Following the foot steps of Communists, Islamists with alleged ISIS links are also targetting RSS
T Satisan from Kochi
K Vipin (23), Mandal Shareerik Shikshan Pramukh in Tirur Chamravattom Thruppangod, Malappuram district, was killed on his way to work. The incident took place on August 24 near his home. The killers came by motor bikes.
Reports suggest that IS-inspired groups have been campaigning for revenge against Akhila case (in which the Supreme Court recently ordered an NIA probe), Faisal murder case and Riyas Moulavi case in Kasaragod. Reports from Kasargod suggest that similar information was disclosed by an IS suspect arrested in Kasargod. He is also reported to have disclosed some plots to kill prominent Hindu leaders. Vipin’s murder is said to be a part of this. Akhila was a Hindu girl who fell victim to love jihad recently. And, Kerala High Court sent her with parents to live with them. Faisal was a worker of Popular Front, a Muslim extreme outfit, who was killed last year under mysterious circumstances. Riyas Moulavi was also killed in Kasargod under mysterious circumstances. Apparently, Vipin was arrested and jailed in connection with the Faisal murder but he got bail only in the recent past. There are reports that some of Vipin’s co-accused are also under the threats.
Visible Hands of ISIS
News about IS modules operating in the state has been doing the rounds since long. About 42 people have fled the country; they send messages to their families. Some families have got information that their relatives have died in Syria or Afghanistan. The missing people include Nimisha (Hindu) from Thiruvananthapuram and Merin (Christian) from Kochi. Both were converted to Islam after they fell into the trap of love jihad and got married to two brothers who were also converts to Islam from Christianity. Most of the alleged IS recruits are new converts to Islam. There are reports about the IS threat against those who take strong stand against the recruitments to the outfit.
It is significant that Vipin’s murder took place four days after a procession was held by the extreme Muslim outfits near Tirur on August 20. The procession marked the anniversary of the infamous Moplah Riots of 1921 in Malabar which was later called Khilafat movement and later Freedom Struggle against the Britons! The marchers carried fatal weapons and raised provocative slogans. Many attempts are being made to convert the remaining Hindus into Islam in the Muslim-majority district of Malappuram. Threats to kill the Hindu leaders are the part of this dangerous game. During the Riots of 1921, hundreds of Hindus were killed, hundreds of Hindu women were raped, converted to Islam and the rioters made several of them their wives by force. Several temples were demolished and desecrated in Malabar region.
A team of assailants attacked Vipin’s organisational colleague Thayyil Lijeesh on August 2 in Parappanangadi, Malappuram district. Now the atmosphere in the district is tense after the cold blooded murder of Vipin.
Rampant Radicalisation
Malappuram district is always in the news, but most of the times it is for wrong reasons. Hindus are always at receiving ends. Come LDF or UDF rule, district administration and most of the local bodies and municipalities are dominated by Muslim influence. Both CPM and Congress compete with each other in the appeasing game to please the Muslim voters, thanks to the blatant vote bank politics ruling the roost in the state. This scenario and its effect had been pointed out, as a warning, by RSS, Bharatiya Jana Sangh and other nationalist Hindu organisations in 1968 and 1969 when the then EMS Namboodiripad regime of CPM was planning to establish Malappuram, a Muslim majority district.
“Sathya Sarani,” a Muslim institution in Manjeri, Malappuram district, is infamous for the conversion drive it spearheads throughout the state. Several love jihad cases are said to be rooted in this centre. That is why Union Minister of State of Home Hansraj Ahir alleged that mass conversions take place in the district. Both LDF and UDF chorused to oppose him. The minister had said that every month about 1000 people, including Hindus and Christians, are converted into Islam in this institution. He said, the state government is yet to give a reply to the query sought by the centre. He had met Kerala’s Chief Secretary and DG of Police and posed this question to them in May 2017.
Vipin’s murder has taken place in the midst of reports that funds keep on flowing from Qatar for promoting terrorism and consolidation of Al-Quaeda and IS in Kerala. Hindu activists have demanded immediate steps to expose the international conspiracy behind Vipin’s murder and to stop the culprits from fleeing the country.
Communists Rooting for Jihadis
BJP president Kummanam Rajasekharan stated the murder of Vipin proved that Pinarayi government and the home ministry have failed to put an end to the murders in the state. The CM and the DG of Police can never shrug and run away from the responsibility and accountability. Police had got prior information about the possibility of the murder of Vipin. Kummanam attacked CPM regime for its failure to save the life of the people. People of Kerala want to hear what CM has to say in this regard.
People believe that religious extremism flourishes in Kerala as the state has turned a safe haven for anti-national forces, thanks to the minority appeasement politics being followed by both Congress-led Opposition UDF and CPM-led ruling LDF. The recent stands taken by both Fronts in favour of Abdul Nasser Madani’s bail are ample indicators of the appeasement politics in Kerala. Madani is in a Bengaluru jail in connection with the Bengaluru blast case. They are tips of the iceberg. People of Kerala believe that NIA should step in to conduct a thorough investigation into the killing of Vipin. n
