Sangh Parivar

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A
few publicly known facts expose the state of the debate on Islamist
terror. After the blast in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat Police kept
uncovering, defusing dozens of live bombs in Surat that fortunately did
not explode. Even as the recovery of such bombs was being telecast live
on TV channels on August 5, a Delhi court lifted the ban on SIMI,
faulting the UPA Government for providing "no fresh evidence" to
continue the ban.

The
real story followed after this. Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mr Lalu
Prasad Yadav, the two crutches of the UPA, welcomed the lifting of the
ban, saying that the ban itself was wrong in the first place. Congress
spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said the court decision was "no set-back"
for the Congress! He went one step further and said, "It is the State
Governments which are investigating the matter so it's their
responsibility to submit the evidence against SIMI to the Union
Government," almost implying that no evidence exists against SIMI.




Other
secular parties, including those with the NDA, were careful not to
fault the Government for allowing the SIMI to escape the charge of
terror. Stunned by the court's view that "fresh evidence" of terror was
necessary to continue with the ban, the Government rushed to the
Supreme Court and got the tribunal's order stayed.




It
was in the background of such prevarication on SIMI that the Gujarat
Police broke the news on August 16 that it had arrested 10 top SIMI
activists who had masterminded the Gujarat blasts; and also the blasts
in Rajasthan and elsewhere. It also came out with the irrefutable story
of how the terrorists conspired.




When
the 'secularists' were handing out a negative certificate of good
conduct to SIMI, thanks to the court order, a study by the Institute of
Conflict Management, headed by KPS Gill, had already catalogued over a
hundred incidents from 2000 to July 2008 that characterised SIMI as a
terror outfit. Its cadre had been charged as motivators and
perpetrators in major terror attacks between 2002-08. State
Governments, including the Congress and Communist, and the UPA at the
Centre, had told courts and Parliament at different times that SIMI was
an anti-national, terrorist organisation; that it was linked to
Lashker-e-Tayyeba and other Islamist terror outfits; that huge
quantities of arms and ammunition, including RDX, were seized from
their hideouts and cadre.




In
February 2007, the Supreme Court said that SIMI had not stopped its
activities when its counsel pleaded that after 2003 there was no
evidence to link it to anti-national activities. Moreover, the
Maharashtra Police had alleged in a chargesheet that SIMI was linked to
Pakistan.




After it was founded in 1977 for the propagation of Islam and
jihad

in the cause of Islam, how did SIMI grow to this menacing proportions?
The answer is pretty simple. It received open and clandestine political
patronage from the 'seculars'.




The
NDA Government first banned SIMI in September 2001 and extended the ban
thereafter in 2003 which continued till September 2005. The UPA
Government, which came to power in 2004, did not extend the ban when it
expired in September 2005, thus helping to revive a disintegrating
SIMI.




But
why did the UPA not continue the ban? Because the Congress had opposed
the first ban on SIMI in 2001. It was Mr Salman Kurshid, president of
the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee, who was the counsel defending
SIMI in the High Court and in the Supreme Court against the ban.




See
how these secular admirers of SIMI defended the terror outfit that was
anti-secular, anti-democracy, anti-India. The Government of the very
same party had to re-impose the ban in 2006 after its own Maharashtra
Government found SIMI involved in the Mumbai train bombings. But this
was after SIMI had grown to gigantic proportions.




Yet,
even now Congress president Sonia Gandhi has not uttered a single word
against SIMI. Does it mean that she admires it? Or she is so saintly
that, like one of the three noble monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi, she sees
no evil, whether it is SIMI or LTTE or Nalini or Afzal -- the RSS and
its allies being the only exceptions.

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