The jihadi outfits have 'purist link'
By Rajeev Deshpande,TNN
22 Sep 2008
The task was to give a "mujahid enterprise" a cover of religious learning, fearing British retribution. But the goals of Waliullah remained Deoband's guiding principles. At all times, it strove to defend its tenets against what a leading light described as ploys by critics "to invent new arguments based on modern philosophy". It is this theological "inheritance" that led the IM-SIMI to believe its "war" against India and "non-believers" is just and fair. It allowed its leaders to recruit members by presenting them with a "divine" mission and using all manner of grievances — real and imagined, ranging from riots to conspiracies to keep minorities oppressed — to present their task as setting right a wrong.
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