Radicalisation Of Indian Muslims

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<b>Deoband tightens its screening, calls for strict student checks</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 24: Stung by accusations that it was helping spawn fundamentalism, Darul Uloom, Deoband, second only to Cairo’s Al Azhar in the list of Islam’s hallowed seminaries, has tightened admission rules, making more stringent the verification of credentials of potential students.

<b>Foreign students, especially from Bangladesh, and those living in the border areas of Assam and West Bengal, even Kerala, have to now prove their credentials. </b>

<b>The new admission rules state that ‘‘students coming from border areas of West Bengal and Assam shall have to submit nationality proof, which may be an attested copy of TC of any government school, ration card, electoral identity card, electoral identity or Indian passport’’. The ‘‘original’’ will have to furnished on demand. They will also have to carry birth and character certificates</b>.

Foreign students have to obtain ‘‘education visa from the Indian embassy of their country’’ and ‘‘they can’t get admission on the basis of student visas’’.

Students from Bangladesh and Kerala, seen as the new hotbed of Islamic extremism, have to get testimonials from the prescribed ulema.

<b>If from Bangladesh, students will have to approach Maulana Qari Abdul Khaliq, Jamia Hussainiya, Arzabad, Mirpur, Dhaka and Maulana Hafiz Abdul Karim, Chowki Deghi, Sylhet for testimonials.

Kerala students have to get testimonials from Maulana Nooh Sahib, Maulana Hussain Mazahiri and Maulana Mohammed Koya Qasmi.</b>
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