Web of Jihadi terror in Tamilnadu

Web of Jihadi terror in Tamilnadu

http://www.saag.org/papers24/paper2356.html MUSLIM DEFENCE FORCE OF TAMIL NADU (ALSO SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS MUSLIM SELF-DEFENCE FORCE) (Reproduced in this post).

For a backgrounder on Thenkasi see the pictures and detailed reports at http://www.slideshare.net/kalyan97/thenkasi-terror/download

Thenkasi is the temple town of Kasi Viswanatha. See the image of gopuram of the temple.

Together with the news of terror camps unearthed in Karnataka, the indications of jihadi terror in Thenkasi point to the imperative of tackling terror as priority number one for any government of Hindusthan.

திருநெல்வேலி மாவட்டம் தென்காசியில் 6 பேர் கொலை இந்து முன்னணி தலைவர் கைது: மேலும் 3 பேர் சிக்கினர்
16 August 2007
திருநெல்வேலி மாவட்டம் தென்காசியில் நேற்று முன்தினம் இந்து முன்னணி தலைவர் குமார்பாண்டியன் கொலைக்கு பழிக்குப் பழி வாங்க அவரது சகோதரர்கள் திடீர் தாக்குதலில் ஈடுபட்டனர். அப்போது 2 தரப்பினரும் அரிவாள், கத்தி, வெடிகுண்டு போன்ற பயங்கர ஆயுதங்களுடன் மோதினார்கள்.
இதில் குமார் பாண்டியனின் சகோதரர்கள் சேகர், செந்தில், சுரேஷ் ஆகிய 3 பேரும், எதிர்தரப்பை சேர்ந்த பசீர், அசன்மைதீன், நாகூர்மீரான் ஆகிய 3 பேரும் கொடூரமாக வெட்டிக் கொலை செய்யப் பட்டனர்.
இதனால் தென்காசி பகுதியில் பதட்டம் ஏற்பட்டது. அசம்பாவிதம் ஏற்படாமல் தடுக்க பலத்த போலீஸ் பாதுகாப்பு போடப்பட்டது. இந்த கொலையில் சம்பந்தப்பட்ட சக்திபாண்டியன், கபிலன், சுப்பிரமணி சுரேந்தர், தங்ககடை சக்தி, கேபிள் முத்து, சேகர், மாரியப்பன், சண்முகம், பூக்கடை ரமேஷ், ஆட்டோ ரமேஷ், சுரேஷ், கிருஷ்ணமணி, செண்பகம் எதிர்தரப்பை சேர்ந்த அனிபா, அப்துல்லா, பசீர், அலாவுதீன், அசன்கனி, அயூப், ராஜாமுகமது, செய்யதுஅலி, மீரான்மைதீன், நவாஷ், நாகூர்மீரான், சம்சுதீன், பசுனுதீன் மற்றொரு மீரான்மைதீன் ஆகியோரை போலீசார் தேடி வந்தனர்.
முதல்கட்டமாக குமார் பாண்டியனின் அண்ணன் சக்தி பாண்டியன், அவரது உறவினர் மணி என்ற பிஸ்தா மணி ஆகியோரையும், மற்றொரு தரப்பைச் சேர்ந்த அலாவுதீன், அனிபா ஆகியோரையும் போலீசார் கைது செய்தனர்.
கைது செய்யப்பட்ட சக்திபாண்டியன் தென்காசி நகர இந்து முன்னணி தலைவராக உள்ளார்.சக்திபாண்டியனுக்கும், இந்த கொலைக்கும் தொடர்பு இல்லை. அவரை விடுதலை செய்ய வேண்டும் என்று தென்காசி இந்து முன்னணி பிரமுகர்கள், உயர் போலீஸ் அதிகாரிகளிடம் கூறினார்கள். ஆனால் போலீசார் சக்தி பாண்டியனை விடுவிக்க மறுத்துவிடடடனர்.
கைதான 4 பேரையும் தென்காசி ஜுடிசியல் மாஜிஸ்திரேட்டு முன்பு நேற்று இரவு ஆஜர்படுத்தினார்கள். அவர்களை வருகிற 30-ந்திகதி வரை 15 நாட்கள் காவலில் வைக்க உத்தரவிட்டார். இதைத் தொடர்ந்து சக்தி பாண்டியன், பிஸ்தா மணி, அனிபா, அலாவுதீன் ஆகிய 4 பேரை பாளை. மத்திய ஜெயிலுக்கு கொண்டு சென்றனர்.
அனிபாவுக்கு தலையில் காயம் இருப்பதாக சிறை அதிகாரிகள் கூறினார்கள். இதைத் தொடர்ந்து அவரை பாளை. ஐகிரவுண்டு அரசு ஆஸ்பத்திரியில் உள்ள கைதிகள் வார்டில் அனுமதித்தனர்.
பாளை. மத்திய சிறையில் போதிய இடவசதி இல்லாததால் அலாவுதீனை ஸ்ரீவைகுண்டம் சிறையில் அடைத்தனர். சக்தி பாண்டியனையும், பிஸ்தா மணியையும் நாங்குநேரி சிறையில் அடைத்தனர்.
நாங்குநேரி கிளை சிறையிலும் இன்று காலை சக்திபாண்டியன் சாப்பிடாமல் உண்ணாவிரதம் இருப்பதாக கூறினார். ஆனால் அதிகாரிகள் அவரை சமரசப்படுத்தி சாப்பிட வைத்தனர். இதனால் அங்கு பரபரப்பு ஏற்பட்டது. கொலையில் தொடர்புடைய மேலும் சிலர் பாளை. அரசு ஆஸ்பத்திரியில் சிகிச்சை பெற்று வருகிறார்கள். மற்றவர்களை போலீசார் வலைவீசி தேடி வருகிறார்கள். இதனால் தென்காசி பகுதியில் அசம்பாவிதம் ஏற்படாதவாறு பலத்த பாதுகாப்பு போடப்பட்டுள்ளது.தென்காசியில் இன்று கடைகள் திறக்கப்பட்டன
6 பேர் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டதையடுத்து தென்காசியில் பதட்டமான சூழ்நிலை நிலவியது. கடந்த 2 தினங்களாக கடைகள் அடைக்கப்பட்டு இருந்தன. மக்கள் நடமாட்டம் அவ்வளவாக இல்லை. பாதுகாப்புடன் குறைந்த அளவு பஸ்களே இயக்கப்பட்டன. அசம்பாவிதத்தை தடுக்க நகர் முழுவதும் போலீசார் குவிக்கப்பட்டு உள்ளனர்.
சோகமும், பீதியும் கவ்வியிருந்த தென்காசியில் இப்பொழுது சற்று இயல்பு நிலை திரும்பி உள்ளது. இன்று கடைகள் திறக்கப்பட்டன. பஜாரில் மக்கள் கூட்டம் மிதமாக காணப்பட்டது. பள்ளி கல்லூரிகளுக்கு மாணவர்கள் வழக்கம் போல் சென்றனர். வேன், ஆட்டோக்களும் இயங்க தொடங்கின.
எனினும் ஒருவித அச்ச உணர்வு தென்காசி பகுதி மக்களிடையே தோற்றியுள்ளது. பாதுகாப்பு பணியில் போலீசார் தீவிரமாக ஈடுபடுத்தப்பட்டு உள்ளனர்.தென்காசியில் நடைபெற்ற படுகொலைகள் மத மோதல்கள் இல்லை. இதற்கு மத சாயம் பூசப்படுவதை தமிழக முஸ்லிம் முற்போக்குக் கழகம் வன்மையாக கண்டிக்கிறது. அத்தகையோர் மீது நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க வேண்டும்.
இருசாரர்களும் ஆயுதம் வைத்திருப்பதாக கூறும் காவல்துறை அவர்களை கடுமையான ஆயுதங்களோடு கையும் களவுமாக பிடித்து முன்எச்சரிக்கை கைது செய்யாமல் அவர்களை வெற்று காகிதத்தில் எழுதிதரகூறி மன்னித்து அனுப்பியதால்தான் இது போன்று பகிரங்கமாக பட்டப்பகலில் படுகொலை நடக்க ஊக்கமளித்து இருக்கிறது.
இருதரப்பும் பகிரங்கமாக மோதிக்கொள்ளும் சூழல் ஏற்படுவதற்கு காவல் நிலையத்தில் நிபந்தனை ஜாமீனில் ஒரே நேரத்தில் இரு தரப்பையும் கையெழுத்திட செய்தது நீதித்துறை சரியான கருத்தில் பார்க்கவில்லை என தெரிகிறது.
சம்பவம் நடைபெற்ற பின்னர் காவல்துறையின் நடவடிக்கை சிறப்பாக இருந்தாலும் கைது நடவடிக்கை என்ற பெயரில் அப்பாவி மக்கள் மீது பொய்வழக்கு போட்டுவிடக்கூடாது என கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம். அவ்வாறு அப்பாவிகள் கைது செய்யப்பட்டால் த.மு.மு.க. போராட தயங்காது.
தென்காசியில் சகஜநிலை திரும்புவதற்கு அரசுடன் இணைந்து செயல்பட முழு மனதுடன் த.மு.மு.க. அர்ப்பணித்துள்ளது.இவ்வாறு அவர் கூறினார். பேட்டியின்போது மாவட்ட செயலாளர் பாளை. எஸ். ரபீக், பொருளாளர் உஸ்மான்கான், துணை தலைவர் மைதீன்பாரூக் ஆகியோர் உடன் இருந்தனர்.
http://vizhippu.net/node/10791&usg=AFQjCNHINfoPbQHLcO4Xju8KFIzQWiXlgg

