Acts of terror aimed at pinning blame on Hindus? Islamic Radicals in Rameshwaram cafe blast used Hindu identity

It has come to the fore that one of the two primary accused Islamists involved in the case, identified as Abdul Mateen Ahmed Taahaa, 30 used Hindu identity to conceal his original identity before executing the attack. The NIA recently, on 29th March, released the faces of the accused who are absconding at present and stated that whoever would help in arresting the duo would be rewarded with Rs 10 lakh.

 

Meanwhile, the NIA also revealed that the primary accused person, Abdul Matheen Taahaa identified himself as a Hindu and introduced himself either as Vignesh or Sumit. However, the other accused Mussavir Hussain used a fake driving license in the name of Mohammed Juned Sayed.

 

According to NIA, both individuals chose to stay in men’s/boys hostels, paid guest lodgings, sharing accommodations, or low-cost hotels and lodges.

 

 

 

The two have reportedly been on the run since 2020 when they were identified as suspects in the Al Hind Module case, which was allegedly inspired by the Islamic State (IS) and intended to create an IS province by starting an insurgency in the forests of South India. However, the two have allegedly managed to elude the authorities.

 

Notably, Muzammil Shareef, the only person who has been detained in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case, has been placed in seven-day custody by the NIA. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said he “extended logistic support to the other two identified accused in the case.”Muzammil Shareef is from Kalasa, Chikkamagaluru district, and his family lives in Dubai Nagar, Chikkamagaluru town. Shareef has been working in Bengaluru for 16 years, most recently at a chicken business in Basaveshwara Nagar. He is suspected of providing refuge to alleged bomber Mussavir Hussain Shazib in Bengaluru, assisting him in fleeing the city, and procuring certain raw materials for the Improvised Explosive Device (IED).

 

As per the reports, the accused, identified as Shariq, who executed a low-intensity IED blast in an auto-rickshaw in Mangaluru City in November 2022, used a fake identity to portray himself as a Hindu. He used a stolen Aadhaar Card of a Hindu person and identified himself as Premraj, a resident of Hubballi, Karnataka.`

 

In the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack case, it had come to the fore that the terrorists involved in the terror attack were given fake Hindu identity cards to make the entire incident look like a ‘Hindu terror attack’. Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab was given the identity of ‘Samir Chaudhari’, a resident of Bengaluru with a kalawa tied around his wrist to portray the attack as a case of ‘Hindu terror’.

 

 

 

In 2010, shortly after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, along with filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and others, launched a book that claimed that the Mumbai terror attacks were an RSS conspiracy. While the world was holding Pakistan responsible for 26/11, then Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh released the book “26/11 RSS Ki Saazish?” (26/11 – RSS Conspiracy?). The book was authored by Aziz Burney, Editor-in-Chief of the Urdu Sahara newspaper.