West Bengal in India has already turned into jihadist launchpad mostly because of Islamist appeasement policies of chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress. While under communist rule, West Bengal became dens of Naxalite terrorism, Mamata Banerjee’s misrule has been turning this Bengali-dominant Indian state into mini Afghanistan.
According to media reports, after conducting raids at various locations in West Bengal, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently detailed two Muslims namely Merazuddin Ali Khan, a resident of Bokaro, and Mir Mohammed Nuruzzaman, a native of West Bengal’s Birbhum district. The arrested individuals were linked to the seizure of a massive cache of electric detonators in Birbhum in June 2022.
Following the arrests, NIA representative said, “While Mir Mohammed Nuruzzaman had supplied 27,000 kg of ammonium nitrate to Rintu Sheikh, Merazuddin Ali Khan had provided electric detonators and gelatin sticks to Rintu”.
The agency has also confirmed that in July 2022, West Bengal’s Special Task Unit raided Birbhum district’s Mahammad Bazar neighborhood – a Muslim-dominated area — and detained a minivan carrying 81,000 detonators. The officials have confirmed that the detained Muslim jihadists were planning an explosion, but that the authorities succeeded in foiling their plots.
The NIA statement further added that after the cache of detonators was seized, the mini-van driver was arrested and led the officials to a stash of illegally stored explosives. Apart from 27,000 kg of ammonium nitrate, they also found 31,625 kg of gelatin sticks and 2,325 electric detonators.
Ammonium nitrate is an ingredient used for making bombs. The quantity of this explosive recovered from the detainees was enough to flatten massive areas. To understand the degree of threats posed by ammonium nitrate in the passion of Muslims in West Bengal, we need to look into the case of the 2020 Beirut blast.
On August 4 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tons of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 kilotons of TNT) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures for the previous six years after having been confiscated by the Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus. The explosion was preceded by a fire in the same warehouse.
The blast was so powerful that it physically shook the whole country of Lebanon. It was felt in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Israel, as well as parts of Europe, and was heard in Cyprus, more than 240 km (150 mi) away. It was detected by the United States Geological Survey as a seismic event of magnitude 3.3 and is considered one of the most powerful accidental artificial non-nuclear explosions in history.
According to experts, had the Muslim jihadist been successful, the 27,000 kg of ammonium nitrate, which could lead to the energy release of close to 11,000 kg of TNT, was enough to blow up the entire state of West Bengal and adjacent areas.
From the above description, it can be easily assumed that radical Muslims are taking secret preparations of jihadist massacre targeting the Hindu-majority India, while Islamic apologists such as Mamata Banerjee as well as a number of propagandists in India and the West are catering fictious stories of Muslim genocide in India with the agenda of distracting attention of the international community towards threats posed by radical Islam and jihadism in the country.
