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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-23-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ANALYSIS - Discontent sows seeds of Jihad among Indian Muslims
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By Reuters
Sunday July 23, 05:31 PM
By Krittivas Mukherjee
MUMBAI (Reuters) - These are bad times, says the chief priest of a small mosque in the heart of the Muslim quarter of Asia's largest slum in India's biggest city.
"There is fear and suspicion everywhere," said Mohammed Saeed Khan Qadri of Salaullah Mosque in Mumbai's Dharavi slum, set in the middle of a sea of tin-roof shanties and slush-filled lanes that buzz with life and rattle from the noise of passing trains.
When seven bombs ripped through Mumbai's commuter trains earlier this month, they not only shattered the lives of hundreds of people, they may also have shattered a myth, police say.
U.S. President George Bush once famously congratulated India's leader Manmohan Singh that not a single Indian Muslim had joined the ranks of al Qaeda -- a testament, he implied, to communal harmony in the world's largest democracy.
The statement may be factually correct -- but it is clear that Islamist extremism is an emerging threat in India.
Police say the Mumbai attacks may have been organised by Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, but they believe young Indian Muslim men carried out the bombings.
Although the radicals may share the violent and anti-Western ideology of Islamist extremists around the world, analysts say their motivation is rooted in a sense of injustice at home.
Their most powerful recruiting tool -- the 2002 riots in Gujarat where human rights group say around 2,500 people, mostly Muslims, were hacked and burnt to death.
<b>"Gujarat was the turning point in India's communal history. Now many Muslims who have suffered see the state as an active participant in the pogrom,"</b> said Mohammed Wajihuddin, a minority affairs expert.
"Then it becomes easy for groups like al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba to draft these people in."
India's Muslims form 13.4 percent of the mainly Hindu country's 1.03 billion population -- the world's largest Muslim population after Indonesia and Pakistan. Sectarian clashes have erupted periodically, but the Gujarat riots marked a watershed.
India's Supreme Court said the Hindu nationalist government in Gujarat was complicit in the killings. Despite a national outcry, little has been done to catch the culprits, rights groups say.
In other Hindu-Muslim clashes around the country, Muslims have formed the bulk of casualties and complained about bias on the part of the mainly Hindu law enforcers.
DISCRIMINATION
"We have accepted we will not get good jobs. There is subtle bias and discrimination but at least we should have security," said Zafar-ul-Islam Khan, editor of The Milli Gazette, an English newspaper based in New Delhi aimed at Indian Muslims.
By contrast, Indian rule in mainly Muslim Kashmir, and alleged human rights abuses there, have not stirred passions in the same way, perhaps because Muslims in the rest of India do not feel as threatened by events in Kashmir.
Washington's "war on terror" have fuelled Muslims' sense of alienation, analysts say. But the complaints of the radical fringe are also rooted in a wider sense of disillusionment among Indian Muslims after a history of social and economic neglect.
"The ground in India is rife for the growth of jihadis," said a top police officer investigating the bombings. "Poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, injustice: everything is there to disillusion Muslims."
Official figures reveal Muslims log lower educational levels and higher unemployment rates than the Hindu majority and other minorities like Christians and Sikhs.
They account for less than seven percent of public service employees, only five percent of railways workers, around four percent of banking employees and there are only 29,000 Muslims in India's 1.3 million-strong military.
This is a copy of the Sachar comittiee.
India is officially a secular nation and its top woman tennis star, its president, and its richest man are all Muslims as are several top Bollywood stars and federal ministers.
But such high-profile success stories may mask the real status of Indian Muslims, who are often held responsible for the partition of the country into Hindu-majority India and Islamic Pakistan in 1947 at the time of independence from Britain.
"After the subcontinent was partitioned, most upper and middle class Muslims moved to Pakistan. Those left behind were leaderless and mostly poor," Wajihuddin said.
Recent bomb attacks in India have not sparked the kind of Hindu-Muslim rioting their perpetrators may have wanted, but with police rounding up hundreds of Muslim men in Dharavi, there is a strong sense of mutual mistrust.
Some young Muslims say that the community has to fight back.
"Those who lost their fathers, mother, brother, sisters will seek revenge," said Ashraf Sheikh, a 28-year-old unemployed man, furiously gesticulating and smoking a cigarette as he talked of Muslim deaths in Gujarat.
"That is what is happening," he said, referring to the Mumbai blasts. "These things will only increase you will see."
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Why the forget who started? Why Muslim can't recall what they did in train in Godhara?
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-23-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Mumbai blasts and menace of Islamist terrorism </b>
Sazzad Hussain
The reasons behind the quick inroads of the Jehadi forces like the LeT among the Indian Muslims are not only the communal riots or the anti-Muslim policies of some political organisations. There has been a fertile ground already though inadvertently prepared by Indian Muslims for the practice of their faith in various forms.
7/11, another addition of that dubious term of the date in use since 9/11 of the US and 7/7 of UK. This time the target was India and the victim was again Mumbai city. Mumbai has been in the terror map since 1993 serial blasts perpetuated by the underworld mafias with the help of Pakistani agencies who used the sentiments of the riot victims of the post-Ayodhya carnage of late 1992 to carry out that terror act. After that there were blasts in sub-urban Ghatkopar station in 2000 and several small explosions in Byculla and in BEST buses as well as the blast of Gateway of India in 2003. But the 7/11 blasts in local trains which killed hundreds of lives are the worst of its kind where helpless and innocent commuters were targeted. Initial findings of the blast suggests LeT hand which is really a matter of great concern for us as this Pakistan based terror group has waging a war against India in the name of the faith practised by the largest minority of our country. This terror act has again shifted our attention to the terrorism spread world wide known as the Islamist terrorism or Jehadi terrorism. The terrorism which has devastated places like Afghanistan, Iraq and parts of the West Asia and has brought havocs to the social life of the Muslims around the world has nothing to do with Islam, the great faith. It was they who ask to kill people or perform ghastly works by misinterpreting the religion and the Holy Quran.
Though Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism are not synonymous but all Islamist terrorist are fundamentalists. They use the puritanical form of Islam for easily spreading their networks and functions. Islam was known for its application of science and academic pursuits in the middle age when Europe was enlightened by the Islamic Arab world that had brought oriental lights from India in mathematics and astronomy. This glorious form of Islam in the Arab world extended up to the Iberian peninsula were lost to the abysmal point when the Ottoman Turks established and expanded their empire by annexing Arab land from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic coast of Maghreb (North Africa). The Turkish Sultans only taught the Arab subjects to follow the ritualistic form of Islam by their appointed clergyâ the Mufti. In the early twentieth century the European colonial powers, mostly Britain and France helped different Arab groups to fight for liberation from the Ottomans which only made them to be governed by the colonials. Later against those European friend-turned foes the Arabs formed religious resistance movement known as Whabism in Arabian Peninsula and Muslim brotherhood in Egypt. This Wahabism and Muslim brotherhood pan-Islamic ideology was applied by the CIA to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in the late twentieth century which was also the origin of all Islamic terrorism menacing the world today.
America created the Afghan Mujahideen in Pakistan to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan that had entered in 1978. It took all the financial and human resource help from its ally Saudi Arabia and Pakistan was the launch pad. In the Pak-Afghan border CIA set up Madrassas to groom fighters to fight the atheist Soviets by misinterpreting Islam through some Saudi and Pakistani Mullahs of the orthodox Wahabi Sunni sect. They called Muslims around the world to come forward and sacrifice lives for the Jehad (holy war) against the Communists. Thus fellows like Osma bin Laden and Dr Zawahari came to Pak-Afghan border and the rest was history that we know. These veteran Afghan Jehadis have been waging a brutal war against the world of their dislike, including their creator America since 1989 and India is one of their targets for the secession of Kashmir. After their success in Afghanistan, these Jehadis have been fighting in Chechnya, Sudan, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kashmir, Indonesia, the Philippines and Yemen and presently in war-torn Iraq.
