Author: S. Chandrasekhar
Publication: Organiser
Date: July 28, 2002
Introduction: Article glorifying
Osama in college magazine
The Communists have always sided
with forces detrimental to India. When the youth of India rallied around
Subhash Chandra Bose, they called him a Boot-licker of the Japanese. Similarly,
when the whole Nation reverberated with the slogan of 'Quit India', they
acted as spies of the British. Following the same line, the Kerala CPM
has always helped and promoted Islamic fundamentalism. It was Comrade E.M.S.
who gave them a Muslim-majority district of Malappuram, which is now the
hot-bed of ISI activity. Similarly extremist organisations like ISS, PDP
and NDF have thrived under CPM rule. Support rallies for Saddam Hussain
and Osama bin Laden taken out by Islamic extremists have received overt
and covert support of CPM. The CPM leaders and left intellectuals have
joined signature campaigns for release of Abdul Nasser Madhani from Coimbatore
prison.
In this continuing trend, the SFI-controlled
College Union of SNDP College at Konni in Pathanamthitta district, has
brought out a college magazine, in which an article praising and glorifying
Osama bin Laden has been published. Captioned "Now LET Osama Speak", it
is an autoprofile in which Osama portrays himself as a crusader of the
poor Muslims the world over. He says he has organised voluntary strike
force to wage wars for the cause of Muslims who are struggling in Kashmir,
Chechnya and Palestine. Osama asks whether it is a fault to extend training
to Pakistan jehadis who demand Kashmir, which is part of their very self?
Osama further says it is his God-ordained duty for extending arms- training
to the Muslim brethren. Laden further justifies the New York attacks, the
Pentagon attacks, the Palestine suicide-bombings in Israel and the
jehad on Indian security forces in Kashmir. He concludes that Islam will
produce more Ladens and will control the whole world.
The ABVP and the Sree Narayana Youth
Movement have organised wide protests against this anti-national article.
As a result of this, the SNDP Yogam Management had suspended further issue
of the magazine and had removed the Principal who is also the Chief Editor.
But SFI leaders like Najeeb S. Kalleli have started forcibly issuing the
magazine and have organised processions of SFI and DYFI activists to the
SNDP Yogam office at Pathanamthitta calling for reinstatement of the removed
principal.
The SNDP Yogam General Secretary
Shri Vellapalli Natesan has alleged in a press conference that this anti-national
article in the college magazine of an institution owned by the SNDP Yogam
was a CPM and SFI conspiracy to tarnish it. He said the CPM and its front
organisations were trying their level best to target SNDP Yogam by levelling
false charges against it. He has called upon the State and Central Governments
to probe this anti-National propaganda through a college magazine, since
the girl student, in whose name the article was published, has denied writing
the article. He also demanded a CBI probe since he suspects that a wider
conspiracy is involved.
For the CPM which has been fighting
a lost battle with the SNDP Yogam, this issue speaks of a clear strategy
on its part. By dubbing the SNDP Yogam as anti-Hindu and anti-National,
it can thwart the emerging SNDP-RSS co-operation.
