பயங்கரவாதத்திலிருந்து இந்தியர்களை காப்பது எப்படி?

மும்பை போலீஸ்காரர்கள் முஸ்லீம்களிடம் பரிவுடன் நடந்துகொள்ள பயிற்சி கொடுக்கப்படுகிறது.
இதன் மூலம் பயங்கரவாதத்தை முடிவுக்கு கொண்டுவந்துவிடலாம் என்று கருதுகிறார்களாம்.

Mumbai cops get lessons on understanding Muslims
1 Aug 2008, 0228 hrs IST, S Balakrishnan,TNN

MUMBAI: Police is now making systematic efforts to understand the Muslim community. As a result, all personnel of the Muslim section of Special Branch I at the city's police headquarters and two staffers of this branch from each zone attended a recent day-long workshop at Police Club hall.

The initiative was taken by additional commissioner (Special Branch I) Sunil Ramanand even before the Ahmedabad blasts. Ramanand is a no-nonsense officer who in his earlier stint as deputy commissioner had done considerable work to clean up the Dadar-Matunga-Antop Hill area off anti-social elements.

The task of Special Branch I is to gather political intelligence. Ibrahim Tai, a noted social Muslim social worker and trustee of the Muslim Council Trust, collaborated with the police.

"I got maulanas from Barelvi, Deoband, Ahle Hadees and Shia schools of Islam to talk about their respective sects. Policemen asked several interesting questions about the intricacies of Islam," Tai told TOI on Thursday. "It was a welcome exercise which I hope will help the police understand the Muslim position on many issues confronting the community."

More such workshops will be conducted in the months to come and also help the police network better with the community and understand various undercurrents.

Sources said these efforts have assumed importance in view of the fact that fundamentalist Muslim groups like outlawed SIMI and the newly-created Indian Mujahideen are executing sophisticated blasts in different parts of the country.

In the past, senior officers like V N Deshmukh had taken pains to understand the community. In fact, it was his appreciation of the reality vis-a-vis the city Muslims that made it possible for Deshmukh to testify against his own colleagues before Justice Srikrishna Commission.