A two-day State convention of the Ithihadu Shubbanil Mujahideen (ISM), youth wing of the Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM), has alleged that Sufis and ‘fascists’ have joined hands to ‘sabotage’ the surge of Islamic renaissance in the world.
A resolution adopted at the convention, which ended at Karikkamkulam here, said the ‘Sufi-fascist’ combination in the country had been making “crude attempts to rewrite Islamic history.”
It said the Muslim community in Kerala should be “aware of this tendency” and called for vigil against the Sufis who had sent Malayali students for higher studies to seminaries run by Fethullah Gulen in Turkey.
The resolution said the teachings of Mr. Gulen, a reclusive Islamic cleric living in the U.S. and reportedly behind the Turkey coup, would only destroy the peaceful atmosphere in that country. It said the Muslim community in the State should be vigilant against the “media witch-hunt.”
The right wing media and a section of the “communalised government lobby” had been trying to portray Kerala as a “sanctuary for the Islamic State,” it charged.
Among other things, the resolution said the Muslim community should come on a common platform to strengthen secularism and democracy.