The menace of Islamic terrorism is so schoking and ghastly that no world is appropriate to condemn it. Apart from the 9/11 terror strike this form of terrorism had devastated blasts in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (1999), Bali (2002), Riyadh and Dhahran (2003-04), Casablanca and Istanbul (2004), Beslan and Moscow (2004), Cairo and London in 2005 besides daily killings in various parts of Iraq. The Taliban era in Afghanistan is another shocking reminder to this menace. The execution of foreign hostages by their kidnappers before video cameras and various such cruel acts have already made the Islamist terrorist as one of the most oppressing forces that the world already have had. They have not only created mayhem across the world but hijacked the religion called Islam. Islam is in seige by these terror groups and many around the world are now thinking that Islam and terrorism are synonymous.
India was relatively free from this form of terrorism albeit we had the Khalistani and other terrorism affecting our national life. India became the target of the Islamist terrorism in 1989 when Pakistan engaged the Afghan Mujahideen veterans in Kashmir. Originally it was confined in the valley but taking advantage of the prevailing socio-political condition of our country they steadily made inroads in different parts of India. Particularly the post-Ayodhya communal riots across the country gave them the opportunity to take the advantage of the Muslim riot victims to mobilise their activities. The Indian Muslims who suffered collaterally during those riots were instigated to take revenge and its immediate outcome was the serial blasts of Mumbai of 1993. After that these terror groups established networks in Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Maharashtra, Gujarat, UP and in other places. After the defat of the Jehadi infiltrators in the Kargil war these groups mainly L-e-T (Lashkar-e-Taiba) vowed to wage the so-called holy war against India in 1999 to plunge the country into a civil war in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The 2002 post-Godhra communal pogrom in Gujarat provided them the opportunity to carry out their terror strikes and so we had the Akshawrdham shoot out in late 2002, Gateway of India blasts in 2003, attacks in the Ram temple in Ayodhya in 2004, blasts at New Delhi during the festival season in 2005 and blasts at Sankatmochan temple in Varanasi and at suburban trains in Mumbai this year.
The reasons behind the quick inroads of the Jehadi forces like the LeT among the Indian Muslims are not only the communal riots or the anti-Muslim policies of some political organisations. There has been a fertile ground already though inadvertently prepared by Indian Muslims for the practice of their faith in various forms. Since the Partition Indian Muslims have been living on the edge of the national mainstream and lagging behind in education and other social developments. They have been remaining in a ghetto like condition where besides other things they always have misinformation and misinterpretation relating to Islam in global perspective. They have been devoid of any conception like nationality or nationhood and cultural as well as linguistic identities. That is why anything that is Islam has been non-Indian to them. This led to the idea of denationalisation of Indian Muslims who feel familiar to a Pakistani or Arab Muslim though there is vast difference in linguistic or cultural terms with them. Such mentality was very much reflected in the celebration of victory for the Pakistani cricket team by the Indian Muslims and so on so forth. The function of the Tabligh Jammats and Estemas in our country, much in practice since 1980s, have thrown the Indian Muslims to the world of afterlife and of heaven and hell so much that they are hardly concerned by what the terrorists are doing in the name of Islam in Kashmir or elsewhere. The age old education systems of the Madrassas in India produce only good for nothing Mullahs who easily fall prey to the calls made by the Jehadis in the name of Islam. For these reasons terror groups are succeeding in recruiting Indian Muslims to the path of Jehad which has to be uprooted rigorously to avoid tragedies like the 7/11 of Mumbai.
For this the government has to be very stern in handling the terrorists. It also should give a strong message to Pakistan to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in their soil. As India cannot make pre-emptive strike at those terror camps like Israel doing against the Hamas or Hizbollah in Palestine and Lebanon because it will escalate into a nuclear conflict, it can crush these elements within the country by super security system and by a strong legislature. The internal security and intelligence system and services need to be modernised and improved at part with those of America, Israel and west Europe. An advanced national database has to be developed to track and monitor all terrorist and disruptive activities by the intelligence bureau. Emergency services like 911 and the paramedics, relief and rescue and an agile police force will certainly minimise casualties in the wake of any terror strike.
The government should also undertake policies to bring the Indian Muslims to the national mainstream and improve their socio-economic condition including the development in education rather than increasing the quota for Haj subsidies and aiding the Waqf properties. It should also draw a master plan to create a generation of Indian Muslims who are very liberal and modern in outlook and systematically engage them in security services or in the intelligence agencies to fight the Jehadis. Muslims in Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Iran, and Indonesia are fighting against the Islamist terrorism, so in India too it will be easier to fight the same enemy by engaging the people of the same faith. It will not only help in tackling the menace of Islamist terrorism but also make our country a strong secular democratic nation in the twenty first century.http://assamtribune.com
(The author teaches English at Lakhimpur Commerce College, Assam)
Assam Tribune Editorial
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-23-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>Why my website was banned in India</b>Â
Posted: July 22, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Rusty Shackleford © 2006
Two days after the Mumbai bombings last week that killed more than 180, the government of India issued a directive banning 17 websites. These websites were singled out because, according to the Indian government, they might incite religious violence. The nine American websites banned by India are all critical of the Islamist movement. Not a single website of Islamic extremists justifying and even celebrating the Mumbai bombings has been banned.
Why did India ban these websites? And what is the larger meaning of this action? As proprietor of one of the banned websites, I am in a unique position to answer those questions.
<b>The short answer to the first question is that we offended Islamists, and India is afraid of its own Muslim citizens. The short answer to the second question is that liberty may not be able to exist where there are large populations of Muslims </b>
Some time ago, a false story began to be circulated in the mainstream press that a detainee's Quran had been put in a toilet at Guantanamo Bay. Some Muslims reacted by protesting, some rioted, and some were killed as a result.
This reaction was a clarifying moment for many of us. <b>Islam, as understood by many Muslims, is not a tolerant religion</b>.
The very definition of tolerance is to allow that which we do not agree with. The moment Muslims demand that their governments punish those who say, write or depict things they find offensive, they reveal their intolerance.
So, the reaction of our websites was to make fun of this overreaction. Oddly, mocking the intolerant is now considered a form of intolerance by many in the world.
The specific reason for India's ban was that our reactions to the Quran-flushing story could cause religious violence. Since it was only websites deemed offensive to Muslims that were banned, we know precisely who it is that India fears.
<b>India's banning of our websites is completely rational. It is based on the real fear of real people who do real violence.</b>
I understand India's reason for banning our websites, but certainly don't condone it.
Giving in to violent threats is not, in my book, a winning strategy for defeating the very people who are threatening you. Appeasement only works if your goal is appeasement.
Further, banning religiously offensive speech kills two freedoms at once.<b> A nation cannot truly have freedom of religion if that religion is immune from public criticism. A nation cannot truly have freedom of speech if blasphemy becomes a criminal act</b>.
<b>India's actions lead us to suspect that it will not just be Islamic states where religious oppression is the norm, but that any country with a sizeable and vocal Muslim minority might also be forced, for the sake of domestic tranquility, to ban blasphemy. And we believe that our fears are founded on more than this one case. </b>
While many Muslim countries in the post-Bush Doctrine era are moving toward more liberalization, many non-Muslim countries are moving the wrong way. Some criminalize religiously offensive speech, and nearly all of their leaders bend over backwards to never say anything that could possible be construed as critical of Islam.
<b>If India and other countries hope that condemning speech critical of Islam will appease their Muslim populations, they have greatly miscalculated. What offends Islamists is not what we or others say, it is that they are not in power to stop us from saying it. </b>
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Their ultimate goal is the creation of a state based on Islamic law.</span> It is only then, when it is Muslims who decide what needs banning, that they will be happy. The real gripe Muslims have in non-Muslim countries is about power.
