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haaretz.com/middle-east-ne… [Keep in mind Haaretz is pretty far on the "Left" side of things] "When I have raised the pressing issue of Saudi-funded radicalization issue with senior intelligence officials in Delhi, many agree about the gravity of the problem."
"They reply that because of its politically sensitive nature,& the lack of any national-level strategy& program to address Muslim radicalization, most of the time it is left to the state police to deal with such matters in a way that they deem fit, politically and pragmatically"
"But a wave of Saudi-funded hardline proselytization is sweeping across the country,& this extremism is eating away at South Asia’s indigenous& far more liberal, Sufi-based Barelvi traditions. This radicalization may be surfacing publicly now, but it has been building for years"
"During a single two year period (2011-2013), according to an Indian Intelligence Bureau report, 25,000 Wahhabis visited India for missionary work; over that period they brought, in installments, $250million to propagate Wahhabism, $460million to set up madrasas and $300 million
"for miscellaneous costs,including alleged bribes to mosque authorities. Another key project is setting up four universities, at a cost of $1.2 billion....The radical Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, which first set up base in Kashmir, is spearheading Wahhabi operations across India."
"Saudi-backed Salafis are gaining a stronghold in the southern Indian state of Kerala, he believes, noting that, "According to a Saudi embassy cable in Delhi, millions of riyals have been reserved" for local Islamic colleges, welfare organizations and political parties there."
"Sometimes..Saudis has taken over or co-opted existing Muslim groups...Salafi &Wahhabi ideologies in India appear to have won more appeal among..educated... Their austerity acts as a way of differentiating themselves from the "ignorant"&"superstitious" beliefs of rural Muslims.
"That is part of the reason why India's southern states like Kerala, Karnataka and cities like Hyderabad -where Muslims are comparatively better off politically, educationally and economically - have supplied the majority of ISIS recruits from India,"
"together with a long history of connections between these states' vast Indian Muslim diaspora and the Arab world, not least through working in the Gulf." so all those sharing tweeple Parashuram's spirited defense of Saudis - can look at all the funding/gulf-job/oil arguments.
