Radical Islam and internal security

G.Subramaniam · 09-01-2008, 09:05 PM

The most cited reasons for rejection, even if often untrue, are that Muslims cut goats in the buildings, eat beef, wear a burqa making others uncomfortable, and are involved with the underworld or terrorism.

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Mumbai: It's Mumbai's dark but open secret.

Screen writer Anjum Rajabali's first hunt for a home in 1991 took months as he heard the same refrain from real estate brokers: "Sorry Mr Rajabali, no Muslims allowed."

G.Subramaniam · 09-02-2008, 12:57 AM

Regarding the post #79

SIMI holds sway over muslim intelligentsia

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SIMI is a true follower of islam, and true muslims therefore have to follow SIMI

Husky · (This post was last modified: 09-04-2008, 03:57 PM by Husky.)

Faithful muslims behaving like mo-HAM-med
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx...eID=7076&SKIN=K
QUOTESwayamsevak's murder- Four NDF Terrorists under arrest
02/09/2008 19:08:44Â HK

Chavakkad: Police arrested four NDF Terrorists in connection with the murder of Swayamsevak Baiju on August 21.

The arrested Terrorists are Shajahan, Shiyad, Rahim and Nasser.Four more Terrorists are still absconding, Told Investigating officer Kunnakulam DYSP T.K.Thomas.

Baiju was brutally murdered from poovathur Petrol pump. Four member gang came in two Motor bike stabbed him with swords. Four others were positioned nearby to prevent any help being reached.Dharmics should/should be allowed to carry guns to shoot NDF/SIMI terrorists on sight.

G.Subramaniam · 09-06-2008, 07:40 PM

One more koran desecration riot
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http://www.twocircles.net/2008sep06/desecr...ar_pradesh.html

Desecration of Quran leads to tension in Uttar Pradesh
Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on 6 September 2008 - 10:15am.

* Indian Muslim

By IANS,

Lucknow : Tension prevailed in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district following the alleged desecration of the Quran, the police said Saturday.

"Several pages of the holy book were found burnt late Friday night in Ahangram locality in Bulandshahr," police officer Alok Kumar told IANS.

"Following this, several members of the Muslim community Saturday took to the streets and also attempted to assault members of the Hindu community, whom they blamed for the desecration," Kumar said.

Members of the Muslim community also blocked roads, disrupting traffic in various parts of Bulandshahr, which is about 400 km from here.

"Sensing a communal flare-up in the district, security has been beefed up," he added.

09-08-2008, 06:29 AM

QUOTEBJP MP's convoy attacked, seven injured
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PTI | September 07, 2008 | 21:17 IST
Seven persons were seriously injured as the convoy of Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Yogi Adityanath was attacked on Sunday by angry protesters while he was on his way to address an anti-terrorism rally in Azamgargh district of Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP leader from Gorakhpur was whisked to safety by his supporters as dozens of people armed with sticks attacked his convoy pelting stones at it and trying to torch the vehicles in Takia area, police sources said.

 The rally was organised by BJP and Hindu Yuva Vahini to protest a meeting organised in support of SIMI activist Abdul Bashar after his arrest on August 11.

Firing from both sides also took place in which over half a dozen people were seriously injured, they said. Later, police reached the spot and fired tear gas shells and bullets in the air to disperse both supporters and protesters.

The official vehicles of superintendent of police, Vijay Kumar Garg and the chief development officer were also damaged in the incident.

Senior police and administration officials have reached the spot and the situation is under control, Home department sources here said.

Bodhi · 09-08-2008, 01:34 PM

BJP's MP motorcade attacked in UP

LUCKNOW: BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath had a narrow escape on Sunday when his motorcade was attacked by miscreants in Azamgargh.

One person was killed and several were injured in the large-scale violence that followed. The MP, who is also head of the Gorakshnath Peeth in Gorakhpur, had gone to Azamgarh to address a public meeting against terrorism.

Azamgarh DM Mayur Maheshwari said, "The situation is brought under control and there is no need of imposing curfew."

Twelve persons were arrested in this connection, the DM added.

Tension grips Azamgarh

BJP MLA from Ramkola in Gorakhpur district Atul Singh, who was in one the vehicles in the MP's motorcade, told TOI that a fleet of over 100 vehicles was accompanying Adityanath.

As the motorcade entered barely one-km inside the Azamgarh district, firing and stone-pelting started from a place of worship in Takia Paharpur, the BJP legislator said.

