Bangladesh forces storm Dhaka cafe and rescue hostages [Update Post#25]

[Muhammad10]

Gunmen have stormed a popular cafe in the diplomatic area of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, taking a number of hostages, officials say.

Several foreigners are among those being held by eight or nine armed men in the city's Gulshan district, they add.

Two police officers have been killed in a gun battle, a spokesman said, and about 30 others injured.

So-called Islamic State has said it carried out the attack.

A statement on the group's self-styled news agency Amaq said militants had attacked a restaurant "frequented by foreigners". It said that more than 20 people "of different nationalities" had been killed but this has not been confirmed.

Security forces say they are trying to negotiate the hostages' release.

Initial reports said that as many as 20 foreigners were among those taken captive.

Italian nationals are believed to be among them, a source at the Italian foreign ministry said, quoted by Reuters.

"We want to resolve this peacefully. We are trying to talk to the attackers," said Benazir Ahmed, chief of the Rapid Action Battalion, Bangladesh's elite police force.

"Our first priority is to save the lives of the people trapped inside."

Police said the gunmen burst into the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe at about 21:20 (13:20 GMT) and opened fire.

The cafe is described as being popular with expatriates, diplomats and middle-class families.

Media reports quoted witnesses as saying that "Allahu Akbar", meaning "God is greatest", was heard as the attack took place.

An eyewitness said she heard a loud noise, followed by continuous gunfire.

"The glass of my drawing room shattered," Rashila Rahim said.

"My auntie, her daughter and two friends went there for Iftar (breaking of the Ramadan fasting) and they have not come back. We cannot even check where they are."

Another local resident, Tarique Mir, said he could hear sporadic gunfire nearly three hours after the attack began.

"It is chaos out there. The streets are blocked. There are dozens of police commandos," he said.

BBC South Asia editor Jill McGivering says that although high-profile gun attacks are rare in Bangladesh, the latest incident follows a series of murders widely blamed on Islamist extremists.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36687616

 

[street cricketer]

This does not look good.

Hope the damage is as less as possible and the hostages get released unharmed.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Hope the situation is resolved quickly and without bloodshed.

 

[MSaad1237]

hese Jihadis should be treated worse than Nazi Germany treated the Jews ..


There should be concentration camps for them ..

 

[Prince_]

The restaurant had over 70 workers who were working in the night shift. God knows what happened to them. All of those 20 civilians who were taken as hostages r foreigners.

 

[GenericBrand]

CNN making it sound like the US embassy is the hostage.

 

[Syed1]

Terrorism incidents are becoming more and more frequent in BD. Not a good sign..

 

[MRSN]

I just can't believe how Daesh can become so powerful within just few years. If anyone thinks it's just Islamists he's a fool. They are part of a bigger scheme. These people are just a tool used by bigger players of this dirty game.

 

[Executioner]

It's obviously ISIS. Your government should stop blaming the opposition and acknowledge that terrorist groups have presence in Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh people lack common sense. They like to point their finger at each other.

However, something of this magnitude is more than just petty groups pointing fingers. This is much bigger than that.

 

[Bashira_taeli]

God have mercy on the hostages. Hopefully this ends with minimal loss of life.

 

[GenericBrand]

Gulshan is also supposed to be the most safest and securest district in Dhaka too.

 

[anuk]

Why am I not surprised

 

[Saeed]

Why am I not surprised

Everything is not about you.

 

[Pak_Jazba]

Obviously the police isn't trained to combat such situations.

8-9 Gunmen have injured 30 policemen, and killed few of them as well. While civilian injuries/deaths are also coming in.

This doesn't look good at all.

 

[Bashira_taeli]

Obviously the police isn't trained to combat such situations.

8-9 Gunmen have injured 30 policemen, and killed few of them as well. While civilian injuries/deaths are also coming in.

This doesn't look good at all.

This is what I was thinking. How well equipped are BD forces to deal with such situations.

 

[GenericBrand]

BD never dealt with a hostage situation, its no figure they wouldn't know what to do.

 

[troodon]

BD should seek the help of countries who are already fighting Islamic Terrorism. Special squads that deal with these kinds of situations need to be created.

RIP Policemen.

 

[Bashira_taeli]

Why is the BD govt giving out plans on the media??!!!

https://twitter.com/ap/status/749032019460550656


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[GenericBrand]

They have captured two, other 5 dead. The captured ones will wish they had died as well.

