The new film, Kerala Story,
which has been released on May 5th,
has brought quite a big earthquake in Kerala and Indian politics.
Shalini Unnikrishnan,
a Hindu from Kerala.
Tell me, when exactly you joined ISIS?
Another controversy,
this time it is on Kerala.
This world is only run by Allah. Only Allah.
This film will be released on May 5th,
but the door to controversy
has already been opened before that.
Bring them closer,
separate them from families.
A new round of heated debate has started on social media with love j***d.
A hijab-clad girl is neither ra**d,
nor does anyone ever tease her.
Because Allah always protects us.
Are you trying to say only Allah protects?
-Shalini! -Fathima.
Our ex-chief minister has said
that in the next 20 years,
Kerala will become an Islamic State.
In films like Kerala Story,
are nothing but fake propaganda.
It intends communal polarization.
But the amazing thing is that
there are so many astrologers in our country
who looking at the future
even before the film released
decided that this film
is a propaganda film.
Even before the release, some politicians
were talking about banning this film
Congress has called
for a ban on the movie.
Accusing the filmmakers
of spreading misinformation.
In a mall in Kerala's Kochi, PVR
has cancelled the screening of the controversial film Kerala Story.
The Kerala Story
was banned in West Bengal.
Breaking news coming in from Tamil Nadu.
No screening of the Kerala Story.
Now see, it is possible
that the film Kerala Story
will show some things in a biased way.
But is Kerala's ISIS Brides story true
or is it propaganda?
Is Kerala's radicalization story true
or is it propaganda?
Let's find out today.
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Hello, hello and welcome to this episode of The Sham Sharma Show.
I am the CEO of secularism, Sham Sharma
and a secular hello to all of you.
Let's talk about Kerala today.
Where there is alluring natural beauty,
amazing food, beautiful culture
and where a great moment in Rahul Gandhi's career unfolded.
He is given the world's
biggest defence contract.
Every month we will put ₹72,000
into 5 crore bank accounts
We are going to do
a surgical strike on poverty.
But let's talk about a dark side of this beautiful state.
This week, a film called Kerala Story was released.
Which tries to tell the story of those girls of Kerala
who were brainwashed,
converted to Islam
and then after going to Afghanistan
even married with ISIS fighters.
But as I mentioned,
there are many politicians
who even before the film released
were calling the film a propaganda.
To be honest, I haven't seen the film yet.
But there are many people
who even before the film being released
just by looking at the film trailer
had started raising their voice against the film.
But why? Maybe because in the mainstream,
we are always shown a positive image of Kerala.
Whether it's education or development.
In the Human Development Index
Kerala is at number one.
If we talk on sex,
even in that Kerala is at number one.
I hope the rest of India will become
a little more like Kerala, yeah.
We are taught that education
ends all the problems.
But maybe this is only half the story of Kerala.
The film Kerala Story
is trying to show another story of Kerala.
You didn't tell, which God you believe in.
I think Shiva is a big God.
A God who at the death of his wife
cries like a common man,
how can he be a God?
Despite so much high education,
how does radicalization happen in Kerala?
So first of all, come
let's know some basic facts.
In the beginning of the last decade,
a terrorist organization named ISIS had come up,
who in the Middle East
had captured a large area
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
became the Islamic State
and proclaimed a caliphate on its territory.
The purpose of ISIS was that
the Islamic State which was finished
by Turkey's secular leader, Kemal Ataturk,
to establish that Islamic Caliphate again,
an Islamic Caliphate in which only
Sharia law shall be accepted.
ISIS was a very dangerous
and brutal organization
during whose regimen,
major human rights abuses were committed.
In this video, Shiite men
are herded together
and executed in mass graves.
The German parliament has just voted
unanimously to recognize
the massacre of ethnic Yazidis
in Iraq as genocide.
Fighters from the so-called Islamic State
massacred more than a thousand Yazidis
in Northwestern Iraq in 2014.
ISIS was also very active on social media
and used share their video messages
in the whole world.
Videos that inspired Muslims
from all over the world to go and join ISIS
Many Muslims from India also joined ISIS.