Sources said Adityanath's supporters retaliated by throwing stones, prompting the police to open fire to bring the situation under control.

Principal secretary, home, Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and additional director general of police (law and order) Brij Lal confirmed the death of one person, though they said it wasn't immediately known whether the victim died due to skirmish between Adityanath's supporters and attackers.

Brij Lal said, "We are waiting for the postmortem report. Some people brought one to the city hospital on a Bolero where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival."

Brij Lal said five companies of PAC were deployed in the district. Varanasi zone IGP Praveen Singh reached Azamgarh to monitor the situation.

The BJP MP returned to Gorakhpur along with his supporters after addressing the rally, Lal said.

BJP MLA from Gorakhpur Sadar constituency RMD Agarwal sat on a dharna before the DM's office in Gorakhpur, protesting the attack on Adityanath's motorcade. Security at the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur has been beefed up.

The deceased was identified as Maniullah (17), native of Gorakhpur, working at a poultry shop in Azamgarh. The injured were identified as Mahanth Shiv Harsh Bharti (52), Brijesh (51), Gyanendra (26) and Rehan (40). A member of Goraksha Samiti Munnar Yadav also sustained serious injuries.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/...how/3456657.cms

09-10-2008, 01:08 AM

SIMI operative reveals hit-list in narco-testQUOTESIMI had decided to target those people who had 'split Indian society and were responsible in causing a rift between Hindus and Muslims', Kamruddin said in his narco test. The organistaion decided to go after those people who were 'dangerous to the religious harmony of the country,' Nagori revealed.

He admitted that he had participated in various meetings of SIMI which were held in north Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh

what a hit piece? What a justification for Jihad?

09-11-2008, 09:31 AM

VHP has role in terror acts: Shahi Imam

I am not a great fan of VHP, but Shahi Imam should take retirement .

What happened to Bomb blast investigation inside Jama Masjid? Did they ever allowed Delhi Police to enter main area. Did they punished who were busy throwing missiles from Masjid to police who came to rescue victims?

09-12-2008, 07:07 AM

SC extends ban on SIMI till OctoberQUOTEThe Supreme Court on Thursday further extended the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India till the second week of October.
Why they want to ban till Oct? Do they really think Shame of India will provide extra document? He will lose sleep. He will lose pay raise.
What happened to Afzul hanging? Shame of India is just genius.

09-13-2008, 08:31 AM

QUOTECops had SIMI email intercepts in 2001
23 Aug 2008, 0233 hrs IST, Paul John,TN
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AHMEDABAD: The Surat SIMI conference, it is believed, was organized by an assistant professor in Jodhpur University, Abdulhai Abdulsattar Silavat, with two others whose names are still not known. The prime objective of this meet was the recruitment of Muslim youth after the ban was imposed in September 2001.

During the course of the investigation, the police intercepted emails by a SIMI activist from Ahmedabad, Suhel Patel. Suhel was a US-born Indian from Paguthan village in Bharuch district of south Gujarat, living in Ahmedabad for nearly 15 years.

The email messages revealed vital information on the financial support being provided by two US-based organizations: the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Chicago-based Consultative Committee of Indian Muslims (CCIM).

One of the messages dated December 11, 2001 contained a Rs 1.24-crore proposal forwarded by Suhel to one mehman (guest) for sustaining the SIMI movement following its ban in September that year. The break-up of the fund was thus - Rs 48 lakh for the families of the arrested SIMI leaders and Rs 25 lakh as legal aid for fighting their court cases.

Suhel had asked for Rs 12 lakh for offering scholarships for thoseworking for the "cause" and another Rs 7 lakh to launch a magazine on "Muslim brotherhood and making Muslims aware of the fast-changing situation in the Islamic world".

In his confession to then Surat joint commissioner of police Ashish Bhatia, Suhel confessed to drawing up the proposal following a directive from the then SIMI President Shahid Badr Falahi.

Suhel revealed that one of his brothers-in-law Yasin Ghulamrasool Patel, who owned a printing press in Ahmedabad had travelled to Chicago for collecting funds for SIMI. Suhel was one of the many recruited by Badr to amass funds for SIMI.

Other e-mail messages in Suhel's account show how money is being transferred from the US to India. Rafik, his Chicago-based brother-in-law, has written to him about an ISNA conference in the US attended by delegates from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Singapore and India on August 31, 2000.