 

[Saeed]

They have captured two, other 5 dead. The captured ones will wish they had died as well.

At least authorities will be to find out who really was behind the attack.

 

[GenericBrand]

At least authorities will be to find out who really was behind the attack.

Authorities themselves are shady

 

[dayvancowboy]

Still no Bengali flag filter on social media.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Seriously Gulshan is one of the safest place in Dhaka , still these terrorists are finding ways in killing innocent foreigners, shame on our corrupt country. Bangladesh law enforcemrnts are so corrupt and unfit, everyone has a tummy. Rab is overrated, all they do is walk around with gun and harass people, we suck at cricket, we suck as a nation and it won't be long when we get destroyed like Adghanistan. The police, Rab, Army are too busy taking bribes than using their brains. Never dealt with a situation like this, the daily star is updating after every 20 minutes.

I haven't been eating out or going to the gym this Ramadan, first Istanbul Ataturk airport, bomb blast, second Afghanistan Police killed by 2 suite bombers, Now Banngladesh. I Am fearing there will be another attack.

 

[Muhammad10]

Bangladesh forces storm Dhaka cafe and rescue hostages

Hundreds of troops have stormed a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, where gunmen took at least 20 hostages on Friday, security officials say.

Explosions and heavy gunfire were heard in the area around the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe. Twelve hostages, including four foreigners, were rescued, police say. The fate of the others is unknown.

Several of those held are believed to be Italian, and some may be Japanese.

The militant group Islamic State (IS) has said it carried out the attack.

"Intense gunfighting (is) on," Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, of the Rapid Action Battalion force, told Reuters after the rescue operation was launched on Saturday morning.

Armoured vehicles were also seen moving towards the cafe.

People from the Gulshan neighbourhood where the cafe is located said they had heard gunshots, after hundreds of soldiers approached the building.

Officials told the BBC that said army and navy commandos were leading the operation, along with police and the paramilitary Border Guards Bangladesh.

Later reports said the gunfire stopped after about an hour.

Local media said five bodies were found in the cafe.

At least two police officers were killed in earlier exchanges of fire late on Friday, and 30 police officers were injured.

Eight or nine armed men burst into the cafe in the diplomatic area of the city at about 21:20 (13:20 GMT) on Friday and opened fire.

A statement on the IS self-styled news agency Amaq said militants had attacked a restaurant "frequented by foreigners". It said that more than 20 people "of different nationalities" had been killed but this has not been confirmed.

Seven Italian nationals are believed to be in the cafe, the Italian ambassador in Dhaka, Mario Palma, was quoted as saying by Italian media.

A Japanese government spokesman said Tokyo was investigating reports that some of its citizens were among the hostages.

The attack comes after a spate of murders of secular bloggers, gay activists, academics and members of religious minorities, blamed on Islamist militants.

Analysis: Anbarasan Ethirajan, former BBC Bangladesh correspondent

This is probably the first time ever foreigners have been taken hostages in Bangladesh.

Though there have been a number of killings focusing on academics, activists and member of religious minorities, attacks on foreigners are rare.

The timing is important. Bangladesh has been gearing up for the Muslim religious festival of Eid, and most people have started going to their homes in villages and towns across the country for a week-long holiday period.

The government has always denied the presence of Islamic State militant group in Bangladesh.

So far the militants have targeted individuals and sometimes security forces. But storming a cafe in a heavily guarded diplomatic district is unprecedented and a dramatic escalation in violence.

The government has been caught unaware, and the attack exposes a big hole in Bangladesh's intelligence gathering and security system.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36692332

 

[Lords]

Bangladesh is going down the Pskistan way. Really sad.
Secularists of BD needs to stand up against islamic terrorism, there is no other way out

 

[MenInG]

Alhamdolillah - this ISIS fitna has to be stopped and good stand by BD authorities

 

[Dman]

Westerners are under attack in Bangladesh and a potential target with the Government doing nothing to halt the growing extremism.

I see the proposed English tour to Bangladesh being called off. Not worth it.

 

[street cricketer]

Sad to say this but Daesh is making its footsteps into South Asia as well.

This may put south asia many years back in progress if ISIS does end up making their presence felt. South asia (including Afghanistan) is already probably in the top 3 most tumultuous regions of the world after middle east and the areas in Africa under the control of Boko Haram.

 

[Lords]

Sad to say this but Daesh is making its footsteps into South Asia as well.

