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Monday 25 Jan 2016 - 14:07 Makkah mean time-15-4-1437
The trust’s Facebook page. Image from The Indian Express
Mumbai (IINA) - Mufti Mohammed Manzoor Ziayee, chairman of Dar-ul-uloom Faizan-e-Raza, and other clerics in India have now started taking time off religious sermons to sensitize Muslim youth through Internet, especially social media, The Indian Express online news reported.
Concerned over the rising number of arrests of Indian youths for alleged association with ISIS, clerics and trustees of the Pir Makhdum Saheb Charitable Trust (PMSCT) have launched what they call a “cyber fight” against the extremist group. The initiative was announced a few months ago, and is finally set for an official launch in a week.
The trust claims that it wants to use social media to fight terror outfits in the same way they are using it to influence Muslim youth. The trustees decided to develop this application after the 2015 arrests of four youths from Kalyan, including engineering student Areeb Majeed, who were allegedly recruited by ISIS. However, the arrest of seven alleged ISIS sympathizers from different locations in Karnataka and Maharashtra on Friday has now led them to fast-track their attempt of counter-radicalization.
The trustees and clerics of the trust, with the help of IT students and professionals, have developed a Facebook page and a Twitter account and are even developing a mobile application to reach out to Muslim youths across the country and interact with them. They call it their contribution towards counter-radicalization and an attempt to stop indoctrination by ISIS and other terror outfits.
We have decided to launch the application soon and it will be out for Android and iOS phones by next week,” said Suhail Khandwani, managing trustee of PMSCT.
“The app will connect Muslim youths, men and women via their social networking accounts of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from across the nation to create awareness about un-Islamic activities of ISIS. In the first phase of the campaign, we will start counselling youths from areas like Kalyan, Thane, Mumbai, Pune, Nasik and other cities in the state to keep away from every radical outfit they come across,” he added.
Sayed Sabir, the IT director of Mahim Dargah Trust, who is in charge of the team developing the application, said they were trying to make the application more interactive.
The application is expected to connect over 10,000 small and large Muslim communities across the country. It will also ensure vigilance on the menace of cyber-terror training and recruitment carried out by ISIS across the nation through internet and social networking sites. Mufti Ziyaee, who is also an adviser of the trust, said a team of IT students and professionals associated with the dargah trust was currently developing the application.
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