No course on Islamic terrorism: JNU to DMC
“Replying to a notice sent to it by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC), Jawaharlal Nehru University said that no course on ‘Islamic terrorism’ was proposed at its academic council meeting,” said DMC chairman Zafarul Islam Khan. He said JNU provided the DMC with a copy of the minutes of the 145th Academic Council meeting on May 18, where the concept paper on the proposed ‘Centre for National Security Studies’ was placed for discussion. Staff Reporter
Also, he said that the Registrar Pramod Kumar had said “there was no course on ‘Islamic terror’ proposed in the academic council.”
However, the chairman added that contrary to the assurance given by the Registrar of JNU, the concept paper does include ‘Islamic terrorism’ as part of ‘key areas’ of the proposed centre which will first do the research before teaching them.
“The commission has written back to JNU saying the proposed Centre is a good initiative and the country needs it but the introduction of ‘Islamic terrorism’ as a subject of research and teaching at the Centre is ‘flawed’ and will ‘deteriorate’ the communal atmosphere on the campus and beyond and will create wrong notions about Muslims”, Mr. Khan said.
‘Adopt religious terrorism’
He added that JNU has been advised to adopt “religious terrorism” instead of “Islamic terrorism” as a subject of study and teaching at the proposed Centre so as to cover all forms of terrorism using religion to spread terror.
