Tamil Nadu in The Shadow of ISIS - Vikram Rajakumar - 2015
Tamil Nadu in The Shadow of ISIS - Vikram Rajakumar - 2015
Tamil Nadu in The Shadow of ISIS - Vikram Rajakumar - 2015
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Due to linguistic, geographical and cultural factors, the state of Tamil Nadu in
southern India remained relatively impervious to the global threat of terrorism.
However, of late, there have been signs of support by individuals for militant
groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
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The Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath (TNTJ) actively engages on social media
to propagate the message that violence of any form is not tolerated in Islam.
Furthermore, the TNTJ also holds talks and conferences regularly to promote
the correct understanding of jihad that is depicted in the Quran (Social-
peek.com 2014). On 15 February 2015, the Islamiyah College organised a
prayer session in Vanniyambadi, Tamil Nadu, for approximately 100,000
Muslims. The prayer session was in response to growing concerns raised by
Tamil Muslim leaders about the increasingly negative perceptions of the
Muslim community and the reports of sympathisers and allegiances to the
global jihadist cause within South India (Facebook 2015). However, as with
the threat, these initiatives are fairly new, and it remains to be seen how
effective these initiatives may be at mitigating the rise in extremist ideas.
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