Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan refers to IS terrorists as “fighters”: Reports

Days after media stories emerged suggesting that the centre had determined to not permit the return of 4 Kerala-based girls who had joined Islamic State (IS), the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stoked an enormous controversy by referring to the IS terrorists whose widows are presently lodged in Afghanistan jail as “fighters”.
Amidst the calls by mother and father of the ladies terrorists to permit the return of their daughters again to India, the Kerala Chief Minister on Monday stated that the centre will resolve on bringing again these 4 Kerala girls lodged within the Kabul jail. In an try and absolve their crimes, the Kerala Chief Minister reportedly even referred to those terrorists as simply “fighters”, stories PTI.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s remark
Speaking to the media, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan stated the problem needs to be determined by the Centre, and the state authorities has nothing to do with the problem.
“The Kerala government has no role in bringing back four widows of Islamic State fighters from the state languishing in a jail in Afghanistan, and it was an issue to be decided by the Centre,” stated Chief Minister Vijayan.
The Chief Minister additionally stated that they wanted to know whether or not the 4 IS terrorists are prepared to return to India. Pinarayi Vijayan requested the centre to hunt the opinion of the members of the family of the 4 Kerala-based IS terrorists.
The 4 girls recognized as – Sonia Sebastian alias Ayisha, Merrin Jacob alias Mariyam, Nimisha alias Fathima Isa and Raffaela, had accompanied their husbands to hitch the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) in 2018. However, their husbands, ISIS terrorists, had been killed in numerous assaults in Afghanistan.
Following their demise, the Kerala-based Muslim girls, together with 1000’s of different Islamic State terrorists, had surrendered earlier than the Afghanistan authorities in November and December 2019.
Family of terrorists requests centre to permit their return
The newest controversy surrounding the return of Kerala-based IS terrorists comes amidst repeated requests by their members of the family to permit the return. Recently, the mom of 1 such terrorist had expressed hope that PM Modi will pardon her daughter.
Bindu Sampath, the mom of ISIS terrorist Nimisha Fathima, stated, “I’ve heard that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a very kind-hearted person. I have full faith in him.” Bindu lamented that she had not obtained any communication from the Indian authorities to this point. “But I am very positive because there will be other views also in the government. I am banking on that. I believe in God. I am sure that God will create a situation for her return,” she opined.
The mom of the ISIS terrorist wished to fulfill PM Modi and submit a memorandum in search of her daughter’s repatriation to India. Bindu emphasised that she would observe the authorized path to carry Nimisha Fathima again.
Nimisha Fathima was a Hindu previous to her conversion to Islam. She adopted the identify of “Fathima Isa” after her marriage to an ISIS terrorist. Along with 19 others from Kerala, she flew to Afghanistan in June 2016 to wage conflict towards the US forces in ISIS-controlled Khorasan Province. She had given beginning to a toddler there. After her terrorist husband was neutralised, she surrendered to the Afghan authorities in 2019. 
According to the Hindu report, a senior authorities official confirmed that the 4 Kerala-based girls, who had travelled to Nangarhar in Afghanistan within the years 2016-18, is not going to be allowed to return to the nation.
The Indian investigation companies had interviewed the 4 girls dwelling with kids in Kabul. During the interview with the ladies, the investigation companies had discovered that they’ve a powerful stance in favour of Islamic terrorism, and therefore, India is more likely to request the Afghanistan authority to prosecute the ladies there itself.
Four {couples} from Kerala had joined Islamic State: NIA
According to the cost sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2017, Sonia Sebastian had left India in 2016 to hitch the ISKP in Afghanistan together with a gaggle of 21 women and men from Kerala. They had crossed over to Afghanistan on foot from Iran.
The NIA stated Sebastian, from Kasargod in Kerala, left India on May 31, 2016, along with her husband, Abdul Rashid Abdulla, from Mumbai airport. They had stated the couple held secret lessons supporting IS and jihad over the past a part of Ramzan in Padanna and Kasaragod. Sebastian is an engineering graduate.
Another IS sympathiser, Merrin Jacob alias Mariyam, was married to Bestin Vincent, a resident of Palakkad. The couple escaped to Afghanistan in 2016 to reside within the IS-controlled territory. Later, the Chrisitan couple transformed to Islam after their marriage, and Vincent assumed the identification of Yahya. Vincent was later killed in Afghanistan.
Similarly, Vincent’s brother Bexon and his spouse, Nimisha alias Fathima, additionally transformed to Islam and escaped to Afghanistan with them.