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| Zakir Naik to address seminar on Aug 10 | | Radicalization of Kashmir University | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 7: Kashmir University is not a house of learning in the real sense of the term. It has on its staff teachers who are known for their anti-India views. In fact, many of them are part of the ongoing movement in Kashmir. They are contributing to the movement in their own way. Their names are too well-known, as they are holding very important positions in the institution and taking part in seminars, which are essentially anti-India. They are also writing extensively on Kashmir and solution to the Kashmir issue and their writings leave none in any doubt as to what they stand for. Kashmir University itself has organized several themes on controversial issues. It also provided platform to former interlocutors like Dilip Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar, where the demand of azadi was discussed. Padgaonkar had asked some students of Kashmir University in 2010 to prepare a roadmap for Kashmir's azadi and promised that he would discuss the same with them during his next visit to Kashmir. Radha Kumar had even gone to the extent of saying that the interlocutors would urge the Government of India to amend the Indian Constitution to accommodate the azadi demand. The University of Kashmir has also provided a platform to Zakir Hussain, president of Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), which is known for promoting radical ideology among the followers of a particular religion. The IRF is as controversial as Zakir Hussain. He would arrive in the Valley on August 10 and address a women-centric seminar. His wife Farhat Zakir Naik will also address the seminar.
The seminar will be reportedly held in the convocation Hall of Kashmir University and this will be for the first time that the IRF is organizing a seminar in which several lectures will be delivered by "scholars", including Naik's wife and sister. Some "scholars" will also deliver "detailed speeches about the changing trends of life style among the women in Kashmir". As per reports, the seminar IRF will commence at 1.30 p.m. on August 10 and will conclude at 6 p.m. in the evening. The reports also said that "organizers of the seminar…expect huge participation of women across valley in the event as the same is women centric and the veteran Islamic scholars are all set to deliver lectures that would cover the issue of westernization and the Islamic concept of women rights". Only women will be allowed to attend the seminar, the reports also said. It is not difficult to anticipate as to what Zakir Hussain and others will say in the seminar. He and others of his ilk would surely say things which would further radicalize the Kashmiri society. It is the duty of Governor N N Vohra to assert his authority as being the Chancellor of Kashmir University so that no controversial event takes place on the campus. He is duty bound to take care of those who, instead of upholding the sanctity of this academic institution, has, according to many, become a den of undesirable activities. |
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