication circulated among the ISIS sympathizers in Indianda has asked Muslims to turn COVID19 carriers while claiming that no harm could come to even a “hair of the believer”.
US media outlet association Homeland Security Today reported that the “lockdown special” featuring a cover “It’s time for Kafirs (disbelievers) to fall” asked ISIS supporters to be “ready to launch a severe attack on the enemies of Allah’s religion who are embroiled in a fight against the disease brought about by Allah’s rage against them”.
The magazine said even children could contribute to the cause by “becoming the carriers of this disease and striking the colonies of the disbelievers”
IS journal called coronavirus a weapon “far greater than stones” and said there could be no better chance “to kill the disbelievers in multitudes than COVID 19”.
It called for a “jihad” against the government during the nation-wide lockdown, in force since 25 March, and to target policemen deployed during the lockdown period .
The magazine lauded Maulana Saad Kandhlawi, chief of Aalami Marakaz Nizamuddin in New Delhi, for converting the Tablighi Jamaat congregations in March into a “super spreader”.
Calling Indians as cow- and monkey-worshippers, the IS has called for attacks similar to those in “London, Paris, Brussels and other places”. The magazine is also critical of arrests of some students belonging to the Jamia Milia Islamia University, especially Safoora Zargar, and says an opportunity has been provided to avenge it
Recently a person Jahanzaib Sami and his wife Hina Bashir Beg being arrested by police for their IS links, particularly the Khorasan module in Afghanistan. The couple have been charged with attempting to incite Muslims to take part in a violent struggle against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and the Centre.
ISIS Khorasan in Afghanistan is also the outfit where many Indian Muslims especially from Kerala escape to.