12-02-2007, 11:48 PM
<b>Yet, Sonia defended them in Parliament, Salman in Courts</b>
S Gurumurthy
December 2, 2007
www.newindpress. com
It was founded in the year 1977. Not by a religious leader, but by an
English-educated academic, Mohammed Ahamadullah Siddiqui. <b>He was a
professor not at some Alighar University in India, or in Islamabad, but at
Western Illinois University in the US, a country of free thought that claims
to melt people of diverse ideas into a wholesome one</b>. He was professor of
Journalism and Public Relations. For which goals did the professor found it?
Leave the first two goals. Its third goal is `Jehad' for the cause of Islam.
Since Jehad is also a programme for self-purification of the
adherents, one may assume that this is not to harm others. But read more. It does not believe in nation-state or in national constitutions. Loyal to no nation, it
disregards the very nation it operates in. Not just that. <b>It is explicitly against
Hinduism and other anti-Islamic cultures. More. It regards idol
worship as a `sin' - meaning that Hindus are sinners. Not yet full stop. Goes further, considers terminating idol worship as a Holy duty</b>!
Significantly, it is founded not for, nor in, Saudi Arabia, where
there are no idols, no idol worshippers. It is founded for, and functions in, India
with more than 85 percent of population believing, worshipping idols. It
would like them eliminated. Is it just an extremist body, which seeks to achieve
its ends by intense, and extended preaching, or conversions? No. It does not just
verbalise, but, as evidence available in the public domain establishes,
actually weaponises terror. It openly celebrates Osama Bin Laden as a true
Mujahid (religious soldier) in Jehad (religious war) for the `Umma' (world
Muslim community). Its name: SIMI, the Students Islamic Movement of India,
India's first home grown, pan-Indian, terrorist body.
Last April, SIMI completed three decades of existence. It is said to
have 400 full-timers and 20000 casuals. Its members retire at 30. SIMI thus
means youth in their primes for terror. What is its scoreboard in terror? Even
before the Mumbai blasts, between August 2000 - when its maiden blast in
Sabarmati train took place - and July 2006, it had accomplished five bomb blasts to
its credit! But its peaking success was in Mumbai, on that fateful evening on
7/11, when it bombed and eliminated some 200 innocents and hospitalised over 700 in just 25 minutes! Apart from detonating bombs, it has other deadly skills too.
Between March 2001 and January 2004 it triggered Hindu-Muslim riots in
three places. SIMI cadres also massacred five policemen and an Additional
District Magistrate in Kanpur - a clear war against the state! SIMI has other
deadly hobbies, like procuring, moving, storing arms, ammunitions, explosives
like RDX, etc. In some eight incidents reported in the media, SIMI cadres
were found in possession of explosives, weapons and papers incriminating them in
violence in different parts of India, from Bengal to Gujarat.
It has global links. Anwar Ali, a lecturer in National Defence Academy at
Khadakvasala in Maharashtra - yes, in the defence academy to train
soldiers to provide security to the people of India - was found to be a SIMI activist!
Found involved in Mulund bomb blasts in April 2003, he was arrested!
Involved with him in the Mulund blast was a life convict, convicted for terror,
whose sentence was reduced by the Supreme Court to ten years, released from
Sabarmati jail.
Founded by a US-based professor, SIMI attracts academics in defence
institutes to unrepentant life convicts for its agenda to kill. <b>However, SIMI,
whose ban was overdue, was banned only after the 9/11 terror on the US. Till
then, even the NDA government had no guts to ban SIMI. Why?</b>
SIMI had gathered high political clout. <b>It has assumed different
labels like National Democratic Front, Islamic Youth Centre, Tamil Muslim Munnetra
Kazhagam (TMMK) and forged close links with the `secular' political spectrum from
Mulayam's Samajwadi Party to Sonia's Congress Party</b>.
Result, not just Mulayam but even his political adversary Sonia too,
is among its admirers, being expectants for Muslim votes. In her speech in
Parliament in March 2002, and later in June 2002, Sonia attacked the NDA government for banning SIMI. Earlier, in September 2001 itself, her party had opposed the ban.
Thanks to Sonia's defence, the Congress-led UPA government had to
allow the ban to lapse in September 2005. But soon it had to eat its words,
re-impose the ban in February 2006. Thus it allowed the terror outfit free run for five months!
Now the Sonia Congress-led Maharashtra government has admitted that it
is SIMI that masterminded the July train blast in Mumbai. It has arrested over
200 SIMI activists! Yet, it was the Sonia-chosen president of the UP Congress
Party, Salman Kurshid, who was SIMI's advocate in courts pleading for lifting
its ban.
<b>It was Sonia herself who was the advocate for SIMI in Parliament.</b>
Fortunately, the Supreme Court rejected Salman Kurshid's pleas in June
2006 and Manmohan Singh government rejected the pleas of Sonia and re-imposed
the ban in February 2006! Thus, despite Sonia in Parliament, Salman in courts,
thanks to the Supreme Court, SIMI, India's high security risk, has been exposed as a terror outfit.
