KOZHIKODE: In the wake of reports that UAE has deported two Malayalees for their alleged links with the Islamic State terrorists, Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM), an organisation of Salafi scholars, has intensified its campaign against the IS. KNM convened a meeting of Islamic scholars and youth last Saturday to clarify the confusion created by the IS on certain Islamic issues such as slavery, prisoners of war and finance.

“The meeting decided to carry out KNM’s campaign against the IS at new level. We will bring out 4-minute video speeches by scholars on contentious issues, which will be circulated in the new media such as WhatsApp and YouTube,” said Abdul Majeed Swalahi , the state president of Ithihadu Subbanil Mujahideen (ISM), a feeder organisation of the KNM.

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“The IS actions are creating lot of misreading on issues like slavery. IS is actually mocking at Islam by selling the captured women in market. They have also introduced gold and silver as the currency of the Caliphate as in the days of Prophet Muhammad. This will send wrong signals to those who wishes to introduce Islamic banking in secular societies,” he said.

The KNM was the first among the organisations that correctly read dangers of IS from its inception itself. The organisation has been in the forefront of the campaign against the danger of extremist positions.

“Many in the community had stated that we are unnecessary pressing the panic button and a few alleged that we are betraying the community. But recent developments have confirmed our apprehensions,” Majeed Swalahi said. Sources in the intelligent agencies say that the two youths deported by the UAE authorities for posting the pro-IS materials in the social media have no organisational links with the terror outfit.

They are self-motivated by the publicity material posted in the pro-IS websites. They apparently have no connections with any of the extremist outfits operating in Kerala. Though the possibility of the establishment of Islamic Khilafat (Caliphate) is practically nil, many youth in the state are drawn towards the ideology of Khilafat, the sources said.