This may put south asia many years back in progress if ISIS does end up making their presence felt. South asia (including Afghanistan) is already probably in the top 3 most tumultuous regions of the world after middle east and the areas in Africa under the control of Boko Haram.

We didnt need ISIS, our societies were redacalized already.

ISIS doesnt care about us, they can neither take on us nor think we are worth it.

Its our own misguided youth influenced by radical version of islam and attacking their own mother land (or neighbors)

We need to be very careful what kind of idology coming from outside which pushed them over the line, be it coming from england or islamic countries we need to counter that.

 

[LongHorn]

At least authorities will be to find out who really was behind the attack.

if only, killers picked up are generally killed by police in a day or 2, so of course you never get to find out who was behind it ....

 

[AFG_Brit]

RIP


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[Dios]

20 foreigners killed with knives and machetes during the night. Mostly Italian and Japanese nationals. Don't know why the authorities were trying to negotiate with them. Hostages were asked to recite verses from the Quran, those that were able to were treated well and those that weren't were tortured. How much longer will Hasina keep denying that there is a big Islamic extremism problem in the country?

 

[90MPH]

Isis are the worst of the worst. The Worst aspect is they actually think they are Muslims. And they do this in the time of Ramadan as well.

All of them need to be wiped out.

RIP to the victims, horrible way to die.

 

[MSaad1237]

BBC reporting that over 20 foreigners have been killed .

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36692613

 

[anuk]

everyday dozens of dozens of people getting massacred in the name of religion

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Feeling very very very angry.

 

[Prince_]

People were first asked to recite some verses from holy Quran by these terrorists. Those who succeeded in doing it were treated gently but those who couldn't do it were tortured first and then they were brutaly killed.


Women who were wearing hijab were given proper respect and they were even allowed to eat their supper.

 

[CricketCartoons]

ISIS is like air BNB. No syrians or iraqis have to come and attack in bangladesh. They just provide platform and acknowledgment for attacks done under their banner.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Isis are the worst of the worst. The Worst aspect is they actually think they are Muslims. And they do this in the time of Ramadan as well.

All of them need to be wiped out.

RIP to the victims, horrible way to die.

You dont understand their philosophy.Month of Ramadan.Holy month so lets kill a few non believers the best qurbaani and since its ramadan more merits will be earned.

This is the kind of sick twisted logic these guys live on.Beyond the understanding of normal people like us.

 

[cricketjoshila]

I wonder if they have found out the identity of these people.

 

[street cricketer]

The attacks are eerily similar to the Mumbai attacks when a cafe and another jewish worship place frequented by foreigners was targeted along with the oberoi hotel.

Apparently the foreigners were specifically targeted by the terrorists while Bangladeshi hostages were relatively unharmed.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

The attacks are eerily similar to the Mumbai attacks when a cafe and another jewish worship place frequented by foreigners was targeted along with the oberoi hotel.

Apparently the foreigners were specifically targeted by the terrorists while Bangladeshi hostages were relatively unharmed.

4 bangladeshis were beheaded, can't believe they beheaded the women. The terrorists asked to recite from the Quran, whichever hostage couldn't was beheaded. The Incompetent police could have saved more lives, can't believe why they wanted to negotiate with the terrorists.

http://www.thedailystar.net/city/confusion-over-death-bangladeshi-citizens-1249267

 

[street cricketer]

4 bangladeshis were beheaded, can't believe they beheaded the women. The terrorists asked to recite from the Quran, whichever hostage couldn't was beheaded. The Incompetent police could have saved more lives, can't believe why they wanted to negotiate with the terrorists.

http://www.thedailystar.net/city/confusion-over-death-bangladeshi-citizens-1249267

I read that highlighted bit in the news report. Apparently a child was killed too (not verified report). A rabbi and his 6 months pregnant wife were killed in the jewish center during the Mumbai attacks. It's unreasonable to expect empathy from such nutjobs.

Read that the foreigners were killed last night itself. The security forces could've taken action a bit sooner.

 

[ask_analyse_act]

ISIS gunmen,, did u guys see something interesting to note

 

[MenInG]

I wonder if they have found out the identity of these people.

And what will that tell us?

These are terrorists. They have no nationality.

 

[Lords]

And what will that tell us?

These are terrorists. They have no nationality.

They have nationality, a group following and even a religion. We we have to accept all that if we want to solve the problem.
One cannot keep its eyes closed to the realities.

 

[street cricketer]

19 year old Indian national Tarushi is one of the victims. She was a student there. Majority are Italians and Japanese.