Rafik's email to one Chicago-based Professor Munnawar Hussein "of the Jamaat" explains the new operations for SIMI which was to target universities, unions, women, farmers and local field workers and create a political wing of SIMI. Rafik had also advised Patel to delete every message as soon as it has been read.

Bharatvarsh · 09-15-2008, 07:30 AM

QUOTEU.P. authorities stalled action against Delhi suspects

Praveen Swami

SIMI bomb-maker Subhan visited Azamgarh to discuss Delhi bombing planÂ

Three men identified by two top SIMI operatives

Authorities feared their arrest might provoke communal tension

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh authorities stonewalled efforts to arrest three Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives who are emerging as key suspects in Saturdayâs serial bombings in New Delhi, highly placed police sources have told The Hindu.

Delhi Police sources said that the three Azamgarh-based men â whose identities are being withheld by The Hindu to avoid compromising the investigation â had been identified as core members of an Indian Mujahideen team planning fresh attacks by two top terror commanders held in Uttar Pradesh earlier this month.

Fearing that police action against the three men might fuel tension in communally charged Azamgarh, police sources said, Uttar Pradesh authorities refused to order their arrest or detention for questioning, saying that interrogation reports from Gujarat and Rajasthan did not constitute adequate grounds for such action.

According to a senior Delhi Police official, the three men were identified by Lucknow-based businessman Shahbaz Husain, who the Rajasthan Police says had overall charge of the terror cell which carried out the Jaipur serial bombings in May, and Azamgarh cleric Abul Bashar Qasmi, identified by the Gujarat Police as the controller of the murderous serial bombings that tore Ahmedabad apart in July.

Both Qasmi and Husain told their interrogators that the three Azamgarh men had met with Abdul Subhan Qureshi, a top Mumbai-based SIMI operative, who is thought to have taught dozens of Indian Mujahideen operatives their bomb-making skills and authored the organisationâs e-mail manifestos. Qureshi, they said, had visited Azamgarh at least twice in August, soon after the Ahmedabad bombings, to discuss future attacks. New Delhi was chosen as a target during these meetings.

U.P. networks

Evidence on the central role of SIMIâs Uttar Pradesh networks in the Indian Mujahideenâs operations began to emerge in the course of the investigation into the December 2007 synchronised bombing of trial court buildings at Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi. Police learned that Jaunpur-based Mohammad Khalid Mujahid and Tariq Kazmi, using explosives provided by Jammu and Kashmir Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami commander Bashir Mir, had coordinated the trial court bombings.

Mujahid and Kazmi were held, but their arrests provoked widespread protests by local Muslims who claimed the two men were innocent. As a result of the protests, Uttar Pradesh authorities ordered police to ease back on operations targeting SIMI. Among those who thus escaped arrest was Qasmi, an Azamgarh-based seminary student-turned-SIMI-activist, who the Gujarat Police alleges was the central figure in the July 27 serial bombings in Ahmedabad.

Qasmiâs SIMI links been known to the Uttar Pradesh police since 2006, when he figured in the interrogation of Mohtasin Billa, an engineering student alleged to have facilitated that yearâs serial bombings in Hyderabad. However, Qasmi was finally held only after the Gujarat Police obtained a warrant for his arrest early this month.

Police officials believe earlier action could have disrupted the networks which carried out the Ahmedabad attacks. Police in Rajasthan, too, found that the networks responsible for executing the Jaipur serial bombing stretched east to Uttar Pradesh. Late last month, investigators arrested Shahbaz Husain, the businessman who, the Rajasthan Police say, was one of the Indian Mujahideenâs key organisers.

Husain, who owned two successful businesses in Lucknow, is alleged to have helped organise the bombings in Jaipur and Ahmedabad â and, with Qureshi, co-authored the e-mail claiming responsibility for the attacks. Like Qasmi, Husain had long been known to the Uttar Pradesh police â but this knowledge failed to provoke action.

Husainâs name figured in the interrogation of SIMI chief Safdar Nagori, who was arrested from a safehouse in Indore at the end of March. Nagori identified Husain, who he referred to by the nickname âShaanu,â as the ranking head of the groupâs military operations. He told police that Qureshi had trained dozens of Indian Mujahideen operatives on Husainâs orders.

