06-02-2006, 02:40 AM
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Balbir K Punj
After sealing the fate of Indian academics with 27 per cent reservation, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is off on a nine-day trip to the Gulf to explore possibilities of cooperation in academics between the two countries. In January, Mr Singh had turned down IIM-Bangalore's long-standing proposal to start a Business School in Singapore. A delegation led by former Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that visited IIM-Ahmedabad had described it as "India's loss".
However, later Mr Singh recanted, and IIM-Bangalore has now been allowed to set up a campus in Singapore. On May 14, IIM-Ahmedabad, in collaboration with Essec Business School of France, opened its Asian Centre in Singapore. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar inaugurated it. Nobody from the HRD Ministry was present there.
Now for the contrasting picture: The current custodian of the HRD Ministry, Mr Arjun Singh, was present at the signing of the MoU between Jamia Millia Islamia and King Abdul Aziz University of Jeddah. This was to boost the number of Saudi students visiting the Jamia further. In 2003, the number was 38. It jumped to 104 in 2004. Mr Singh made it a point to assure the assembly at the function that the "status of Muslims in India will be enhanced". This was a brazen remark befitting a Minister of a Muslim country. As expected, he said nothing about the status of minorities in Saudi Arabia.
Why do we need any Saudi Arabian student to come to India at all? Islam claims that it has brought the world out of jahilia - spiritual darkness of the pre-Islamic world. By that logic, momins should congenitally be more scholarly than kafirs. Saudi Arabia has been attracting students from all over the Islamic world for studies on theology in the Islamic University of Medina and King Abdul Aziz University. These two universities, which primarily attracted the foreign students, peddled a Wahabi curriculum. "Both universities quickly became," as Dore Gold wrote in Hatred's Kingdom - How Saudi Arabia supports the New Global Terrorism, "hothouses for growth of Islamic militancy."
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>It is my worst fear that the UPA Government is trying to drag us into the Islamic orbit. Very soon Mr Singh might initiate talks with the Taliban, Hamas and Islamic Brotherhood as well. Let us not forget that in 1974 India had vainly tried to enter the Organisation of Islamic Conference. The reservation bogey, a ploy to divide the Hindu society, could be a similar bid to become a member of the jihad club.</span> Mr Singh kicked off his current term in 2004 with "de-toxification" of NCERT textbooks. He liberally funded Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia. Further, he espoused the cause of Muslim reservation and the minority-institution character of the AMU. India's emergence as a knowledge superpower is bound to receive a jolt by the ill-advised reservation policy.
<b>While Mr Singh signs an MoU to attract Saudi students, more than 20 Chinese universities are aggressively scouting around for medical students from India. Hundreds of students from India are now studying medicine in China. Chinese medical universities have excellent infrastructure with well-equipped laboratories and a network of affiliated hospitals that are far more sophisticated than our AIIMS</b>. But while our medical/engineering colleges are already woefully short on basic amenities and faculty staff, the Government is speaking of increasing seats with such nonchalance as if it were adding a few chairs to a house-full theatre. China has moved forward since the era of the Mao and the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt itself brick by brick. But in India, vicious rhetoric takes precedence over realism.
<b>India is encountering another joint vengeance. The Maoists of Nepal, who work in tandem with their counterparts in Bihar, have threatened to blow up Bihar's Assembly, Secretariat, official residence of the Chief Minister and 15 out of 30 targeted police stations in a span of two months, beginning May 29.</b> The UPA Government, prompted by its Marxist props, has let the Maoists in Nepal assume a moral high ground. They were projected as some kind of a resistance movement against a despotic monarchy. But all the while their ideological cousins in India were ravaging a functional democracy. The reconvened Pratinidhi Sabha was quick to clip the wings of monarchy. As with the monarchy, also gone is the tag 'Hindu' state of Nepal, the only country in the world to bear that appellation.
