ISIS considers Indians inferior to Arab fighters, uses them as suicide bombers

New Delhi Dreaded terrorist group ISIS doesnot consider South Asian Muslims including Indians goodenough to fight in conflict zone of Iraq and Syria and treatedas inferior than Arab fighters but often tricks them and pushinto suicide attacksAccording to an intelligence report prepared by foreignagencies and shared with Indian agencies fighters from IndiaPakistan Bangladesh as well as certain countries like Nigeriaand Sudan are considered inferior to Arab fightersThere appears to be clear hierarchy wherein the Arabfighters are preferred as officer cadre and provided betterarms and ammunition equipment accommodation and salariesAn image grab taken on April 19 2015 from a video reportedly released by the Islamic State IS group through AlFurqan Media one of the Jihadist platforms used by the militant organisation on the web purportedly shows men described as Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya kneeling on the ground in front of masked militants before their beheading on a beach at an undisclosed location in Libya PicAFPALFURQAN MEDIAThe fighters from South Asia are usually housed ingroups in small barracks and are paid less than the Arabfighters and are provided inferior equipment the input saysThere are reports that the socalled inferior fightersare also at times tricked into suicide attacks Usually theyare given a vehicle loaded with explosives and asked to gonear a targeted destination and call a certain number whowould purportedly come and meet them to explain the missionHowever as soon as the number is dialled the carexplodes due to a preset mechanism aimed at destroying aspecific targetA total of 23 Indians have so far joined the ISIS ofwhich six reportedly killed in different incidents The deadare Athif Vaseem Mohammad Adilabad Telangana MohammadUmar Subhan Bangalore Karnataka Maulana Abdul Kadir SultanArmar Bhatkal Karnataka Saheem Farooque Tanki ThaneMaharashtra Faiz Masood Bangalore Karnataka and MohammadSajid alias Bada Sajid Azamgarh Uttar PradeshThe intelligence report suggests that there is adisproportionately high level of casualty among the SouthAsian and African foreign terrorist fighters since they areforced to the frontlines of battle as foot soldiersThe Arab fighters with better battle experience aremostly positioned behind these fighters and hence theircasualties are proportionally less in terms of their totalnumbers This explains why so many Indians from a small Indiancontingent have died it saysThe intelligence report says there is information thatforeign fighters of Chinese Indian Nigerian and Pakistaniorigin are housed together and are monitored closely by theISIS PoliceIncidentally only Tunisian Palestinian Saudi ArabianIraqi and Syrian are allowed to be in the ISIS Police Forcewhich is barred for fighters of all other nationalitiesHence there is a clear trust deficit between thedominant Arab fighters from other nationalities who aremostly attracted to ISIS through its sophisticated propagandatechniques on the InternetThere is also information the intelligence inputsuggests that the ISIS considers Islam as it is practised inIndia Pakistan Bangladesh as apostate and a departurefrom the original teachings of Quran and Hadith which makesthem less motivated towards Salafist Jihad Hence there are authentic reports of brain washing of fresh recruits from South Asia and certain other countries by invoking the fear of Jinn which are considered supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology the intelligence input saysThe fear of Jinn is invoked to ensure that the recruits from these countries do not return to their countries of origin on the premise that the Jinn will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives if they do soFurther passports of foreign terrorist fighters fromSouth Asia and certain African countries are usually burntupon their arrival in IraqSyria to prevent them going back totheir countries