Uttar Pradesh police determined that Husain was indeed a SIMI member, who was recruited into the organisation while he was a student of the Indian Institute of Mass Communications in New Delhi. Before SIMIâs proscription in 2001, police found, he briefly edited one of its English-language magazines, Islamic Movement.

Interestingly, bomb-maker Qureshi worked at the Delhi offices of SIMI during this time, after resigning a position at the Mumbai-based computer firm Datamatics. However, Uttar Pradesh authorities again held back on making an arrest, arguing that the evidence available was inadequate to justify holding a prominent member of the community.

Rajasthan Police investigators, however, were able to obtain an arrest warrant after several suspects held in Gujarat â including top local SIMI organiser Sajid Mansoori â correctly identified photographs of Husain, who they described as their ranking commander.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/15/stories/...541200.htm

09-21-2008, 03:45 AM

QUOTEIndia must fight the jihad within 
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Ashok Malik
After the Mumbai train bombings of July 2006, a group calling itself Lashkar-e-Qahar sent out an e-mail claiming responsibility. When the dead had been accounted for, one body remained unidentified. An e-mail from Lashkar-e-Qahar displayed the photograph of a young man, claimed the dead body was his, and that he was the suicide bomber who had helped trigger a lethal terror attack that had killed 200 people.

The e-mail was actually a trap. Using a fairly everyday computing tool called stagnography, it invited you to click on the image of the young man and then led you to an innocuous-looking site that listed 'missing persons'. However, as cyber-sleuths were to discover, the act of clicking and moving to this second site actually exposed one's computer to a Pakistan-based monitor.

Now, a control room had access to the Internet Protocol of the person who had, only a few seconds earlier, opened his e-mail account and read the Lashkar-e-Qahar message. In the days to come, this person's computer and e-mail account were hacked into and made accessible to the terrorist organisation.

Given that State police forces, national security agencies and media institutions happily clicked away on the so-called suicide bomber's image, the level of penetration was substantial. In later weeks, computers had to be changed, e-mail accounts re-set, protective measures taken. India, for all its Information Technology prowess, had been fooled by a smart but essentially low-level trick.

A few days after the Mumbai bombings, Bhopal Police arrested a 17-year-old boy called Shariq. Subsequently removed to Mumbai, Shariq was described as an "IT wizard". He was, however, no ordinary teenage geek. Some months earlier, he had visited Pakistan, ostensibly to meet an aunt but actually to receive training on the theology and tactics of jihad.

Back in India, it was he who had designed the e-mail, using his skills in stagnography to allow his principals to read the mail and scan the computers of those who were sent the 'suicide bomber' mail in July 2006.

Grant Shariq this: He is clever, determined and tough. In two years, he has revealed little. He has not been 'broken' by the Mumbai Police, which, however, knows he is extremely dangerous.

Shariq is still behind bars. In the absence of an appropriate anti-terror law, he is being detained under the provisions of the Information Technology Act. The IT Act has some stringent, even draconian provisions. When it was legislated in 2000, there were concerns that it would be used to harass cyber-cafÃ© clients. However, India has innovated -- it must be the only country in the world fighting terrorism with an IT Act.

Shariq's story is instructive. It tells us that, far from the stereotypes we may have formed, the terrorist India is fighting is often educated, intelligent and not propelled by economic and political grievances but by a perverse interpretation of his faith. It also points out how, in numerous unseen forms, the lack of an effective anti-terror law has crippled the police.

Shariq's level of indoctrination is frightening though not unique. Increasingly, Indian Mujahideen modules being uncovered are found manned by middle-class youth, some of them engineers and techies. Terrorism psychologists have long argued that such people can make the most ruthless terrorists, if they are convinced of the rightness of their cause. They are trained to think methodically and mechanically, and see open acts of violence -- rather than subtle subversion, for instance -- as the best method of 'vengeance'.

This makes the Indian Mujahideen less 'political' and less amenable to settlement on the basis of meeting identifiable goals. This is not the Mizo National Front, which will stop fighting if offered an honourable peace in a Mizo-majority State. It is not even the Khalistan Commando Force, the agenda of which was limited to Punjab's 'independence'.

For the Indian Mujahideen, on the other hand, violence is an end in itself. In its 13-page letter announcing the Delhi blasts of September 13, 2008, it makes only one specific demand: "Here we announce our ultimatum: Vacate the land of Babri as soon as you can." However, it also promises to "carry on the struggle and fight against the Kufr (disbelief) till our last breath"; and chillingly announces that "the dust will never settle down".