See also:
http://nesamudan.blogspot.com/2007/09/1.html

http://nesamudan.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_12.html

JANUARY 28, 2008
தென்காசியில் தொடரும் இஸ்லாமிய வன்முறை
முதலில் தென்காசி குமார் பாண்டியன், பின்பு அவரது சகோதரர்கள், பின்பு ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ் அலுவலகம் மற்றும் பஸ் ஸ்டாண்டில் குண்டு வீச்சு, இன்று தென்காசியில் இன்னும் ஒரு இந்து பிரமுகர் படுகொலை.

தமிழக காவல்துறையும் அரசும் என்ன செய்து கொண்டிருக்கின்றன?

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ஆலங்குளம்: நெல்லை மாவட்ட பாஜக வர்த்தகப் பிரிவுத் தலைவர் வெட்டிப் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

தென்காசியைச் சேர்ந்த ராஜபாண்டி (வயது 53) நெல்லை மாவட்ட பாஜக வர்த்தக பிரிவுத் தலைவராக இருந்தார். வட்டிக்கு பணம் கொடுக்கும் தொழிலும் செய்து வந்தார்.

இன்று காலை தென்காசியில் இருந்து ஸ்கூட்டரில் ஆலங்குளம் வந்தார். கல்லூத்து செல்லும் சாலையில் சென்று கொண்டிருந்தபோது இவரை ஒரு கும்பல் வழிமறித்து வீச்சரிவாள்களால் வெட்டியது.

தப்பி ஓடிய அவரை அந்தக் கும்பல் ஓட ஓட விரட்டி சரமாரியாக வெட்டித் தள்ளியதில் அந்த இடத்திலேயே பலியானார். அந்த வழியாக வந்த மினி பஸ் பயணிகள் இதைக் கண்டு போலீசுக்கு தகவல் தெரிவித்தனர்.

இச் சம்பவம் குறித்து கேள்விப்பட்டு அங்கு ஆயிரக்கணக்கான மக்கள் கூடியுள்ளதால் பெரும் பதற்றம் நிலவுகிறது.

தென்காசியில் இந்து முன்னணி தலைவர் குமார் பாண்டியன் படுகொலையை தொடர்ந்து 2 பிரிவினருக்கு இடையே அவ்வப்போது மோதல் ஏற்பட்டு வருகிறது. கடந்த ஆகஸ்ட் மாதம் இரு தரப்பையும் சேர்ந்த 6 பேர் வெட்டி கொலை செய்யப்பட்டனர்.

இந் நிலையில் சில தினங்களுக்கு முன்பு தென்காசி ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ். அலுவலகத்திலும், புதிய பஸ் நிலையத்திலும் குண்டுகள் வெடித்தன. இதனால் அங்கு பெரும் பதற்றம் நிலவி வந்த நிலையில் பாஜக பிரமுகர் ராஜபாண்டியின் கொலை நடந்துள்ளது.

2 பிரிவினருக்கு இடையே நடந்து வரும் மோதல் தொடர்பாக இவர் கொலை செய்யப்பட்டாரா அல்லது வட்டித் தொழில் தகராறு காரணமாக கொலை செய்யப்பட்டரா என்று போலீசார் விசாரணை நடத்தி வருகின்றனர்.

கொலையான ராஜபாண்டிக்கு இன்று 53வது பிறந்த நாளாகும்.

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http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/01/28/tn-thenkasi-bjp-leader-murdered.html


Recently at Thenkasi RSS office was attacked by unknown persons with pipe bombs (actually a tell-tale sign of Jehadi terrorists).

The family of Ravi Pandiyan -now arrested as accused in RSS office bomb blast case- has already lost four brothers in the cause of protecting Hindu temple land from being encroached. The family now has three widows, eight children and Ravi was the only bread winner and they are economically below-average family.

For the last few years Thenkasi has been darkly transforming itself into a hotbed of Jihadi terrorism. The Jihadi groups have been slowly but steadily building a lasting infrastructure in this sleepy town. Thenkasi is strategically situated in a place close to a tourist spot (Kurtalam) and can serve as an excellent linking route for networking with the already well established Kerala-Saudhi-Paki terror networks. This makes Thenkasi very important for Jihadi elements. The murder of Kumara Pandyan and subsequent murder of his brothers on the eve of Pakistan independence day of 2007 and now the use of pipe-bombs at RSS office attack just as the accused in the murder case are being produced in the court - they all show that Jihadi infrastructure in Thirunelveli district in general and Thenkasi in particular has attained the critical mass of the ability to strike at will.

Jihadis are attempting to build a Mosque near the Thenkasi Temple in an area under dispute as Temple property. Kumar Pandian, the local Hindu leader, who opposed this and resisted attempts by the local Jihadis to bribe him, was hacked to death. His 3 brothers who were defending the Thenkasi Temple, were attacked and killed by Jihadis last year in broad day light. A few days back pipe-bombs were thrown into the Tenkasi RSS building- Pipebombs are Jihadi's favorite artillery, and are a clear give-away that this is a Jihadi handiwork. But this week the only surviving brother of Kumar Pandian, Mr. Ravi Pandian has been falsely arrested on the charges of detonating this pipe-bomb!!!