India, of all countries, should understand this. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh were states founded because Muslims refused to be part of the secular Indian state. India has fought wars over this. That war continues today in Kashmir and on the streets of Mumbai.
India is said to be a secular state with aspirations of greatness. Its recent actions show that it is neither completely secular nor ready for its proper place on the world stage. This is all doubly sad because India is also a natural ally against the cancer of Islamic fundamentalism.
<b>It is India, not the U.S., which has bloody borders with Islam. Mumbai should be a reminder to India who its real friends are and who are its enemies. </b>
The move towards religious censorship by India is a mistake. A nation does not cement its alliances by adopting the values of its enemies and rejecting those of its allies.
Despite this slap in the face by India, I will continue to wish her continued progress and prosperity. A wealthy India is an India better able to stay off the attacks of the barbarians who are our common enemies at her gates.
India may have turned its back on us, but we should not be so petty as to completely turn our backs on her. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-23-2006
<b>'11/7 should not halter peace talks'</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He also demanded the sacking of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, holding him responsible for an oppressive attitude towards Muslims in the state.
"Narendra Modi adopted an oppressive attitude towards Muslims inciting them for a hostile atmosphere for bomb blasts and bloodshed in Gujarat and Mumbai. He should be dismissed," Omar said.
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Sack Kashmir government, they had ethnic cleansed Hindus from Kashmir.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-24-2006
Home (grown dhimmi) minister Shivraj patil says Madrassas Not Centres of Terrorism
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Sunday said `madrasas,' or Islamic religious seminaries, were not centres of terrorism. <b>"We believe that Islamic madrasas are seats of social service. They are not the centre of terrorism,"</b> he said while addressing a symposium here.
"Some violent incidents have taken place in the recent past â in Varanasi, Jama Masjid and in Delhi. Someone must have done that. They will definitely be punished. But for that it is wrong to blame the entire community. It is wrong and we will not allow that to happen," Mr. Patil said.
Addressing the symposium on `Are madrasas viable seats of social service or breeding grounds of terrorism,' the Minister said that madrasas, where knowledge of humanism is being imparted and human values are taught, could only be termed as "servants of humanity."
"We are not ready to accept that they are the breeding ground of terrorism. We do not accept that. And keeping this in mind our Government will go ahead and work," he said.
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Dhimmitude at its best.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-26-2006
<b>Terrorism: Battle within the Muslim community</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Asif Jalal
Updated: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 1654 hours IST
 New Delhi, July 26: Till yesterday the debate was why and how Indian Muslims are free from the contagious effect of the so-called jehad sweeping the Islamic world, having no concern, barring some in Kashmir, with the business of al-Qaeda, the ISI and terrorism. Indeed, in 2003 security expert B Raman wrote, "The overwhelming majority of Indian Muslims are loyal, law-abiding citizens. They have not allowed their anger against the Indian government or the Hindus for any reason to drive them into the arms of terrorist organisations. India has the most modern, peaceful and forward-looking Muslim community in the world."
More recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh boasted that not even a single Indian Muslim is on the rolls of al-Qaeda. For this relative freedom of Muslims from the jehad ideology we credited our democratic system, the Sufi ethos of Indian Islam and a culture that discouraged any kind of extremism in thought and action.
After a series of blasts ripping through different cities of India and its religious places, however, it is now clear that Indian Muslim youths, however small in number, are working in India as foot-soldiers of international terrorist organizations. They still may not be fighting with the ranks of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, or in Iraq or Palestine, but doubtless some of them are colluding with the global jehadis in the latterâs mission to weaken and destabilise India.
It is estimated, for example, that at least 100 people participated in the execution of the July 11 Mumbai blasts. Without committed local Muslim support such a despicable act would not have been possible. Intelligence experts say that at least 25 Muslim organisations are working on Indian soil to breed alienation among the Indian Muslim youths and to suck them into the global whirl of jehad. And the response of the Muslim masses to these organizations is not that of complete apathy.
<b>The collusion of local Muslims with the global jehadi enlarges the scope of the battle against terrorism. Because it is not just inimical to the existence of Indian state, and its stability, but also against the Muslim community itself, it becomes obligatory for every Muslim also to work actively to defeat this offensive. </b>In a way, it is doubly perilous for the Muslims of India: first, as common citizens vulnerable to the risk of terrorist attacks and second, as a supposed culpable minority susceptible to majority communal backlash, prejudices, suspicion and harassment by security agencies. Because it is more sinister to the Muslim interest they will have to contribute at two levels, as citizens of India and as fellow community members, located at a vantage point, to understand the psychology and motive of terrorists and to subvert their operations.
<b>Till now the response of the Muslim intelligentsia, activists and the community in general to this challenge has been absolutely lukewarm to say the least. After every act of terrorism, they chose to, at most, issue a muted condemnation and express disapproval from their safe confines. When the ideology of terrorism has invaded Muslim homes and seminaries, and it is drawing legitimacy from the Islamic faith, such a response from the community is by no account adequate. </b>
The Muslim community must take the extremistsâ act more seriously because the consequences of terrorism on Indian soil, in a multi-religious society, are enormous. An act of terrorism, even one perpetrated by Kashmiri militants or the ISI, throws peace and communal harmony out of gear across the country. <b>It makes a Muslimâs Indian-ness less credible in the eyes of many. A situation where boys born and brought up in UP and Bihar plant explosives in temples and trains would certainly script a terrible destiny for over 140 million Indian Muslims.</b>
To eradicate this ideology, the Muslims need to make serious, perceptible and relentless efforts. <b>Counter-terrorism requires a systematic plan of action to insulate the general youth and de-toxicate those infected with the ideology</b>. The thinking Muslims will have to go out of the comforts of homes and offices and work in gullis, seminaries, mosques and other public places to acquaint common Muslims of the consequences of terrorist acts for the community. For every one SIMI-like organisation perverting the minds of youths, they will have to raise 10 organisations alerting Muslims to the dangers of such an ideology. <b>They will have to espouse the duty which the Koran assigns to every Muslim: ââYou are the best community that has ever been brought into being for the sake of mankind. You enjoin what is right and fair and you forbid what is wrong and unfair (3:110)ââ.</b>
Terrorism is also a battle within the Muslim community; a battle between the life instinct of the many and the death wish of a handful of lunatics. A Muslim has reason to fight and win this battle for the good of many of their brethrens, besides for the larger interest of India.
<i>(The writer, an IPS officer, is SP, Lahaul-Spiti)</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Excellent article by Muslim.
I hope he is doing some work, not just writing article to keep himself out of IB eyes.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-27-2006
<b>In TN, radical Islamic outfitâs latest recruits are fresh converts</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->THENI, JULY 26:A radical Islamic outfit on the state intelligenceâs watch list has made this sleepy pastoral village in Tamil Nadu a crucible for Indiaâs biggest conversion exercise in recent times.
<b>Every four months, more than 50 Hindus from all over Tamil Nadu, converge at Arivagam (House of Knowledge), an Islamic learning institute, after going through the conversion ceremonies at local Jamats, to learn about the new religion they have embraced</b>.
Of the five MNP activists arrested on July 22 for plotting a terror attack on Coimbatore, twoâAthikur Rehman and Tipu Sultanâhad converted to Islam only a year ago, and had their indoctrination at the Arivagam.
<b>Firoze Khan, deputy in-charge at the Arivagam, explained: ââYes, I initiated Athikur Rehman and Tipu Sultan into Islam over four months, from September 2005. But I had also taught more than 2,000 other converts. We donât teach them to be militants and we donât talk about other religions.ââ </b>
He insists that police allegations that they were weaning converts on hate literature and training them in arms and explosive, are âârubbish.ââ
Funded by the Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP), which has now officially entered the state intelligence records as ââa possible militant outfit, which needs to be closely watched,ââ the Arivagam has churned out more than 2,500 converts, mostly in their 20s, in the five years of its active existence.