Like Al Qaeda, which wants the Islamic re-conquest of Spain, the stated aims of the Indian Mujahideen are messianic. The interrogation of Safdar Nagori provides a clue. Arrested in February 2008, the general secretary of the Students Islamic Movement of India said he was working for the revival of the Caliphate. He joked with police officers that they would one day have to send leave applications to Istanbul.

More substantively, Nagori believed state power in India had been snatched from Muslims by the British and surreptitiously handed over to Hindus in 1947. Indian Mujahideen/SIMI wanted to redress this. The strategy was to shake public and institutional confidence through repeated acts of violence. "By 2020, Nagori felt," recalls a police officer, "terrorism would have caused so much destruction that there would be anarchy in India, and the Indian state would be vulnerable."

It is easy to laugh at Nagori's final aspiration, but it is important to take his interim plans seriously. It would not do, certainly, to see in him a rallying point for all Muslims. In lionising SIMI, politicians like Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mr Ram Vilas Paswan are appealing to an extreme fringe but seriously misreading the larger mood.

Take Nagori's father. An outstanding police officer -- "One of the best in Madhya Pradesh," says a former colleague of his, "awarded the President's Police Medal" -- he sent his son to an English-medium school in Ujjain and proudly saw him enrol for an undergraduate course in mass communications. It was while doing his MA that Safdar began to change; his dissertation was on "the fire in Kashmir", a subject that had not exercised him earlier.

Today, the senior Nagori is bitterly disappointed in his son. Safdar knows that. When he was arrested, he asked to speak to his mother but pleaded not to be put on the phone to his father -- he was too scared.

It is impossible not to sense the pain of retired police officer Nagori. No doubt he expects the Indian state, which he served diligently, to take on the challenge posed by his son and his jihad-crazed associates. He has understood the need to combat them. When will the Government of India?

Shambhu · 09-26-2008, 01:11 AM

http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx...eID=7125&SKIN=K

Keep Silence during Namaz cry from Mosques- New Demand of NDF terrorists
23/09/2008 00:15:38 HK

KALPETTA: The police arrested nine National Development Front (NDF) activists for allegedly creating communal tension at Kambalakkadu in the district on Sunday night.

The NDF activists were arrested under IPC section143 (unlawful assembly), 149 (unlawful assembly with a common object) and 153 (A) (creating communal violence), Kambalakkadu sub-inspector Shaji Joseph said. They were remanded to custody for 15 days.

More than 50 NDF terrorists shouted provocative slogans against Hindus in response to awareness programme of Hindu Aikya Vedi against Scholarships based on Religion in Kerala.

Public and Hindu activists in the area intervened effectively and informed Police about the attempt by NDF terrorists to create havoc in the area. The NDF terrorists tried to threaten Hindu leaders by saying that Hindu leaders continued their speech during the namaz call from Mosque!

G.Subramaniam · 09-26-2008, 06:49 PM

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Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Sep 26: A gang of miscreants entered the house of a BJP activist at Hejmady near Mulky on the night of Thursday September 25, beat up family members including women, besides posing life threats. Tension prevailed in the village after the incident.

It is said, that the assault was related to an accident on the same afternoon, in which a pedestrian named Para Salian (60) from Hejmady was hit by a speeding motor bike, ridden by Rameez, near the village. Salian suffered fracture in the leg and was treated at A J Hospital Mangalore. People, who had gathered at the accident spot, had censured the bike rider for rash driving.

A gang led by Rameez gate-crashed into the house of the local unit president of the BJP Yuvamorcha named Sharan Kumar at around 9 pm and assaulted the inmates. It is said that the gang members posed life threats to him, saying that they belong to KFD. Hearing the commotion, people gathered there, after which the gang members fled. The people however, could catch hold of two of the gang members and handed over them to the Padubidri police.

The victims are being treated in a private hospital in Padubidri.

G.Subramaniam · 09-29-2008, 07:28 AM

Indiatoday on IM

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One article in Tehrik is titled "Abadi Mein Izafa" (Spurt in Population) and implores the Muslims to increase their population in order to Islamise the world to save it from "bad influence, anarchy and disintegration." What is startling is that it calls upon Muslims to settle in ghettoes at all entry and exit points to cities, towns and villages.

