Al-Qaeda has threaten in the latest issue of their journal Ghazwa-e-Hind that it will demolish the Ram temple being built in Ayodhya and replace it with a mosque.
The magazine, which was publish online this week by jihadist channels, also mention Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, advising them not to disregard its exhortations as “propaganda of the Pakistani establishment,” and urge Indian Muslims to support jihad.
As per article :
“Just as the Ram temple is being built on the ruins of the Babri Masjid, it will be demolish, and the Babri Masjid will be rebuilt over the place of the idols in the name of Allah,”.
“All it demands is sacrifice,”.
Al Qaeda said in an editorial in the 110-page magazine.
According to one senior intelligence officer, the magazine’s material appeare to have written by someone familiar with the Indian context.
Addressing Indian Muslims, it said that they should “not dread material losses in this cause,” since they had already experience decades of loss of life and property.
“If this life and property had use for jihad, then there would not have so much loss”.
It went on to term secularism “a hell” for Indian Muslims, and said that slogans of Hindu-Muslim unity are “a farce“.
“All Hindus are being taught to use sticks. Talk of chopping off the faces and heads of Muslims with vegetable-cutting knives is being heard from the mouths of Hindu women.”
It further said that al-Qaeda plans to fight a jihad so that the entire Indian subcontinent will become part of the realm of Islam, and eliminate idol worship.
Al-Qaeda was found in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, and its focus on India was launch by Ayman al-Zawahari, who became the terror organization’s commander after bin Laden’s death in 2011.
In a video uploaded online in September 2014, al-Zawahiri declare the foundation of the group’s new branch in the Indian subcontinent.
Sana-ul-Haq, also known as Asim Umar, the founding commander of al-South Qaeda’s Asian wing, was kill in an air strike by the US in the Musa Qala province of Afghanistan in 2019.
