This is an investigation into some institutions claiming to be religious schools but acting as facilitators for terrorist outfits abroad. It is based on top-secret reports of Indian Intelligence.
It is a saga of the madarsas preaching jehad to highly impressionable minds. The second part dealing with how Madarsas are terror factories, their anatomy, spread and funding, and the third one _ ``Even as Pakistan controls the Jihad factories, we protect them here'' _ will be carried on Saturday and on Monday respectively.
Laskhar-e-Toiba, LeT for short, is a Jehadi outfit, a merchant of terror, based in Pakistan. It has always targeted India. Now, the US is also its target. It has carried out a hundred terror strikes on us. and was involved in the hijack of an Indian Airlines flight to Kandahar.
It was LeT that laid siege on the Indian Parliament. It was also responsible for eliminating US journalist Pearl. India has been pleading with the US to declare it as a terrorist outfit. The US had brushed aside our demand till Islamic terror struck at the World Trade Centre. The first act of the US after that was to get Pakistan to ban this terror outfit. But that is only in name.
Harkat-ul-Ansar, HuA for short; in its previous incarnation, Harkat- ul-Mujhadeen, is cast in the same mould.
Yes. Terror, LeT or HuA, operates from outside. But it has facilitators within. They cannot target India without such facilitators. Here is an investigation into how terror is facilitated from within. Facilitated by institutions claiming to be pious religious schools, protected by secular polity as sacred minority institutions. They shelter, harbour, launch, provide cover for terror and terrorists.
Let us get to the heart of the matter straightaway. The story is long and instances have a disgusting similarity about them. But it has to be told; and read, in the larger national interest.
Azam Cheema is the Launching Commander of LeT for India. His duty and expertise are to launch the Jehadis into India. See how this is done.
Azam Cheema instructs Abu Sayeed. Who is Abu Sayeed? He is in Khurja in UP. His business is to harbour terrorists. Azam instructs Sayeed to give letters of commendation for Abu Shoib and Abu Waheed, both LeT Jehadis from Pakistan, to facilitate their launch into India. To strike at India; for Jehad against it. Whom does he address? Mustafa. Who is he? This is where the story begins. He is in charge of the 'Madarsa' of Sunni Islamic sect at Domutha Karim Bazar, in Malda District, in West Bengal. So the connection is from Pakistan to UP via Malda in West Bengal. The address is the 'madarsa' at Malda.
Azam Cheema instructs again. Not the same, but, a different Abu Sayeed, an LeT Jehadi. To do what? To go to Abdul Majid. Who is he? Majid is in charge of 'Madarsa' Ahle Hadis, with address at No 988 Pan Mandi, Sadar Bazar, Delhi. Azam instructs Abu Sayeed to go to Majid for shelter for carrying out Jehad in India. Again note the address of the contact, the shelter. Madarsa. This is in Delhi, India's capital. Not in a distant village.
Significantly, a diary seized from Abdul Mateen, a Pak national gave out details of the Indian contacts of Harkat-ul-Ansar [HuA], the dreaded terrorist outfit. What were the contacts? ±First Pervez Azam Khan, studying in 'Madarsa' Nadvah-ul-Uloom, Lucknow, in Room No 11; two, Mustafizur Rehman who teaches in the 'Madarsa' at Farah, Mathura District, in UP; third, Naweed Shahid of 25 Azami Manzil 'Madarsa' Dar-ul-Uloom, Deoband. The terror contacts were all in madarsas, all in UP.
Who has uncovered these covert acts? The Indian Intelligence in a top- secret repor. In a meticulously documented report, it brings out the link between Madarsa and Jehad. It says more.
But before we proceed further we must know some basics.
What is a madarsa? It is an Islamic religious school. Madarsa is an Arabic term. It eans 'centre of education'. This system developed in Baghdad in Iraq in AD 173 and was introduced into India in AD 1206.