The Government of India was obsessed with 'restoration of democracy' in Nepal. But if Maoists were fighting only to restore democracy in Nepal, why are they waging a war against the Indian state? India is a functional democracy. But Maoists of Nepal and India are in a joint venture (read vengeance) to topple the establishments in Kathmandu as well as New Delhi. The Koirala Government is reminiscent of the Kerensky Government in Moscow. The Maoists would give a long rope to hang them with, like Lenin had said of Kerensky, before Bolsheviks took over Russia.
But the joint vengeance hardly stops there. There is good reason to suspect that Maoists in Nepal have the blessings of the ISI. <b>The road to establish the Asian Caliphate, possibly under Osama bin Laden, runs through the Himalayan Highway on which Hinduism's soft underbelly Nepal is located. Mirza Dilshad Beg, who was on the payroll of international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, had wormed his way into the ministerial echelons of Nepal. Beg, who was later shot down by a gang member of Chhota Rajan, had established 'Islamic Yuva Sangh' with liberal funding from Pakistan and Bangladesh, through ISI's conduit</b>.
A string of madrasas on Indo-Nepal border often shelters the Maoists, who are bleeding the Nepalese Government. According to South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), Weekly Assessment & Briefings (Vol 31, February 14, 2005), one Ram Charan Shreshtha, a Kathmandu-based ideologue and organiser of the Young Communist League (YCL), a front outfit of the Communist Party of Nepal, Maoists (CPN-M) was believed to have developed close links with the ISI of Pakistan.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>According to intelligence sources, Ram Charan Shreshtha (an ISI mole and conduit for Islamic funds pouring into Nepal) was at one time fairly close to Prachanda (Pushp Kamal Dahal) and remained in constant contact with leaders of the Nepal Islamic Yuva Sangha. </span>There were dozens of more members of the YCL hobnobbing with the Islamic Yuva Sangha from time to time.
It is time the Hindu society put a check on this political degeneration and stood up against this jihadi-Leftist conspiracy.
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Balbir K Punj
After sealing the fate of Indian academics with 27 per cent reservation, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is off on a nine-day trip to the Gulf to explore possibilities of cooperation in academics between the two countries. In January, Mr Singh had turned down IIM-Bangalore's long-standing proposal to start a Business School in Singapore. A delegation led by former Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that visited IIM-Ahmedabad had described it as "India's loss".
However, later Mr Singh recanted, and IIM-Bangalore has now been allowed to set up a campus in Singapore. On May 14, IIM-Ahmedabad, in collaboration with Essec Business School of France, opened its Asian Centre in Singapore. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar inaugurated it. Nobody from the HRD Ministry was present there.
Now for the contrasting picture: The current custodian of the HRD Ministry, Mr Arjun Singh, was present at the signing of the MoU between Jamia Millia Islamia and King Abdul Aziz University of Jeddah. This was to boost the number of Saudi students visiting the Jamia further. In 2003, the number was 38. It jumped to 104 in 2004. Mr Singh made it a point to assure the assembly at the function that the "status of Muslims in India will be enhanced". This was a brazen remark befitting a Minister of a Muslim country. As expected, he said nothing about the status of minorities in Saudi Arabia.
Why do we need any Saudi Arabian student to come to India at all? Islam claims that it has brought the world out of jahilia - spiritual darkness of the pre-Islamic world. By that logic, momins should congenitally be more scholarly than kafirs. Saudi Arabia has been attracting students from all over the Islamic world for studies on theology in the Islamic University of Medina and King Abdul Aziz University. These two universities, which primarily attracted the foreign students, peddled a Wahabi curriculum. "Both universities quickly became," as Dore Gold wrote in Hatred's Kingdom - How Saudi Arabia supports the New Global Terrorism, "hothouses for growth of Islamic militancy."
