{"id":2846,"date":"2018-03-31T05:52:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T05:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2018-03-31T05:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T05:52:48","slug":"keralites-stayed-in-is-safe-houses-in-colombo-before-joining-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/keralites-stayed-in-is-safe-houses-in-colombo-before-joining-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Keralites stayed in IS safe-houses in Colombo before joining IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Keralites had stayed in Islamic State (IS) safe-houses in Colombo before joining the IS, The Hindu newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The State police believe that at least 90 Keralites had joined the Islamic State militia since 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">They included an estimated 21 persons from Kasaragod and 38 from Kannur. The police have also added the names of 12 Keralites from Bahrain and 10 from Ras-Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates to their list of IS defectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Top investigators said that most appeared to have been attracted by the organisation\u2019s slick online propaganda and its self-styled local recruiters and franchises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The defectors were mostly dentists, doctors, IT experts, and their families. The groups from Kerala were a zealous amalgam of radicals and recent converts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The police said they had tracked the Kasaragod group in virtual space to Afghanistan. They narrowed down those from Kannur to Syria. Both groups had taken a circuitous route through Sri Lanka to reach the combat zones. En route, they had camped in IS safe-houses in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The Keralites who defected to the IS from the Gulf also comprised children of NRIs. Peer pressure appeared to have played a serious role in their radicalisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Members of the Bahrain and Ras-Al-Khaimah groups were believed to be in Syria. Investigators said since 2016, sixteen Keralites were reported killed in the combat zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keralites had stayed in Islamic State (IS) safe-houses in Colombo before joining the IS,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}