"The Southern Jihad" – Studying an Islamist takeover by Aravindan Neelakandan

Indian Jihad has found in South India an ideal base for operations. A network of democratic cover-up organizations has been created to shield the Jihadist capacity building. The pattern is in the sudden upsurge in preparatory Jihad activities with inter-state and international links which result in increased arrests but poor conviction rates. In parallel to this process allegedly democratic and social groups are built with oert as well as covert jihadi connections, the overt and covert nature depending upon the friendliness of the state government in question.

Thus the latter half of the year 2006 and the year 2007 saw an overall increase in Jihad related activities in South India. While in Kerala the foreign Jihad forces were enlarging their network, in Bangalore the North Indian Jihadists were creating links. Soon both the forces will have a common platform through a link organization.

It is in the background of these incidents that one should see the formation of Popular Front of India (PFI). It was officially formed on 2007 by merging many state based Islamic bodies from Kerala’s ‘National Development Front’ (NDF) to Manipur’s ”Lilong Social Forum’. However the main functional components of PFI are Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP) of Tamil Nadu, NDF of Kerala and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD). And it was launched during a seminar and rally secularly named ‘Empower India’.

MNP was already running a magazine in Tamil called ‘Vidiyal Velli’ (Dawn Friday) and in Kerala ‘Thejas’ (Radiance). This was started in January 2006. The articles in the magazines advocate a radical Islamist and pro-Kashmir separatist stand, often calling the Jihad terrorists of Kashmir as ‘fighters’.

‘Q’ branch officials did not miss the SIMI connection in the launch of PFI. They noticed that majority of the leaders belonged to banned SIMI. [11] From then onwards in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka the Jihadist networks have an Islamist cover-up exploiting every inherent weakness of the pseudo-secular nature and vote-bank politics of Indian polity.

‘Popular Front of India’ takes over from SIMI

In July 2009, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) was formed as political wing of PFI. It was headed by E Abubacker, who was the Kerala Zone president of SIMI in 1982-84. PFI has many frontal organizations for specific target groups like Campus Front of India (CFI) for college students and National Women Front (NWF). Though formed in 2007 PFI came to prominence only with the chopping of the head of a Christian professor in July 2010. However that did not mean the PFI or its Kerala constituent NDF had been silent all those years. The then Kerala home minister in his statement proclaimed that the outfit had been involved in 22 murder cases and 73 attempt to murder cases.
 
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