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25000 Wahabi
scholars visited India last year
Vicky
Nanjappa
Vickynanjappa.com
June
26, 2014
A
shocking report by the Intelligence Bureau suggests that last year 25000
Islamic scholars preaching the extremely ultra conservative form of Wahabi
Islam had visited India. The details of the report pertaining to the year 2013
show that many of them had come in the guise of visitors on a tourist visa from
20 different countries and had participated in events in 15 states which
attracted a crowd of nearly 12,00,000 people.
Does
India need to worry about this? Very much say the experts and security agencies
and if one looks at the report these scholars have managed to visit states such
as Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, Kerala,
Bihar, Maharashtra and Jharkhand. The statistics of 2013 would show a large
number of such preachers visiting India, but the fact remains that these
persons have been coming into India in large numbers since the year 2005. There
has been a sudden surge in the visit by these hardcore who preach the harshest
form of Islam which today is being practiced by groups such as the ISIS and the
Taliban.
It is
an indirect way to indoctrinate the youth and during their preaching they
emphasis on the implementation of the Sharia law in its worst form. They speak
about the importance of this law and also tell the youth that the only way to
save the religion is through the implementation of this law. Surprisingly these
sessions had a lot of takers and the estimated crowd that attended last year
was around 12 lakh.
The
preachers who landed in India were mainly from Saudi Arabia where a good number
of people subscribe to this ultra conservative form of Islam. Most of these
preachers who came to India on a tourist visa move around in the hardcore
Tablighi Jamaats who arrange for such meetings. These are all very powerful
speakers and unfortunately several youth have been inspired by such talks.
Intelligence
Bureau officials say that apart from the Tablighi Jamaat invitations to such
scholars preaching Wahabi Islam were sent out by other organsations such as the
Ahl-e-Hadis and Jamaat Nizamuddin Markaz.
If one
takes a look at the interrogation report of the Indian Mujahideen operatives,
they speak in great appreciation of the Wahabi form of Islam. Yasin Bhatkal
himself during the report said that the idea is to implement the Sharia law and
the IM was formed with this intention in mind.
Apart
from the security threat emerging due to the indoctrination of some of the
youth through these seminars, there is also a chance of hell breaking lose
between the Muslim community too. India’s 20 crore Muslim population today has
80 per cent of them subscribing to the moderate form of Islam. However the
worry is the gradual rise in the number of Muslims subscribing to the Wahabi
form of Islam.
Around
10 years back the number of such Muslims was around 8 to 10 per cent and today
it has gone up to 20. What the security agencies fear is that on one hand some
youth especially from hardcore belts such as Kerala and Bihar get attracted to
these foreign preachers. One the other hand there is a good chance of India
becoming a conflict zone such as Iraq between the hardcores and the moderates.
The number of the hardcore is rising and needs to be stopped. For this the
scrutiny process of such scholars visiting India should be enhanced.
Seminars
which they are part of should be looked into carefully and these indoctrination
programmes should be brought under check says the Intelligence Bureau official.
Further with the crisis in Iraq gaining supporters among the hardcore even in
India, we need to watch out and if by any chance the same occurs in Afghanistan
once the West leaves, then India will have a lot of trouble to deal with, the
officer also says.
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