Why did the jihadi terrorist organisations spread their activities toKarnataka and Tamil Nadu?
They have no historic pretexts for their activities in Karnataka and TamilNadu, but they project their interest as related to their over-all objective of "liberating" the Muslims not only in Karnataka and Tamilnadu, but also in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. While they have succeeded to some extent in spreading their sleeper cells to Karnataka, they have not succeeded in TamilNadu. Some Tamil Muslims, who had met one Abu Hamza (assumed name) of the LET in Saudi Arabia, did form in the early 2000s in Tamil Nadu a secret organisation called the MuslimSelf-Defence Force, but it was detected in time by the Tamil Nadu Police and neutralised before it could cause any harm. It reportedly came out during the investigation that Abu Hamza had asked the organisers of the MuslimSelf-Defence Force to come to the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka for another meeting. They did go there, but he did not turn up. They, therefore, returned to Chennai without any meeting. In Karnataka, the objectives of the jihadis have also an important economicdimension--namely, to damage the economy and shake the growing confidence of foreign investors in India in general and in Bangalore in particular.
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