Now Taslima Nasreen gets life threats

Intelligence agencies have started probe into the appearance of post in the social media that exhorted to kill the controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.

The post appeared on Wednesday in the Facebook page of Ansarul Khilafa-Kerala, an organisation formed the Islamic State (IS) supporters in Kerala, said times of India.

Sources said security agencies are watching the development seriously as the Facebook page of outfit contained IS propaganda material including the photo of beheading of a captive in Syria.

A post in Malayalam asks cadres to finish off Taslima as she has insulted Islam by saying the religion ‘originated from war, not from book and ‘I am not a fool to observe Ramadan fasting’.

The Facebook page that was active till Friday morning disappeared by noon. The accounts of some of the suspected IS supporters also have vanished from the social media.

All these accounts are believed to be fake ones as the holders of the account have claimed in their profile that they are living in Syria and Afghanistan.

Police suspect that there is group of youngsters from Kerala who are indoctrinated by the online propaganda of the IS.

They say that though the youths may not have any direct link with the terrorist organisation, they do share the extremist ideology of the IS.

At least four Malayalees are believed to have gone to Syria to join the IS and to fight against ‘the enemies of Islam’.

The posts in the Facebook page ask Muslims in India to join the IS as living in the land of non-believers after the establishment of Caliphate by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is un-Islamic.