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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->SYNOPSIS OF THE FILM: 'THE BANGLA CRESCENT' (Produced and
Directed by Mayank Jain)

Report of the 'Task Force on Border Management', IB Chief TV
Rajeshwar's report and General S.K. Sinha's 42-page report to
the President of India have been picturized into an exceedingly
powerful documentary, The Bangla Crescent, by dynamic film
producer Mayank Jain, who is privately screening it in concerned
circles. The film captures the connection between mushrooming
madrasas and jihadi fundamentalism; the radicalization of
Kashmir was preceded by the creation of a network of madrasas
across the state.

The film covers:

1. As for the illegal aliens, estimated at 1.5 crores by former
Home Secretary Madhav Godbole, the entire north eastern sector
is bursting with Bangladeshi migrants, mosques, and madrasas.
These are festering cancer wards of an amnesiac nation, hurtling
towards another potential Partition.

2. Bangladesh census chief Sharifa Begum has detected a ‘missing
’ population of 1.4 crores, closely matching Indian estimates of
persons who have intruded with the connivance of Bangladesh and
Pakistan’s ISI, to destabilize India. <b>Bangladesh is even
training infiltrators to speak Assamese before pushing them into
Assam.</b>

3. Concerns over Bangladeshi infiltration are not new. Mr.
Godbole’s unpublished Task Force on Border Management and Assam
Governor Gen. S.K. Sinha’s 42-page report to the President in
November 1998 warned of a conspiracy to carve out a Greater
Bangladesh. <b>Gen. Sinha cautioned against an ISI plot (Operation
Pin Code) to cut off the north east by grabbing the narrow
“chicken neck” Siliguri corridor</b>. Former Intelligence Bureau
chief T.V. Rajeshwar reported plans to create another
Bengali-speaking Islamic country on India’s eastern border.


4. Standing on the Indian side of Jessore Road, Mayank Jain
interviewed 6 – 8 year old boys at Madrasa Zulfikar Ali
Siddiqiya, where all teaching is in Arabic, not Bengali. Asked
to define a kafir, young Mohammad Sheikh Shahin parroted: <b>“jo
Allah ki baat nahin sunta, Nabi ke adesh ke mutabik nahin
chalta…shaitan ki baat suntan hai” (One who does not listen to
Allah, does not live according to the dictates of the Prophet,
listens to Satan). Asked if he knew the meaning of jihad, the
young talib (student) said, “it means war”(yudh), it is “Kafir
ke saath Nabi ji ke Musalmanon ki ladai.” Quite explicit</b>.

5. If there are any doubts about the uniformity of madrasa
teaching, one has only to walk into the Madrasa Faizul Ulum
Hathishala in Laxmi Nagar, near Delhi Police headquarters. Here
Maulana Rehan Ahmad explains: “Khuda himself has determined the
punishment (sazaa) of the Kafir. It is to reside forever in hell
(jahannum), burn in fire… there are all kinds of horrors there.”
He explains that jihad is waged on non-Muslims after “he is
invited to join the faith (din ki dawat), asked to place his
faith on Allah, when he does not do so, then at that moment the
hukm for jihad is given.”

6. The Bangla Crescent documents the political corruption which
helps infiltrators get ration and voter identity cards, an issue
Ms. Mamata Banerjee was not allowed to expose in Parliament
recently. A young woman in the film admits her family came from
Bangladesh, but her father managed to get a ration card from
Kolkata. They vote for a certain political party. That money
changes hands is obvious: Chief Vigilance Commissioner N. Vittal
recorded that RDX for the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts sailed through
customs after an officer received Rs. Twenty lakhs.

7. Political support has made the aliens quite aggressive. A
young man in the capital’s Jamia area asserted that even if
those who came from Bangladesh are called outsiders (is there a
doubt?), the children born in India are not! Conceding this
anomaly, Mr. Baljit Rai, ex-DGP, Tripura, said there is urgent
need for a law to deny citizenship to the offspring of
infiltrators.

  8. Alex Perry of Time magazine gave the startling information
that 150 persons entered Bangladesh from Afghanistan or Pakistan
under escort, and simply disappeared, probably in Chittagong
where there are well established insurgent bases. The whole
point of Bangladesh, Perry said, is that “if you are on the run,
it’s a safehouse. You go there to disappear.” American
authorities have listed the Bangladeshi and Bosnian branches of
a Saudi charity called Al Harmain as having gone “completely
rouge;” they use their money essentially to fund al Qaeda.

9. The cameo interviews are forceful and neatly woven into the
script, maintaining momentum. Pioneer editor Dr. Chandan Mitra
points out that as madrasas are not functioning covertly, but
openly, we need to know what the Government, the citizenry and
the security forces are doing. He said he had personally seen
border madrasas being used for ISI activity and Maoists are also
using them.

10. Mr. R.K. Ohri, ex-IGP, Arunachal Pradesh, cautioned that an
Islamic Caliphate is rising on India’s flanks, from Bangladesh
to West Asia, and that the shadow of the Mughlistan corridor is
now visibly manifesting in various districts along the
Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh border. The demand for a ‘Muslim
Banghboomi’ has already been raised, warns ex-MP B.L. Sharma
(Prem). Travelling in West Bengal to check out certain
atrocities against Hindus some years ago, his convoy was
attacked by Bangladeshis.

11. When demographer J.K. Bajaj and his colleagues prepared a
mathematical model of the demographic challenge facing India,
they found it exactly matched the map prepared by Bangladesh’s
Mughalstan Research Institute. Experts feel the latter has been
prepared by the ISI because the ‘Mughalstan’ spelling indicates
a Punjabi mind!

12. Bangladesh’s reputed human rights activist Salam Azad
laments that Bangladesh is the best place in the world for the
return of the Taliban. Madrasas, he said, are teaching that
“Muslims are the best in the world; non-Muslims will be
converted, beaten, killed, married, raped, because non-Muslim
women are regarded as maal-i-ganimat (free war booty)…
Minorities will be oppressed, indigenous people will be
attacked, in my country there is oppression everywhere… and this
is being done by the so-called educated people of the madrasas.”

13. West Bengal BJP leader Tathagatha Roy said the extent of
atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh can be seen from the
fact that in several districts there was not a single woman
between the ages of seven to seventy years who had not been
raped in that country. <b>He apologized for the indifference of the
BJP Government which did not grant refugee status to Hindus
fleeing oppression in Bangladesh.  <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->  North Eastern Students
Organisation chairman Samujjal Bhattacharya said all 49 tribal
belts and blocks in Assam have been occupied by Bangladeshis.</b>The shadows have spread to Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur,
Meghalaya.

14. Today, Hindus residing within a 50-km radius of the border
are feeling the heat. They are being harassed on Indian soil and
forced to move as the infiltrators establish themselves along
this corridor, thus de facto extending the Bangladesh border
into India – another PoK in the making. Yet the political
attitude was best summed up by <span style='color:red'>CPI leader A.B. Bardan: “why are you raising the issue of Bangladesh? Because it borders Tripura and West Bengal and Left gets elected from there</span>
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