Comment:gurumurthy@epmltd. com
S Gurumurthy
December 2, 2007
www.newindpress. com
It was founded in the year 1977. Not by a religious leader, but by an
English-educated academic, Mohammed Ahamadullah Siddiqui. <b>He was a
professor not at some Alighar University in India, or in Islamabad, but at
Western Illinois University in the US, a country of free thought that claims
to melt people of diverse ideas into a wholesome one</b>. He was professor of
Journalism and Public Relations. For which goals did the professor found it?
Leave the first two goals. Its third goal is `Jehad' for the cause of Islam.
Since Jehad is also a programme for self-purification of the
adherents, one may assume that this is not to harm others. But read more. It does not believe in nation-state or in national constitutions. Loyal to no nation, it
disregards the very nation it operates in. Not just that. <b>It is explicitly against
Hinduism and other anti-Islamic cultures. More. It regards idol
worship as a `sin' - meaning that Hindus are sinners. Not yet full stop. Goes further, considers terminating idol worship as a Holy duty</b>!
Significantly, it is founded not for, nor in, Saudi Arabia, where
there are no idols, no idol worshippers. It is founded for, and functions in, India
with more than 85 percent of population believing, worshipping idols. It
would like them eliminated. Is it just an extremist body, which seeks to achieve
its ends by intense, and extended preaching, or conversions? No. It does not just
verbalise, but, as evidence available in the public domain establishes,
actually weaponises terror. It openly celebrates Osama Bin Laden as a true
Mujahid (religious soldier) in Jehad (religious war) for the `Umma' (world
Muslim community). Its name: SIMI, the Students Islamic Movement of India,
India's first home grown, pan-Indian, terrorist body.
Last April, SIMI completed three decades of existence. It is said to
have 400 full-timers and 20000 casuals. Its members retire at 30. SIMI thus
means youth in their primes for terror. What is its scoreboard in terror? Even
before the Mumbai blasts, between August 2000 - when its maiden blast in
Sabarmati train took place - and July 2006, it had accomplished five bomb blasts to
its credit! But its peaking success was in Mumbai, on that fateful evening on
7/11, when it bombed and eliminated some 200 innocents and hospitalised over 700 in just 25 minutes! Apart from detonating bombs, it has other deadly skills too.
Between March 2001 and January 2004 it triggered Hindu-Muslim riots in
three places. SIMI cadres also massacred five policemen and an Additional
District Magistrate in Kanpur - a clear war against the state! SIMI has other
deadly hobbies, like procuring, moving, storing arms, ammunitions, explosives
like RDX, etc. In some eight incidents reported in the media, SIMI cadres
were found in possession of explosives, weapons and papers incriminating them in
violence in different parts of India, from Bengal to Gujarat.
It has global links. Anwar Ali, a lecturer in National Defence Academy at
Khadakvasala in Maharashtra - yes, in the defence academy to train
soldiers to provide security to the people of India - was found to be a SIMI activist!
Found involved in Mulund bomb blasts in April 2003, he was arrested!
Involved with him in the Mulund blast was a life convict, convicted for terror,
whose sentence was reduced by the Supreme Court to ten years, released from
Sabarmati jail.
Founded by a US-based professor, SIMI attracts academics in defence
institutes to unrepentant life convicts for its agenda to kill. <b>However, SIMI,
whose ban was overdue, was banned only after the 9/11 terror on the US. Till
then, even the NDA government had no guts to ban SIMI. Why?</b>
SIMI had gathered high political clout. <b>It has assumed different
labels like National Democratic Front, Islamic Youth Centre, Tamil Muslim Munnetra
Kazhagam (TMMK) and forged close links with the `secular' political spectrum from
Mulayam's Samajwadi Party to Sonia's Congress Party</b>.
Result, not just Mulayam but even his political adversary Sonia too,
is among its admirers, being expectants for Muslim votes. In her speech in
Parliament in March 2002, and later in June 2002, Sonia attacked the NDA government for banning SIMI. Earlier, in September 2001 itself, her party had opposed the ban.
Thanks to Sonia's defence, the Congress-led UPA government had to
allow the ban to lapse in September 2005. But soon it had to eat its words,
re-impose the ban in February 2006. Thus it allowed the terror outfit free run for five months!
Now the Sonia Congress-led Maharashtra government has admitted that it
is SIMI that masterminded the July train blast in Mumbai. It has arrested over
200 SIMI activists! Yet, it was the Sonia-chosen president of the UP Congress
Party, Salman Kurshid, who was SIMI's advocate in courts pleading for lifting
its ban.
<b>It was Sonia herself who was the advocate for SIMI in Parliament.</b>
Fortunately, the Supreme Court rejected Salman Kurshid's pleas in June
2006 and Manmohan Singh government rejected the pleas of Sonia and re-imposed
the ban in February 2006! Thus, despite Sonia in Parliament, Salman in courts,
thanks to the Supreme Court, SIMI, India's high security risk, has been exposed as a terror outfit.
Comment:gurumurthy@epmltd. com