Thenkasi Town under the stranglehold of Islamic Terrorists
September 17, 2007
By Pudhuvai Saravanan from Tamil Nadu
An entire family is being killed by Jihadi terrorists in Thenkasi.
for the eldest protested against building a masjid in the most famous temple land.
3 brothers including the eldest son who protested were murdered on the road in the daylight.
the symbol of islam (moon and star) is hacked on their dead body to warn others
2 other brothers are put in prison, and jihadis are planning to kill them also.
police is closing the case as a family dispute.
"80% of the population is Hindu, while 80% of all trading is in the hands of Muslims in Thenkasi."
I board at the new bus terminus in Thirunelveli. After finding a seat in a bus to Thenkasi, I ask for two tickets to Thenkasi, the bus conductor stares at us steadily for a minute. The bus is full, yet a deathly quiet hovers in the bus. The bus starts, picks up speed, on both sides of the road our eyes feast upon lush, green fields. Yet, one just finds fear in the eyes of the bus passengers. A cool breeze from the fabled Podhigai hills wafts through the bus comforting us, and yet all we can feel is a grim wretchedness.
On the 14th of August, three members of one family in Thenkasi were violently hacked to death. That the people of Thenkasi are yet to recover from this horror, is evident even at the start of our bus trip from Thirunelveli to Thenkasi. On arrival at Thenkasi, as we walk a few yards into the town from the bus stop, we pass the ancient Kulasekara Nathar Temple on the road.
Thenkasi, a small town, population :75,000, functions as a very busy hub. On a normal day thousands of people pass through the town from the neighboring villages. But now it looks empty like a small village, with very few people on the streets. All shops are open but no shoppers can be seen, and no business takes place; the bazaar looks deserted. All around town one sees shiny large ads for Haji Mustafa's textile and jewelry shops. Even on the mounds and public announcement posters of the traffic police, Haji Mustafa's ads are more prominent. Hindus of Thenkasi accuse the owner of Haji Mustafa shops of financing Muslim Terrorists. But the police are thick with the owners of Haji Mustafa shops. Haji Mustafa textile shop has heavy police protection now.
Thenkasi Municipality has 35 wards. In 8 of these wards Muslims are the sole residents. In other wards too, muslims are well distributed. In the town, Muslims are about 20% of the population but 80% of the town's business is in their hands. In grocery stores, textiles, medical, electrical, electronics shops, hotels, and vegetable shops, everywhere Muslims dominate. Most of the Hindus are either day laborers or wrap beedis for living. We find women labourers wrapping beedis all around the Town of Thenkasi. Even in agriculture Hindus are few in number. There are about 15,000 to 20,000 Muslims in town. There are more than 50 Islamic institutions such as Arabic school, madrassa, prayer centres, mosque, and dharga. Whichever direction one turns there will be a madrassa or a mosque or an Arabic school. The very structure of the town shows that it is an ancient town. 15 days after the horrible murders of the 14th August, all streets in the town have police on them. Wherever Muslims reside exclusively the police are on guard in full strength.
V.T.S. Rahman Batcha, a prominent industrialist and business owner in town, who is accused as the mastermind behind the murders of Kumar Pandian and his brothers, is said to be absconding according to the police. His house and shops are under full police protection. Police say that they are on the look out for him. But auto drivers and some people in town told us that Rahman Batcha is seen going for a walk everyday.
We visited the site where Muslims are trying to build a prayer centre. It is about 100 meters away on a street that is directly opposite Kasi Viswanathar temple. On the disputed site, there is a hotel by name Ananda Bhavan. It is owned by a Muslim. We inquired in the street about it. 'During the Karthikai Deepam festival there used to be a bonfire in this site. Before Muslims tried to build the prayer centre, there was a government run primary school here. Later there was an Ice factory. Later a public toilet, say the people on the street. The people in Thenkasi say that since Muslims have money power and political influence, they dominate everything.
King Parakrama Pandian built the famous Kasi Viswanatha temple in Thenkasi. All the shops opposite the temple are owned by Muslims. Muslims have tried many times to encroach upon a mantap opposite the temple that was built for worshippers' resting. They have not given up on that and are still trying, say some old men.
Auto drivers tell us that the Muslim writ runs in the town. We inquired on what grounds they say this. "V.T.S. Rahman is funding the terrorists, everybody knows this. But the R.T.O office is on a site owned by him. In the evening, youths from many organizations like TMMK (Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetrak Kazhagam), Tawhid Jamaat, Najjaat, MNP (Manitha Needhi Paasarai -a muslim front organization ostensibly standing for social justice and human rights) and Muslim Auto drivers assemble in the R.T.O office. That is where many things are plotted' they say. TMMK, Tawhid Jamaat, Najjat and MNP, all religious fundamentalist organizations, each of them has their own auto stands. In these stands Hindu auto drivers can't park their vehicles, whereas Muslim auto drivers routinely park their vehicles in auto stands in Hindu areas. In Thenkasi, Muslims do not board Hindu owned autos, they check first to see if the auto is Muslim owned. Hindus don't have any such discriminating view, they travel in any and all autos. TMMK runs an Ambulance service in Thenkasi. Even ordinary folks say that these ambulances smuggle arms. But even on the day of the murders (August 14th) police permitted the TMMK mbulances to operate freely. A common view found even among ordinary people like women who wrap Beedis is that whoever is posted as a Police official in Thenkasi, they favor the Muslims, that is why such a situation has arisen. Senthil, brother of Kumar Pandian, who was hacked to death by Muslims, was struggling for life when TMMK ambulance picked him up and took him along for a few meters. The minute they realized that it was Senthil, they threw his body down and drove away. Many members of the public saw this incident.
After 14th august, there was a peace meeting. The Meeting was held to discuss the resolution to the dispute arising out of encroachment and prayer centre construction attempted by muslims on the temple land which led to the murders of Hindus. But at the end of the meeting a Muslim gentleman got up and said sarcastically, 'You are all assembled here. If we all work together, we can finish building the prayer centre (Palli vasal in Tamil)'. That he said this in the presence of high police officials shocked the assembled Hindus. But the police officials looked on with no reaction whatever.
D.S.P of Thenkasi, Mr. Mayilvahanan, has banned customary events like dances, songs, uppetry, oyilattam in in all the temple festivals in and areas around Thenkasi. But all Muslim festivals are being permitted freely. That is a claim of made openly by the public in Thenkasi. In sum, since the police and the state in Tamil Nadu are acting blatantly in favor of Muslims, the Hindus in Thenkasi are feeling like orphans adrift. Kutralam hills may be providing a cool climate in town, the Podhigai breeze may be dancing through the town of Thenkasi, but the Hindus of Thenkasi are all incensed due to the Muslim extremist activities that go unchecked in the area.
Demands of Thenkasi Hindus!
• Institue a C.B.I inquiry on Kumar Pandian's murder.
• Prohibit the building of Islamic prayer centre on the Temple land.
• Monitor Muslim terrorist organizations in Thenkasi and ban them.
• Police should stop charging innocent Hindu youth with imaginary offenses. Release all Hindu youths who were taken into custody after August 14th.
• Prohibit the function to be organized on December 6th.
• Government should offer jobs to the widows of Kumara Pandian and his brothers who were murdered by Muslim terrorists. All educational
expenses of the children of these killed youth should be borne by the State which caused the deaths by neglecting its duty to the people.
http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/3029.html

Religious convert becomes a murderor

Pudhuvai Saravanan Abdullah is one of the Muslim terrorists who killed Kumar Pandian. He was recently converted from Hinduism into Islam. Neduvayal Achanputhur is a small town, 8 kilometers from Thenkasi, and it is here Karuppaia Pillai, his father lives. Abdullah was formerly Murugesan, one of the four sons of the couple Karuppaia Pillai and Maariammal.

Muslims are in considerable numbers in Achanputhur. There is a big mosque in this town. For the first time the town panchayat has a Muslim president, M.Ayub. We met Karuppaia Pillai in his house at Achanputhur. He runs a small grocery shop. It is a family in humble conditions. When we visit them, Karuppaia Pillai’s married daughter is home. Murugesan got converted just four years ago.

'When I heard that my son converted to Islam, I went to Kutralam, shaved my head and did all the last rites one performs for dead people. When people ask me about my son, I tell them that he died. My wife Maariammal, who was in good health, fell ill suddenly and died, soon after she heard that my son converted to Islam.', agonizes Karuppaiah Pillai. His daughter weeps inconsolably as she talks. "My brother was a good man earlier. After he started interacting with Muslims his behavior changed. Muslims converted him and have now made him a murderer'.

'It is his friendship with Muslims that has destroyed us' asserts Karuppaia Pillai. He is in poor health now. He has trouble in getting up or standing.

Religious conversion can so easily destroy a family and a community. This family's agonies are a clear example of such destructive results. Karuppaia Pillai declined to be photographed. But we took some pictures of the town, as can be seen on this page.

Those intellectuals who dismiss religious conversion as a problem will do better to look at such incidents again and judge the ill-effects. This is a lesson in impending disaster all across the country in the coming decades as Islamists pursue their deadly agenda of destruction of Hindu society by resorting to conversions.

