20 Oct , 2018
Recently a Kashmiri
student of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Manan Wani, was killed in an
encounter in Handwara in the Kashmir Valley. Two other fellow terrorists
belonging to the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) were also killed with him. Manan Wani
was pursuing a PhD course in Geology before joining the Hizbul Mujahideen.
…the problem in Kashmir is
not about democracy or development. It is purely engendered by religious
ideology in resonance with Pakistan.
Five months ago, in May 2018, an
associate professor of Kashmir University, Mohd Rafi Bhatt, was killed along
with five HM terrorists. The professor who taught Sociology had just joined the
HM.
There is a message in these two
incidents. The message is that the global jihadi ideology overrides sociology,
geology etc. It also underscores the fact that the problem in Kashmir is not
about democracy or development. It is purely engendered by religious ideology
in resonance with Pakistan.
Mehbooba Mufti lamented that Kashmir
is losing educated boys every day. It is because Abdullahs and Muftis, all
through these years have done nothing to wean away the Kashmiris from the
narrative of the global jihad. In fact, they are white collar accomplices to
this whole project.
Manan Wani’s status of a PhD student
is being touted as ‘scholar’ and his elimination as purge of Kashmiri
intellectuals. It will be worthwhile for these spin doctors to ascertain that
how many PhDs are serving in the police and security forces, as jawans, sepoys,
and constables.
The truth of the matter is that the
bigger the educational degree of a jihadi, the more dreaded or beastly, he or
she is. Omar Sheikh, the man who carried out so called ‘halal killing’ of the
journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002, is a product of London School of Economics. As
per some sources, Baghdadi was a PhD in Education. Similarly, Al Zawahiri, who now heads the Al Qaeda, has a Masters
Degree in Surgery. His predecessor and mentor, Osama Bin Laden had degrees in
Engineering and Public Administration.
As per the National Investigating Agency
(NIA), of the cases registered against individuals having ISI connections,
nearly 40 percent of them are engineering students.
The US Department of Homeland
Security funded a $12 million project ‘Study of Terrorism and Responses to
Terrorism’ (START). The research team comprised 30 scientists. The study
revealed that 90 percent of the jihadis came from caring families, 63 percent
had gone to college. The terrorists who perpetrated 9/11 were well educated and
belong to economically well off Saudi and Egyptian families.
In the cloak of education, Pak
sponsored jihadis from Kashmir are infiltrating various colleges and
universities in the country. Recently, on Oct 09, three of them were
apprehended in Jullundur in Punjab. They constituted a module of Ansar
Ghazwat-ul-Hind. These terrorists operated from the hostel. For the sake of
cover they had enrolled in Engineering and Management College. This module was
busted by a joint operations of Punjab & J&K police. This joint
operation was only possible because there is Governor rule in J&K. Earlier
Punjab Police apprehended one Ghazi Ahmad Malik in Patiala. He , a resident of
Shopian was enrolled in a Polytechnic College. He is a close relative of Adil
Basir Sheikh, the SPO who decamped with seven rifles while deployed as part of
security team of a MLA. He then submitted himself to the HM. Thus Pak sponsored
global jihad through the aegis of Kashmiri has growing tentacles in educational
institutions all over India i.e. from JNU to AMU, from Osmania to Jhadavpur ,
and from Kerela to Punjab.
Clearly Pakistan is
widening the arc of jihadi proxy war.
The irony is that these people, who
are touting the educated and scholarly status of some of these jihadis, are
steeped in the global jihad ideology , which destroyed the Nalanda University
and the library in Alexandria.
Now that the AMU like the JNU is in
focus with regard to jihad in Kashmir, it is worthwhile to reflect on the
former’s past. Jihad to AMU comes very naturally. Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan and the
President of the Muslim League (1948-50) has written a book ‘Pathway to
Pakistan’. In this book he has categorically stated that if there was no
Aligarh Muslim University, there would have been no Pakistan. Aga Khan, also
was of the same opinion. In 1954 he said: “Often, in civilized history a
University has supplied the spring board for a nation’s intellectual and
spiritual renaissance… Aligarh is no exception to this rule. But we may
claim with pride that Aligarh was the product of our own efforts and for no
outside benevolence and surely it may also be deemed that the independent
sovereign nation of Pakistan was born in the Muslim University of Aligarh.”