<b>Of these, at least 350 are women, trained at the Darul Hikma (Centre of knowledge) in mountainous Eruvadi, close to Tirunelveli, 250 km from Muthuthevanpatty</b>.
But whatâs worrying the state police, which finds itself increasingly chasing Muslim fundamentalists and seizing arms and country-made explosives, are intelligence reports that as many as 5,000 MNP members, including several Arivagam pass-outs, have settled in and around Coimbatore, Tamil Naduâs industrial hub.
ââMNP clearly aims to use the neo-converts for its operations. The advantage is they could easily pass for Hindus and use that identity,ââ says a member of the stateâs special intelligence cell, with a brief to closely track the MNP.
<b>ââWe have about 20,000 members all over Tamil Nadu. And, we do not spread any hate propaganda against anyone or any religion,ââ M Ghulam Mohammed, MNP founder and a co-founder and former Tamil Nadu unit chief of SIMI, blaming the state intelligence wing for spreading ââcanards.ââ </b>
Mohammed says only those who have already embraced Islam come to Arivagam. ââMoreover, we insist on an affidavit signed by notary public they willingly embraced Islam,ââ he says.
The state intelligence wingâs dossier on MNP, however, talks about the outfit fashioning itself after Keralaâs notorious and elusive NDF. ââThey function as segregated cells for each operation, each cell knowing about the other in the network only on a need-to-know basis.ââ
There is little hard and actionable intelligence with the police about the MNPâs precise sources of funding. The outfit is known to run 25-odd charitable organisations across the state.
ââThey call themselves the âSecret Groupâ, have a well-coordinated low profile structure and share the usual declared extremist goals of Islamisation.ââ a senior police officer says.
Asked whether the Tamil Nadu police was looking at the MNP possibly using converts for terror operations, DGP D Mukherjee said: ââWe are not concentrating on that angle. Now, we are only looking at MNPâs possible links with fundamentalist groups.ââ
At Arivagam, which sticks conspicuously out among the surrounding thatched huts with cow-dung dried walls, the new ârecruitsâ are a solemn bunch. ââThey have just started classes,ââ Firoze Khan says.
<b>Most converts, obviously, come from the lowest strata. Like 22-year-old Mohammad Mustafa who was Selvamani till two months ago. He is an orphan, and says he was advised by the Imam of the Sengottai Jamat (in Tirunelveli) and sent to Arivagam. He says he convinced his 30-year-old brother Ummar (Kumar) to join him.
ââMy sister is waiting to get her delivery over with and to get converted.ââ </b>
Mohammed Mushtaq, earlier Rajkamal from Thanjavur, hails from the Thevar caste, known for its fierce caste chauvinism. ââI used to drink, smoke cigarettes and take drugs. My Hindu religion could not stop me. But a few Muslim friends pointed out that in their religion, there was fear of punishment. Now I have no vices and I am happy,ââ he says. He has been helped to settle in Ukkadam in Coimbatore where he now sells fruits.
The new class of nearly 50 converts get free boarding and lodging until they finish their âeducation.â Some men bring their children along while some send their womenfolk to attend the classes at Eruvadi.
Women like Fathima (22), until recently Shanthakumari, and 22-year-old Katheeja (who was Priya), have not opposed the familyâs conversion to Islam, as they would be given a âsecureâ life by the âDharul Hikma.â Says its principal, Sheik Mohammed:<b> ââWe will find them grooms and arrange for their weddings just as we found Muslim brides for most of the new converts at Arivagam.ââ </b>
<b>The village head of the Dalit colony in Muthuthevanpatty, E N Karuppiah, said at least 50 Dalit families in the village, with its 500-odd members, have already converted to Islam.</b>
ââNot surprising. They are poor, very poor, and are easily lured by money, land and houses,ââ he said.
<b>WHATâS MNP? </b>
⢠Manitha Neethi Pasarai (Human Justice Forum) was formed in 2001 with headquarters in Chennai, by SIMI co-founder M Gulam Mohammed. The organization came under the spotlight for the first time in 2004, when 15 of its activists were rounded up in Nellikupam in the northern district of Cuddalore, with arms as well as hate literature including compact discs showing the Babri Masjid demolition, the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts and the Gujarat riots
.MNP, founded by a former SIMI leader, has trained over 2,500 converts in five years; two arrested in Coimbatore this week converted barely a year ago
MGM, as Gulam Mohammed is referred to in police circles, has been under the scanner of the Special Division of the stateâs Special SB-CID Branch, formed in 1998 after the Coimbatore blasts. Mohammed, then a TTE with the Southern Railways, was labeled as <b>ââthe most potential fundamentalist.ââ</b>
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-27-2006
Finally, I was waiting to hear from dog's mouth. It seems Jama Masjid thread is now archieved.
Try to understand what is going on in Muslim equation in India.
Here is gem ---
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Maulana Masood Madani calls Imam Bukhari India's biggest terrorist</b>
Dehradun, July 26 (ANI): Jamait Ulama-a-Hind leader and Vice President of Uttaranchal's 15 Points Implementation Programme<span style='color:red'> Maulana Masood Madani today said that Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari was the "biggest terrorist of India".</span>
Talking to reporters, Madani accused Imam Bukhari for masterminding various bomb blasts in the country and having links with anti-social activities.
<b>"The government is not doing anything after having all relevant details about terrorists. Two months ago, I had intimated the government through a separate copy of letter to the Prime Minister that India's biggest terrorist is Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari</b>. <span style='font-size:18pt;line-height:100%'>Why is government not doing anything to arrest him? He is the one who is responsible for the bomb blasts in Jama Masjid and Srinagar. He has contacts with all the terrorist agencies. He has also threatened to kill us. Our information is correct. Even the government and the CBI have information about the same. Government is only responsible to support the terrorist in this country," said Madni.</span>
He further said the controversial Tehri Dam was on terrorists' radar. Madani's statement came after certain maps of sensitive installations in Uttranchal were found from the possession of persons apprehended in connection with the serial blasts in Mumbai.
"The Tehri dam is on the target of the terrorists. The accused who are arrested in connection with the Mumbai bomb blasts were also carrying the Tehri dam map. This means that the government is not doing anything. The Military Academy of Dehradun is also on the target of the terrorists. I want to ask the government what are the security measures they are taking to save these institutions. Have they adopted any serious measures as yet? I would say no," said Madni.
Maulana Masood also added that River Ganga was also important for Muslims and they would take all possible measures to save the State.
"When the foundation of Tehri Dam was laid 25 years ago, it was a black day for India because they constructed a big dam to restrict river Ganga. Hundreds of our Hindu brothers worship the river. We want to tell our Hindu brothers that Ganga is pious for us also. When we take a dip in this holy river, we also wash away our sins and get ready for our Namaz. The river is for Muslims also and that is the reason why we are we are also trying to save the Ganga. Tehri Dam is a major cause of concern because this place has now become the centre for disastrous earthquakes," he said
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-28-2006
check out this documantry
http://www.honestreporting.com/obsession/trailer.htm
the director was on Fox yesterday. some of the clips are of imams talking after the namaz. it is more radicle than most of us could imagine. it clealy shows why those musus are so crazy and what the hell they want.
I am glad someone is exposing those extreamists from inside. I wish he had included indian problem too.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Bharatvarsh - 07-29-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mumbai's Urdu Daily 'Sahara' headlines: Is Mossad hand behind Mumbai train blasts of 7/11?
Mossad, an Israeli intelligence agency, is today cited as possible organiser of Mumbai train bomb blasts. Immediately after the blast, Mossad was reportedly engaged by Sai Baba Mandir trust to provide security to the famous religious shrine. The newspaper clarifies that till now the Mumbai authorities have not confirmed as to why the Sai Baba Trust had to employ a foreign intelligence agency for its protection. Or if Maharashtra Government and Central Government have cleared the hiring of Mossad intelligence agency?Â
Sahara News Bureau [SNB] report on the front page of Sahara Urdu Daily, further adss that "some security experts have wondered if through the excuse of security of Hindu temples, Mossad, which is notorious for counter-terrorism and counter-espionage all over the world and especially in Arab and Muslim countries, is allowed to step in Maharashtra state, the conditions will seriously deteriorate not only in Maharashtra, but all over India".
