IS( Islamic state) failure in India despite a large Muslim population, said by Indian home minister Rajnath singh.
Question is how ISIS failed India despite of living 172 million Muslim in India??
Saying that India has been successful in facing off against the challenges posed by the Islamic State, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday, dubbing the global terror group a failure in the country
“Mr singh went on to say, noting that over 90 sympathisers of ISIS have been arrested by Indian security agencies. Better coordination between states and Centre on security was responsible for the ISIS sympathisers getting arrested.
India has third largest population of Muslim in the world. Majority of then are sunni Muslim. But some of them think Indian Muslim are best land for recruitment ground for radicalism .
ISIS also threatens many time to wipe out SHIA & HINDU population from the country . India is not inexperienced in dealing with terrorism whether in India or abroad.
According to global terrorism index India rank as 8 most effected by terrorism in the world. But India has learn from terrorist attack happens in Mumbai terrorism attack 2008 there are many loopholes at time .
Now India started counter radicalization & de-radicalization strategy on spread of ISIS in India .
People who are suspicious on the link with ISIS have been put under full time surveillance. India also set up WAR ROOM it’s work 24/7 , design to continues monitor social media. Officials of Ministries of Home and Telecommunication and agencies like the Intelligence Bureau (IB), National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) and Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERTIn) are deliberating on immediate measures to combat the growing use of cyber space for spreading communal hatred and targeting youth and spreading radical ideology.
But despite all this, another major factor, that Indian Muslims are unwilling to haunt to extremism. his is grounded in India’s historic roots of harmony, tolerance, mysticism and diversity. India have strong family values, India has a very strong cultural and national identity that cuts across religious beliefs, which has played an important role in preventing radicalization. India has also experienced immense success in execution of de-radicalization programs.
Moreover, the majority of the Muslims in India have historically also followed the Sufi strain of Islam, which is liberal and spiritual, unlike the radical Wahhabi and Salafist strains followed by members of ISIS. Nearly 70,000 Indian Muslim signed a fatwa against ISIS .
Indian Government has chosen not to join the US-led coalition against ISIS.
Indian Prime Minister Modi addressed a four-day conference of Sufi scholars in March 2016, intended to promote tolerance as a counterpoint to the rise in terrorism and extremism. The Prime Minister’s presence was seen as an outreach to Muslims and a bid to ease concerns that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pursuing a Hindu revivalist agenda.
It is also important to educate unemployed youth who are at risk radicalization. For this reason, the ministry of minority affairs has been asked to implement various welfare and employment-oriented schemes, especially in the “vulnerable pockets” of the country.
Attacks that have taken place in France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the last year point out the increasingly diffused nature of terrorism in the global context which has seen manifestations in the form of regular lone wolf attacks.
Ajit Doval (current National Security Adviser to Prime Minister of India). offered a rather simplistic explanation to the situation suggesting that ISIS attempts to lure young Muslims from India has largely been unsuccessful because of a system of strong family values prevalent in India, wherein parents have consistently reigned in on youths who appear to be going wayward. Muslims getting radicalized to join the ISIS and adopting the macabre of violent Jihad as the ultimate destiny of their lives. While the strategy of de-radicalization and parental supervision has worked as a counter terrorism response, it has only been able to treat the symptoms and not the disease itself. So the question arises as what can be done by the government to strengthen the current counter-terrorism response to the looming threat of an ISIS incursion into Indian Territory?
— the first and the foremost priority should be to distinguish ISIS from other groups like Al-Qaeda at the international level and groups like SIMI and Indian Mujahedeen at the national level . India has a very strong cultural and national identity that cuts across religious beliefs. They are nationalist first. Muslim love there country equal as Hindu , sikh loves .
Country should provide individual’s liberty to freely access social networking without supervision of intelligence agencies, but in the interest of national security, it is necessary to curtail such rights but in a reasonable manner without hurting basic fundamental rights of citizens.
The travel by any Indian citizen to Middle East, including for religious pilgrimage ( Mecca) by Muslim community must only be allowed after a thorough and detailed background check & counter vigilance in that country if required. Like in London salman abedi visited Libya , intelligence agency should do detailed background check, purpose of going and if suspicious that surveillance on them. UK intelligence agencies already know about him & about his father background. Manchester arena attack happens because the delay in action by intelligence agencies against the radicals .