No wonder that the students union of
the AMU still has so much affinity with Jinnah, whose portrait they are not
prepared to part with.
During the partition, some students
of the AMU had spat on the face of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad for his advocacy of
Hindustan for Muslims. In 1979 there was an altercation between AMU students
and locals at Dadri Railway Station over eve-teasing. The students were at the
receiving end for their misdemeanor. They chose the few, rather negligible,
Hindu families quartered in the AMU as their target of retaliation. 60-70
students entered the house ofthe estate officer.All the children of this
officer were born and educated in AMU campus. The students ransacked their
house, beat up the family, outraged the modesty of women. In the gang was also
a hockey-stick wielding professor. This professor was the son-in-law of former
President of India. One Shia, from the non-teaching staff tried to rescue the
family, he too was abused and beaten. He was abused as belonging to the ilk of
those responsible for decline of Muslim power in India. All the shops owned by
Hindus in the adjacent Zakaria market were burnt. The famous shop Kitab Ghar
near the Suleman Hall was also burnt. One MBBS student Pradeep Johri was killed
in the heart of the campus. His body lay for three days as the accomplice
university administration ensured that the police was not allowed to enter.
Pradeep Johri’s uncle was a professor in the same AMU Medical College. Unlike the rest of the university, 90 percent
students in the engineering and medical college were Hindus, who were there by
sheer dint of merit. It was with the design to deter Hindus from joining these
institutions that Johri was murdered in full public view. When that did not
deter, Interview was introduced for manipulation of admission into the Medical
College. This fraud continued for some years till it was struck down by the
judiciary.
In early 70s there was some gap
before A M Khusro took over as Vice Chancellor of AMU. In this intervening
period one Prof Harbans Lal Sharma of Hindi department was the acting VC. The
radical gang of teachers and students did not allow him to occupy the office
and pejorative reasons about his religious status weretouted.The refrain was,
‘’ how can (!!!!!) Hindu be allowed to sully the chair of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.”
Well in Sir Syed’s AMU there was an
interesting case of Nikah Halala between a chemistry professor and his Phd
student. This was reported in detail by Sunday Mail. The Phd student had
married a girl from the campus. The marriage got strained over financial
difficulties, because the Phd lingered, as did the prospect of job. In a fit of
rage the Phd student blurted triple talaq. When tempers cooled there was deep
regret and the student wanted to rescind. He consulted his paternal mentor, the
professor. The professor offered ‘nikah halala’ as per the religious tenets, so
that the couple could be re-united as soon as possible. The girl never returned
to her former husband!!! The Phd went literally mad. AMU straddles between
India and Pakistan in several ways. Irfan Habib, the historian, who claims
knowledge on all facets of history, except 1400 years of Islamic history, has a
brother who is a citizen of Pakistan.
What was the latest mission of HM
jihadis like Manan Wani? It was to derail democracy. It was to terrorize
Kashmiris against participating in the local elections.
The Abdullahs and Muftis
also have strong connections to the AMU. Sheikh Abdullah was educated in this
University and so was Rubaiya Sayeed, sister of Mehbooba Mufti. Her staged
kidnapping even as her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was the Home Minster of
India, was to herald global jihad in Kashmir.
What was the latest mission of HM
jihadis like Manan Wani? It was to derail democracy. It was to terrorize
Kashmiris against participating in the local elections. In this regard, the
National Conference (NC) and the PDP are on the same page. They boycotted the
elections. They appealed to the Supreme Court that in view of the elections,
hearing on Article 35A petition should be postponed. Once it was postponed
there was no reason to boycott the elections. But Pakistan wanted it that way.
