Wait, what? How could two Muslim clerics, men who have dedicated their lives to understanding Islam correctly and communicating its message effectively, get the crazy idea that the Religion of Peace calls upon them to engage in recruitment for a jihad terrorist group? There must be some mistake!
“One more person with Al-Qaeda links arrested in Assam’s Goalpara,” Times Now News, August 25, 2022:
Goalpara: The Assam police have arrested one more person linked with Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), it said on Thursday.
“The person, identified as Abdus Suahan, has been arrested from the Jogighopa police station area of the Bongaigaon district. He has very close links with two Imams who were arrested earlier,” VV Rakesh Reddy, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Goalpara district told news agency ANI.
Earlier, the Goalpara district police arrested two Imams linked with AQIS and ABT from the lower Assam district. They have been identified as Abdus Subhan, Imam of Tinkunia Shantipur Mosque under Mornoi police station and Jalaluddin Sheikh, Imam of Tilapara Natun Mosque under Matia police station in the Goalpara district.
Their links have been actively found with Barpeta and Morigaon modules of AQIS/ABT, Reddy said.
“Subsequently we searched their houses and found incriminating materials like Jihadi materials, books, pamphlets, posters, phones in broken condition, SIM cards. Further interrogation is going on. We have gotten some evidence which will come up subsequently after collaborating with local sources and also further interrogation. Few of them were already recruited by these persons into the Al-Qaeda network. We are trying to catch all of them and alert other districts also,” he said….
Their arrests followed the arrests of 23 persons, including a few from Bangladesh, in the past four months across Assam for their alleged links to AQIS and ABT and for setting up ‘jihadi’ sleeper cells.