Condolences to their families.

 

[MenInG]

They have nationality, a group following and even a religion. We we have to accept all that if we want to solve the problem.
One cannot keep its eyes closed to the realities.

No the nationalities and religions only mean anything to those wish to malign a particular country or religion.

 

[TM Riddle]

4 bangladeshis were beheaded, can't believe they beheaded the women. The terrorists asked to recite from the Quran, whichever hostage couldn't was beheaded. The Incompetent police could have saved more lives, can't believe why they wanted to negotiate with the terrorists.

http://www.thedailystar.net/city/confusion-over-death-bangladeshi-citizens-1249267

This is so sickening.Bangladesh really needs to launch an all out offensive programme against these pigs.

 

[nish_mate]

And what will that tell us?

These are terrorists. They have no nationality.

They have nationality MIG but no religion and no paradise awaits them

 

[anuk]

of course they have a religion. their interpretation might be different to others but clearly they have a religion.

 

[Syed1]

This was a display of absolute incompetence by the BD special forces to go marching into a restaurant with hostages inside. BD should seek training for such situations from her neighboring countries like India/Pakistan who have more experience in resolution of hostage situations.

Quite an unfortunate loss of life and makes me very angry because few of my BDeshi friends from university were absolutely scared to death since their families live a stones throw away from this restaurant.

 

[MenInG]

of course they have a religion. their interpretation might be different to others but clearly they have a religion.

It's not Islam if that's what you mean

 

[Buffet]

It's not Islam if that's what you mean

Your interpretation is different than their interpretation when it comes to Islam. They will claim that their version is a right one and you will claim that your version is a right one. Situation will be so much better if everyone agrees with your interpretation.

 

[Thivagar]

Sad to say this but Daesh is making its footsteps into South Asia as well.

This may put south asia many years back in progress if ISIS does end up making their presence felt. South asia (including Afghanistan) is already probably in the top 3 most tumultuous regions of the world after middle east and the areas in Africa under the control of Boko Haram.

Do you expect ISIS support to grow doesn't exist already in TN ? If yes, it would be really sad.

 

[dayvancowboy]

And people still want a regressive Islamic state in Bangladesh.

 

[Thivagar]

This was a display of absolute incompetence by the BD special forces to go marching into a restaurant with hostages inside. BD should seek training for such situations from her neighboring countries like India/Pakistan who have more experience in resolution of hostage situations.

Quite an unfortunate loss of life and makes me very angry because few of my BDeshi friends from university were absolutely scared to death since their families live a stones throw away from this restaurant.

They were already killing the hostages, it only make sense to go all out in. BD tried to negotiate with them and they had no demand, so they had to go in.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

'Nine Italians, seven Japanese, three Bangladeshis and an Indian were killed at Holey Artisan café in Gulshan of Dhaka.' - The Daily Star

The Indian was a 19 year old, graduated from American School Dhaka and was a student at Berkeley California. One of the Bangladeshi was the grandson of Latifur Rahman, Chairman of Transcom Group. The kid was only 20 years old, used to study at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

http://www.thedailystar.net/dhaka-attack/nationalities-holey-artisan-victims-disclosed-1249321

 

[#GreenRoars]

Terrible

 

[anuk]

Sad to say this but Daesh is making its footsteps into South Asia as well.

This may put south asia many years back in progress if ISIS does end up making their presence felt. South asia (including Afghanistan) is already probably in the top 3 most tumultuous regions of the world after middle east and the areas in Africa under the control of Boko Haram.

This happened a while ago. Recently in SL a bunch of foreign mullahs had to be deported after people complained that they were spreading their radical ideology. The last time I checked there were about half a dozen who had gone to Syria to fight for the Islamic caliphate as well.
I assume it's a lot worse in India with the borders it shares with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
It's a matter of containing the issue now. It's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better for us, if it ever does.

 

[dayvancowboy]

This happened a while ago. Recently in SL a bunch of foreign mullahs had to be deported after people complained that they were spreading their radical ideology. The last time I checked there were about half a dozen who had gone to Syria to fight for the Islamic caliphate as well.
I assume it's a lot worse in India with the borders it shares with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
It's a matter of containing the issue now. It's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better for us, if it ever does.

Yeah, let's pretend that the rise of Buddhist chauvinism in your country has nothing to do with the rise of Islamic extremism either.

