How Indians are being tricked, forced into war frontline by ISIS
IndiaToday.in | New Delhi, November 23, 2015 | UPDATED 23:39 IST
A Home Ministry report has revealed shocking details about how the Syria-based terror organisation ISIS is treating its Indian recruits.
The report accessed by India Today reveals there are 23 Indians fighting with the terror outfit in Iraq and Syria. Indian, Pakistani, African and Bangladeshi fighters are considered “inferior to Arab fighters,” the report said.
The Indian fighters are paid less and are given inferior weapons in comparison to their Arab counterparts. Arabs seem to be the preferred fighters, the report revealed.
The report details how Indian men are being attracted and pushed to the war front by ISIS. Indian recruits are forced by the Islamic State to become suicide attackers. Passports of foreign fighters from South Asia and certain African countries are usually burnt upon their arrival in Iraq-Syria to prevent them going back to their countries.
The intelligence report suggests that there is a disproportionately high level of casualty among the South Asian and African foreign terrorist fighters since they are forced to the frontlines of battle as foot soldiers.
The ISIS is known to lure fighters by promising them marriage to Syrian women, but, Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are “lowest in the priority for Jihadi brides since they are considered ethnically inferior,” the report says.
The ISIS has been attempting to lure more Indian youth to join the group. More than a 1000 Indian Islamic scholars and clerics have issued a fatwa against the terror group, describing its acts and actions as against the basic tenets of Islam.
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