It was said in the 2021 US Department of Foreign Affairs report,
that by November 2021,
66 people of Indian-origin had joined the ISIS.
One state was at the forefront of sending to ISIS from India.
Was part of 21 persons who have left Kerala
in the last 2 months to join the Islamic State
Some estimates say that around 150 people
left Kerala and joined the ISIS.
Out of all the Pro-ISIS cases found in India,
the maximum number of cases came from Kerala.
So, let's clear a basic fact
that many people in Kerala
had joined ISIS after being radicalized.
This is absolutely correct,
is not a propaganda.
And like Harry Potter's platform 9-3/4,
cannot be seen by normal people,
in the same way
the radicalization that has taken place in Kerala,
and the history of radicalization in Kerala,
that too has been hidden from the normal people of India.
In fact, the premise of Kerala Story
that some non-Muslim women
were radicalized and converted,
And after that those girls
married ISIS fighter in Afghanistan,
this thing is also not propaganda,
it is absolutely true.
This is Nimisha alias Fathima,
one of the four women from Kerala
who joined the Islamic State
in Khorasan province.
Abdul married Sonia from Kerala
and made her Ayesha.
By turning Sonia to Ayesha,
she was admitted into the ISIS.
Listen to one of the girls' statements yourself.
The reason we moved
is to live an Islamic life
under a caliphate, a Muslim rule.
She went to Khorasan on her own
because she only believed in Allah.
Whatever happened is in Allah's…
So, Kerala which is so educated
to understand how this kind of radicalization happened in Kerala,
we need to understand the history of Islam and radicalization in Kerala.
In North India,
Islam came through invasion,
through violence, and through force.
But in Kerala,
Islam initially came through trade.
Relations of Arab traders with Kerala
were established in 7th century AD itself.
And between the 7th and 8th century,
many Muslim traders who came to Kerala,
started promoting Islam in Kerala
and because Hinduism
had no tension or jealousy with other gods
that's why the Hindu kings of Kerala
happily accepted the Muslims too.
Some local Perumal leaders
also accepted Islam
and even gave place in Kerala to build mosques.
The Muslim population of Kerala
settled in Northern Kerala
and came to be known as Mappila Muslims.
So, from this story you might be thinking
that it means that in Kerala
there has always been communal harmony between Hindu and Muslim.
But unfortunately, you would be wrong
just like those people
who are over the age of 25 but think
doing dance challenges on Instagram
they look cool. Don't look.
Stop it, get some help.
Unfortunately, from the medieval period,
when the population of Muslims in Kerala substantially increased
and Muslim rulers also emerged,
since then we are seeing the trend of radicalization in Kerala.
In the Malabar region of Kerala
there was a Hindu kingdom, Kolathiri,
which had another kingdom nearby,
Arakkal, whose king was Ali Raja,
who was a Mappila Muslim.
When Tipu Sultan's father, Hyder Ali
captured Mysore by betraying Maharaja Wodeyar,
then Ali Raja requested Hyder Ali
to support him
to completely destroy the Hindu Kingdom of Kolathiri.
And finally, Hyder Ali,
accepted Ali Raja's request.
Made Ali Raja a high admiral in his army
and attacked Malabar in 1766,
capturing the Kolathiri Empire.
Destroyed many temples,
but Hyder Ali was not successful in capturing Malabar region completely.
That's why his son, Tipu Sultan decided
that what my father could not do,
that I'll do.
In the Malabar region,
he started the persecution of Hindus, even more than Hyder Ali.
Kerala oral tradition remembers,
Tipu's visit to the Malabar
as the deadly "Padayottam",
which means "military march",
where he literally burnt down Malabar,
I mean Kozhikode and several parts of Malabar,
right down to the ground.
Between 1783 and 1791
thousands of Nairs and 30,000 Brahmins
had to leave Malabar and run away
due to the persecution of Tipu Sultan.
And many historians have also noted
that thousands of people were converted forcefully.
They were force-fed beef,
their temples were destroyed,
and many people were also killed.
He caused a permanent change
in the cultural character
of several cities.
And unfortunately, all these stories
have also been hidden from us, in our textbooks.
The history of Kerala has been kept as a secret.