SAHARA further quotes an anonymous retired Muslim police officer,who was commenting on the news of Mossad security for Sai Baba Mandir: " To get into Maharashtra, Mossad itself may have arranged the Mumbai train blasts in such a way that the whole blame should fall on SIMI, the banned Muslim Students organization" [which is now legal at least in India largest state of Uttar Pradesh] and other Muslim organisations.
[SAHARA URDU is published from Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Kolkatta and Patna]
No English media with all their patriotic pretensions has yet found it necessary to report on entry of Israeli intelligence agencies in Maharashtra or in India. That probably suits private media interests, but is fraught with most sinister development for the nation, in times to come.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI
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In another country bastards like these would have been rounded up and shot dead like dogs for being traitors.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Bharatvarsh - 07-30-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tension brews after girl is âgang-rapedâ and killed
Statesman News Service
MALDA, July 29. â Communal tension is brewing at Bakchor village, close to the Indo-Bangladesh border in Malda, following a report that a 12-year old girl was allegedly gang-raped and killed by three criminals in Bamongola police station area, officials said today.
Police are on the alert in this area and have been keeping a watch on the situation since last night. A large police force has been sent to the area from the headquarters today. The contingent has set up a camp there to defuse tension after three Muslim boys were detained.
A source said: âThe Border Security Force too is on the alert to defuse tension.â
The inspector-in-charge of Bamongola PS, Mr Anil Roy said there was an attempt to rape the girl, who was abducted when she was on her way back home from her private tutorâs house yesterday around 5.50 p.m. The incident occurred in a jute field, Mr Roy said, and the girl was later killed.
Her body was buried an area near the jute field, Mr Roy said. âWe have detained three youths, identified as Anarul, Jahangir and Mithun, on the basis of circumstantial evidence,â Mr Roy said. âInvestigation into the incident is on,â he added.
Communal tension was also brewing in a village near Nalagola area after BJP leaders took up the matter to protest against the incident and announced their intention to stage a demonstration in the area.
The family members of the girl lodged a missing diary with police when she did not come back home till 7 p.m. yesterday. On conducting a search for her, the villagers found her body buried near the jute field. The girl went to her tutorâs house after attending school. Police conducted a postmortem on the body today.
âWithout receiving the postmortem report, we canât say whether the girl was raped, but it is clear that some criminals attempted to rape her and killed her in an attempt to suppress the fact,â a senior police officer said.
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-31-2006
Islamic Conversion of Hindus in Tamil Nadu continues. MNP, founded by a former SIMI leader, has trained over 2,500 converts in five years; two arrested in Coimbatore this week converted barely a year ago.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In TN, radical Islamic outfitâs latest recruits are fresh converts
Jaya Menon July 27, 2006
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/9401.html
THENI, JULY 26:A radical Islamic outfit on the state intelligenceâs watch list has made this sleepy pastoral village in Tamil Nadu a crucible for Indiaâs biggest conversion exercise in recent times.
Hundreds of men and women from all over the state, mostly the jobless and Dalits, have been converted to Islam in the last five years. Intelligence agencies say they have reason to believe that the mass conversions could be used as a potential bridge to terror.
Every four months, more than 50 Hindus from all over Tamil Nadu, converge at Arivagam (House of Knowledge), an Islamic learning institute, after going through the conversion ceremonies at local Jamats, to learn about the new religion they have embraced.
Of the five MNP activists arrested on July 22 for plotting a terror attack on Coimbatore, twoâAthikur Rehman and Tipu Sultanâhad converted to Islam only a year ago, and had their indoctrination at the Arivagam.
Firoze Khan, deputy in-charge at the Arivagam, explained: ââYes, I initiated Athikur Rehman and Tipu Sultan into Islam over four months, from September 2005. But I had also taught more than 2,000 other converts. We donât teach them to be militants and we donât talk about other religions.ââ
He insists that police allegations that they were weaning converts on hate literature and training them in arms and explosive, are âârubbish.ââ
Funded by the Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP), which has now officially entered the state intelligence records as ââa possible militant outfit, which needs to be closely watched,ââ the Arivagam has churned out more than 2,500 converts, mostly in their 20s, in the five years of its active existence.
Of these, at least 350 are women, trained at the Darul Hikma (Centre of knowledge) in mountainous Eruvadi, close to Tirunelveli, 250 km from Muthuthevanpatty.
But whatâs worrying the state police, which finds itself increasingly chasing Muslim fundamentalists and seizing arms and country-made explosives, are intelligence reports that as many as 5,000 MNP members, including several Arivagam pass-outs, have settled in and around Coimbatore, Tamil Naduâs industrial hub.
ââMNP clearly aims to use the neo-converts for its operations. The advantage is they could easily pass for Hindus and use that identity,ââ says a member of the stateâs special intelligence cell, with a brief to closely track the MNP.
ââWe have about 20,000 members all over Tamil Nadu. And, we do not spread any hate propaganda against anyone or any religion,ââ M Ghulam Mohammed, MNP founder and a co-founder and former Tamil Nadu unit chief of SIMI, blaming the state intelligence wing for spreading ââcanards.ââ
Mohammed says only those who have already embraced Islam come to Arivagam. ââMoreover, we insist on an affidavit signed by notary public they willingly embraced Islam,ââ he says.
The state intelligence wingâs dossier on MNP, however, talks about the outfit fashioning itself after Keralaâs notorious and elusive NDF. ââThey function as segregated cells for each operation, each cell knowing about the other in the network only on a need-to-know basis.ââ
There is little hard and actionable intelligence with the police about the MNPâs precise sources of funding. The outfit is known to run 25-odd charitable organisations across the state.
ââThey call themselves the âSecret Groupâ, have a well-coordinated low profile structure and share the usual declared extremist goals of Islamisation.ââ a senior police officer says.
Asked whether the Tamil Nadu police was looking at the MNP possibly using converts for terror operations, DGP D Mukherjee said: ââWe are not concentrating on that angle. Now, we are only looking at MNPâs possible links with fundamentalist groups.ââ
At Arivagam, which sticks conspicuously out among the surrounding thatched huts with cow-dung dried walls, the new ârecruitsâ are a solemn bunch. ââThey have just started classes,ââ Firoze Khan says.
Most converts, obviously, come from the lowest strata. Like 22-year-old Mohammad Mustafa who was Selvamani till two months ago. He is an orphan, and says he was advised by the Imam of the Sengottai Jamat (in Tirunelveli) and sent to Arivagam. He says he convinced his 30-year-old brother Ummar (Kumar) to join him.
ââMy sister is waiting to get her delivery over with and to get converted.ââ
Mohammed Mushtaq, earlier Rajkamal from Thanjavur, hails from the Thevar caste, known for its fierce caste chauvinism. ââI used to drink, smoke cigarettes and take drugs. My Hindu religion could not stop me. But a few Muslim friends pointed out that in their religion, there was fear of punishment. Now I have no vices and I am happy,ââ he says. He has been helped to settle in Ukkadam in Coimbatore where he now sells fruits.
The new class of nearly 50 converts get free boarding and lodging until they finish their âeducation.â Some men bring their children along while some send their womenfolk to attend the classes at Eruvadi.
Women like Fathima (22), until recently Shanthakumari, and 22-year-old Katheeja (who was Priya), have not opposed the familyâs conversion to Islam, as they would be given a âsecureâ life by the âDharul Hikma.â Says its principal, Sheik Mohammed: ââWe will find them grooms and arrange for their weddings just as we found Muslim brides for most of the new converts at Arivagam.ââ
The village head of the Dalit colony in Muthuthevanpatty, E N Karuppiah, said at least 50 Dalit families in the village, with its 500-odd members, have already converted to Islam.
