How Taliban Biriyani Hamsa radicalised Muslims in South India

The ISIS has been desperately trying to make inroads in South India. Hamsa according to investigators was the main link between the recruiters and the operatives.

Taliban Biriyani Hamsa was arrested recently by the Kerala police. Hamsa was arrested along with Manaf Rahman on the charge that they were recruiting for the Islamic State.

Hamsa who was leading the module according to the police was the mastermind of ISIS related activities in the Malabar region. During the course of the investigation, the police realised that his imprint went beyond the Malabar region.

He was allegedly in touch with operatives in Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka. The 52 year old is a radical and upon his arrest he told the police that ISIS is true Islam. He further dared the police to bring in a religious scholar so that he could prove that ISIS is true Islam.

Investigations revealed that he had operated from the Gulf since 1998. He is said that have been radicalised at the Al-Ansar, a Bahrain based religious centre which today is suspected of being a training centre for ISIS operatives.

The ISIS has been desperately trying to make inroads in South India. Hamsa according to investigators was the main link between the recruiters and the operatives.

An investigators informed OneIndia that Hamsa is a hard nut to crack. He is highly radicalised and his school of thought is radical Islam. He wanted to spread the ideology of the ISIS in Southern India and at every meeting he would say that it is only the Islamic State that preaches true Islam.

The police with the help of the National Investigation Agency is now trying to track down the modules set up by Hamsa and his associate Manaf Rahman. The police say that Manaf is well connected in Karnataka and handled most of the recruitments in the state. The focus was largely in the bordering areas. The investigators say that they were also trying to recruit more people in the Mangaluru-Bantwal areas which is relatively closer to Kasargod which has been branded as a radical hub.

Hamsa would tell the recruits to either go to Syria or continue to operate in India. He would however insist more that they operate in India as he felt the need to strengthen the ISIS in India. Sources say that Hamsa stayed focused only on the southern part of the country. With him being questioned, the police say that more arrests would follow.

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