KUMARAPANDIAN’SFAMILY

A pall of deathly quiet hangs over Thenkasi, as we visit Kumara Pandian’s family that lost four of its young men to Islamic terrorism, to find out how they are coping with their tragic losses. His family lives in Thenkasi Malyan Street. There is police security on the street corner and in front of the Subramanya swami temple that is nearby. The entire street is eerily silent. As we walk on the street, scared faces pop up in several houses along the street. We feel a sadness welling in our hearts as we get into Kumara Pandian’s house. We meet his brother Ravi Pandian, mother Azagammal, and wife Jeyanthi (age 37).We meet Malathi (35) wife of Sekar, another brother killed; Kokila (24) wife of Suresh, a second brother killed, and Gomathi(26), wife of Senthil, the third brother killed.Then we see their children Hariharan (13), Bhuvaneshwari (11), Thangarani (9),Swarnabala (9), Azagu Dwaraka(4), Prabhakaran (1 3/4), Swathika (2 1/2) and Muthuram (8 months).

The fear and the grief on their faces brought tears to our eyes. Their grief is even more intense now, since Kumara pandian's brother Sakthi Pandian is in the custody of the Police.

The family has lost faith in the judicial system, since Sakthi Pandian had been under police guard twenty four hours a day for a while now, yet he was arrested in a murder case.

Ravi Pandian, another surviving brother of Kumara Pandian, spoke with us. When we raise a point, "the police say that your brothers attacked first", he replies, "In all of history you won’t find any instance where the Hindus attacked first. It is always the Muslims who begin attacks. That is what happened on this August 14th massacre too." His eyes reflect an overwhelming sadness at the loss of four brothers to a gruesome massacre. "you have lost four of your brothers due to this problem. What can be the solution in your opinion?" We ask. He replies, "Building a Mosque on the temple land should be banned. In that place, currently Muslims are performing namaz. That should be stopped. 100 meters away from this site under dispute, V. T. S. Rahman Batcha has his own land. Why don’t they build a mosque there?"

"After this massacre, the police are trying to prevent any awareness of the problem arise among Hindus or Thevar solidarity arise around this. So they are conducting a false propaganda, labeling this conflict as a feud between two families. Kumara Pandian was killed specifically for two reasons. First, he opposed building the mosque on temple land; Second, he was working on buying an ambulance on behalf of the Hindu Munnani (Hindu Front). After he was killed, my other brother Sakthi Pandian took over the leadership of Thenkasi town's Hindu Munnani. That is the reason for these recent massacres. This is not a family feud. These are murders entirely for religious reasons." said Ravi Pandian, trying hard to control his sobs as he spoke. The murders of Kumara Pandian and his brothers have made their 8 children fatherless children. Of these, five are girls. They study in government run schools. When Kumara Pandian was killed on 17th December, 2006 , his wife Jeyanthi was near term pregnant. Now she has an infant son, Muthuram, who is 8 months old.

Kumara Pandian, Suresh, Sekar and Senthil were the pillars of the family. Now that all the four are killed, the family is utterly devastated. There are four women with no source of support, all widowed at the same time living under one roof, and 8 children who all lost their fathers in one fell swoop. How does such evil happen? How do we find ways to console them? In what language can we find words to bring any solace to them?

“MUSLIMS DO NOT LOVE THIS LAND”

An interview with Sorna Thevar Pudhuvai Saravanan, Rajendran
Sorna Thevar is a father who lost four of his sons to Islamic terrorists. We met him at his home in Thenkasi for ‘Vijayabaharatham’. He had an eye operation few days before the massacre of his sons. Weeping over his three sons’ hacked bodies worsened his eyes, and he had to get another surgery done on his eyes. He had just returned from the Hospital.

What follows here is from our meeting.

What happened that day (14-08 2007)?

On 14-08-07, my son Senthil was traveling in a car, when a group of Islamic murderers waylaid the car and attacked him with weapons. When news reached us, my other sons Suresh and Sekar rushed there to save their younger brother.

Islamic terrorists, who were more than ten in number, hacked all my three my sons to death and escaped.

What is the main reason for these horrible murders?

My son (Kumara Pandian) was town leader for Hindu Munnani. He had been opposing the building of mosque on a plot of land that belongs to Kasi Viswanathar temple. On December 6th, Muslims posted a big banner near the temple and were causing a lot of trouble. My son opposed this as well. Enraged Muslims hacked my son Kumara Pandian to death on 17-12- 2006.

Abdulla and Hanifa who were arrested for killing my son, were released on bail recently. After Kumara Pandian was killed, few months later, Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra kazagam thirunelveli district leader Maitheen Seit Khan was killed by some unidentified people. Police said it was due to intra Muslim rivalry. But after
few days, they arrested my younger son Senthil for that. Senthil recently got the bail. Abdullah and Hanifa who were arrested for Kumara Pandian murder case and Senthil who was arrested in Maitheen Seit Khan Murder case were ordered to sign in everyday at Thenkasi women's police station.

Abdulla and Hanifa always come to Police station with weapons. Police detected the weapons, but let them off with no action taken. My sons were killed at this juncture.

Police say that the family feud is behind this massacre?
That is a blatant lie. There is no family feud between our family and Muslims. I have been in congress party from my childhood. I had been the town leader of the Congress party.

Even now, I hold the post of vice president in Thirunelveli west district congress committee. I have many Muslim friends due to this. My sons were killed since they opposed building a mosque on the temple land.

This is the truth.

Kumara Pandian opposed building a mosque on the temple
building a mosque on the temple land. Did your other sons oppose that as well?

Kumara Pandian was leader of the town’s Hindu Munnani. After he was killed, my other son Sakthi Pandian became the leader of town Hindu Munnani. This massacre is done by those Muslims who are enraged by this.

Those Muslims who killed Kumara Pandian have vowed in front of police high officials, ‘we will come out on bail and kill more people.” This was witnessed by many people among the public. So, this massacre happened for religious reasons. When the terrorists who killed Kumara Pandian were came out on bail, Muslims held Biriyani feasts for them. To provoke and anger the Hindus, Muslims here celebrated terrorists coming out on bail like a festival.

Don’t the newspapers say that your sons attacked first?

On the side of Muslims 3 people have lost the life and seven people are wounded. On the side of the Hindus, only my three sons were murdered. If my sons have planned this, would they go alone? Muslims have planned this attack. How is it possible for 10 people to assemble with lot of arms and weapons at the same time on the same day, without pre-planning? It is a clear planned attempt to target and destroy my family members.

What is the reason to target your family?

My son Kumar Pandian had opposed the building a mosque on the temple land. After he was killed, my other son Sakthi Pandian took up the responsibility as the leader of Hindu Munnani. These are the main two reasons for this massacre. It is not the first time that Thenkasi Muslims have resorted to violence and killing. From
1925 onwards, Muslims are causing problems. I stopped the Moharram festival that was used to target and insult Hindus. (Sorna Thevar had listed the killings and riots that were done by Muslims since 1925 in Thenkasi. That is to be published as a separate piece)

Did the mosque exist in the controversial land already?

Some newspapers have reported that the mosque exists already and the controversy is due to the expansion of the mosque. This is not true. The land on which Muslims are trying to build the mosque belongs to Kasi Viswanathar Temple. There are enough proofs regarding this. I know that a government school operated
from that place. Those who studied in that school and who taught in that school are still around. After the school got its own building, it shifted. Then a Muslim took a lease of that land to run an ice factory. After that Muslims have used that place as an urinal. For many years, that place was used as a urinal for Muslims of Thenkasi bazaar. This is known to everyone here. Suddenly one day, they put up a board that said "Thenkasi bazaar mosque" and started doing namaaz in the same place where they had an urinal for all these years. No one opposed?

No one opposed?

It is true that the Hindus turned a blind eye to this. Encouraged by this, Muslims approached the Thirunelveli district collector then, one Mr. Dhanavel, and asked for permission to start a mosque there. He promised approval if the Thenkasi Township passed a resolution approving this. Using their money power, the got the resolution passed in the Township. Collector Dhanavel also approved the building of mosque there. Immediately, the Muslims became ready to start building the mosque. Bricks, sand and other stuff started coming there. It is at that time, my son Kumara Pandian gathered the Hindus in the town and started satyagraha and fasting to stop the building of the mosque. As the opposition grew, the mosque
building stopped.

