An India Today special investigation has uncovered a network of unregulated, illegal madrasas mushrooming along the India-Nepal border, posing a threat to internal security.
00:00Illegal madrasas are mushrooming all along the India-Nepal border.
00:07Especially on the Indian side, there's a proliferation of these madrasas.
00:12And these are very shadily run institutions.
00:15Police believe that they pose a threat to India's internal security.
00:20Where does the funding come from?
00:22Apparently through Hawala channels.
00:24For what?
00:25For terrorism.
00:27Apparently even for illegal conversion.
00:29These madrasas are often center for radicalization of young Indian Muslim youth.
00:35Now India Today's special investigation team, it went undercover.
00:39To expose these unregulated madrasas that are mushrooming.
00:43They're coming up all along these bordering districts in Bihar.
00:46And this eye-opening special investigation by India Today's special correspondent Nitin Jain.
00:52Exposes a massive threat to India's internal security.
00:59We now take you to the neighboring state of Bihar.
01:05Which shares a long border with Nepal.
01:07We visited a dozen madrasas here to discover a network of unregulated institutions that thrive on illegal funding.
01:15This is the Jamia Nuria Mirajul Uloom.
01:21A private madrasa in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
01:24It has been imparting Islamic education for the past 30 years.
01:28Around 50 students study here, including 10 orphans.
01:32We met Afzal Inam Kadri, who has been teaching here for 26 years.
01:38Posing as representatives of a Delhi-based NGO, we offered him charity funds from Gulf countries.
01:44Money that could be rooted only through Hawala channels.
01:48The
01:56Today, I'm not a resident at the Centre for the country.
02:00We are here today.
02:02We will have a visit to,
02:06We don't have to check our committee out.
02:14This is our restaurant government.
02:18Private and private committee.
02:22We don't have to do this.
02:24We don't have to do this.
02:26We don't have to do this.
02:28We don't have to do this.
02:30We don't have to do this.
02:32We don't have to do this.
02:36We asked again what could be done for the Mujahideen and for Jihad.
02:40The answer will shock you.
03:02We have to do this.
03:04Since we've looked at this,
03:06we...
03:07We are going to do this.
03:09Here's our question.
03:12Look here.
03:14There's a question.
03:16I'm not going to tell you.
03:18Is that something?
03:20I said, I have to tell you.
03:22Do you see what I have seen?
03:24I'm not going to tell you exactly.
03:26I'll tell you.
03:28I'm not going to tell you.
03:30What is the name of the people who are living in the world?
03:35The people who are living in the world,
03:39in the world,
03:42is the most important thing.
03:45The people who are living in the world,
03:49are the people who are living in the world.
03:53No name, no address, no signboard.
04:13Headen deep in the remote Bajpatti area of Sitamari district along the Nepal border runs
04:20an unrecognized madrasa known as the Madrasa Islamiyah Mahmudiyah.
04:25It stands alone with no settlements in its vicinity.
04:33The madrasa operates out of two rooms and also has a small hostel for boys aged between
04:387 and 16.
04:40It has about 150 students on its rolls, out of which 25 are hosteliers.
04:47Lacking in basic amenities, the madrasa was shifted to this deserted location three years
04:52ago.
04:53Maulana Azruddin Dilkush, the man running this madrasa claims his real passion is Shairi.
04:59When we told him that we represented a Delhi-based NGO and that donations would come from Gulf
05:04countries through the Hawala channel, this is what he had to say.
05:11It became clear from a conversation with Azruddin that Hawala Mani is a Muslim foundation.
05:22It became clear from a conversation with Azruddin that Hawala Mani was not new to him.
05:43In the past two, Mani from Gulf countries reached his maktabs via Nepal.
05:50Azruddin is a Muslim foundation.
06:05Azruddin openly admitted that almost all madrasas in the area survive on Gulf money and big donors
06:12guide them on how to manage it.
06:20We asked about Bangladeshi children whose parents were reportedly sent back to Bangladesh.
06:47Kurdos kids study at his mother's house.
07:17The India Today team got a tip-off about another illegal madasa in the Sitamani district.
07:31This is a remote village called Deema in the Parsuni area.
07:35There is no signboard anywhere, but the madasa is operating illegally from a government community hall.
07:43Inside this two-room community centre, the madasa claims to teach 250 children.
07:51Here we meet the madasa's teacher, Maulvi Faisal, who revealed something shocking.
07:57As part of the curriculum, they screen videos of Zakir Naik, a controversial Islamic preacher and among India's most wanted fugitives to the young students.
08:11As part of the curriculum, we teach children who teach children who teach children who teach children who teach children.
08:25The Talim al-Islam is a controversial book on the basics of Islam that is still taught in several madasas in Bihar.
08:52But this book continues to be part of the syllabus in several unregulated madasas.
09:22So imagine that these unregulated, unregistered madasas, you have Zakir Naik's teachings being taught to young impressionable minds.
09:42Now, these are the unregulated madasas on the Indian side of the India-Nepal border.
09:48The India Today undercover team also crossed over to bring you this report on what's happening at the madasas that are mushrooming across this border belt even in Nepal.
09:59And there are some air-conditioned madrasas, there are some luxury mosques that are coming up in these areas.
10:06Indoctrination, Havala network or other anti-national elements including Pakistan's ISI that is feared to be active in that region.
10:17We get you more in this report.
10:35We drove nearly 20 km inside Nepal to meet Mohammad Shahid Hussain who runs the madrasa Ahsanya in Mahautari district.
10:45Shahid had no qualms about taking money rooted through Havala from Gulf countries.
10:50We also asked Shahid about the kind of religious education being imparted to the students in his madrasa.
10:56If you were that, don't believe you just give you children, so that childrenepad engaged easily form 4 in order to navigate to baseline conflicts.
11:08Because the conditions are difficult.
11:11If you keep the control of Islam and society in misery, then depend on them.
11:18In this way, what do all the kids solemn promise will be on these issues?
11:23Shai told us that in Nepal, there is no restriction of a mother's board and that zakat money comes from foreign countries.
11:53The government is about to go to the US and the government is about to go to the US.
12:04The government is about to go to the US.
12:15Shahid also admitted that people come from Pakistan and Lebanon to deliver motivational
12:29speeches in Nepal.
12:45The people come from Pakistan, they come from the university, they come from the university,
13:04In Nepal's Dhanusha district, the head teacher of the Madarsa Kadriya Gulshan in Raza was
13:25ready to do anything through Hawala.
13:27His name is Naimuddin.
13:29He told Naimuddin about distributing books related to Jihad and Mujahideen to children and
13:34he was ready to make them read those.
13:59We insisted that the children must be made aware about attacks on Islam in many countries
14:06and connect them with Jihad.
14:08And for that, Naimuddin was ready.
14:10This particular Madrasa is a Hindu majority area.
14:31That's why Naimuddin wanted to give Jihadi teachings secretly.
14:38Pura Report, India Today.
15:08Now it's for the investigating agencies to take over this investigation and take action
15:14against these illegal Madrasas flourishing along the India-Nepal border.