MI5 assesses the threat level to the UK based on how likely it is an attack will happen. The five threat levels range from low, when an attack is unlikely, to critical, when an attack is expected imminently. Severe, the UK’s current threat level, is second highest on the list and means an attack is highly likely.
The Manchester bombing marks the first time jihadis have launched a successful major terrorist attack in a city outside of the capital.
Abedi’s massacre had the highest death toll in Britain since the 7/7 bombing and was second major attack in a year following Khalid Massod’s rampage on Westminster Bridge.
Kyle Orton, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a counter-extremism think tank, said ISIS will now attempt to find the “softest of soft” targets in the UK to maximize casualties.
Another article, which was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), also warned the UK and “its sister” countries that if they “continue on their path, [in a state of] unbelief and animosity,” then IS will continue striking until the end of time. It also questions the effectiveness of the UK and Europe of fighting ISIS and the ability to stop attacks on European soil.
The article attacks the UK’s reliance on America and accuses the Government of being unable to make any decisions about fighting ISIS without the approval of Washington.
UK is the important member of NATO and US . If US strike in Middle East then NATO also supports the USA. There are many reasons to target UK, NATO and US has broken the back bone of ISIS. They begging for comeback. People of U.K. Need to make patience. Terrorist attack on U.K. Mean attack on whole NATO .
Let me be very clear at the outset of my remarks: the U.S. commitment to NATO is strong and this Alliance remains the bedrock for transatlantic security.
This Alliance was forged from the ashes of World War II, and for more than half a century has been a necessary defense measure against common threats. Our bond remains essential for facing national and international security challenges in an increasingly unstable world. At the top of this list is defeating ISIS, which is a threat to all member countries and partners.
The NATO alliance is also fundamental to countering both non-violent, but at times violent, Russian agitation and Russian aggression.
The United States is committed to ensuring NATO has the capabilities to support our collective defense. We understand that a threat against one of us is a threat against all of us, and we will respond accordingly. We will uphold the agreements we have made to defend our allies.
These are not just words. Tomorrow, a U.S. enhanced, forward presence battalion will be deployed in Poland.
However, as President Trump has made clear, it is no longer sustainable for the U.S. to maintain a disproportionate share of NATO’s defense expenditures. Allies must increase defense spending to meet their commitments in accordance with the Wales Pledge on Defense Investment. The Alliance’s ability to secure the transatlantic community depends on it.
The President supports NATO. The U.S. Congress supports NATO. The U.S. Senate has just overwhelmingly approved Montenegro’s NATO accession protocol. We are now one step closer to welcoming Montenegro as a full member of the Alliance.
Allies must demonstrate by their actions that they share U.S. governments commitment.
On fighting terrorism, NATO can and should do more. Fighting terrorism is the top national security priority for the United States, as it should be for all of us.
NATO has a number of unique capabilities it can bring to this fight. At the Warsaw Summit last year, NATO members recognized cyberspace as an operational domain, alongside land, air, and sea.
I am encouraged by our efforts so far at cybersecurity and preventing cyberattacks ( but wanna cry hacks Compuer all over the world). As
ISIS increasingly leverages the internet as a powerful tool for recruitment and propaganda,
we must consider how we can disrupt and aggressively counter their online operations.
I want to be clear on one point: we do not believe NATO has to lead everywhere in the fight on terrorism. Others will often have that role, including national governments, the Coalition to Defeat ISIS, or the European Union. But NATO must add value where it can and provide greater support. The security of our people requires it. Particularly in bringing stability to Iraq and contributing to the Coalition to Defeat ISIS.
NATO’s work in Afghanistan remains critical. The United States is committed to the Resolute Support Mission and to our support for Afghan forces. NATO’s “Train, Advise, And Assist” mission is essential to our shared goal of ensuring that Afghanistan develops the capability to contribute to regional stability and prevail over terrorist threats, including al-Qaeda and ISIS.