Exactly the same secret,
that when Tony Stark wears the Iron Man's suit
how does he go to the bathroom?
Is there any retractable machinery below?
-Just like that. -Anyway.
The ill-treatment meted out to the Hindus in the Malabar region
continued even after the death of Tipu Sultan.
In 1852, the District Magistrate of Malabar
noted that the Muslim population
always kept the Hindus under fear.
Often there used to be incidents of isolated violence on Hindus
and we had to see the result of such radicalization
in 1921 with Moplah massacre.
Moplah massacre
was a result of the Khilafat movement.
The Khilafat movement began
when the British
defeated Turkey in World War I.
Turkey at that time,
used to be the center of the Islamic Caliphate
and because the Caliph of Islam
was fighting with the British,
the British had removed the Caliph of Islam from Turkey,
so the Muslims of India became very angry at that time,
and to establish the Khilafat back
started protest against the British.
Now the interesting thing in this matter
is that the Muslims of Turkey,
the Muslims of the Middle East
were not interested in bringing back the Khilafat,
so why were Muslims of India dying to do so?
You already know what is a simp.
That when a man is ready to give up his life for a woman,
but he does not get anything in return from the woman.
So Indian Muslims were the first simps of 20th Century.
Who were simping for the Turkish Muslims and for Khilafat.
I just want to say one thing to those simps.
Hey! will not give.
So despite being disinterested in the caliphate of the Islamic world,
the Indian Muslims started the Khilafat movement with great fanfare
and many Indian nationalists
including Gandhiji
strongly supported the Khilafat movement.
But because the Muslims all over the world
were not interested in this,
the Khilafat movement failed.
And the Muslims of Kerala took out the frustration of this failure
on the Hindus of Kerala.
They thought that if a caliphate cannot be formed in Turkey,
then we'll create a caliphate by finishing all the Hindus in the Malabar region.
Movement turned violent
against Hindu infidels
who were asked to choose
between Islam and death.
Thousands of Hindus
were forcibly converted to Islam.
Those Hindus who did not accept Islam were murdered.
Their homes were looted or set on fire.
This massacre was also condemned by nationalists
like Veer Savarkar, Annie Besant, and Dr. Ambedkar
and clearly called it an anti-Hindu massacre.
But in our media and in our textbooks,
it is called a rebellion.
If this is a rebellion, then even ****
is a family OTT platform like Netflix.
Can't resist!
Now after this, when independence came,
many Muslim majority regions of India
wanted to join Pakistan.
The Muslims of Malabar region
also demanded to join Pakistan.
But Malabar is as far away from Pakistan
as Foreign Direct Investment is away from Pakistan.
That's why Malabar region could not join Pakistan.
But the radicalization of the Malabar region
did not end completely even after independence.
In fact the Hindu population of Kerala
kept on declining slowly
and the Muslim population
kept on increasing very fast.
Since the 1970s, the population growth rate of Muslims
in Kerala is almost double that of Hindus.
So clearly having a high literacy rate
does not solve all the problems.
And as far as conversion is concerned,
very specifically Hindu and Christian communities
are being targeted for conversion.
Organizations like PFI were accused
of running conversion factories
to target Hindu and Christian women.
And all this is being done under a "charitable trust".
The woman at the center
of the Love Jihad debate
accused of brainwashing Akhila,
helping her convert
and then hurriedly arranging her marriage.
In fact, the National Investigative Agency
had also pointed out this.
The PFI is running
a religious conversion facilitation center
called Sathya Sarani.
And to do this kind of conversion,
and to spread radicalization in the state,
a lot of money comes from the Gulf.
How does he fund his mission?
Shareef calmly informs us
of the illegal Hawala channels
the Popular Front has established
in the Gulf.
I think 5 or 6 years ago.
You raised funds for the PFI
-in Middle East -Yeah.
How much fund you raised at that time?
-10 lakhs or something. -10 lakhs?
In fact, the founder of PFI
had openly said that his goal
is not only to create a Sharia rule
in Kerala, but in the whole of India.
Islamic State is the final goal?
Final goal.
The PFI and Sathya Sarani’s
hidden motive is to establish Islamic State
in India or all over the world?