The madarsas in India are organised under four or five organisations. It is even difficult to read or pronounce their names. But that is no reason to ignore them. It is time that at least Hindus knew about them. They are Dar-ul-Uloom in Deoband [founded in 1886], madarsat-ul- Uloom, Aligarh [in 1873] and Nadvat-ul-Ulama [in 1894] Jamait-ul- Hidaya or Jel-H [1948] and of late Ahle Hadis. Each of them in very respectable Islamic academic institutions.
The whole world is concerned about the growth of Madarsas. For, Madarsas, wherever they are, in Egypt, or the Middle East, in Iraq or Iran, in Pakistan or Afghanistan, in Malaysia or Indonesia, in India or Bangladesh, are now known as the cradle of terror. The world debates Madarsa. Scrutinises it. Tries to control it. But thanks to our secular establishment most of us are ignorant of this phenomenon. Most of us do not know even the difference between Madras and madarsa. Some believe Madarsa to be a pious religious school. It may have been so. No more now. They, at least most of them, are now Jehad factories. This is what the investigation demonstrably brings out.
Now back to the main investigation. Not just in UP or West Bengal, the madarsa-linked terrorism has spread everywhere. Madarsas in India, in whichever state they are, are linked to terror.
The Intelligence report is voluminous. It cannot be captured in newspaper articles. But a fair picture of what the investigation report says needs to be given.
In Andhra Pradesh, the report says, one Amir Abdullah, an ISI instructor, had asked Mohd. Asmal Chon, an LeT terrorist, who operated under three aliases, to contact Abdul Gafoor Nadvi, who runs a 'madarsa' at Telgugiri street in Karnool.
In Assam, says the report, interrogation of Abul Kasem, a HuM activist revealed that Hafisia 'Madarsa' had links with Muslim militant outfits and had sheltered Kasem and another.
In Delhi, the report quotes instance after instance of involvement of different madarsas, their students and officials, in sheltering and providing cover for Pakistani terrorists for Jehad against India. Some of them are: the 'Madarsa' in Azad market; 'Madarsa' Uloom Islamia at Chitli Qabar; 'Madarsa' Babul Uloom Jaffarabad near Saleempur; 'Madarsa' Jamia Islamia Sanabul No 9. Yashola New Delhi - 25; 'Madarsa' Riaz-ul-Uloom Urdu Bazar, Jama Masjid. Here 'Madarsa' Babul Uloom figured thrice in evidence; Riaz-ul-Uloom 'Madarsa' also figured thrice.
Mohd. Jaleel Ansari a Pak terrorist involved in the kidnapping of three British and an American tourist was instructed from Pakistan to contact Moulvi Mehmood of Jama Masjid Delhi, who arranged accommodation for Jaleel in Azad Market madarsa.
Take Gujarat next. The report establishes at least 10 proven instances of Madarsas getting involved in recruiting and motivating terrorists, and providing cover for terrorist activities. The latest and again an illustrative instance. Asad Mohammed Munshi, a resident of Jamia Islamic Talimuddin 'Madarsa' at Dabel Navsari is a Pak- trained terrorist. He was arrested along with another terrorist on Feb 15, 2002. a huge cache of terror hard wares including 10 pistols, 12 magazines, 116 rounds of ammunition, 5 kg of RDX, 4 ABCD timers, pistol cleaning rods and a packet of detonators were recovered from them. Interrogations revealed that these terrorists were activists of HuM and the ammunition were intended for delivery at different points in India.
Next, over to Mumbai. The report says that Mohammed Ali a Pakistan ISI subversive, who operated in three names including one Hindu name, contacted Maulana Faeh Mohammed at Madarsa Miftahul Uloom, at India Market, Khairani Road, Sakinaka, Mumbai who arranged for his stay for two months.
There are at least 10 instances of proven links between Madarsa and terror in Delhi, four in J&K, 15 in UP, seven in West Bengal illustratively listed in the report.
Obviously the Maarsas are not so
pious as the seculars would have us believe. They are part of the terror.
They preach Jehad to highly impressionable minds. Jehad means war against
the infidel. Who is an infidel? In Islamic theology all non-Muslims, particularly
the idolators, the Hindus, are infidels. But the story does not end here.
Let us look at the anatomy of these Jehad factories, their funds and spread.