Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JAU) has described ‘jihadi violence’ as a form of ‘radical religious terror’ in a new course.

A new course on counter-terrorism for engineering students of dual degree programs at the university also claims that the communist regimes in the then Soviet Union and China were the “major state sponsors of terrorism” that “represented radical Islamists”. States” were affected.

In fact, in a meeting of the Academic Council of the university held on August 17, the elective course titled ‘Counter-Terrorism, Asymmetric Conflicts, and Strategies for Cooperation among Major Powers’ was approved.

One of the modules of the new course titled ‘Radical-Religious Terrorism and Its Effects’ states: “Radical religiously motivated terrorism has played a very important and prominent role in giving rise to terrorist violence in the early 21st century. The distorted interpretation of the Qur’an has resulted in the rapid spread of jihadist sectarian violence, which glorifies death by terror in suicide and homicide.

It said, “The exploitation of cyberspace by radical Islamic religious clerics has led to the electronic spread of jihadist terrorism around the world. The online electronic spread of jihadist terrorism has led to an increase in violence in non-Islamic societies, which are secular and are now vulnerable to violence that (is) on the rise.

Another module, titled ‘State-Sponsored Terrorism: Its Impact and Implications’, refers only to the Soviet Union and China.