This happened during the DMK rule. Then ADMK came to power. Collector was changed. The new Collector temporarily banned the building of mosque as there is lot of oppostion to that. For few years, the Muslims kept their peace. When DMK came to power in 2006, the Muslims started building the mosque again. Again my son opposed this. Hence they hacked my son to death. Whenever DMK is in power, Muslims start the trouble and achieve whatever they want.
Your son Sakthi Pandian has been arrested…

After Kumara Pandian was killed, Sakthi Pandian took over the leadership of Hindu Munnani with courage. Sakthi Pandian already has police protection. There is a policeman with him 24 hours. Even then, they arrested him in this case. When we questioned this action, the police say we have to arrest him since the Muslims have filed a complaint against him.

A week before Kumara Pandian was killed, Thenkasi Industrialist V T S Rahman Batch's brother had come to Kumara Pandian's house. He had enticed him, "Don’t oppose building a mosque. We will give you 12 lakhs if you drop your opposition. After the mosque is built, we would give you a shop in that building that will remain
rent free for your entire life". My son Kumara Pandian’s firm reply was,

"Suppose I withdraw my objection to the mosque, after taking your money. You could finish the mosque. But, some day Hindus would demolish that mosque, may be even after 100 years. Just like Babar’s building that was built over the Ram Temple was destroyed after hundreds of years, Thenkasi Mosque too would be demolished. If that happens, Thenkasi would witness huge riots. If Thenkasi is to remain peaceful, I can’t permit the mosque to be built here". Within a month after this, my son Kumara Pandian was killed. That is why we filed a complaint against V T S Rahman Batcha, as we know that these murders can’t have taken place without his knowledge.

The same police which did not act on our complaints against V T S Rahman Batcha, jumped up with alacrity and arrested my son Sakthi Pandian immediately, when Muslims filed a complaint against my son. This clearly shows the police acting at the behest of the Muslims.
Do you say that VTS Rahman batcha is connected to the people who killed your son?

20 years back, this VTS Rahman Batcha was working for Gani&Co grocery shop in Thenkasi, for 800 rupees salary per month. His father had a small shop selling fruits and vegetables. While he was working for 800 rupees per month salary, he built a huge bungalow and invited his employer for the house warming party. Immediately looking at the huge bungalow of VTS Rahman Batcha, his boss terminated his employment. Then Rahman Batcha started his own grocery shop. It is said that Rahman Batcha who is running an ordinary grocery shop owns several crores worth property. He has been accused of involved in Hawala. VTS Rahman Batcha's money is funneled into Islamic terrorist activities. So we complained to police asking for his arrest. He and his brother have repeatedly threatened Kumara Pandian many times. So, It is impossible that he is not related to the murder of my son. Even though a case has been filed against Rahman Batcha, police have not arrested him.

There was a report that you staged a demonstration against the police.

After my three sons were killed, police high officials came to talk to me. We refused to take the bodies of my three sons. Then we took the bodies directly from the hospital to the cremation ground only for maintaining peace in Thenkasi. We did not want to be a cause for riots in Thenkasi. I could have brought the bodies which were dumped in sacks to Thenkasi town. Had I done that, Thenkasi would have burned. For the sake of peace, we cooperated with the police. But soon after the cremation was finished, police had started showing their true colors. They started to arrest innocent Hindus on murder cases. Police, who came to Malyan street where our house is situated, started harassing the women and girls. To stop these atrocities, along with about 50 women, we went to Subramaniyar Temple in our street and staged a protest against police atrocities. Night time raids by police stopped only after this protest. An unimaginable horror has happened. What is the solution for this?

I am a Gandhian. I suffered beatings for freedom at the age of 6. I am getting beaten even today for that. We want peace. But I don't see an end to these massacres. Muslims do not love this land. If they do love this land, would they kill so many people for a mosque?

If mosque is an issue, would not a solution be arrived, if the Hindus give up the opposition?

The place where the Muslims want to build the mosque belongs to
the centuries old Kasi Viswanathar Temple. That place is directly in front of the Ambal sannithi. It is just 100 meters from there. In this place, the Hindus build a bonfire. When the Ambal chariot comes around, it is at this place, Ambal would grace the population. If the mosque is opened there, nothing would be allowed there.

Muslims would ask Hindus to stop the celebratory music and playing drums
in front of the mosque. If the mosque is built, the peace in Thenkasi would have to be written off. Would they allow building a Ganapathi temple directly in front of a mosque or madrassa?

http://www.india-forum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1928&st=60

Coping with terror and violence in Tamilnadu

A letter to the editor of The New Indian Express (Feb-06-2007) reveals the state of criminal justice in Tamil Nadu: [quote] Dancing to Alagiri’s tunes…On 9th May, 2007 the ‘Dinakaran’ office at Madurai was ransacked and three of its employees were roasted alive. Due to pressure from opposition parties, the case was transferred to CBI. Even IG Arunkumar visited the scene and examined witnesses… Rajaram, DSP, Oomachikulam was made a scapegoat and accused of dereliction of duty…Alagiri is A1 in the ex-minister T Kiruttinan murder case which is pending trial in the Chittoor (A) Session Court. Sardar SA Raja is the main accused in ex-minister Aladi Aruna murder case. This case is also pending trial in the Tirunelveli Session Court… [unquote] In these circumstances it is no wonder that victims of bomb blast have been made accused and conspiracy theory of the worst kind has been made by the police.

An Indian Express report dated August 7 2006 says: "Barely two weeks after it was sworn in, Tamil Nadu's DMK government ordered that cases be dropped against 12 Muslim fundamentalists, all followers of Kichaan Buhari, an Al Umma sympathizer and key accused in the Coimbatore serial blasts. ...Senior policemen in Tirunelveli are shocked by what they term the DMK government's "blatant sympathy" for the Muslim fundamentalists." Then began Taliban style execution of women in Thirunelveli district. Muslim women were killed in public and in day light by killer squads for daring to oppose medieval laws belonging to a dark age. Police turned either mute witnesses or belated actors making ineffectual arrests. TMMK - a highly valued coalition partner of DMK and a Talban outfit- demanded that stoning women to death be made legal in India (Indian Express, 26-Mar-2007). It is again not just an accident that the LeToiba terrorists who last year failed to bomb Delhi were headed for Chennai and a recently nabbed Kashmiri terrorist based in Kerala (Altab) had contacts in Chennai].