In the jihadi video-audio material seized by the Gujarat police from the homes of some of the arrested IM-operatives, there are three CDs with footage showing the killings of Muslims by American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, another with speeches of bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.

10-06-2008, 05:42 AM

QUOTEWhy has Sibal trashed himself? 
Pioneer.com
Reporter's notebook : Sidharth Mishra
This is for the second week in running that the notebook deals with Jamia Millia Islamia. The propagators of a particular viewpoint, which this column seeks to counter, have already gone to the town as this being a campaign against the university which seeks to promote a secular ethos. I wish to explain that the campaign is not against Jamia, the centre of learning but Jamia Nagar, which seeks to encroach upon the secular credentials of the university.

The difference between Jamia Millia Islamia and Jamia Nagar is same as that between former Union Minister Arif Mohammed Khan and the local councilor Asif Mohammed Khan. While I am no admirer of Arif Mohammed Khan's hop-step-jump politics but there are doubts about his erudition and progressive ideas. Probably it's his liberal views and ideas which make him a misfit in most of the political parties including the BJP.

But there is no taking away from him the fact that he has been the only tall Muslim or Secular leader to show the courage of conviction in denouncing the encroachment on the liberal-secular credentials of Jamia Milia Islamia by the residents of Jamia Nagar. Unlike Arif, his brother Asif, who has been a long term councilor from Jamia Nagar, has propagated the theorem of ghettoisation.

He distributed pro-Osama Bin Laden literature and more than often has joined the anti-national chorus, whenever an effort was made to get the squatters from Jamia Nagar clear the land belonging to Jamia Millia Islamia. It took determination of then Jamia Vice-Chancellor Lieutenant General MA Zaki and then Deputy Commissioner of Police Sudhir Yadav to reclaim land from Jamia Nagar and build a boundary around it.

This year for the first time in the history of Jamia, classes had to be suspended in the afternoon all through the month of Ramzan to allow students to offer namaz. There has been a practice for half-a-century that Jamia has been in existence to allow recess on Friday afternoons. "By allowing the recess all through Ramzan, the whole purpose of fasting is defeated. The idea is to fast while doing your normal work. But the culture has changed. Demanding recess is indicative of this dangerous change and nobody is ready to arrest it," a Muslim teacher of the university recently told this reporter.

The teacher is asking too much from the university and political leadership. Everybody is playing to the gallery. Jamia Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan complains, read his interview given last Sunday to a national daily, that we do not want to hear liberal Muslim voices. His complaint has no merit. There has always been respect for the contribution of Muslims in whichever field they are. They have been heard with poise and attention. But when views bordering to subversion are expressed they must be opposed and condemned. And the condemnation should be with the same vigour as in the case of denouncing the vandalism of Sangh affiliates, lest it give the saffron groups an opportunity to criticize us of bias.

Probably Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan realizes that being liberal doesn't help a Muslim's progress in the Indian political scenario. He is mouthing the sentiments of local MLA Parvez Hashmi, who from day one protested the encounter in Jamia Nagar. Hashmi naturally was addressing his constituency. Students and teachers of Jamia don't form a substantial vote-bank but the residents of Jamia Nagar do. Hashmi for long has been fighting battle with Asif Mohammed Khan to retain his control over the Okhla constituency. Jamia Nagar is part of this constituency.

The bigger tragedy, however, is that it's not just Parvez Hashmi or minority vote-bank agents like Amar Singh who are mouthing the case of Jamia Nagar. Having given support to the UPA Government, Samajwadi Party is threatening to withdraw support on anything and everything. But why an eminent jurist like Kapil Sibal reduced himself to be the pastor of Asif Mohammed Khan's philosophy. The answer lies in the fact he too has to take care of the Muslim voters of Chandni Chowk. But is a seat in the Parliament everything for one of the more progressive faces of Indian politics? Sibal represents Congress, a party of all classes, communities and castes. His bigger role is that of the spokesperson of the party and the Government and not mere a representative of country's smallest parliamentary constituency.

10-07-2008, 01:57 AM

QUOTE600 SIMI activists still on prowl 
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Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has prepared a list of 600 hardcore terrorists of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and its affiliates. The agency has also sought a nationwide crackdown on the terrorists through coordinated efforts with the Central agencies and Anti-Terrorist Squads of nine States, including the national Capital.

