A lousy decision & my reply regarding closure of JG

Dear all,
I was browsing through emails & found the following correspondence.
Actually, i would have replied to them at once but i waited for a month before it became unbearable for me to digest misleading & lousy email to close down JG by its self proclaimed Owners.


From: Zubair Irshad [mailto:zubi1@eim.ae] Sent: 10 June 2008 09:07To: 'alifaridi511@gmail.com'Subject:

To,

Dear Ali Faridi (sender of close out email of JG)

Assalam alekum,

Reference email sent from your address on behalf of “Founder members/working committee” to announce closeout of Jamiaets global with stated reasons is a unilateral decision imposed on majority of Jamiaets present in UAE is far away from the truth of democratic norms.

How can you send an email from “Founder members”? As I never accord permission to take such hasty, irresponsible & irrelevant decision?

Please refer to my declination to attend the meeting called by Talha Alvi & go through the contents which are self explanatory (copy attached).
"Mr.Talha Alvi

As a Jamiaet & one of the founders of JG, I do not recognise present working & especially advisory committee due to the following,

Ø Deviation from its basic values (part written by you in your own mail)
Ø Political infestation & interests
Ø Non democratic approach, procedure & decisions.


Moreover, I don’t think camouflage committee is capable to handle/decide alone in lieu with true sprit of JMI.
Thank you for the invitation & note my declination to accept it in totality of the scenario"

The reasons stated by you to dissolve association are Bogus & self propagated, hiding the incapability rather portraying the voice & wishes of many Jamiaets.

It is yet another evidence of a puppet working committee in the hands of advisory, continues in their endeavours to kill democracy at every step.

Many Jamiaets, more than in numbers, to the people who decided to dissolve JG, do not concur with this decree rather than a decision.

I have disassociated myself with present working & advisory committee of so called closed JG since long back due to the reasons known to every one by now but never ever given you an authority to take decisions on my behalf.

Jamiaets Global formed on what grounds, with what norms & who did the efforts to make it a reality may have been overlooked or forgotten purposely by politically influenced minds but I remember every thing since its inception.

Jamiaets Global was not a shop running on the norms of profit & loss which can be announced closed by virtue of a “Tughlaqi Farman” decree.

You are advised either to exclude my name from the email sent under the name of founders or specify the name of persons decided the closure of JG.
You mail don’t have option to “reply all” otherwise I would have done it myself, there fore I expect with no hope, a reply from your end before taking a step forward.

Regards,

Zubair Irshad
A Jamiaet
Founder member JG
General Secretary JG 1999-2006
Elected President JG 2006.



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To:
zubi29@rediffmail.com

Subject:
Jamiaets Global UAE - Closed

Date:
Thu, 22 May 2008 17:44:23 IST




Dear Jamiaets Global (JG) Members / Friends,
Please be informed that reference to the meeting held on 16.05.2008 and unanimously decided by Founder Members / Working Committee of Jamiaets Global to dissolve the Jamiaets Global UAE Chapter with immediate effect. It has several reasons to do so few are as under.

1. This organization (Jamiaets Global) was formed to bring all Jamiaets together, and to provide a platform for them to contact / meet together and help each other in their capacity. But since long time as you are aware a number of peoples, on baseless provocation from few are involved in the activities and mismailing to destroy the image of Jamiaets Global for their cheap political interests.

2. Jamiaets Global was formed to help the Jamiaets (by all means); those were coming here seeking employment. But Most of New Comers now has his/her own capability to sustain or face this market with their individual links and resources, which was the elemental goal of the formation of Jamiaets Global to provide the new comers or to the individuals here in UAE.

3. Another motto of Jamiaets Global was to help the needy students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Alhamdulillah this aim is achieved successfully till date. InshaAllah this noble cause will remain and carried out on individual basis in future as well.