South India covered by Islamic terror blanket
September 17, 2007
By Haran B.R.
The Chennai edition of The New Indian Express dated 17th February 2007 reported as follows:
The 'Q' branch of the state police is now concerned about the formation of a new Islamic outfit, "Popular Front of India" (PFI), a coordinated effort between three organizations – Karnataka For Dignity (KFD), Karnataka, Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP), Tamil Nadu, and National Development Front (NDF), Kerala. The new organization was launched on Friday (16th February) in Bangalore, 'to coordinate & strengthen grass root level developmental activities through out the country' followed by an 'Empower India' conference in the garden city. Though the organization's agenda has been well spelt out – democracy & social justice, the state police fear that the organization had been set up to propagate hardliner ideology. A 'Q' branch official had said, "What is worrying us is the fact that a majority of the leaders of this new front belonged to the now banned SIMI". The decision to launch Popular Front of India (PFI) has been taken at a conference of KFD, MNP & NDF held on 22nd November 2006 at Calicut. The leaders of PFI include, K.M.Shareef, President of KFD, Gulam Muhammed, leader of MNP and Abdur Rahman Baqari of NDF and they have decided to confine their activities to South India.
This shocking report, deserved to be a 'Top Story', was published only in New Indian Express, that too only on the third page.
It is an open secret that the NDF has been unleashing terror in Kerala right from day one. This organization is alleged to have been involved in the murdering of many cadres belonging to RSS, BJP & other Hindu Organisations, with the support of CPM goondas and their student wings DYFI & SFI. Both the then Congress government & the present Communist government have miserably failed to check the violence & terror unleashed by NDF. This organization is alleged to receive huge funds from Gulf countries to conduct its operations. It is reported in Kerala media that, Pan Indian & South Asian terror groups are operating across the state. It is believed that, after the banning of SIMI & ISS (Islamic Seva Sangh), the terrorists belonging to those outfits changed their name & operate as National Developmen Front.
Similarly, the Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP) has been very active in Coimbatore & Theni districts of Tamil Nadu. Some six months back, a few MNP activists were arrested in Coimbatore for plotting to murder a Hindu activist and to plant bombs in crowded areas. MNP involves in conversion and is conducting classes in the name of 'Arivagam' in Theni, to brain wash new converts, train them and recruit them in to Jihad squads, as reported by Ms. Jaya Menon in the 'Indian Express' dated 26th July 2006. The disturbing factor is that both Theni & Coimbatore are close to Kerala borders and hence MNP can easily coordinate with NDF. When SIMI was banned, its TN Unit changed its name as Tamilaga Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) and when Jayalalitha government banned 'Al Umma' after the Coimbatore serial blasts, the outfit is alleged to have changed its name as Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP) and continued its shady activities. Very recently the Jihadis belonging to these groups have murdered Kumar Pandian, Hindu Munnani activist in Thenkasi. A few days back, these militants also attacked Pandian's brother and he sustained grievous injuries. Even now, MNP's wall writings & messages can be found in the streets of Muslim dominated Triplicane, under the nose of Chennai police.
Likewise, the KFD (Karnataka for Dignity) has also spread its tentacles through out Karnataka as evidenced by the violence unleashed in Bangalore recently in the name of protests against Saddam's hanging. It is reported that this organization is aiding & abetting the terrorists from organizations like LeT in executing their missions like the attack on the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. These militants are also responsible for the recent murder of Sukhanand Shetty , BJP Taluk President in Mangalore. The vehicle used by these militants in that operation was bearing a TN registration number, which points to the fact that KFD is connected with MNP. Also, the entire coastal belt from Calicut in Kerala to Karwar in Karnataka seems to be under the control of Islamic militants, which points to the coordination between KFD & NDF.
With regards to Andhra Pradesh, the strength of the Muslim organizations is an open secret and the twin cities of Hyderabad & Secunderabad have born the brunt of terror & violence many times. The Pakistani ISI has made inroads deep inside Andhra Pradesh and developed close contacts with the naxalite outfits and has formed many 'sleeper cells', as per media reports.
Apart from targeting innocent Hindus, Hindu organizations and their leaders, these terror outfits have also threatened to attack Vidan Sabhas, IT Majors, MNCs and even Nuclear installations.
In this kind of a terror struck scenario, the concerned state governments are supposed to be on alert and are expected to deal with the situations with hands of iron & nerves of steel. Are they doing so? Unfortunately not. Immediately after coming back to power both the Communist government of Kerala and the DMK government of Tamil Nadu have come together in attempting to obtain the release of the inhuman & dreaded terrorist Abdul Nazar Madhani on the so-called humanitarian grounds, and having failed in their attempt, the TN government has changed the prison cell of Madhani in to an Ayurvedic center, where he can enjoy a cushy life. The DMK government also issued a GO for the release of some nine Al Umma activists from the Palayamkottai prison, Thirunelveli. Despite catching some cadres of MNP in Coimbatore on the charges of plotting to kill Hindu leaders and conspiring to plant bombs, the TN police has said that it would simply monitor the activities of MNP, due to the influence of TMMK leadership with the state government. Just before the elections, the Kerala assembly, which is flooded with pseudo secularists, unanimously passed a resolution for the release of Madhani from Coimbatore prisons, which is an unprecedented action in the history of India. The NDF is striking at will, as & when it wishes, in Kerala and the Communist government seems to turn a blind eye towards it. In Karnataka, while the BJP as an ally is putting a lot of pressure on Chief Minister Kumaraswamy to take action on Islamic militants, the Chief Minister may act like Mayawathi after his turn of Chief Ministership is over, forcing the state for yet another election. Even otherwise, the steps & measures taken by him to curtail Islamic militancy are not convincing, as his party is also known for its pseudo-secularist credentials. With regards to Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Samuel Reddy is a known Muslim appeaser and he always follows the footsteps of his Italian Boss in dividing the Muslims & Hindus, so that, his Christian objectives can be achieved silently & easily.
There seems to be coordination between Naxalites – Maoists of AP & Islamic militants through ISI in the formation of sleeper modules. There seems to be a connection between LTTE & the AP naxalites as evidenced by the huge cache of 'rockets' in Chennai & Andhra. There seems to be an alarming increase in the LTTE activities in Tamil Nadu, as proved by the recent captures of LTTE cadres along with boats full of arms, ammunition & explosives including suicide jackets. Now, the three individual organizations KFD, MNP & NDF have formed a combined outfit PFI with an aim of focusing only on South India. A clear network & coordination of all these anti-national organizations in future cannot be ruled out. It is sad & unfortunate that we have governments in the center as well as the southern states formed by Minority appeasing pseudo secularists, who do not seem to have realized the gravity of the situation. The following statement of the 'Q' branch official to the New Indian Express marks this callous attitude: "It is unfortunate that the Hindutva hardliners have been working as a catalyst and in turn forcing the religious minorities to think on hard lines". This statement of travesty is a real tragedy.
Infertility can be cured, but not impotency. Our central and southern state governments are impotent when it comes to security.
http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/3030.html

UPI ASIA Online - Politics
Commentary: Southern India's jihadi axis of evil
NAGERCOIL, Aug. 16
S. ARAVINDAN NEELAKANDAN
http://www.upiasiaonline.com

Column: Notes from the South
At a function in the southern city of Madurai last Sunday, Sonia Gandhi praised the state of Tamil Nadu as a model state. On Tuesday, just one day before Independence Day, a dusty town in the district of Thirunelveli witnessed a ghastly scene -- a pitched street battle which ended with a human toll of six youngsters, three of them brothers.
They were revenge killings, said the police and district officials. They presented the deadly street battle as the result of personal enmity between two groups, but no one was fooled. The Wahabbi takeover of the Islamic community in the southern district has been obvious and menacing. The district has roadway connections to nearby Kerala -- which obtained a notorious new image with Frederick Forsythe's bestseller "Afghan," from tourist hotspot to hotbed of terrorism.

One need not read "Afghan" to know of the dark metamorphosis of Kerala. The families of the more than 60 victims of the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast can testify to the Kerala jihadi connection. In a telling interview available on YouTube the father of a 15-year-old boy tearfully describes his only son's death in the bombing. As compensation for the loss, the father was given the post of attendant at a government hospital. This became an inhuman ordeal when he was told to look after Abdul Nasser Madhani, one of the accused in the bomb blast case.

This father -- no saint or philosopher but an ordinary man on the street -- exhibited extraordinary forbearance in caring for Madhani. At the end of the day he showed Madhani a photo of his dead son. The father says that Madhani admitted he had arranged for the explosives. (See the Tamil interview at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VzHbyvejy0IM ). "I did not take revenge on him but I believe the judiciary will give us justice by giving him the death sentence," the father says.

On Aug.1 Madhani, for whom both the ruling regime of Tamil Nadu and the Kerala Marxist regime have a soft spot, was cleared of all charges, even though the High Court and Supreme Court had found the evidence strong enough to deny him bail while he awaited trial for the past nine years.

In a curious paradox, even during his long stay in jail he was often out of jail, with the local government arranging at taxpayers' expense expensive massages for Madhani, with 10 masseurs and four senior doctors costing almost Indian Rs 50,000 (US$1,200). Even while he was in jail police suspected his gang of planning acts of terrorism. For example, in 1999 police unearthed a plot to kill the Kerala chief minister. The police suspected the hand of Madhani's People's Democratic Party in that plot.

That Madhani remained active and uncontained by jail bars became evident when Thomas P. Joseph, a sitting judge investigating a massacre of Hindus in Kerala in 2003, sought a meeting with Madhani -- in Coimbatore jail -- to discuss his organization's involvement in the cold-blooded massacre of Hindu fishermen on Kerala beaches by Islamic fundamentalists.

