Thursday, November 13, 2014

Bangladeshi instructors indoctrinating young Muslims in madrassas: Study

Training the future terrorists,,,



Bangladeshi instructors indoctrinating young Muslims in madrassas: Study

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bangladeshi-instructors-indoctrinating-young-Muslims-in-madrassas-Study/articleshow/45126069.cms


Bangladeshi instructors indoctrinating young Muslims in madrassas: Study
The report, submitted to the Union home ministry last month, has raised concern over the mushrooming of unaided and unregulated madrassas along the Indo-Bangladesh or Indo-Nepal border in West Bengal, Assam and Terai region.
 
NEW DELHI: A discreet survey of the country's madrassas by the Modi government has reportedly found the foreigners teaching there — mostly Bangladeshi instructors — who have managed to acquire Indian documents, to be a key source of indoctrination among the young Indian Muslims. In fact, the study, purportedly instituted by an arm of the security establishment, seeks to absolve the Indian madrassas teachers of charges of feeding anti-national or subversive agenda under the garb of religious education.

The report, submitted to the Union home ministry last month, has raised concern over the mushrooming of unaided and unregulated madrassas along the Indo-Bangladesh or Indo-Nepal border in West Bengal, Assam and Terai region. "Many of these seminaries have foreign teachers, mostly Bangladeshis who have worked closely with elements associated with outfits such as Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh. They digress from the normal religious teachings and 'correct' interpretation of Islam by madrassas having Indian teachers, and highlight the alleged atrocities on Indian Muslims through videos and other provocative material. The aim is to exploit the feeling of alienation or disgruntlement among the young impressionable Muslims, with the larger purpose of radicalizing them to take up jihadi terror," said a senior official who has perused the report on madrassas across the country.

Sources indicated that the government is contemplating a separate study to identify the "foreigner" teachers who may be dispensing jihadi doctrine at madrassas, particularly those located close to the border with Bangladesh and Nepal.

Incidentally, the study on madrassas across the country has highlighted how, unlike the aided madrassas that are under the control of a board and which teach normal curriculum apart from religious education, the unaided madrasas are unregulated and limit their focus to religious teachings. A senior intelligence official pointed out that unaided madrassas are a prime area of concern as their religion-centric curriculum does not ensure employability of the pass-outs. "This pushes them further towards radicalization," said the official.

The concern over foreign instructors at Indian madrassas is explained by the fact that most of the Burdwan blasts accused are Bangladeshis who were indoctrinating Muslim men and women in West Bengal and teaching them how to make bombs for terror acts in Bangladesh as well as India. A key arrested accused, Sajid, was a Bangladeshi carrying fake Indian identity documents and was lead trainer at Simulia madrasa in Burdwan and Lalgola madrasa in Murshidabad. So much so, men and women at these madrassas were repeatedly shown videos of atrocities on Indian Muslims and imparted training in bomb-making and handling of arms. Though the larger purpose of JMB, which was running a terror module in West Bengal, was to create an Islamic state in Bangladesh and the three West Bengal districts of Malda, Nadia and Murshidabad, it is now amply clear that there were terror designs on India as well.

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