‘Communist regimes sponsor terrorism and Jihadi terrorism is the only form of fundamental terrorism,’ JNU hyperlinks terrorism with Communism and Islam

Upon the approval of the educational council, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) lately launched an elective course on counter-terrorism for engineering college students pursuing a twin diploma programme. The course states that “Jihadi terrorism” is the one type of “fundamentalist-religious terrorism”, and that they’ve been traditionally supported by nations with a communist background, resembling China and the Soviet Union.It states, “Terrorism has always a geographical base and support havens for its operations. State-sponsored terrorism has been largely during the ideological war between the West and the Soviet Union and China. The Soviet Union and China have been predominant state-sponsors of terrorism and they have been heavily involved in terms of their intelligence agencies training, aiding and providing logistical support to Communist ultras and terrorists,” As quickly because the contents of the topic got here to mild, a number of opposition events lodged their protest towards it. As the Communists have been referred to as out within the course, Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam, particularly took offence and wrote a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, objecting to the ‘prejudiced’ & inaccurate nature of the fabric.He wrote within the letter, “I write this letter to put forth my strong objection regarding the prejudiced and inaccurate nature of material being included in a course titled “Counter-Terrorism, Asymmetric Conflicts and Strategies for Cooperation among Major Powers” by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (UNU) as a part of the newly launched Engineering Programme. It is deeply unlucky that greater schooling is getting used as a platform to communalise and politicise geo-political points by means of the presentation of half-truths and academically dishonest info.”CPI Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam writes to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, elevating objection to ‘prejudiced & inaccurate nature of fabric being included in JNU course titled Counter-Terrorism, Asymmetric Conflicts & Strategies for Cooperation amongst Major Powers’ pic.twitter.com/AfvLNUIC0w— ANI (@ANI) August 31, 2021Viswam stated that the BJP, impressed by the RSS, is attempting to advertise hatred and attempting to impose a syllabus that preaches racial supremacy. While Viswam seemed to be towards introducing the faith angle to terrorism, the CPI chief in the identical breath additionally requested as to why there was no point out of “Hindu terror” within the course.One of the modules of the brand new course, titled ‘Fundamentalist-religious Terrorism and its Impact’, reads: “Fundamentalist – religious-inspired terrorism has played a very critical and dominant role in the spawning of terrorist violence at the beginning of the 21st century. The perverse interpretation of the Koran has resulted in the rapid proliferation of jihadi cultist violence that glorifies death by terror in suicidal and homicidal variants.”Professor Arvind Kumar, Professor and Chairperson of the School of International Studies, who designed the course said that the course was wanted right now when Afghanistan was being ravaged by the Taliban. He stated, “Jihad is a global challenge. At a time when Afghanistan has been occupied by the Taliban, nothing could have been a more contemporary topic than this,”The Professor additionally added, “The fight against terrorism is an important topic from India’s perspective. At a time when many countries of the world are not paying as much attention to India’s security needs as necessary, this topic becomes even more important,”If the proposal for the stated JNU course is accredited by the Executive Council as nicely, the non-compulsory paper will probably be provided to the scholars within the new session ranging from September 20.