The group merged with Kerala-based extremist Islamist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) on 22 November 2006.
[1] It is considered an offshoot of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI, the affiliate of the Indian Mujahideen).
[2] The Karnataka Police were probing the involvement of the group in the 2009 Mysuru communal violence and 2005 Indian Institute of Science shooting in Bangalore.
[4][5][6][7] In 2015, the Siddaramaiah cabinet decided to withdraw criminal cases against 1,600 activists of KFD and Popular Front of India for rioting.
The opposition BJP accused the chief minister of turning a blind eye to the acts of violence by activists belonging to the forum and the PFI in Hassan, Shivamogga and Mysuru, and blamed these organisations of being seeded by the Inter-Services Intelligence and Taliban.