All over the world
that is the motive.
This has been acknowledged
by the ex-Chief Minister of Kerala.
In July 2018, four people
were deported from Abu Dhabi to India
on the charges of terrorism
and all four were from Kerala.
From 2000s,
the money coming from the Gulf in Kerala
that is why Salafi ideology
is being greatly promoted in Kerala.
And the radicalization of Kerala
has increased rapidly.
Experts have said
that in the last 20-30 years,
Muslim women have left their sari
and started wearing pardha, hijab, and burqa.
And many Muslim communities
who used to participate in Hindu festivals
are also being pressured
to not participate in Hindu festivals.
And as far as radicalization is concerned,
not only Hindu groups are complaining,
but Christian groups are also complaining.
Pala's Bishop Joseph has accused
the Muslim community
of targeting Christians
through what he calls
'love and narcotic jihad.'
In fact, according to some NGOs,
since 1999,
7,000 people have been converted,
especially women.
And the situation had become so bad
that finally the government this year
even banned PFI for radicalization and terrorist activities.
In fact, the same Shashi Tharoor
who is calling Kerala Story a propaganda,
he also tweeted some time ago
that actually there are some girls
who have gone to join the ISIS
and he is trying to get them free.
So is this a real story or not?
Decide that.
When we've seen so much proof
that radicalization is taking place in Kerala,
women are being targeted,
women are being converted,
then why is this film being attacked even before it is released?
In fact, even the Censor Board
has also released this film.
But gave it an adult rating
and has asked for 10 cuts in this film.
Including the statement of the former chief minister
that PFI wants to create an Islamic state in Kerala.
But this is what the ex-CM has said.
The film is not lying
it doesn't need to be deleted.
The Censor Board has also said
that in the film,
Muslims who are saying wrong things
against Hindu Gods
should also be deleted.
But this is what happened in reality.
In reality, these girls have been told
that their God is wrong.
Only and only Allah is the one God.
They slowly learned about me,
my character, my views, everything.
And slowly they injected
their religion into my brain.
I was in a concept
that there is only one God
and there are no different gods.
If gods are there,
means it will be just from the main God.
Likewise, my concept was.
They told me about how a woman
should dress or how she should behave
in front of the society. They told me.
And they explained
about the hell punishments.
I was so afraid at that time
that I wanted to convert
as soon as possible.
My 5-6 years of Islamic study,
I had become a complete anti-Hindu.
I was against the Hindu gods,
Hindu organizations.
Questions were asked there,
how are there 33 crore gods and goddesses in Sanatana?
I was a little confused.
On which they started criticizing the Hindu religion.
Then gradually, we were given books.
Books of Malayalam-translated Quran
were given to the converted girls.
We were also given CDs and books
of Islamic, M.M. Akbar and Zakir Hussain.
This increased the confusion further.
I didn't have the answer to the questions.
So surrendered to the question of conversion.
What is heaven and hell?
I was told about that.
Instilled fear in the mind,
that if I didn't accept Islam,
I would get to see the wrath of God.
So, why does the Censor Board want to remove these things from the film?
And finally, especially those politicians,
who wanted to ban this movie
I want to ask them,
the film made by BBC to malign India's name,
'India's Daughter'
comes under free speech.
The fake documentary made by BBC
on Prime Minister Modi to malign the name of India
comes under free speech,
so why doesn't the Kerala story
come under free speech?
Why is it being banned?
It is hypocritical in the same way
that a climate change activist
is publishing millions of physical books
which would have to be made by cutting down thousands of trees.
So, see, the film Kerala Story
may not show the whole truth.
Maybe it will try to spread propaganda.
But the story of Kerala's radicalization,
the story of ISIS brides,
is not a propaganda
but absolutely true.
I want to ask you
Have you watched the Kerala Story yet?
If you have watched it, how did you find it?
Do you think there is propaganda in this film or is it true?
Do let me and our audience know
in the comment section below.
If you want to see our more videos about PFI here,
of what have been the black deeds of this organization,
then you can watch it by clicking here or here.
I will meet you in the next episode.
Till then stay healthy, stay happy.
See you again.
And a secular salute to all.