ââNot surprising. They are poor, very poor, and are easily lured by money, land and houses,ââ he said.
WHATâS MNP?
Manitha Neethi Pasarai (Human Justice Forum) was formed in 2001 with headquarters in Chennai, by SIMI co-founder M Gulam Mohammed. The organization came under the spotlight for the first time in 2004, when 15 of its activists were rounded up in Nellikupam in the northern district of Cuddalore, with arms as well as hate literature including compact discs showing the Babri Masjid demolition, the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts and the Gujarat riots.
MGM, as Gulam Mohammed is referred to in police circles, has been under the scanner of the Special Division of the stateâs Special SB-CID Branch, formed in 1998 after the Coimbatore blasts. Mohammed, then a TTE with the Southern Railways, was labeled as ââthe most potential fundamentalist.ââ
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 07-31-2006
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Indian Communist - Islamist alliance</span>
More importnat question - Hindu students being taught in Madarsas???
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6072800027.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistan asks Indian state to help reform madrasas
By Bappa Majumdar
Reuters
Friday, July 28, 2006; 12:48 AM
KOLKATA (Reuters) - Pakistan has sought the help of an Indian state to revamp its system of madrasas after accusations some of the Islamic schools teach religious hatred and are breeding grounds for militancy.
The Pakistani mission in New Delhi has written to the government of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, ruled by communists for nearly three decades, seeking to study the state's success at reforming its Islamic schools.
Madrasas in the state teach religious tolerance and include Christian and Hindu students in the classrooms as well as teaching subjects such as science and information technology.
"We have read about the madrasas of West Bengal and hopefully we can replicate them in our reforms program," Mohammed Khalid Jamali, a first secretary at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi, told Reuters late on Thursday.
"We have written to the West Bengal government to gather knowledge about religious tolerance practiced in the madrasas, the curriculum and the successful reforms program," he said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has vowed to clean up the religious schools.
After the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings of London's Underground trains, he ordered all foreigners be expelled from madrasas in Pakistan because their presence was giving the country a reputation as a breeding ground for militancy.
At least one of the four suicide bombers was believed to have spent time at a madrasa.
Nearly a quarter of West Bengal's 80 million people are Muslims but the state has seen very little religious violence compared to other parts of India.
Many put this down at least in part to reforming the madrasas.
Half of the state's 1,000 madrasas -- attended by about 400,000 students -- are now government-run and officials plan to take control of the rest in coming years.
West Bengal's madrasas teach Islam and Sufi literature as well as science, and also plan to introduce foreign languages such as French, in addition to the Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and English already taught.
There are 12,000 madrasas in Pakistan, mostly providing rudimentary schooling, free religious education, shelter and food to about one million boys from poor families.
Critics say many madrasas provide a hardline interpretation of Islam, adhered to by members of groups such as the Taliban, al Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups. They also accuse some schools of being a front for these organizations.
West Bengal's government said it was eager to help Pakistan.
"I got the letter two days ago and we are happy to know that Pakistan is keen to learn about our system of education in madrasas. We will try and help them out," Abdus Sattar, West Bengal's education minister, told Reuters.
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 08-03-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Intelligence chokes over clean chit to madarsas </b>
Pioneer.com
Pramod Kumar Singh | New Delhi
For Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, madarsas are seats of learning and scholarly pursuit. In a speech at the Ahle-Hadeeth complex in Jamia Nagar on July 24, he merrily gave a clean chit to madarsas saying, "We believe that Islamic madarsas are seats of social service. They are not the centres of terrorism."
But the Minister's words delivered in the aftermath of the serial bomb blasts on Mumbai trains were in sharp contrast to the information of his own security agencies.Â
Intelligence agencies have irrefutable evidence to suggest that <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>a majority of these madarsas are not only breeding grounds of terror but are also in league with anti-India forces to bleed it through a 100 cuts.</span>
There are over 350 madarsas within 10 km of the Indo-Nepal border in the Indian side. In central and eastern Uttar Pradesh more madarsas have come up than in the western part.
Agencies mention border districts of Siddharth Nagar, Maharajgnaj, Bahraich, Shrawasti, Balrampur and Lakhimpur Kheeri in this connection.
In the 10km belt of the bordering districts of Bihar such as West Champaran, East Champaran, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Saupal, Araria and Kishanganj over 180 madarsas have come up after 1993.
What has rung alarm bells in security set ups is the setting up of madarsas on the Nepal border. Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and terrorist outfits have been funnelling funds and recruiting jihadis from these schools of subversion, intelligence sources said.
Getting back to the Home Minister. In the same speech he had said, madarsas, where knowledge of humanism is being imparted and where human values are taught, could only be termed as "servants of humanity."
Intelligence agencies are not too sure about the syllabi, but they say that the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), accused of masterminding the 11/7 serial blasts, has a sizeable following in these madarsas. Many are financed by petro-dollars and share a close association with ISI agents while their premises are used as hideouts for Kashmiri militants, ISI agents, gunrunners and criminals. They also serve as transit camps for terrorists.
Patil went on to say that some vested interests were trying to break the social fabric, communal harmony and brotherhood in society which the Government would not allow.
But what about the charities in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan with al-Qaeda connections which flush funds to madarsas that recruit willing jihadis? Funds come to NGOs in Bangladesh and are routed to India. Intelligence sources maintain that these madarsas are in receipt of huge funds from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Managers of various madarsas and Ulemas maintain close links with the embassy officials of these countries at Kathmandu.
Financial assistance is also channelised through the Islamic Development Bank at Jeddah and Habib Bank of Pakistan.
Habib Bank after becoming a partner of the Himalaya Bank, Nepal, has expanded its network in border areas of Birat Nagar and Krsihna Nagar. Security agencies say foreign currency brought through Habib Bank is converted into Indian currency and then channelised to madarsas.
Another headache for the Indian security agencies is the unbridled growth of madarsas along <b>Indo-Bangladesh border which has 955 mosques and 445 madarsas in 22 bordering districts of West Bengal on the Indian side and 976 mosques and 156 madarsas in 28 districts on Bangladesh side. 57 mosques and 88 madarsas have been constructed on the Indian side in West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura during the last few years</b>.
Agencies have warned about the activities of such schools in Himachal Pradesh too. There are extremely disturbing intelligence reports about the activities of 35 odd madarsas operating in seven districts of the State. Even in the Western border of the country, Rajasthan to Gujarat, the situation is deteriorating as can be seen from the fact that in border district of Jaisalmer only, madarsas and muktabs are now more than 100 in number, which was not even in double figure in 1980.Â
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 08-03-2006
<b>India facing polio outbreak in poor northern state</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Uttar Pradesh has recorded 121 cases of the disease this year - 80 of those in the past three months - up from 29 cases in 2005, said Dr L B Prasad, the state's Director General of Health.
About 75 per cent of the cases were among Muslims, he said.
One of the epicenters of the outbreak is the industrial town of Moradabad, about 75 kilometers (47 miles) from New Delhi, where there have been 41 reported cases.
<b>"There is a polio outbreak in Muslim dominated localities and it is spreading to neighbouring districts,"</b> Prasad said
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 08-04-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Minorities sabotage rail networks to Hindu Pilgrim sites</b>
8/3/2006 10:29:14 AM HK
Guruvayur: Guruvayoorapan devotees fears their fate also will be same as Ayappa devotees in case of proposed Tanur-Guruvayur Railway line.
<b>If Sabarimala and Erumeli Railway lines were sabotaged by Kottayam Christain belt, now it is the turn of Muslims in Malappuram. Its only a 52 km railwayline, but due to pressure from Muslims in the area, this railway line also will remain as a dream. </b>
<b>The proposed Railway lines where sanctioned at the time of NDA government, at that time Congress, Marxist and IUML MPâs were eager to claim that these Railway lines where sanctioned because of their continuous efforts!.</b>
But no one knows what happened to all these Pseudo secular leaders when the time came to implement it. Railway had allocated enough money and requested State government to transfer the land for these railway lines. But Christian and Muslim friends are not ready to spare their land for these Railway lines which will help Hindu devotees.
