South Asia Citizens Web

It is absolutely urgent to revisit our education policy now. The offshoots of unprecedented extremism and violence, we are suffering from, are definitely located in our educational system and policy content too.

Jared Lee Loughner killed six Americans and left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life in Tucson. His motives are variously given as drug-related lunacy and links with America’s Christian Right, of which Republican politician Sarah Palin is deemed an icon. A copy of Mein Kampf was recovered from his belongings.
Malik Mumtaz Qadri killed Pakistan politician Salman Taseer in a similarly unequal contest between a liberal worldview and zealotry that claims a divine alibi. In India, Swami Asimanand, a self-confessed guru of Hindutva terrorists that wreaked havoc across the country and blamed it on Muslims, is in jail.

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the revered 12th century sufi saint of Ajmer, must have turned in his grave in agony at the prayers recently offered to him by certain Muslims belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party—not least because these were for the benefit of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh national executive member Indresh Kumar. Kumar is being investigated by the CBI and the National Investigation Agency for plotting multiple bombings against Muslim places of worship in 2006-08, and blasts on the Samjhauta Express in February 2008, which left 68 dead. Among the targets were mosques in Malegaon and Hyderabad, and the Khwaja’s dargah, no less.

The Pearl Project spent more than three years investigating the roles of 27 men linked to the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl

A resolution was presented to condemn the murder of Salman Taseer Shaheed, during Peoples SAARC meeting/conference in Dhaka on January 18-19 th, 2011. Resolution was unanimously adopted by the house.