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India-Pakistan
Extremists on campuses
2017-09-05
[DAWN] A SHOCKING attack that missed its target but claimed the lives of at least two others on Eid day in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
has revealed a dangerous and apparently growing dimension of militancy in the country. Sindh MPA Khawaja Izharul Hassan, a big shot of a faction of the MQM, survived the audacious attempt on his life on Saturday, but the alleged criminal mastermind escaped the scene of the attack. Believed to have been injured in the attack, the bully boy belonging to a new outfit, Ansarul Sharia Pakistain, was quickly identified by the Sindh police: Abdul Karim Sarosh Siddiqui, a former student of the University of Karachi. The involvement in militancy of young individuals from the mainstream-education system is not a new phenomenon. Saad Aziz of the Safoora Goth carnage was a student of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, while Noreen Leghari, an MBBS student of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Hyderabad, has been implicated in ties with the bully boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

What is clear is that the higher education system in the country remains thoroughly ill equipped to either curb extremism among students or identify individuals before they are able to go on to commit violent crimes. In the wake of the latest Karachi attack, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Shah has claimed that a security audit and verification system will be introduced in the province to try and identify students with bully boy and terrorist leanings. That may be a welcome move, but it will need to be carefully implemented. The blunt instrument of the state should not be used against young people who may simply have an educational interest in different ideologies or want to practise a different kind of politics to what the state condones. The focus must be narrow and precise: religiously inspired faceless myrmidons who are on the path of violence against state and society, be they so-called lone wolves or part of an established network of militancy.

The measures that need to be taken cannot be limited to the campus either. The physical and online networks of jihad must be monitored more closely. After more than a decade of fighting militancy, why is it still relatively easy for individuals seeking to join bully boy groups to do so? Surely, as the militancy evolves, the state’s response in fighting it must evolve too. Finally, there is the original reality ie madressah networks through which a great deal of recruitment and facilitation of militancy occurs. The emergence of a new challenge does not mean long-standing threats can be ignored. More effort is needed on all fronts.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Substitute "progressivism" for "jihad" and it IS about America.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-09-05 10:46  

#1  Thought this was about America.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366   2017-09-05 06:02  

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