The 17-page “lockdown special” edition of the Islamic State magazine encourages violence to “kill Kuffars”. It provokes its followers to be ready to take steps to “annihilate the disbelievers”. The world grapples with rapidly rising cases of the novel coronavirus, an Islamic State online publication ‘Voice of Hind’, in an attempt to further its anti-India propaganda, has been calling its supporters to use the pandemic as an opportunity to attack India by being Covid-19 carriers in the country. India Today TV has accessed two editions of the ‘Voice of Hind’ magazine, an English-language magazine distributed online, which were issued during the lockdown in India. The 17-page “lockdown special” edition of a magazine encourages violence to “kill Kuffars”.
It provokes its followers to be ready to take steps to “annihilate the disbelievers”. The cover page of the “lockdown edition” of the magazine, which features an image of the attendees of the Nizamuddin Markaz event and one from the Delhi riots, reads, “Believers stand tall its time for Kuffar to fall (sic)”. As you turn the pages of the Islamic State magazine, you would stumble upon a list of tips on ways to “annihilate the disbelievers”. “Keep yourselves armed at all times to never miss a chance to kill as many Kuffars as you can. Keep chains, ropes, and wires ready to choke them or beat them to death,” the Islamic State publication states, and, “any sharp object like glass will kill easily”. “Tools like scissors and hammers can come in useful to kill the Kuffar,” it says. Listed as the last point, “Spread Covid virus among as many Kuffar as possible to take them down easily and with less effort.