Now there is no one to highlight this issue, because they donât want to hurt the sentiments of our beloved Minorities. In the name of Secularism, a railway station was built for the christian pilgrims who attends Muringoor Divine Centre. In the name of Secularism we have Haj houses and will make sure all comfort is being met for the Hajis starting from India and till they are back. Our ministry officials will take care of everything from their bed coffee to Mosquito net.
Media, Pseudosecular leaders, Cultural spokesmen, Human Right activists.. all are up in the front if any controversy engulfs Hindu Pilgrim centres but none of them are there to highlight the genuine troubles and issues of a Hindu devotee.
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Bharatvarsh - 08-05-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Books with Prophetâs image seized in UP
Associated Press
Posted Saturday , August 05, 2006 at 13:04 Email Print
Lucknow: Police have seized and banned school textbooks carrying portraits of the Prophet Mohammed and arrested the publisher in Uttar Pradesh, after Islamic clerics demanded the death penalty for him and the book's writer.
Copies of fifth standard Hindi book were seized on Thursday from the Vivekananda School in Mahoba town, Lucknow.
âThe administration has banned and seized the book carrying the picture of Prophet Mohammed. The publisher of the book has been arrested,'' Home Secretary R M Srivastava said.
âThe offices and printing facilities of the publisher, Pravin Prakashan, have been sealed and the book banned,â he added.
''Drawing the portrait of Prophet Mohammed is against the tenets of Islam,'' said Khalid Rashid, secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
''The writer and the publisher of the text book should be given the death penalty.''
The state's Education Minister Kiran Pal Singh has ordered an inquiry into how the book was approved by a government panel that clears textbooks before circulation.
Muslim community held widespread protests earlier this year against Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
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Where are Shabana Azmi and other assorted secularists to protect the freedom of expression of this poor person like they do when MF Hussain draws Hindu deities engaged in bestiality or does freedom of expression vanish when it comes to Islam?
Are people in India even living in a secular country or an Islamic dictatorship where the rights of others are trampled everyday in the name of Muslim sentiments.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 08-05-2006
<b>Muslim pilgrims barge intoTaj Mahal </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ASI officials said that the government directive failed to distinguish between locals and outsiders, who took advantage of this ambiguity, resulting in utter chaos Friday.
While<b> Central Industrial Security Force Commandant Khammo Singh confirmed that over 7,000 people had entered the Taj</b>, she said there was no breakdown of security at the mausoleum.
She, however, agreed that the directive was indeed confusing.
According to eyewitness accounts, <b>over 10,000 people barged into the monument as security personnel found it tough to screen every one of them and one of them said: </b>"Those who entered the Taj Friday were definitely not there just to offer prayers."
This confusion is also said to have resulted in substantial revenue losses through the non-sale of tickets.
Meanwhile, <b>the right-wing Shiv Sena announced they will perform a Maha Aarti (Hindu services) at the Taj on Monday to reassert their claim of the mausoleum being built at the site of a Shiva temple</b>.
When asked how they would enter, a Sena official said, "This will be a guerrilla operation."
<b>Shiv Sainiks believe that the Taj Mahal was originally a Rajput structure, which housed a Shiva temple</b>.
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Bharatvarsh ,
Why 10,000 muslim suddenly decided to offer prayer in Taj Mahal? They just want to create problem. Since when Taj became pilgrim place. Last I heard they had destroyed Mohmmad house in Saudi Arabia.
Who is behind? I can bet SP and COngress are behind this moblization of 10,000 people on one day.
Now all pinkoos will come out with secular nonsense.
Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 08-06-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Muslims must isolate fundos </b>
Pioneer.com
Khwaja Ekhram, Journalist and commentator
The collaboration of local Muslims with global jihadi outfits enlarges the scope of the fight against terrorism. This poses threat not only to the country's stability and integrity, but also the innocent Muslim community ----- When Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, was targeted by Islamist jihadis on July 11, with support from Pakistan-based terror groups and ISI, the Muslim community in India was in an eye of suspicion. The image of an entire community was maligned by the act of a few misguided Muslims.
Such dastardly acts have, time and again, demolished the self-respect of millions of peace-loving Indian Muslims who have no love for the perpetrators of crime against humanity. As in recent years, the terrorists could not succeed in their designs to tear India's secular fabric, thereby driving a wedge between Hindus and Muslims.
Today, acts of terror are not confined to India and other non-Islamic countries. Even Muslim majority countries in West Asia, South Asia and South-East Asia have been targeted by jihadis. In a majority of attacks, the victims were Muslims. <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â Such mindless attacks have clearly indicated that terrorists do not belong to any religion and are motivated by fundamentalist ideologies for their vested interests, as in Kashmir where the vast majority of the victims of terror acts have been Muslims.
<b>Be it the attack on the World Trade Centre, or bomb explosions in London, Madrid and Bali, or the unsuccessful attempt to attack Indian Parliament or recent terror strikes in Varanasi and Ahmedabad, the perpetrators were all found to be Muslims.</b>
These few misguided Muslims, who claim that their jihad is "true Islam", are making things difficult for not only Islam but for Muslims, as they are viewed with suspicion and the religion associated with terrorism. Those who carried out the Mumbai blasts have put the entire community in a precarious position.
The overwhelming majority of Indian Muslims are loyal and law-abiding citizens. They have not been driven into the arms of terrorist organisations. In fact, India has the most modern, peaceful and forward-looking Muslim community in the world.
As stated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, not even a single Indian Muslim has joined Al Qaeda. The Sufi ethos of Indian Islam have discouraged any kind of extremism in thought and action.
However, following the blasts, it is clear that a small number of Indian Muslims are being encouraged and sponsored by Pakistani establishment and colluding with the global jihadis in the latter's mission to weaken and destabilise India. The magnitude of the Mumbai blasts indicates that the strikes would have been impossible without local Muslim support. According to reports, there are at least 25 Muslim organisations working on Indian soil to breed alienation among Muslims and influence them to launch jihad.
<b>The collaboration of local Muslims with the global jihadi outfits enlarges the scope of the fight against terrorism</b>. This poses threat not only to the Indian State and its stability, but also the Muslim community. It is, therefore, obligatory for every Indian Muslim to defeat this nefarious design. Muslims will have to contribute at two levels, as Indian citizens as well as fellow community members, to understand the psychology and motive of terrorists and foil their nefarious designs.
The Muslim community must view the issue of terrorism seriously because its consequences in a multi-religious country like India are wide-ranging. An act of terrorism, perpetrated even by Kashmiri terrorists, adversely affects peace and communal harmony across the country. It raises question on the credibility of Indian Muslims.
<b>When the ideology of terrorism has entered Muslim homes and seminaries, and is trying to draw legitimacy from Islam, the community must play a more pro-active role in denouncing terrorism. </b>
Undoubtedly, following the serial blasts in Mumbai, there were demonstrations against terrorism by Muslims across the country. In Delhi, the activists of the Shia-Sunni Muslim Front protested against terrorism by signing with their blood. In the Kashmir Valley, the citizens condemned the terrorist activities. But Indian Muslims need to be more active in this direction.
It is the responsibility of Indian Muslims to keep strict vigil and monitor jihadi activities within their community, to prevent harassment of any ordinary Muslim. They will have to think that the perpetrators against humanity cannot be true Muslims and that they are an enemy of the community as a whole. Islam does not approve mindless killing of innocents, and those who preach jihad in the name of Islam are breaching the Islamic tenet.
To counter the extremist ideology, Indian Muslims must undertake serious and sustainable efforts to wean away the misguided youth and influence them to return to path of sanity and tolerance in order to build a strong and pluralist India.