Now that such a man is free -- thanks to friendly gestures by the governments of two southern states that span almost the complete coast of India -- the Wahabbi terrorist outfits are jubilant. The results may be seen in the once peaceful streets of Tamil Nadu. The streets today are calm -- a deadly calm mixed with fear and terror.

The current cycle of violence in Tamil Nadu is not completely unexpected. As early as August 2006 the "Indian Express" quoted unnamed police officials predicting trouble. It reported that the state government had ordered cases to be dropped against 12 Muslim fundamentalists, all followers of Kichaan Buhari, an al-Umma sympathizer accused in the Coimbatore serial blasts. The report said that senior policemen in Thirunelveli were shocked by the government's "blatant sympathy" for the Muslim fundamentalists.

The fears of the police were prophetic. Soon there were attacks on Hindu leaders and also on liberal Muslims. There were Taliban-style public executions of Muslim women who did not wear a veil or adhere to Muslim rules of dress and behavior. The Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam -- one of the organizations proscribed by the Interior Ministry from receiving funds from abroad and the darling of the state government -- went on record demanding that the medieval law of stoning women to death be implemented in modern secular India.

To understand why the state government gives in to Islamic fundamentalists, one has to understand the psyche of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, which adheres to the pseudo-scientific colonial idea of race theories and conspiracy theories. In the ideological view of the DMK -- often camouflaged under the rhetoric of social justice -- Hinduism is nothing but a Brahminical conspiracy to subjugate the native dark-skinned Dravidians, as the Brahmins themselves are descendents of barbaric Aryan invaders. Thus Hinduism in the view of the DMK is nothing but a 3,000-year-old conspiracy.

This racist view and pathological hatred of Brahmins are an inverted image of the Nazi vision of Aryan supremacy and the hatred of Jews. The present DMK leader has an exceptionally vehement hatred for Hinduism -- he openly declared at a public function that Hindus are thieves. Every time the DMK comes to power -- by dividing society along caste lines and riding the anti-incumbency wave -- Tamil Nadu becomes a haven for jihadi elements. The last time the DMK was in power it literally let the bomb blast happen at Coimbatore, despite frequent warnings from the intelligence bureau.

There are ominous signals. On the eve of New Year's celebrations, New Delhi police foiled an attempt by jihadis to bomb the festivities. The terrorists were planning to leave for Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu. Subsequent investigations proved they had been operating from a base in Madras and establishing overseas contacts. Just months before, a suspected terrorist of Pakistani origin arrested in Karnataka was discovered to have obtained his fake driver's license in Madras. Investigations revealed that he and another Pakistani terrorist were planning to establish a base in Kerala for money transfer operations. Again arms trafficking between Kerala, Tamil Nadu and overseas was accidentally uncovered by police this year. There has been a spurt of these accidental discoveries. For example, in January this year freshly minted assault weapons numbering above 150 were discovered accidentally in a parcel addressed to an Islamic fundamentalist. Further interrogation revealed a base where a police raid recovered another 150 weapons.

Navy officials, during a chance inspection of a shipment of furniture cartons to Kerala on a Pakistan-bound ship from Dubai, discovered assault rifles and Holy Koran books. Indian Navy Admiral Sureesh Mehta, addressing the closing session of an international seminar on maritime trade and security in the Kerala port city of Cochin, said this was just the "tip of the iceberg as far as these nefarious activities are concerned."

These isolated events surfacing in the twin states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are indicators of a larger picture. It is a picture of jihadi terrorism fueled by Wahabbism spreading its menacing tentacles into the relatively calm southern states of India. The politically motivated release of terror-linked masterminds like Madhani is a betrayal of the very people the system is supposed to protect. The arrival of arms, the setting up of money transfer bases and the release of the kingpin of Kerala jihad, Madhani -- it all fits together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Now the southern district of Thirunelveli -- where Islamic fundamentalists are setting up not just a base but practically a parallel government -- is logistically linked with Kerala via Thenkasi, where the gruesome murders took place.

There is no room for chance as these dark steps are being taken. Unfortunately, these two crucial states -- targeted by jihadi terrorists for strategic reasons -- are ruled by political leaders who lack the moral and political will to protect their own people against the forces of terror, with whom they have entered into the contract of vote-bank politics.
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(S. Aravindan Neelakandan is a social scientist working with an ecological NGO called Vivekananda Kendra -- Natural Resources Development Project in Nagercoil, India. He is also a freelance writer and author of the Tamil-language "God and 40 Hz.")
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
JIHADI TERRORISM IN SOUTH INDIA: Saudi terror link to Thenkasi murders
This article of SAAG gives details about the saudi terror network spanning Tamilnadu State of India and the Eastern province of Srilanka. This article, written by an ex-RAW officia points out the Thenkasi link to the terror network amongst tamil speaking muslims of India and Srilanka. This article is based on intelligence reports from Tamilnadu police.


The Thenkasi murders (brutal murder of Kumar Pandian and his brothers by jihadis of Tamilnadu) are only pointers to a larger network that has been created recently in Tamilnadu by saudi-wahhabi inspired terrorists. This network cuts across national boundaries and has created safe havens for islamic terrorists in Taminadu and Srilanka, places which are so far not on the radar of international agencies monitoring islamist terror networks.


I wish the central and state agencies realize the gravity of the situation and swing into action immediately. Otherwise, once this network gets entrenched amongst the tamil speaking muslims, it will be spread like cancer to far flung places inhabited by tamil muslims like Tamilnadu(India), Kerala(India), Karnataka(India), Srilanka(Eastern province and Colombo), Malaysia, Singapore – areas hitherto untouched by the war on terror and unsuspected by the international agencies.

Hope the law enforcement agencies wake up to this new reality.

Nesa Kumar


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SAAG Article:


http://www.saag.org/papers24/paper2356.html

MUSLIM DEFENCE FORCE OF TAMIL NADU (ALSO SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS MUSLIM SELF-DEFENCE FORCE)

35. In December 2002, the Tamil Nadu Police claimed to have unearthed a new organisation, apparently inspired and controlled by jihadi elements in Saudi Arabia, called the Muslim Defence Force (MDF). It was not clear whether this was identical with the Muslim Development Force of Basheer. Published reports about the Tamil Nadu Police's detection indicated as follows:

* One Abu Hamsa, alias Abdul Bari, an Indian Muslim living in Saudi Arabia and associated with the LET, and one Abu Omar, a Pakistani Muslim working there, had together formed the MDF after the Gujarat riots. They had also met a Muslim leader from Tamil Nadu who had gone to Saudi Arabia on haj pilgrimage.

* On his return to Tamil Nadu, this leader held a clandestine meeting at Tenkasi in Tiruvelveli district, which was attended by about 30 Muslims. At this meeting, plans for organising MDF activities in India were discussed.

* Subsequently, two of those, who had attended the Tenkasi meeting, went to Sri Lanka (the Eastern Province?), where they were to have another meeting with Abu Hamsa, but he did not turn up from Saudi Arabia. They, therefore, returned to Tamil Nadu without meeting him.

* Abu Hamsa alias Abdul Bari was wanted in connection with an explosion in Andhra Pradesh. He had given instructions to his contacts in Tamil Nadu to organise the activities of the MDF and also to float another organisation called New Vision to propagate Islam amongst the so-called backward classes of the Hindu community and recruit them for jihad.

* The associates of Abu Hamsa in Tamil Nadu were instructed to form an elite force to establish hide-outs and protect jihadi terrorists visiting Tamil Nadu and to recruit youth for training in jihad at an undisclosed destination in the Gulf.

* Amongst those arrested by the Tamil Nadu police during their investigation into the activities of the MDF was Noohu Thambi Hamid Bakri, described as a suspected sympathiser of the LET. He was the principal of the Ayesha Siddique Arabic College for Women at Kayalpattinam and also the President of the All-India Tauhid Jamath Federation. He also used to be associated with an organisation called the Kayal Islamic Defence Force, which is now believed to be dormant.