While meeting the challenge of the fight against terrorism, we must remain vigilant in strengthening NATO’s eastern defenses. Allied commitments to Operation Atlantic Resolve and Enhanced Forward Presence have sent a clear message. But long term stability, from Baltic to the Black Sea, depends upon all allies, not just those who are the most exposed, paying their full share for defending the Alliance.
In closing, I repeat the American commitment to this Alliance. The United States will not abandon its allies or forget its friends. Many of the nations in NATO have been working together for decades to protect shared freedoms, shared values, and shared security. But we cannot keep protecting them without meeting our shared responsibility of financial and other resources.
The Global Coalition – Working to Defeat ISIS — Fact Sheet , Washington, DC, March 22, 2017
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), working on the ground in Iraq with local partners, has implemented more than 350 projects to date, all of which have achieved their intended objectives on time and at cost.
Building resistance to extremist propaganda and countering terrorist use of the internet is vital to our effort. Counter ISIS content is now more prevalent online and pro-ISIS content is declining in open forum social media channels. This is a terrorist group that is increasingly struggling in the face of an increasingly organized and sophisticated set of initiatives by the Coalition.
They didn’t mention that ISIS members are from barbaric nations , they were getting constant aid in form of money, arms & resources. How they get internet connections. If they really wanted to erupt terrorism first counter down there communication system and counter vigilance in Saudi Arabia.
Global Coalition member countries are producing national responses and coordinating counter ISIS communications efforts regionally and globally. The Global Counter ISIS Coalition Communications Working Group (led by the UAE, UK, and U.S.) regularly convenes over 30 member countries with media and tech companies to share information and strategies to counter violent extremist messages online and present positive alternative narratives: its last meeting in London on February 28 was attended by a record 38 countries.
With the local partners for military operations; supporting the stabilization of territory liberated from ISIS; and, enhancing international cooperation against ISIS’ global objectives through information sharing, law enforcement cooperation, severing ISIS’ financing, countering violent extremist recruitment, and neutralizing ISIS’ narrative. The Coalition’s combined efforts have diminished ISIS’ military capability, territorial gains, leadership, financial resources, and on-line influence.
The 68-member Global Coalition is the largest international coalition in history.
THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN
Twenty-three Coalition partners have over 9,000 troops in Iraq and Syria in support of the effort to defeat ISIS. Working by, with, and through our local partners, the Coalition has made significant progress in denying ISIS safe haven and building the military capacity of those engaged in direct action against ISIS.
The number of ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria is at its lowest level since the group declared its “caliphate,” down by more than half since its peak in 2014.
Coalition air assets have conducted more than 19,000 strikes on ISIS targets, removing tens of thousands ISIS fighters from the battlefield and killing over 180 senior to mid-level ISIS leaders,
including nearly all of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s deputies, his so-called ministers of war, information, finance, oil and gas, and his chief of external operations.
The Coalition fight to retake Mosul. Iraqi Security Forces officially liberated eastern Mosul on January 24, 2017 and now are making significant territorial gains in the western portion of the city. To date, Coalition efforts have trained nearly 90,000 Iraqi Security Forces members, including Iraqi Army soldiers, Counterterrorism Services soldiers, Kurdish Peshmerga, federal police and border security soldiers, and tribal volunteers. Coalition members have also donated some 8,200 tons of military equipment to our Iraqi and local Syrian partners in the fight against ISIS.
With the support of the Coalition, our Syrian partners have liberated over 14,000 square kilometers of terrain in Syria, including more than 7,400 square kilometers of territory since isolation operations around Raqqa began on November
Operations have also cleared more than 2,000 square kilometers of territory, including removing ISIS off the remainder of the Turkey-Syria border, cutting off a critical transit route for foreign fighters to Europe.
As part of these efforts in Syria, the Coalition has helped train thousands of Syrians who have joined the fight to defeat ISIS.
THE CIVILIAN EFFORT
STABILIZATION, HUMANITARIAN, AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Since 2014,
Coalition members have provided more than $22.2 billion in stabilization, demining capabilities, economic support, and humanitarian assistance in Iraq and Syria – all of which guard against a resurgence of ISIS.