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>It is my worst fear that the UPA Government is trying to drag us into the Islamic orbit. Very soon Mr Singh might initiate talks with the Taliban, Hamas and Islamic Brotherhood as well. Let us not forget that in 1974 India had vainly tried to enter the Organisation of Islamic Conference. The reservation bogey, a ploy to divide the Hindu society, could be a similar bid to become a member of the jihad club.</span> Mr Singh kicked off his current term in 2004 with "de-toxification" of NCERT textbooks. He liberally funded Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia. Further, he espoused the cause of Muslim reservation and the minority-institution character of the AMU. India's emergence as a knowledge superpower is bound to receive a jolt by the ill-advised reservation policy.
<b>While Mr Singh signs an MoU to attract Saudi students, more than 20 Chinese universities are aggressively scouting around for medical students from India. Hundreds of students from India are now studying medicine in China. Chinese medical universities have excellent infrastructure with well-equipped laboratories and a network of affiliated hospitals that are far more sophisticated than our AIIMS</b>. But while our medical/engineering colleges are already woefully short on basic amenities and faculty staff, the Government is speaking of increasing seats with such nonchalance as if it were adding a few chairs to a house-full theatre. China has moved forward since the era of the Mao and the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt itself brick by brick. But in India, vicious rhetoric takes precedence over realism.
<b>India is encountering another joint vengeance. The Maoists of Nepal, who work in tandem with their counterparts in Bihar, have threatened to blow up Bihar's Assembly, Secretariat, official residence of the Chief Minister and 15 out of 30 targeted police stations in a span of two months, beginning May 29.</b> The UPA Government, prompted by its Marxist props, has let the Maoists in Nepal assume a moral high ground. They were projected as some kind of a resistance movement against a despotic monarchy. But all the while their ideological cousins in India were ravaging a functional democracy. The reconvened Pratinidhi Sabha was quick to clip the wings of monarchy. As with the monarchy, also gone is the tag 'Hindu' state of Nepal, the only country in the world to bear that appellation.
The Government of India was obsessed with 'restoration of democracy' in Nepal. But if Maoists were fighting only to restore democracy in Nepal, why are they waging a war against the Indian state? India is a functional democracy. But Maoists of Nepal and India are in a joint venture (read vengeance) to topple the establishments in Kathmandu as well as New Delhi. The Koirala Government is reminiscent of the Kerensky Government in Moscow. The Maoists would give a long rope to hang them with, like Lenin had said of Kerensky, before Bolsheviks took over Russia.
But the joint vengeance hardly stops there. There is good reason to suspect that Maoists in Nepal have the blessings of the ISI. <b>The road to establish the Asian Caliphate, possibly under Osama bin Laden, runs through the Himalayan Highway on which Hinduism's soft underbelly Nepal is located. Mirza Dilshad Beg, who was on the payroll of international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, had wormed his way into the ministerial echelons of Nepal. Beg, who was later shot down by a gang member of Chhota Rajan, had established 'Islamic Yuva Sangh' with liberal funding from Pakistan and Bangladesh, through ISI's conduit</b>.
A string of madrasas on Indo-Nepal border often shelters the Maoists, who are bleeding the Nepalese Government. According to South Asia Intelligence Review (SAIR), Weekly Assessment & Briefings (Vol 31, February 14, 2005), one Ram Charan Shreshtha, a Kathmandu-based ideologue and organiser of the Young Communist League (YCL), a front outfit of the Communist Party of Nepal, Maoists (CPN-M) was believed to have developed close links with the ISI of Pakistan.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>According to intelligence sources, Ram Charan Shreshtha (an ISI mole and conduit for Islamic funds pouring into Nepal) was at one time fairly close to Prachanda (Pushp Kamal Dahal) and remained in constant contact with leaders of the Nepal Islamic Yuva Sangha. </span>There were dozens of more members of the YCL hobnobbing with the Islamic Yuva Sangha from time to time.
It is time the Hindu society put a check on this political degeneration and stood up against this jihadi-Leftist conspiracy.
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