Taliban-appointed Acting Interior Minister of Afghanistan Sirajuddin Haqqani while speaking to a gathering of religious clerics, tribal elders and local officials in Laghman, said that the current Jihad in the country is to implement Sharia law.
Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday asked for custodial remand of arrested terror suspects from the Special Court of Pune saying that they are of 'jihadi ideology' as several incrementing and sensitive literature were seized from the accused.
Addressing the 4th SP conference being held at Bongaigaon on Friday, the Chief Minister said that in the wake of ‘love-jihad’, the police forces must be empowered with specific operating procedures to deal with the menace.
After Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested one person from Pune for 'sheltering suspected terrorists', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nitesh Rane on Friday said that these people have "jihadi thinking" and the state government will take strict action against this.
"Today love jihad is going on in the land of Chhattisgarh. Bastar is in the grip of conversion. Today conversion is happening openly. Conversion is taking place under the protection of the government," Sao said.
Yet despite the many military blows that Salafi jihadist entities have absorbed over the years--both ISIS and Al Qaeda--both have been able to survive and create new threats due to their ideology, which cannot be bombed out of existence.
"Jihadi face of the Congress party exposed by repealing of anti-conversion law. They (Congress) pretended to worship Lord Hanuman to get power in Karnataka. It is the party which supports Jihadi culture and people who do Jihad," Sharma told reporters here.