Asks why Delhi Police shot picture of a stranger with his hand on the wall of masjid and madrasa in Dharampur locality in Samastipur
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Since 22nd November 2011, about a dozen Muslim youths – some engineering students – of Bihar have been picked from Madhubani, Darbhanga, Samastipur and Araria in Bihar and some other states in connection with several unsolved terror cases. The Muslim community including religious leaders and politicians has condemned the arrests on mere suspicion. Akhtarul Islam Shaheen, MLA from Samastipur town, says all this is a conspiracy of RSS in collaboration with their friendly Bihar government just to malign and terrorise the Muslim community. He asks why a Delhi Police team one day brought a stranger to the Muslim-dominated Dharampur locality in Samastipur town and clicked his photos with his hand on the wall of the masjid and madrasa of the mohalla. Will they make a story one day and claim terrorists were being trained at the masjid and madrasa?
Interview with Akhtarul Islam Shaheen
TCN: When you saw media reports recently about alleged arrest of some terror suspect from Samastipur particularly Dharampur locality in last two weeks, what was your feeling?
A: I felt very bad. But when I enquired about it because it was a serious issue of terrorism, I found none was arrested from the locality. Hindi daily Hindustan had published baseless story about the arrest. None was arrested from Dharampur or Samastipur. Media also ran the story of an arrest from Mohiuddin Nagar area in the district, but next day the youth was released and no media covered the release. All highlighted arrest and it was spread in the world that terrorists were arrested from Samastipur but none published news about release.
TCN: Isn’t it true that a team of Delhi Police had come to Dharampur locality last week for some terror enquiry?
A: Yes, one day a team of Delhi Police had come to Dharampur locality. They had brought a person with them. We do not know who the person was. The team visited the house where the person had allegedly lived for couple of months some years back, they enquired and returned. But before leaving the locality, the police team took the person near the mosque in the mohalla. They clicked his photo with his hand on the wall of the mosque. Then they clicked his photo with his hand on the wall of the adjoining madrasa. He was an unknown person. He was not resident of the mohalla. The Imam of the mosque objected it and asked the team who the person was and why they were shooting this stranger’s photo in this pose near the mosque and madrasa.
When this news came to us we got that this is part of a conspiracy being hatched for last several years against the Muslim community. They shot his photo near the mosque and madrasa and one day they will come up with a story and will claim that at this madrasa and mosque in Dharampur terrorists were being trained. We often see such stories on TV and in press and we would often believe the story but when this happened in my locality, we knew this all is fabricated story.
Akhtarul Islam Shaheen
TCN: Since 22nd November 2011, about a dozen youths belonging to Bihar have been picked in terror cases either from Bihar or some other places in the country. Bihar was nowhere on the radar of terrorism. Why all of a sudden Bihar has allegedly become hub of terrorists?
A: Till before 5-6 years, there was no name of Bihar Muslim youth in such terror activities. When we deeply think about this change in last five years, we come to know that those who are hatching conspiracy against the Muslim community in the country have got support from the present state government of Bihar.
With the arrest of some extremist Hindus in last few years, now the entire country knows that who were really behind the terror attacks in the country. The Hindu extremists were doing this and innocent Muslim youths were picked who would get acquitted after spending 4-5 years in jail. It seems that masterminds of those blasts have now found their friendly government in Bihar and they are infiltrating here too. After all, why there was no Muslim terrorist in Bihar five years back but now all of a sudden they are raiding mohallas and picking Muslim youths in the name of terror? They are maligning the community and Muslim areas. This all is a sinister design of RSS people sitting in Delhi and other parts of the country in collaboration with the state government. We strongly condemn this malicious campaign. We secular people and parties will sit together and oppose it.
(Video and Photo shot by Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net)