Islamic State threatens India, targets PM Modi in latest propaganda book

India joins the list of countries threatened by the Islamic State. [caption id=“attachment_2508250” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. AFP[/caption] They released an e-book online this week on the terrorist organisation’s jihadist platform, Black Flags from the ISIS. In it,  the terrorist cell has said that, “The Islamic State would now expand beyond Iraq and Syria. It would now expand into… India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan (and several other countries),” reports the Indian Express.  They also aimed their statements at PM Narendra Modi calling him a   ‘right-wing Hindu nationalist’ who ‘worships weapons’ and is ‘preparing his people for a future war against their number one enemy - Muslims’. The Islamic State in the e-book also cited the Dadri lynching incident, alleging that a “movement of Hindus who kill Muslims who eat beef” is growing in India. According to a report in DNA, the book also claims that the Paris attacks was based on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. “In the centre of Paris, some Mujahideen holding AK-47s copied the (2008) Mumbai attacks’ style of shooting through the window of a Cafe bar (where alcohol and food was served), then the people fell on the floor, so they threw a grenade into the building.” Around 150 Indians are under surveillance for their alleged online links with IS, the officials had said earlier this year. Home Ministry officials had earlier said that 23 youths have joined IS of which six were reportedly killed. Quoting intelligence inputs, officials had said, it emerged that the dreaded terror outfit considered South Asian Muslims, including Indians, inferior to Arab fighters in the conflict zones of Iraq and Syria. According to an intelligence report prepared by foreign agencies and shared with Indian agencies, fighters from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as certain countries like Nigeria and Sudan are considered not good enough by IS and often tricked into suicide attacks. The IS propagandists based in Syria were also quick to  take responsibility for the Paris attacks. In “Black Flags From the Islamic State,”  released this week, the organisation was quick to laud the Paris attackers calling them  them “one of the first organised attacks done by the Islamic State in Europe which involved a Network of Cells working together in an organised way.” (With PTI inputs)