SIMI's Secular Admirers ...

I happen to tumble across the article by S.Gurumurthy. I sometimes wonder if this is the same Congress party of Gandhi and Nehru which led the freedom movement and claims to have given us freedom ?

Source:- http://www.newindpress.com/newsitems.asp?ID=IEM20080821003817

Here are some of the excerpts (in Italics):-

August 5, a court in Delhi annulled the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), faulting the UPA Govt. for providing “no fresh evidence” to continue the ban.

Intentionally, you (UPA Govt.) don't provide any evidence against SIMI in the court of Law to support the extension of ban against anti-national outfit and eventually the honorable court has no option but to lift the ban.

How did the “seculars” react to the court lifting the ban on SIMI? Mulayam Singh and Lalu Yadav said that the ban was wrong in the first place! Congress party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said the order was “no setback.”

This vindicates the conclusion drawn above. UPA Govt. didn't want to extend the ban on SIMI and they don't see Court's verdict as a setback, in fact they are feel happy about it.

When the secularists were handing out negative certificate of good conduct to SIMI, thanks to the court order, a study by the Institute of Conflict Management headed by KPS Gill, the terror of the Punjab terrorists, had already catalogued over 100 incidents from 2000 to July this year, that characterised SIMI as a terror outfit. Its cadre had been charged as motivators and perpetrators in major attacks from 2002 to 2008.

Super Cop KPS Gill is apolitical person and his analysis as an expert MUST have been taken into consideration by UPA Govt., but they did not !

How did SIMI grow to these menacing proportions? The plain answer is that it was receiving open and clandestine political patronage from the seculars. The NDA government first banned SIMI in September 2001 and extended the ban in 2003,which continued till September 2005. The UPA government, which came to power in 2004, did not extend the ban when it expired in September 2005, helping to revive a disintegrating SIMI.

But why did the UPA not continue the ban? Because Sonia Gandhi and her party opposed the first ban on SIMI in 2001. They were not only admirers of SIMI, but also its advocates – yes, really, advocates as Salman Khurshid, president of the Uttar Pradesh Congress committee, was the counsel defending SIMI in the high court and in the Supreme Court against the ban.

While speaking against the introduction of POTA in the special Parliament session in 2002 Sonia censured the government for banning the SIMI, which was not involved in terrorist activities!

The government of the same party had to re-impose ban in 2006 after its own Maharashtra government found SIMI involved in the Mumbai train blasts in 2006.

Even now, Sonia has not uttered one word against SIMI. Does it mean that she admires it still? Or she is so saintly that, like one of the three noble monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi, she sees no evil whether it is SIMI or LTTE or Nalini or Afzal — the RSS and its allies being the only exceptions!