Ideological founts that sustain and inspire Indian Mujahideen, SIMI

Ideological founts that sustain and inspire Indian Mujahideen, SIMI

The jihadi outfits have 'purist link'

By Rajeev Deshpande,TNN

22 Sep 2008

The name Indian Mujahideen is apparently drawn from a book on a "jihad" waged by two Islamic warriors in north-west India around 1831 in Balakot, now Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and which suited the terror mission devised by the banned Students Islamic Movement of India.

In its new garb, a SIMI faction found IM perfectly conveyed "home grown" militancy. The harkening to the two shaheeds — Sayeed Ahmad and Shah Ismail — marks a connection of a Delhi-based madrassa that attracted notice in the late 17th century under Shah Abdur Rahim as Madrassa Rahimiya. The school came up as part of a protest against the anti-orthodox views and policies of Akbar and was a centre of Hanafi learning.

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