The Kerala Story row: Muslim Youth League offers Rs one crore if makers’ claims proved
Two other persons from Kerala have promised monetary rewards if anyone proves the claim made in the film’s teaser, that “32,000 girls” from Kerala were forcibly converted and allegedly recruited to the militant outfit ISIS.
As director Sudipto Sen’s controversial film The Kerala Story heads to theatres, political organisation Muslim Youth League has challenged the makers to prove the veracity of a contentious claim made in the film’s teaser — that “32,000 girls” from Kerala were forcibly converted and allegedly recruited to the militant outfit ISIS. The state committee of the organisation has announced a monetary reward of Rs 1 crore if the makers produce proof that 32,000 women from Kerala had converted to Islam and migrated to Syria or Yemen, as claimed in the teaser. As part of the campaign, two other concerned individuals from Kerala have also come forward with promises of monetary rewards if the film’s makers take up the challenge.
In the film’s first teaser released in November last year, actor Adah Sharma who plays the protagonist in the film can be seen delivering a monologue, claiming that a deadly game is being played to convert normal girls into dreaded terrorists in Kerala. “My name was Shalini Unnikrishnan, I wanted to serve humanity by becoming a nurse. Now I am Fathima Ba. An ISIS terrorist in Afghanistan jail. I am not alone, like me there are 32,000 girls who have already been converted and buried in the desert of Syria and Yemen,” she says. The claim immediately courted controversy, but five months later, the makers are yet to provide any evidence to back the veracity of this data despite calls from several quarters to do so.
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