There are strong reasons
for boycott of elections by the NC and the PDP. The main reason is of course,
Pakistan; the second reason is that the Muftis and Abdullahas are apprehensive
that these elections may throw up new leaders; and third being that the
elections may usher in new internal dynamics within the state. It is for no
reason, that most acts of terror by the jihadi groups have occurred in South Kashmir, PDP’s stronghold, during this period. These elections are
also a mirror to the Indian Establishment regarding the reality of J&K. The
reality is that Valley based political parties have no concern for the
democratic aspirations of people of Jammu, Kargil and Laddakh, where the voting
percentage has been very high.
The moot question is
whether the jihadis in form of militants, separatists and mainstream
politicians are really serious about Islam, jihad or Kashmir? Is their patron
Pakistan serious about it? Are the radicals in AMU, JNU, Jadhavpur, Osmania are
serious about it? Are the jihadi leaders like Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar and
Sayeed Salahudeen serious about it? Are the Maulvis serious about it? Not the
least.
If that had been the case, at least
some of them would have raised storm about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in
Xinjiang province of China. In the Xinjiang province, men cannot sport beard,
women cannot wear burqas, officials cannot observe Ramzan, children cannot be
named Mohammad, the concept of ‘halal’ has been banned and there is a massive
anti-burial drive launched by Xi Jinping since 2012. The Chinese dispensation
is of the belief that burials are the cause of shrinking agricultural land,
thus impacting on food security.
Why the Kashmiri leaders and others
who espouse the jihadi cause in the subcontinent, silent about China’s setting
up of re-education camps for Muslims.
Why the Kashmiri leaders and others
who espouse the jihadi cause in the subcontinent, silent about China’s setting up
of re-education camps for Muslims. It is because they revel in the fact that
China as Pakistan is antagonistic, adversarial or even inimical to Hindu
majority India.
The former PWD minister of
J&K, Naeem Akhtar in an interview had said that the main player in J&K
is China and JeM is the adopted child of that country. The Chinese are
leveraging on JeM to keep India boxed in, so that the strategic alignment with
the US is circumscribed. Pakistan as mentioned earlier vetoes all resolutions
against China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in 57-member OIC. The Kashmiri
separatists therefore are religious hypocrites, who have two standards on Islam
and jihad, i.e. one for India and another for China and Pakistan. Basically,
Islam and Jihad is an instrumentality for the Kashmiri separatists and their
allies to wreck India. This hypocrisy has reduced the Kashmir Valley into a
moral waste land.
As per a recent report in
the Pakistan Newspaper, Dawn, about 70 Ahmediayas and Christians, who sought
asylum in Thailand, are being deported. They complained of persecution in
Pakistan. In all probability, they travelled through the sea route to Thailand.
Why this dying desperation? Many Hazara Shias have perished in the mid-ocean,
while escaping to Australia. The Pak state has driven out Shias, Ahamadis,
Christians and Hindus. It is a consequence of Wahabisation of Pakistan. The
same Wahabisation of Kashmir has driven out half a million Hindus from Kashmir
Valley. The common factor is Wahabisation and Radicalisation.
The Pakistan state is least ashamed
out these minorities including Hindus leaving the country, but the Indian state
is also not ashamed about Hindus being driven out from one of its own pieces of
territory. The tragedy is that Pakistan is an unapologetic Sunni state and
India prides in being a secular state.
After having fought three wars and
shed so much of blood of our men in uniform, with so much security forces
around, if Hindus were driven out in their own country, then there are
definitely grave inadequacies in our security thinking and security
architecture. And that grave inadequacy is that we never devoted our energies
or applied our mind on the ideology, which created Pakistan in 1947 and which
now consumes Kashmir.
During the Great Game, to cater the
threat from Russia, the British had created a security architecture by dividing
the Pashtun territory into several parts, i.e. Balochistan, NWFP and FATA. We
on the other hand persist with an architecture, which allows anti-national
forces living in the Valley, which is just seven percent of the area of
J&K, to destabilize the entire country.
