Prophet Remarks Row: Islamic State Releases Video Threatening Terror Attacks Against India

The 10-minute video focuses on India and alleged blasphemy issues involving Nupur Sharma, and also features the demolition drive in Delhi's Jahangirpuri in which a part of a mosque was destroyed.

The Islamic State has now embroiled itself into the controversy surrounding the disparaging remarks by the now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma against Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Islamic State Khorasan Province, which is an affiliate of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, has released a video titled 'The polytheists are the brother of polytheists'. 

The 10-minute video focuses on India and alleged blasphemy issues involving Nupur Sharma, and also features the demolition drive in Delhi's Jahangirpuri in which a part of a mosque was destroyed. The ISKP has started a news bulletin service through its mouthpiece AlAzaim Foundation. The ISKP has threatened to conduct attacks against India in the news bulletin by the foundation.

Independent news handle The Khorasan Dairy wrote on Twitter: "The video features@NupurSharmaBJP, the national spokesperson of the @BJP4India and houses of Muslims bulldozed. It then features previous statements of ISKP suicide bombers who were Indian. Threatening to conduct attacks against India wherever possible".

“The video then shifts to criticising the Taliban in Afghanistan particularly Mulla Yaqoob for his interview on @CNNnews18 & the @FMMuttaqi meeting with the Indian charge d’ affairs in Afghanistan for beginning new cooperation,” The Khorasan Dairy tweeted.

According to the tweet, the video features the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the attacks on Sikhs in Afghanistan followed by animations of a suicide bombing. It ends with a message to conduct attacks very soon.

Al-Qaeda Previously Threatened To Attack India

Earlier, terror group Al-Qaeda had threatened to carry out suicide attacks in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, and Delhi to "fight for the dignity of our Prophet", news agency ANI reported. In a statement dated June 6, Al-Qaeda issued the threat. The statement said "saffron terrorists should now await their end in Delhi and Bombay and in UP and Gujarat". 

The threats by ISKP and Al-Qaeda come after Nupur Sharma and BJP's former Delhi media head Naveen Kumar Jindal made a controversial statement on Prophet Muhammad during a TV debate and on social media, respectively.

Several countries, particularly Islamic nations, condemned their remarks. The countries include Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, and the Maldives.