Intelligence Bureau director PC Haldar last week discussed with the heads of Anti-Terrorist Squads of Delhi, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh the need for "better coordination and actionable intelligence sharing" between the States and the Central agency to hunt down wanted terrorists. 

Haldar addressed the heads of ATS of these States after the conclusion of a two-day conference convened by the Centre in the wake of recurring terror blasts across the country. Following this, the IB on Sunday dispatched the State-wise list of 600 terrorists to the ATS and asked them to hunt for them.

The most wanted SIMI members include Abdul Subhan alias Tauqeer, national treasurer of the Safdar Nagori faction of the outfit, Abdul Razzak, an Indore native and outfit's 'ansar' who is suspected to have carried out the Samjhauta Express train blasts, and Sajid Saharai alias Sajid Khan of Rajasthan (close to SIMI leader Shahid Badr Falahi). Tauqeer is believed to have fled after the encounter with Delhi Police at Jamia Nagar on September 19. Two of his associates were killed and another two were arrested in the incident.

Majority of the ansars (full-time associates) of SIMI hail from Madhya Pradesh and their financial supporters include top businessmen belonging to a particular community, who funded the outfit's subversive activities despite the knowledge that it was banned under the law. Top funders of SIMI from Madhya Pradesh include Mohammad Ali, Gohalpur, Jabalpur; Manzoor of Pakeeza Collection superstore of Indore; Abdul Rais of Madhumilan Talkies, Indore, and owners of Mayur Hotel and Balwas Hotel.

Kamruddin Nagori (now in Gujarat police's custody) has revealed the names of at least 35 members of SIMI, including hardcore ansars hailing from Bhopal. Likewise, Amil Parvez (also in Gujarat police's custody) has revealed the names of 125 SIMI ansars, mostly from Madhya Pradesh.

The IB is also studying the implications of the revelation by Safdar Nagori (in police custody in Gujarat) about the involvement of two Chinese Muslims with SIMI. The duo had addressed the outfit's conference at Kanpur, Aurangabad and Malapuram. Nagori has told the sleuths that the two Chinese nationals were roped into SIMI's fold by the outfit's zonal president of West Bengal, Azizul Haque.

Likewise, a coded message from a diary recovered from the possession of a key associate of Nagori has revealed the names and telephone/cellular phone numbers of 69 associates of the outfit. These associates are based across the country, besides at least three members residing in Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia.Â

10-07-2008, 07:55 AM

Man behind terror mails held: PoliceQUOTEOn September 24, the Crime Branch had arrested five alleged IM members, including co-founder Mohammad Sadiq Sheikh.

Eighteen of the 20 men arrested so far have no criminal records.

Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor said the latest arrests included techies and mechanical engineers â who allegedly operated IMâs âmedia wingâ, which sent terror e-mails before blasts.

Its leader, Mohammed Peerbhoy (31), is a software professional with a multinational, drawing an annual salary of Rs 19 lakh.

10-07-2008, 11:40 PM

'98% in XII, 19 lakh-job, went to US many times'QUOTEhe was a brilliant student and a well-paid computer engineer who worked with a global Internet firm, but also because he had managed to visit the United States on work several times without arousing any suspicion.
Peerbhoy, sources told 'The Indian Express', held a senior position at the Internet firmâs office in Pune and earned an annual salary of Rs 19 lakh. He is alleged to have headed the âmedia cellâ of Indian Mujahideen which drafted and sent e-mails that spewed venom at the government and politicians minutes before bomb blasts.

A âbrilliant studentâ who came from a âvery well-to-doâ family, he was working as a principal software engineer in the MNC when he was picked up on September 28. âIt is really shocking that someone with Peerbhoyâs profile is also being arrested by us in terror cases. He hails from a very well-to-do and educated Muslim family in Pune. Preliminary enquiries have revealed that Peerbhoy himself is brilliant in academics,â one officer said.

Peerbhoy finished his schooling from Rosary School in the Camp area of Pune. He scored 93 percent marks in his 10th standard exams and 98 percent in his 12th standard. He studied computer engineering at a Pune college and has been working with the MNC since 2003, the officer added.

~~Pandyan~~ · 10-07-2008, 11:48 PM

But ah didn do nuffin'!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/M...how/3568069.cms

QUOTEPUNE: The family of software engineer Mohammed Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy (31), who was arrested by the Mumbai police on Monday, is vehement that he
has been falsely implicated in the case and see his arrest as an attempt to "defame the Muslim community".

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