The right-minded Muslims must educate their community members of the consequences of terrorist acts for the community and the nation as a whole.Â
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Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims - Guest - 08-10-2006
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>NYT: India Fears Terrorism May Attract Its Muslims </b>
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
NEW DELHI, Aug. 8 â The bomb attacks last month on seven Mumbai commuter trains did more than raise Indian hackles against Pakistan for failing to rein in terrorist groups operating on its soil.
They also underscored a gathering threat for India: a small but increasingly deadly cadre of young and often educated Indian Muslims who are being drawn directly into terrorist operations.
The scale and coordination of the July 11 attacks, a senior Indian government official said, suggest that at least one terrorist cell, made up of fewer than a dozen local people and probably directed and financed by militants based in Pakistan, carried out the bombings, which killed 183 people.
In the past, the official said, Indian operatives have aided foreign militants in what he called a benign fashion, sometimes providing little more than shelter or food. âThe change is that some of them really know what they are up to,â the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was in progress.
The emergence of more sophisticated homegrown terror cells carries grave repercussions not only for national security, but also for domestic politics, Hindu-Muslim relations and diplomacy with Pakistan.
Perhaps most important, it touches on Indiaâs idea of itself as the worldâs largest secular democracy, capable of including a multitude of peoples and faiths.
âA small section of the Indian Muslim community has been radicalized,â said C. Raja Mohan, a columnist for the daily Indian Express and a member of the National Security Advisory Board. âThatâs what makes it that much more challenging for the country as a whole to deal with.â
The police have arrested eight men from Mumbai, formerly Bombay, in connection with the attacks, though no specifics have been disclosed about their possible links to the bombings. Among them are a doctor of traditional Islamic medicine and a largely self-taught software worker who the police said had landed a job with the American database and software company Oracle.
Six of those arrested are said by the Indian authorities to have trained at terrorist camps in Pakistan run by the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Several have been linked to a radical homegrown outfit, now banned, called the Students Islamic Movement of India.
For all the finger-pointing across the border, the attacks have forced India to confront a worrying disquiet among Muslims at home, who have overwhelmingly resisted calls to join in Islamic radicalism.
âThat is still true to a very, very large extent,â Indiaâs national security adviser, M. K. Narayanan, maintained. âBut what has happened is that a very, very manifest attempt to recruit Indian Muslims is now being done.â
Those efforts, he said in an interview on CNN-IBN television, are increasingly directed at educated Indian Muslims and, more troubling, at elements within the military.
Senior Lashkar officials interviewed in Rawalpindi, Pakistani, said no more than 50 Indians attended military and religious training camps in Pakistan and the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir on average each year.
But they confirmed that an active recruitment drive was under way in India.
It is impossible to pinpoint to what extent the still apparently small number of recruits are motivated by essentially Indian grievances â especially the pogroms in 2002 against Muslims in the state of Gujarat, which left 1,100 dead â or by the ideology of global political Islam.
But increasingly, many here fear, the two are at risk of merging.
In fact, Mr. Narayanan said, a reminder of anti-Muslim violence in India is a powerful recruitment tool. âQuite often,â he said, âthe motivation is âYou know what happened in Gujarat.â â
The Business Standard, an English-language daily, urged India in an editorial last week to start looking inward at what it called a âhomegrown jihad,â suggesting that blaming Pakistan alone for attacks on Indian soil was no longer sufficient.
âThe national effort should make sure that even if Pakistan does its damnedest to plant evil seeds in this country, it must not find hospitable soil,â the editorial concluded.
Just how hospitable India, home to roughly 140 million Muslims, may be as a breeding ground for extremism remains a matter of debate.
Some analysts in India maintain that were it not for the efforts of Pakistan-based militants, Indian Muslims would lack the resources to carry out large-scale terror attacks.
âThe entire leadership that is creating violence in India is in Pakistan,â insisted Ajai Sahni, an intelligence analyst in New Delhi who runs a Web site called the South Asia Terrorism Portal. âIf you extract Pakistan from the problem and the flow of funds, the subversive cadres, there would not be this problem in India.â
But visiting the Muslim neighborhoods of Mumbai in the aftermath of the July 11 bombings, what can plainly be felt is fear and resentment, fueled more than anything by police suspicion.
In the last two weeks the police have combed these neighborhoods in search of clues and suspects. They have knocked on doors demanding that parents produce their sons for questioning, unleashing even more bitterness.
âIt has become now very difficult to live as a Muslim in this country,â Aslam Ansari, 58, grumbled in the hallway of a dilapidated largely Muslim apartment block in a central city neighborhood called Mominpura. âWe have to bear. We cannot go anywhere.â
Among those arrested was one of Mr. Ansariâs neighbors, a doctor named Tanvir Ansari, 32, who according to the police traveled to Pakistan for arms and explosives training. The two are not related, and Aslam Ansari insists that his neighbor is innocent.
Also taken into custody were two brothers from Mira Road, a largely Muslim northern suburb of Mumbai.
Faisal Shaikh, 30, the elder brother, is described by investigators as a crucial Indian liaison to Lashkar-e-Taiba. It was his younger brother, Muzamil, 23, who was hired by Oracle in Bangalore. The police say he followed his brother into the arms of Lashkar, and to Pakistan, via Iran, for training.
Sleeper cells connected to Pakistani-based organizations came on the Indian intelligence radar at least 10 years ago. Since then, bombings, arrests and weapons seizures have offered tiny peepholes into their suspected scope and strength.
In 2003, a Mumbai couple with suspected links to Jaish-e-Muhammad, a banned Pakistani-based group, was charged in connection with a pair of powerful car bomb attacks, including one in front of the iconic Gateway of India monument in Mumbai that killed more than 50 people.
The police said at the time that the couple was accused of planting the bombs in the trunks of two taxis as part of a local outfit calling itself the Gujarat Revenge Force.
Last year, the Delhi police arrested a mechanical engineer on charges of conspiring to attack military and financial centers on behalf of Lashkar.
And in May a large haul of guns and military explosives exposed what the police called a sleeper cell of roughly a dozen people operating out of Aurangabad, a provincial town about 200 miles northeast of here.
As in the past, the arrests in the last three weeks have largely homed in on the Students Islamic Movement of India. The police say several of those arrested in connection with the July 11 blasts were once members. Its leaders deny any involvement with the attacks.
âSome such modules have been unearthed here,â said Mumbaiâs commissioner of police, A. N. Roy. He said former members of the organization âform a fertile ground for providing local foot soldiers.â
Founded 30 years ago to promote Islamic teaching among Indian youth, the group began to espouse armed resistance more than a decade ago after a band of Hindu radicals tore down the 400-year-old Babri Mosque in the north Indian city of Ayodhya in 1992, unleashing an orgy of Hindu-Muslim riots across the country.
The lingering tensions in this city are deeply worrying. Since the July attacks even career-minded young Indian Muslims complain that they are under constant glare.
The ones who sport beards and skullcaps worry about how many times they will be frisked at the train station. Those who live in Muslim enclaves see the police knocking on doors.
One young man recalled a banner that went up in his neighborhood, exhorting enemies of India to leave the country. âOur identity is the main problem,â said Abdul Hannan Khan, 21, a college student who plans a career in advertising.
It is the same routine after every act of terror, said Sheik Abdul Qayyum, 20, recalling the Gujarat riots, which broke out after fire engulfed a train carrying Hindu pilgrims, killing 59. Whether the fire was deliberate or accidental is still disputed, and embroiled in political feuds.
In Mr. Qayyumâs mind there is no disputing the lesson of Gujarat, where he lived at the time. He says the violence there was the most important event in his life.
âI learned that as minority Muslims we are unprotected,â he said, and then quickly added, âAccording to the current situation, Muslims in the whole world are not protected.â
Arif Jamal contributed reporting from Lahore, Pakistan, for this article.Â
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