These are the few points among many those forced us to close/dissolve the Jamiaets Global UAE Chapter with immediate effect to stop the unnecessary division between Jamiaets in UAE.
So please be informed that Jamiaets Global is no more present in UAE.
Believe us this is very painful and tough decision which we have taken but it looks most appropriate according to the present conditions. Thanks for your understanding and do not feel dishearten. Our affection and love towards our Alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia and alumnae is not changing.
Best regards and well wishes

Founder Members / Working Committee
Jamiaets Global (UAE Chapter)

Alienated Generation-Professor Mushirul Hasan

Padam Shri Mushirul Hasan

Dear Jamiaets,
A recent turmoil in JMI has disturbed all of us.
The negative role of media has no exception so far.
Following is an article by JMI vice chancellor Professor Mushirul Hasan, who stood firm against all odds & injected a spirit to rejuvenate our souls.

Alienated Generation
Nobody dare question our commitment to education and the Indian Constitution
MUSHIRUL HASAN


THE EXTENT to which our society is getting polarised along religious lines is very disturbing. If this is the state of affairs almost seven decades after independence, what might happen a few decades later? This is not the time to attribute responsibility to different parties or communities. This is a moment of self-reflection; of trying to find out what gives rise to this mindless violence.
The other very disquieting fact is how the electronic media and sections of the Hindi print media have taken upon themselves the responsibility of being the custodian of the nation's interest. The arrogance and intolerance in their coverage reflects a very ominous trend in the history of journalism. I have experienced this recently. The Jamia incident is not a big affair, it could have been easily sorted out, but it was turned into a campaign against a university. Our doors are open to non-Muslims; our teachers are drawn from all communities. Compare our record with that of other so-called secular universities where Muslims have limited access — Benaras Hindu University, Allahabad University, Delhi University itself — then what are we questioning?
A student at the London School of Economic (LSE) was nabbed very recently by the police — does it mean that the LSE has become a hotbed of terrorism? This is senseless. I think we have to fight back. We have tolerated this nonsense for far too long. We should take on the media and demonstrate to the people that they are not trustworthy and are out to basically sensationalise events. Jamia Millia is being seen as the Muslim institution that it is not; it is a secular institution funded by the Central Government. The question of legal aid is not being looked at from the perspective of a teacher's responsibility to her students. As the head of the institution, I feel I have an obligation towards my students. And I am not using the taxpayer's money for it. But the real issue is of principle. If this had happened to a non-Muslim student, I would have done the same. I am also upholding the rule of law. Why have we forgotten the principle that says that an accused is innocent until proven guilty?
In the ultimate analysis, our society, which has gone through the Khalistan movement and experienced terrorism in the Northeast, must look at these incidents in a more cool-headed manner. Because you can't fight it by reacting in a hysterical manner. Also, our police is becoming more politicised and communalised. We haven't reoriented them into becoming the custodians of the secular values enshrined in the Constitution. Over the past 10 years, there has been a systematic pattern — Deoband University, an institution with a glorious record, has been targeted. So has Nadvat-ul-Ulema in Lucknow. Aligarh University has always been targeted, despite its being a modern institution with its doors open to all. Is there a pattern in this madness? We need to reflect on these issues. The alienation is very deep, and has to stop. But instead of supporting us, which would also mean supporting an institution committed to secular values, there are attempts to undermine our secular foundations.
And now we are dealing with a younger generation of Muslims. I believe in a liberal, eclectic and pluralist idea of Islam, but I suspect this vision will not be shared by those who are feeling insecure and excluded, socially and culturally. Why have the guilty in Gujarat not been punished? Why? Why? Why is the VHP and Bajrang Dal not banned for killing innocent Christians and desecrating their churches?
I regard myself, as do millions of others, as part of the edifice that is called India. The idea of India is my idea. There is no India without me, and I will not let that change. We have already taken certain steps to counter subversive ideas that might fracture our secular society. I appeal to civil society and the media to let us live in peace, and get on with our simple and innocent job — pursuit of knowledge. There is a limit to what one can tolerate. Nobody dare question our commitment to education, and our loyalty to the Indian Constitution.
(Hasan is Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)

Courteesy from Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 40, Dated Oct 11, 2008