 

[dayvancowboy]

The filth who took part in the massacre:

 

[anuk]

Yeah, let's pretend that the rise of Buddhist chauvinism in your country has nothing to do with the rise of Islamic extremism either.

That would make sense if it the Islamic terror was limited to SL only. This is very much a global phenomena.

 

[dayvancowboy]

That would make sense if it the Islamic terror was limited to SL only. This is very much a global phenomena.

Islamic terror has localized grievances.

 

[anuk]

Islamic terror has localized grievances.

Lets say the 4 Muslims killed in SL in the last 50 years due to ethnic violence was the reason for Isis to take hold there. What would be the reason for it to be so prevalent in Scandinavia? All those people did was give Muslims a home and good life.

I have trouble buying this argument.

 

[dayvancowboy]

Lets say the 4 Muslims killed in SL in the last 50 years due to ethnic violence was the reason for Isis to take hold there. What would be the reason for it to be so prevalent in Scandinavia? All those people did was give Muslims a home and good life.

I have trouble buying this argument.

What you said would hold truth if the extremists in Scandinavia would cite the killing of Muslims in Sri Lanka as their motivation.

 

[anuk]

What you said would hold truth if the extremists in Scandinavia would cite the killing of Muslims in Sri Lanka as their motivation.

I dont understand.

U just said the 4 Muslims killed in SL were the reason for Islamic radicalization in SL.

I'm asking u what is the reason for it to take hold in Scandinavia? There is no localized grievances that Muslims have in scandinavia.

Anyway clearly people like syed are a bit unhappy with me so I'll move on. But I just don't buy this argument.

 

[dayvancowboy]

I dont understand.

U just said the 4 Muslims killed in SL were the reason for Islamic radicalization in SL.

I'm asking u what is the reason for it to take hold in Scandinavia? There is no localized grievances that Muslims have in scandinavia.

Anyway clearly people like syed are a bit unhappy with me so I'll move on. But I just don't buy this argument.

Yes, there's no such thing as racism and bigotry in Europe that would lead someone to be brainwashed by extremist maggots on social media. Who would have thought?

There are different factors throughout the Muslim world that would lead someone to embrace extremist causes. It's not limited to poverty, and it's not limited to social standing. You can be a university-educated or a madrassa-educated lad but you are still easily prone to brainwashing when push comes to shove.

Syrians become radicalized by seeing their loved ones killed by Bashar's barrel bombs, Westerners get radicalized by seeing idiots like Trump and other far-right goons who spew the notion that Muslims are a fifth column and need to be dealt with.

 

[anuk]

Yes, there's no such thing as racism and bigotry in Europe that would lead someone to be brainwashed by extremist maggots on social media. Who would have thought?

There are different factors throughout the Muslim world that would lead someone to embrace extremist causes. It's not limited to poverty, and it's not limited to social standing. You can be a university-educated or a madrassa-educated lad but you are still easily prone to brainwashing when push comes to shove.

Syrians become radicalized by seeing their loved ones killed by Bashar's barrel bombs, Westerners get radicalized by seeing idiots like Trump and other far-right goons who spew the notion that Muslims are a fifth column and need to be dealt with.

Fair enough, I'll admit what u said plays some part. I still see a huge disparity in terms of violence between different demographic groups in general.
And come on, it's silly to say modern Europe is very racist, especially Scandinavia. If u are saying racism in those countries forced Islamic youth into violence then I'd hate to think what they'd turn into in other parts of the world. In any case, Islamic youth surely are not the only discriminated group in those countries.

 

[anuk]

Anyway say ur piece and move on dayvan. I'm done with this topic for the time being and we can revisit it when the next attack happens. I don't consider u to be a believer of islam (u could possibly identify urself as a muslim because of ur roots tho) anyway so it's not worth my time to debate u on this any further.

 

[JaDed]

Rip

 

[cricketjoshila]

No the nationalities and religions only mean anything to those wish to malign a particular country or religion.

They have no religion but have a nationality,ethnicity etc.

 

[cricketjoshila]

The Bengali Culture Has Died in Bangladesh.

 

[street cricketer]

Do you expect ISIS support to grow doesn't exist already in TN ? If yes, it would be really sad.

There are a handful of supporters in TN, Kerala, Hyderabad and some other areas. But they are not anything significant (thankfully). One good thing is that India doesn't really have an environment where religious extremism can flourish for sustained periods.

