Ban Madrasas to save India from terror : Togadia

Kochi (Kerala): India will never be able to fight terrorism until and unless an effective ban is imposed on all Madrasas in the country, Praveen Togadia, international general secretary, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has said.

On the second day of his visit to Kerala, Togadia asked the people to remember that Taliban was created in the hundreds of Madrasas. He told newsmen that it grew up teaching Jehad in Pakistan. “This should not be replicated in any part of our country,” he said.

The curriculum of the Madrasas was the same in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Saudi Arabia and the teachings there would only create more terrorists, he said. India was a secular country and the teaching of Jehadi, which was creating fundamentalists, could not be tolerated, he said. Action should be taken against the Madrasas for propagating hatred in the minds of the people, he demanded.

Condemning Jehadi attacks across the world, including those America and Britain, Togadia said the countries in the West had passed tough and potent laws to ensure that attacks on the innocent people did not take place.

He criticized the decision of the Kerala Government to provide pension to the Madrasa teachers, saying that the Government should withdraw the decision as it would only foster the growth of religious schools, which taught killing of innocent people.


Referring to the global economic slowdown, Togaida said the recession should be attributed to petrol Jehadi practised by the OPEC countries, “mainly the Muslim nations.”

On the BJP’s renewed commitment to build Ram Temple in Ayodha, the VHP functionary said that the temple should be constructed without breaking any law. Hoping that BJP would include the construction of Ram temple in its election manifesto, he said the temple should be built by passing a law in Parliament, if the BJP came to power in the Centre.

Togadia said that were three ways of setting up the temple. These were through negotiation with the Muslims, through the intervention of the Judiciary and by passing a law in Parliament, he said.

“We oppose the first two propositions and the party should take the third route to construct the temple, Togadia, who was in Kochi to participate in a VHP public meeting, said.

In the wake of strong indications that Pakistani elements were involved in the Mumabi attacks, Togadia urged the Centre to snap ties with the neighbouring country. There was strong and sufficient evidence of the involvement of Pakistan in the attacks but India was keeping friendly ties with them, he said. The government had failed in handling Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks and it was foolishness to continue friendly ties with that country, he said.

On the stand-off between government and the LTTE in Sri Lanka, Togadia said the Centre should exert pressure on the Sri Lankan Government for protecting human rights of the Tamils in the island nation. He alleged the Centre and the Tamil Nadu Government were not doing enough to protect the rights of the Tamils, who were denied of medicine and other essentials.

Inaugurating the district conference of the VHP in Thrissur the other day, Togadia asked the various Christian churches to abandon conversion efforts and to join hands with the Hindus.

There also he said the move of the Kerala Government to provide pension to Madrasa teachers would only lead to promotion of extremism.

He said that extremism had come under control in Britain and America after laws were enacted there to imprison those who taught or learned Jehad in the Madrasas.

After landing at the Kochi airport earlier, Togadia said millions of people had been badly affected due to loss of jobs following the economic recession in the country.

At the same time, about three crore Muslims from Bangladesh were illegally working in India, he alleged. They should be deported soon so that Indians, who suffered from lack of employment, would secure jobs, he said.

Togadia said his organisation had plans to organize 5,000 meetings all over the country to highlight the adverse impact of Islamic Jehadi terrorism and economic slowdown.

Source: Daily Pioneer