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Two militants who received training and attended sermons in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, were killed by
Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir last year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported quoting the Dutch domestic intelligence agency, AVID.
The fresh evidence of global links of J&K militants has only vindicated New Delhi's claims that the violence in Kashmir is not a 'freedom struggle' but sheer terrorism being practised in the name of jehad. In fact, it was this very fundamentalist backlash that caused the 9/11 terrorist attack on US.
Incidentally, even the Al Qaeda militants suspected to be behind the 9/11 violence had attended sermons in the Al-Furquan mosque in Eindhoven, according to WSJ. The training sessions are conducted by the extremist Al-Waqf al-Islami Foundation, believed to be funded by wealthy Saudis.
Since the '80s, the Al-Waqf sermons have drilled extremist messages into the heads of thousands of Muslim youth from across Europe, the WSJ report said. The sermons are believed to have inspired the six Al-Qaeda operatives to plot the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
It is not only such groups based in the Netherlands that have been drilling the jehad doctrine into the minds of young Muslims. France and Germany are the other two nations acting as breeding ground for J&K militants.
In France, investigators have raised
concerns about the L'Institut European des Sciences Humaines at the Chatau-Chinon
in the Burgundy region. One member of the Hamburg terrorist cell took a
correspondence course offered by the institute, the US daily said. In Germany,
the Hans des Islam in the small town of Lutzelbach near Frankfurt is under
observation, according to German intelligence officials. The organisation
was set up in the '80s with cash smuggled in from the Middle East, they
said.
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