Last July, at the Iraq Pledging Conference held in Washington, partners pledged more than $2.3 billion for humanitarian assistance, stabilization, and demining in Iraq. The Coalition expects to raise approximately $2 billion for these efforts in Iraq and Syria for 2017.
Support for stabilization efforts is a strategic investment in the fight against ISIS. As a result of this support, local partners in Iraq are holding ground against ISIS, restoring services, clearing schools and clinics of explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices, helping families return home once they are ready, providing security, and contributing to re-establishing the rule of law in liberated areas.
Internationally, coalition partners are exploring ways to also hold ISIS members accountable for international crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity with international investigative mechanisms.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), working on the ground in Iraq with local partners, has implemented more than 350 projects to date, all of which have achieved their intended objectives on time and at cost. The first projects for Mosul have already started in the outskirts, and $43 million in prepositioned equipment is being deployed.
Five countries have joined the Italian-led effort to train more than 7,000 Iraqi police to date, now graduating approximately 900 new police officers each month.
Iraq’s central government has proven its improved capacity to handle a range of important issues, to include supporting local governance, maintaining security, providing electricity and other essential services, managing the economy, defending its territorial integrity, and upholding the rights of all Iraqis irrespective of their ethnicity, gender, religion, or beliefs. Iraq’s success in rehabilitating liberated communities is due in part to the partnership it forged with Coalition members that has enabled the UNDP to provide more than $240 million in stabilization programs over the last two years.
Canada, Denmark, and Germany provided generous funding that has allowed Janus Global Operations to clear an estimated 1.7 million square meters of at least 21,248 kilograms of explosive hazards in Iraq’s Anbar Province.
NGO partners have provided assistance to tens of thousands of IDPs
Humanitarian and stabilization efforts are also reaching civilian populations in the liberated cities of Jarabulus and Manbij. have been cleared of explosive remnants of war, 400 schools have reopened, over 70,000 children are back in school, markets are open and bustling, and local medical and social services have resumed. There is now a longer-term effort by a commercial partner to survey, mark, and clear key infrastructure areas in Manbij, while simultaneously training a local Syrian capacity. We intend to expand this project to cover the road to Raqqa and, eventually, Raqqa City.
The Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) has developed a series of initiatives, training programs, and global good practices to address the lifecycle of a violent extremist. Such steps are essential to curbing ISIS’ ability to operate freely across international borders.
COUNTER-MESSAGING
Building resistance to extremist propaganda and countering terrorist use of the internet is vital to our effort. Counter ISIS content is now more prevalent online and pro-ISIS content is declining in open forum social media channels. This is a terrorist group that is increasingly struggling in the face of an increasingly organized and sophisticated set of initiatives by the Coalition.
ISIS Coalition Communications Working Group (led by the UAE, UK, and U.S.) regularly convenes over 30 member countries with media and tech companies to share information and strategies to counter violent extremist messages online and present positive alternative narratives: its last meeting in London on February 28 was attended by a record 38 countries.
The Communications Working Group also supports a network of messaging centers that expose, refute, and combat online terrorist propaganda.
We are making it increasingly difficult for
ISIS to spread its poisonous ideology among vulnerable audiences.
We remain focused on growing our online presence. Global Coalition Twitter accounts in Arabic, French, and English continue to increase their number of followers. The Coalition Communications Cell in London, with staff from 10 countries, guides our public global messaging through daily media packs that are distributed to 850 government officials in 60 countries worldwide.
COUNTER-FINANCE
Coalition collaboration on financial intelligence and broad-spectrum information sharing has supported our military effort to damage or destroy more than 2,600 ISIS energy targets. Coalition airstrikes against energy assets have impeded ISIS’s ability to produce, use, and profit from oil. Coalition airstrikes have also targeted more than 25 ISIS bulk cash storage sites, destroying tens of millions—and possibly hundreds of millions—of dollars.
The Government of Iraq has cut off over 90 bank branches in ISIS territory from the financial system and Iraq’s central bank has created a list of over 100 exchange houses and money transfer companies operating in ISIS-held areas or with links to ISIS.
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