{"id":38241,"date":"2017-02-18T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=38241"},"modified":"2017-02-18T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T11:15:57","slug":"calendar-praising-kashmiri-terrorists-distributed-among-amu-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=38241","title":{"rendered":"Calendar Praising Kashmiri Terrorists Distributed Among AMU Students – Hindu Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calendar celebrating\u00a0Kashmiri Islamist terrorists distributed in premier Muslim University \u2013 no big deal. Calendar featuring PM Modi instead of Mahatma Gandhi issued by an obscure Government organization \u2013 WAR. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the moral compass of\u00a0our mainstream media and Lutyens\u2019 elites.
\nAfter the mountain out of a mole hill \u2018controversy\u2019 over PM Modi appearing in the annual KVIC\u00a0calendar (probably<\/a> an act of an over-eager bureaucrat), comes news of another calendar \u2013 one featuring Kashmiri Islamist terrorists such as Burhan Wani and Afzal Guru \u2013 which was distributed among students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).<\/p>\n

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Calendar hailing Kashmiri terrorists like Burhani Wani and Afzal Guru, distributed among AMU students. Courtesy: uttarpradesh.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As per regional news portal uttarpradesh.org<\/a>, this calendar was recently distributed among students of AMU and features Kashmiri terrorists like Burhan Wani, Afzal Guru, Maqbool Bhatt and separatist leaders like Masarat Alam, besides others.
\nThe portal claims that both State and Central authorities\u00a0are aware of this dangerous development, but while\u00a0central intelligence agencies have already shared an interim report with Home Ministry, UP State Government and police are downplaying the incident. UP anti-terrorist squad chief Asim Arun (IG IPS) was unreachable for comment.<\/p>\n

Reality check on \u2018progressive\u2019 AMU<\/h3>\n

AMU is the premier Muslim minority institution in Bharat, along with Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. It is touted as the fountainhead of progressive, modern, enlightened Muslim thinking in the country. Originally established by Syed Ahmad Khan as Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, it later became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920. AMU\u2019s\u00a0motto is \u2018allam al-ins\u0101n-a m\u0101 lam ya\u02bblam\u2019 \u2013 Taught man what he knew not (Qur\u2019an 96:5).<\/em>
\nWhile Syed Ahmad Khan is known\u00a0as an Islamic reformist and promoter of Western-style scientific education, what is less well known is that it was he who coined the two-nation theory\u00a0influencing Allama Iqbal & Jinnah. AMU was one of the main factors that led to the communal Partition of Bharat.\u00a0All through his life, Syed Ahmed Khan extended unflinching support<\/a> to the British invaders against those struggling for the reestablishment of indigenous rule. He tried to inculcate in the minds of the Muslims the feeling that they constituted a distinct superior nation, and stridently opposed the \u2018Hindu\u2019 Congress. He once claimed<\/a> that \u201cUrdu was the language of gentry and Hindi that of the vulgar.\u201d His educational and political work was\u00a0centred around and exclusively for Muslim interests.
\nWhile fearful of the loss of Muslim political power owing to the community\u2019s backwardness, Syed Ahmed was also averse to the prospect of democratic self-government, which would give control of government to the Hindu-majority population.
\nThe Muslim supremacist streak still persists in AMU, which despite being funded entirely by taxpayers\u2019 money<\/a> still desires a \u2018minority\u2019 tag. Even the original stress on developing scientific temper has given way to rising influence of Islamism, as this article<\/a>\u00a0by noted analyst Tufail Ahmed shows \u2013
\n\u201cIts (AMU\u2019s) negligible role in scientific innovation, original research in social sciences, or excellence in other fields reflects the following: a comprehensive failure to recruit and promote meritorious teachers, lack of progressive culture and free thinking among students, inability to promote a culture of debate and questioning on campus, and the like. In that sense, AMU mirrors the wider Muslim society.\u00a0<\/em>
\nIn India and abroad, it is understood that universities should be administered by academics who better understand their needs. However, it seems that Muslim societies have a predilection for Islamism and authoritarianism<\/strong>, factors evident in the governance of leading minority institutions like the AMU and the Jamia Millia Islamia of Delhi. Regionalism, feudalism and Islamism are undermining north Indian Muslim educational institutions, combined with a failure in the voluntary education sector. P K Abdul Aziz, a southerner from Kerala [state of India] who did not speak Urdu and did not bend to the pulls of the feudal, Islamist and regional lobbies of north Indians on the AMU campus, was accused of being an enemy of Urdu and forced to quit as VC.<\/em>
\nAMU vice chancellor retired Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah pledged to turn the university into an \u201cintellectual powerhouse\u201d but Shah has recently shunned the path of setting up expert committees to recruit academics. Instead, he has misused emergency powers to appoint professors, notably in the departments of West Asian studies, English and electronics engineering\u2014one of them being a retired major general with no teaching experience in West Asian studies, another an Islamist ideologue with no research experience in English and a third from the Tablighi Jamaat<\/strong> with no degree in electronics. Shah, a former deputy chief of Indian Army, has relied on recruiting retired military officials to key offices, notably Brig Syed Ahmad Ali as pro-VC, Gr. Captain Shahrukh Shamshad as registrar and another as an intermediate college principal.<\/em>\u201c<\/em>
\nIn a recent article<\/a> \u2018Is Aligarh Muslim University, once again, leading a campaign for Partition of India?\u2019, <\/em>Tufail Ahmed shows\u00a0how AMU is once again at the forefront of Islam-based advocacy by demanding reservation for Muslims in order to eradicate their \u201csocial and educational backwardness.\u201d That such sectarian demands are emanating from the likes of AMU pro-vice chancellor Brigadier (retd) Syed Ahmad Ali, who served 35 years in the Indian Army, is doubly worrying.
\nIncidentally,\u00a0AMU vice chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah is the brother of noted Bollywood\u00a0actor Naseeruddin Shah who believes\u00a0that India \u2018bullies\u2019 Pakistan and that \u2018Indians are being brainwashed into believing Pakistan to be the enemy.\u2019
\nThe reason that institutions like AMU & \u2018liberal\u2019 Muslims like the Shah brothers escape critical questioning is because in the politically correct \u2018secular\u2019 world, raising such questions is tantamount to hate-mongering and stereotyping of Muslims. So Hindus are told to dig their\u00a0heads in the sand, and let the AMU mindset breed in its silo.<\/p>\n

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Calendar celebrating\u00a0Kashmiri Islamist terrorists distributed in premier Muslim University \u2013 no big deal. Calendar featuring PM Modi instead of Mahatma Gandhi issued by an obscure Government organization \u2013 WAR. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the moral compass of\u00a0our mainstream media and Lutyens\u2019 elites. After the mountain out of a mole hill \u2018controversy\u2019 over PM Modi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}