However I won't be holding my breath coz the turmoil can easily spread to India or even Sri Lanka when the region as a whole becomes unstable. South Asia has already been put back many years due to colonialism over a hundred years ago. We already have a lot of catching up to do with the west. Now we are only self inflicting damage upon us more and more without anybody's help.

 

[Thivagar]

There are a handful of supporters in TN, Kerala, Hyderabad and some other areas. But they are not anything significant (thankfully). One good thing is that India doesn't really have an environment where religious extremism can flourish for sustained periods.

However I won't be holding my breath coz the turmoil can easily spread to India or even Sri Lanka when the region as a whole becomes unstable. South Asia has already been put back many years due to colonialism over a hundred years ago. We already have a lot of catching up to do with the west. Now we are only self inflicting damage upon us more and more without anybody's help.

I don't expect ISIS support in TN but heard Kerala already has some issues and I'm very surprised cause Kerala is very multi religion state and is the most educated state in India, hard to digest that. Hyderabad had some issues from time from what I heard, I don't even wanna talk about Ahmedabad and Gujarat. If Mahinda was in power, ISIS might have gained some some support in SL, but I don't SL will have any ISIS support enough to scare the authorities. SL has various Muslims, they themselves are divided. There are Muslims who speak Tamil but the script is in Arabic and don't claim to be Tamil, there are Muslims who read and write in Tamil and claim they are Tamil, there are Muslims who lost their native language due to mixing so they speak both language with mixture of everything. There are Arabic, Sindh Muslims who speak their own language, also speak either Tamil or Sinhala based on where they live or what tv programs they watch and then there are Malay muslims like Dilshan who is a Malay-Sinhala mix, you can see that from his South East Asian looks. It is highly confusing, don't think they are serious enough or have been bullied enough to "rise up".

 

[Thivagar]

The Bengali Culture Has Died in Bangladesh.

What is the difference and similarity between Indian Bengali and Bangladeshi "culture" ? Why would you say that their "culture" is dead ?

 

[GenericBrand]

What is the difference and similarity between Indian Bengali and Bangladeshi "culture" ? Why would you say that their "culture" is dead ?

Another one of his jingoistic rabble.

 

[GenericBrand]

This was a display of absolute incompetence by the BD special forces to go marching into a restaurant with hostages inside. BD should seek training for such situations from her neighboring countries like India/Pakistan who have more experience in resolution of hostage situations.

Quite an unfortunate loss of life and makes me very angry because few of my BDeshi friends from university were absolutely scared to death since their families live a stones throw away from this restaurant.

Most of them were already dead before they even went in, hacked to death so authorities wouldn't hear.

 

[hussain123]

of course they have a religion. their interpretation might be different to others but clearly they have a religion.

in an ideal world if muslim countries weren't in the sort of mess they find themselves in they would be fighting isis by itself.isis essentially is a bunch psychopaths drug addicts social outcasts put together and their knowledge about about islam isnt more than a namesake muslim who have been indoctrinated with most manipulated version of islam.they are not islamic scholars and don't have any indepth knowledge about the islam for which they supposedly are massacaring innocent souls around.90 percent of the people they are killing are muslims in iraq,syria stc.they probably would never have surfaced hadn't west engineered a perpetual crisis by invading iraq and funded groups against Syria.also isis on the scale they operate would require lots of funding and those are not coming from skies.

 

[javiersuka]

I don't expect ISIS support in TN but heard Kerala already has some issues and I'm very surprised cause Kerala is very multi religion state and is the most educated state in India, hard to digest that. Hyderabad had some issues from time from what I heard, I don't even wanna talk about Ahmedabad and Gujarat. If Mahinda was in power, ISIS might have gained some some support in SL, but I don't SL will have any ISIS support enough to scare the authorities. SL has various Muslims, they themselves are divided. There are Muslims who speak Tamil but the script is in Arabic and don't claim to be Tamil, there are Muslims who read and write in Tamil and claim they are Tamil, there are Muslims who lost their native language due to mixing so they speak both language with mixture of everything. There are Arabic, Sindh Muslims who speak their own language, also speak either Tamil or Sinhala based on where they live or what tv programs they watch and then there are Malay muslims like Dilshan who is a Malay-Sinhala mix, you can see that from his South East Asian looks. It is highly confusing, don't think they are serious enough or have been bullied enough to "rise up".

ISIS has many supporters in Tamil Nadu and South India in general.

ISIS has attracted educated Youth in India, unlike the illiterate ones that are expected to join these groups.