* It was Hamid Bakri, accompanied by one Zakkaria, who had met Abu Hamsa in Saudi Arabia and subsequently gone to Sri Lanka for another meeting, which did not materialise.In November, 2002, Zakkaria was allegedly in receipt of Rs.1,50,000 from Abu Hamsa in Saudi Arabia through hawala.

36. None of the reports relating to the unearthing of the activities of the MDF in Tamil Nadu had referred to any role of Basheer in this connection. However, his name again cropped up as possibly amongst the dramatis personae associated with the series of explosions in Mumbai since December, 2002.

37. It should be evident that for some years now there have been indicators of the cladestine creation of a jihadi web in Mumbai, south India and possibly in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, with the SIMI and the LET playing an active role in this matter, either in tandem or separately of each other. It is also evident that much of the inspiration and financial support for this came from Indian and Pakistani jihadi activists in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

38. Important breakthroughs in connection with identifying the various strands of this web had been made by the police of Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, but no attempt would appear to have been made for a co-ordinated effort to investigate and neutralise this web.
http://nesamudan.blogspot.com/2007/09/jihadi-terrorism-in-south-india-saudi.html

Meenakshipuram Revisited
Rajesh Ramachandran
Hindustan Times
March 1999

It is evening. Meenakshipuram alias Rahmat Nagar sparkles clean. The villagers have stopped rearing pigs - most are now Muslims. The congregation is collecting at the mosque, built four years ago, for gruel to break the day's fast. The youngsters, most of them born after February 19, 1981 (when around 300 Dalit families of the Pallan sub-caste converted to Islam), are reticent.

But Mohammed Mustafa (Muniyandi till he was 60), the mosque's odd job man, blurts out before retreating for namaz; "Conversion was the only way to gain respect and equality."

Meenakshipuram did not decide to convert in a day or even a year. It has never been desperately poor, and has always had its own primary school. The villagers are mainly landless sharecroppers. Reservation in education and jobs brought about awareness - and resentment at the way the landlords (mostly Thevars, and 'other backward caste') treated them.

Kandaswamy was a meek 24 in 1970 when he got a job in a high school in a Thevar-dominated area. The next few years he pretended to be a Thevar." Otherwise," he says, "I would not have got a house or water to drink. The students and my colleagues, all Thevars, would have humiliated me." He decidedto convert in 1981, the day he saw a 60-year old Dalit being publicly beaten by a Thevar body, hardly 10; Kandaswamy became Khwaja Moiddeen.

"Acceptance, equal status and self-respect were the reasons for the conversionof 20 families in Paruthiyar Kuruchi', says ISM Hussein, a Muslim leader who helped Meenakshipuram villagers convert. In the village, they cite a newspaper report that the Tirunelveli district collector, while inspecting tea shops in the district, found 13 instances of the two-tumbler system: one set for Dalits, another for the rest.

What precipitated the 1981 events was love: Thankaraj, a Pallan, eloped with a Thevar girl. His helpless community could not go to his aid to fight the pursuing Thevars. He quickly became Yousuf and felt protected by his new faith and its followers. Soon, two Thevars were murdered and Meenakshipuram was blamed. The police inspector in Shengottai was a Thevar and Meenakshipuram began living in terror with men being arrested and women molested.

"Our elders had thought about converting in the fifties, but couldn't muster enough courage," reminisces Muhammad Raja Sharif. "But when atrocities continued for a year in 1980, we decided to go ahead. Japa Mani, the headman, and a few of us took the villagers' consent and approached the South India Ishat-ul Islam Sabha. Thus we got converted."

Born Hindus, Japa Mani (now Jamaat chief Zafarullah Khan) and Raja Sharief first converted to Christianity, only to find the caste system had followed them -- they were Harijan Christians. "When a Harijan Christian priest died, Thevar and Nadar converts kept away. We have to bury him in a Harijan burial ground," says Sharief.

They believe they have found their dignity in Islam. Sharief married into aprominent Muslim family of the neighbourhood. Many point to their marriages into "old" Muslim families as proof of the respect they have gained. Their Hindu relatives agree. Headman Udayar, Hindu, leads the way to theKaliamman temple, and the Muslims troop in as well. "The incessant police raids led to the conversion," he concurs.

Why didn't he convert? Udayar was a bonded labourer, a "slave", and could not survive without Thevar patronage. He laments that he commands no respect. Any Thevar child can call him by name, but the day his son dons the cap and walks out of Meenakashipuram with a new name, he is called Bhai.

Many others remained Hindu because they were share croppers in land owned bythe Thirumala temple, the biggest in the neighbourhood, and Kaliamman. Uppercaste Hindus threatened to keep converts out of the temple fields. This led to some friction because, when some Kaliamman trustees themselves got converted,they claimed the property.

Anantha Rama Seshan, who spearheaded the Hindu organisations' re-conversion movement and got 185 neo-Muslims to re-covert a week later, claimed he helped a villager Shivanu to reclaim the Kaliamman property.

For non-converts, Hinduism was never a cause in itself; it was just that, if not dignity, it afforded other benefits. Says Lavan, a matriculate; "If we converted, we wouldn't get scholarships or reservations. Many elders felt we should get all the benefits, achieve a status and then fight the system."

Raja Sharief's brother Pandaram, who works in the telecom department, remained a Hindu because he feared he would lose his job. Village development officer Thurairaju got the job in reserved quota, and was suspended when he converted. The suspension was revoked only after he re-converted.

Then, why did others who enjoyed the benefits of reservation convert? "I didn't fall for the propaganda that we'll lose our jobs", says Khawaja Moiddeen. "I had some land too. Now my elder son has a diploma in engineering and is in Saudi Arabia. The younger one is running a poultry shop. If he were still a Harijan, no upper caste would have touched his chicken." Local Muslims helped by getting some of the leaders, including Raja Sharief, jobs abroad.

Outside the mosque, the villagers are curious but taciturn. A few years ago, a national daily had written about the role money had played in converting the Pallans. Was this true? Supraich, a cattleman, responds: "I had six daughtersto marry off and Muslims ask for a huge dowry. But conversion was necessary."

But Seshan says it was all for money: "Outsiders came here and got a fewconverted with money and promises." However the "promises" are not very apparent. Just a handful of people, including Hindus, founds jobs in the Gulf." If promises lured us, then we should have re-converted by now because therewere none," says Hussein, who sells lottery tickets in Kerala.

Also, the Hindu organisations' attempts to woo the converts had failed. Seshan admits the school he opened in Meenakshipuram attracts no students. The RSS shakha, opened in the wake of the conversions, too has closed.

"Before 1981, there were just five or six shakhas in Thenkasi taluka," explains Rajendran, a Thevar and former local RSS chief. "After conversions, we had 22, but to no avail. The Harijans somehow feel the RSS is of the upper caste."

"Now it is they who harass us," says Kuttralingam Thevar. The complaints against the Dalits include murder, rape and looting. "Earlier they were meek,but now they feel they can lord over us," adds Rajendran.

The socio-economic changes have affected local politics. Very much part of the Dravidian movement, the Thevars are now drifting away from the DMK towards theBJP. The recent AIADMK victory in Tirunelveli parliamentary constituency is attributed to the BJP's alliance with Jayalalitha: "I voted for BJP, not forJayalalitha," asserts Kuttralingam Thevar, a traditional DMK worker.

With every Muslim having a Dalit relative and vice versa, the Dalits andMuslims of Meenakshipuram live in perfect harmony. They appear the same, dress the same and live together - often there are Hindu and Muslim houses in the same compound. Khwaja Moiddeen's wife, Rabia Banu, sports a bindi, saree, nose-ring and does not cover her head. "I feel much cleaner and no one can now ask me to vacate a bus seat," she says.

Though Seshan thunders that conversion is a grave threat to the country's peace, the people of Meenakshipuram have been living for 18 years in harmony. And, if there is a call from their new leaders, Dr Krishnaswamy of the NewTamizhaga Party, they warn that those who haven't yet will also convert. Theyknow that the threat of Meenakshipuram completely merging into Rahmat Nagar is a potent weapon.
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