i am not a former JU student; butmy parents being teachers there , i grew up in that campus and love that place dearly.

this bit of news is shocking, true...but it is not teachers like Obaid who are the true risk. men like him, extremists who lack the cunning to hide their extremism, are easily spotted and can be disarmed. it is the teachers who do not come out in the open with their extreme beliefs, working towards that cause remaining hidden under the banners of the non-religious political parties that are the ones we truly need to fear. a teacher who orders female studetns to wear the burqa can easily be identified and dismissed as a fanatic. but there are teachers who have entered the universities through certain "patronages" and who further their aims in clandestine manners -- making it easier for "likeminded" students to enter and do well whether they deserve it or not, adn having "likeminded" teachers join their faculties etc.

a huge hullabaloo this incident has raised: i even heard a news item and interviews on BBC yesterday. but of more import was the incident of last year when a ring of teachers and admisnitrators were caught subverting the admission process, letting unqualified Jamaati candidates enter the university. and there  is no end to teachers (=votes) being employed in the carious dept.s depending on their political affilaitaions.

these are the things that continue on an almost daily basis that should truly alarm us -- unfotrunately the "shock value" of this kind of news being low...they don't really make headlines...