Nimisha, a fourth year BDS student at a college in Kasaragod converted to Islam last year and changed her name to Fathima. She is one of 20 people from Kerala who have gone missing, and there is palpable fear that all of them, including a few couples and children, could have joined the Islamic State.
Nimisha’s mother, Bindu Kumar was a happy woman, until last year. Her children were well-settled; she had a son in the National Security Guard (NSG), and a daughter studying to be a dentist.
However she soon learned that her daughter had married a Christian convert to Islam while at college, and was pregnant. The past few months also revealed that Bindu’s missing daughter might also have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror outfit, according to a report in the Hindustan Times.
We fear the worst. All 20 are off the radar for more than a month. Out of four messages the relatives have received, one is from Afghanistan and another from Egypt. The other two we couldn’t decode. We will be able to track their passport and visa entries by Monday. We think they are in a trouble-torn area now.Senior Intelligence Officer
Bindu Kumar also confirmed that her daughter used to download videos of the controversial Islamic preacher, Zakir Naik, according to News18.
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