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States Patronage to Madrassas

Dt:  23/9/16

States Patronage  to Madrassas

T.H.Chowdary*

Under the notion that  madrasas should be  brought into the national scheme of education , the Sarva Sikhsa Abhiyan project has been funding some of these . In addition,  states run by  regional casteist parties  fishing for  minorities’,  that is Muslim votes   are funding all sorts of madrasas  and also  paying  for  Imams and muezzins in  mosques.   The expenditures on all these schemes is a sort of levy of zezia  on  Hindus   who  fill almost all the coffers of   central and state governments.    The madrasas are  Islamic  religious schools where  the children  are taught to recite the Koran in Arabic whether  they understand it or not   (it is like the Archakas in Hindu  temples reciting the manthras or hymns in Sanskrit  whether they understand,  can explain or not).

2. Why should  secular states fund  any institution  that teaches  the scriptures of a particular religion?   Besides,  except getting by heart of  Koran there is hardly any other learning which can be useful for making  a respectable  living.

3. In Telangana, there are 700 - 1000 madrasas.  The School Education Department is supposed to be knowledgeable about these as it funds under the  Sarva Siksha Abhyan some of them. Recently it was discovered  that 16  madrasas  funded  by the Sarva Siksha Abhyan are ghosts;  they exist only on paper and the money given to  them  had been guzzled by unscrupulous managers of these  madrasas.  How many more such gazzlers of tax monies of the secular state are there is  yet to be ascertained.  The position  in AP cannot be very much different from what is now  discovered  in regard to these ghost madrasas in Telangana .

 

4. Sri  Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister is reported to have said that he would like to see  a madrasa  student  with a Koran in one hand and a computer in another hand.    In the 1940s Kasim Razvi, the leader of the  Razakar goondas called upon the   Muslims of  Hyderabad  to march  to Red Fort in Delhi with Koran in one  hand and a  sword in the  other hand.  Now the sword is to be replaced by the  computer as per the wish of the  Prime Minister.   Actually, without even Sri Modi’s  wish this has already started happening . The jihadis  are taking to information war using computers and software. They are using  the information and communication technologies (ICTs)  and  the Internet.  Face Book,  and other  electronic   social media  to hack the websites of governments, to spread the message of the  Islamic State of  Iraq and Syria, recruit jihadis  and also  arrange for the  transfer of funds to them.  What is the obligation of the  secular state of  India  to foster  Muslims with special  schemes and organizations  like Minority Commission, Minority  Finance Corporation,   funding  Haj pilgrimage , Shadi Mubarak give aways , Urdu Ghars , Shadi Khanas , Muslism First programs in 92 districts  identified  by Js. Sachar Committee as Muslim intense areas  ?

5.  Madeleine Albright, the former  Secretary of  State of  USA  in her  magnificent book,  “The Mighty and the Almighty” has penned a record of her interview with the  Saudi king who said that it was  Saudi Arabia’s  sacred duty to fund madrasas and mosques all over the world.   That the  instructions in the madrasas clearly divide humanity into the believers that is momins and kafirs that is,  non-belivers  non-muslims is very widely known. It is the fundamental  ordinance in the  Koran itself.  Indeed, as brought out in the petition before the Calcutta High Court known  as the  famous Calcutta Koran Case, there are so many Ayats which preach  violence and the elimination of non-believers.  In  madrasas in the USA the literature in Arabic truthfully reproduces  the Koranic preachings while the English translations cover up, moderate or attenuate the hate and violence preaching Ayats  . This was noticed by the government examiners and  the madrasas  ordered to expunge or attenuate them to be harmless; that is no promotion of violence towards and hatred for non-believers  and the  elimination of them by jihad. 

6. India has paid very dearly by  Nehruvian  secularism  which, in effect is   anti-Hinduism and patronage to Muslims in all their desires and  demands.   The pronouncements of  Azam Khan of the Samajwad party in UP   and Asaduddin Oweisi of MIM of Hyderabad (the modern Md Ali Jinnah of Hyderabad) and even  the views of persons like  Salman Khurshid and Ghulam Nabi Azad who are the  dominant  voices and  leaders of Sonia  Congress  all point to India’s Muslims reverting to  pre-1947 two- nation theory with demands like reservations  for them ( the ruling class   for about 800 years in the country) and even  proportional representation in legislatures  and other representative  bodies ,  a demand reminiscent of  separate electorate for Muslims and that too weighted  one ( 50% more  than  what the proportion of  their population was during the British rule). 

Nationalist NDA governments   at the center and in  the states should put an end   to this undeserved preferential treatment of people of a particular religion,  that is Islam at the cost of Hindus. (843 words)- END-