The visa scam
Here lets us look at two instances of recruitment. Both these involved a visa scam of sorts. In the case of Areef Majeed he was given a visa on the pretext that he was going on a religious pilgrimage. In the war torn Iraq the permit to enter into that country today is handed mostly to pilgrims and the ISIS is taking full advantage of it. On the other hand there was a recruit called Haja Fakkurddin who was roped into the ISIS from Tamil Nadu. In his case it was a visa scam involving a job permit. Haja was indoctrinated through the web and contacted a person in Singapore who arranged for his work permit. He was taken to Singapore where he was working in a small firm for 15 days before he was moved into an ISIS camp in Syria.
Online indoctrination
The Intelligence Bureau says that the biggest challenge ahead is the online recruitment process. Every 10 days at least 3000 sites come up and then they are taken down. They are playing hide and seek with the agencies. Just when a list of sites are listed out by the agencies across the world they take it down. They wait a couple of days and post new sites with the same content. The challenge is extremely tough the IB official points out. The ISIS has ensured that all the indoctrination takes place online. This is primarily done because they want to avoid any sort of direct contact with people as there is a chance of this leaving a greater trail. This explains why the ISIS which is such a huge organization has relied on 20000 websites and just 6 middle men for the whole of India.
Wahabi influence
While the online medium has been worrisome the entire problem began in the year 2013. India has witnessed scores of Wahabi scholars from Saudi Arabia visit India. The most number of camps by these persons was held in Maharashtra. The camps catered to over 100000 youth across the country and 25000 were from Maharashtra had attended these camps. There was a great deal of influence that was imposed on several youth. The Wahabis explained the importance of the Sharia law and this is exactly what the ISIS is propagating today. These camps by and large changed the mindset of several youth who even began thinking in terms of the ISIS ideology. The entire problem began here, the Intelligence Bureau said.
Global army
Oneindia had reported large parts of his confession on Sunday and the continued interrogation of Majeed only indicates that he was part of a well-oiled network which led him from being an engineering student to an ISIS recruit. Apart from the confession of his which indicates very clearly that he had gone there to fight but was not allowed he also speaks about the plans that the ISIS for India. He says that the ISIS targets recruits from all parts of the world. Recruits from each country have been assigned a different task and the intention of the ISIS is to build a global team in a bid to establish the global Islamic Council.