Asserting that the Mujahids stood for pluralism and co-existence of all religions, the Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) faction led by Hussain Madavoor has said that none of its members has either been involved in “extremism” or “joined the Islamic State (IS) fighters.”
At a news conference at its Markazud’wa here on Wednesday, KNM president C.P. Ummer Sullami and general secretary M. Salahuddin Madani, however, said that those who had run away in “search of heaven at Dammaj” (a small town in Yemen) and other places might have links to a splinter group (an ad hoc committee) which had divided the Mujahid movement, after adopting an ultra-Salafist position in 2002. They cannot claim to be part of the renaissance movement, declared tenets and principles of the Mujahid institution, the KNM leaders said.
