Is a school of terror running on your child’s phone? Social media becomes new center of recruitment in Jharkhand

News India Live, Digital Desk: A very dangerous and dark face of the social media which we and you use to connect with the country and the world, to entertain or to talk to friends, has come to light in Jharkhand. This is a reality that can worry every parent. Investigations by the state police and intelligence agencies have revealed that dreaded terrorist organizations like Naxalites, ISIS and JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh) are now coming out of the forests and caves and running their ‘recruitment’ shops on the social media present in your homes.

Now the fight has become more about ideas than weapons, and its new ground has become platforms like Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp.

How is this ‘digital trap’ being laid?

According to intelligence agencies, the way of working of these organizations is very vicious.

• Naxalite organization: These organizations display their dominance and power on social media to woo the innocent tribal youth. They post inflammatory videos and literature related to their training camps, weapons and “revolution” so that the misguided youth get attracted towards them considering it to be ‘Heropanti’.
• ISIS and JMB: The target of these Islamic terrorist organizations are the districts of Santhal Pargana like Sahibganj, Pakur, Deoghar, Jamtara and Godda. These organizations brainwash the youth under the guise of religion. They share videos, messages and literature with fundamentalist ideology related to religion in closed groups and gradually fill the youth with hatred against the society.

Their main target is unemployed, uneducated and easily misled youth. They are first linked to these groups and then gradually radicalized and prepared to be used as ‘sleeper cells’.

Police tightened their belts, formed a team of ‘cyber warriors’

Jharkhand Police has also geared up to deal with this new and invisible challenge. A special team has been formed at the police headquarters level, whose job is to keep an eye on these anti-national activities going on on social media 24 hours a day.

This team has so far identified hundreds of Facebook profiles, WhatsApp groups and Telegram channels which are being used to spread terrorist ideology. Intelligence is being kept on those running these profiles and the people associated with them. Recently, only after the arrest of Al-Qaeda terrorist Kalimuddin, the agencies came to know the depth of this social media network of JMB and ISIS in Santhal Pargana.

This is a battle that the police alone cannot fight. For this, the society and especially the parents will have to be aware and see whether their child is going on any wrong path in the darkness of this digital world.