SIMI: The Open And Hidden Faces Of Indian Jihad

Posted on | September 25, 2008 | 76 Comments

History is not the graveyard of the past. It is the mother of present and womb for the future. Most current event analysers tend to disregard the history and fail to link the present with the past. The same mistakes are being committed by certain section of the media which claims to be the fathers of sting-journalism. Small people attempting to paint a sinner as saint commit colossal mistakes.

A Nation’s unpreparedness for colossal natural disasters like tsunami and earthquakes are somewhat pardonable. However, strategic unpreparedness to anticipate, analyse, estimate and visualise threats and disasters arising out of political and administrative naïveté and adoption of a fire-fighting attitude to visibly advancing political, military, proxy-war and jihadi cyclones cannot be pardoned even if the elasticity of democracy and tolerance are extended to infinity.

This observation is more relevant to certain media coverages and attitude of certain political parties. Union ministers Lalu Yadav and Rambilas Paswan sang paean of the SIMI and they were accompanied by Mulayam Singh Yadav even after the Supreme Court branded SIMI as a ‘terrorist organisation.’ They were joined by the so-called Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid and other several other Muslim leaders who visited the village hoe of Abul Basher after his arrest in connection with Ahmedabad serial bombings. Such blatant communal display does not repair the damagee that continues to widen. Such vote-bank tear-shedding by Union Cabinet Ministers weakens the very foundation of history and pushes the country towards disintegration. Once upon a time one Jagat Seth had decided that his business interest was higher than political interest of Bengal. He was ably supported by Mir Zafar. Seth had even loaned Rs. 2 crores to fortune seeker clerk Robert Clive. Do our ministers and leaders like to compete with them? Have they no sense of history?

Present India, was born out of communal strife, bitterness of Muslim separatism and sky-full of hatred for everything Hindu. Those were the underlying poisonous fuel with which Jinnah flew down to Karachi to be crowned as the Shaenshah of the new Muslim Homeland-Pakistan. Sixty one years after the clinical operation desired by Jinnah was accomplished, his dreamland lay in tatters, the subcontinental Muslims, nearly 500 million, continue to reel under privation, religious bigotry, economic backwardness and suffer from the same old canopy of ‘living together separately.’

This article is not the correct space to unfold the entire history of pains that hurt the people of the subcontinent. However, certain forces created by the seeds of hatred and separateness can be examined in the background of the poisonous clouds that had continued to haunt the subcontinent from 1857 to 1947. The Indian National Congress vainly continued to suffer from the delusion that it represented all the communities in United India and Sir Sayyid Ahmad to Muhammad Ali Jinnah declared unequivocally that the Muslim political congregation (Muslim League) had the sole right to represent the community. History of this delusion and reality has been well recorded and can be accessed through impartially written history books and not through Gandhi-Nehru eulogies.

In post-independent India also the Muslims felt the need of organising themselves around their religious institutions, community congregations and several activated bodies outside the presumed umbrellas of Congress, Left parties and other fringe political mushrooms.

Jamait-e-Islami founded by Maududi in 1941 to espouse Islamic exclusivism, separate Muslim identity and establishment of Islamic rule in India was split into two parts: JeI Hind and JeI Pak. Later JeI Bangladesh was added to the list. In Pakistan and Bangladesh the JeI function as political parties. However, in India the Jamait has not taken part in electoral politics but has supported Muslim groups and candidates which supported the core ideology of the organisation.

A secretive organisation like the RSS, the JeI Hind maintained low political profile but actively participated against the spate of political agitation between 1973-75 (JP Movement) that wanted to remove Indira Gandhi from power and restore real people’s democracy. The RSS had supported the movement for its own reasons and the JeI also took active part in the agitation as they were highly disturbed by the acts of Turkman Gate demolition, resettlement of Muslims to certain clusters in East and North Delhi and drastic implementation of family planning. A Muslim lady, supposed to be a close associate of Sanjay Gandhi, had even operated a couple of family planning establishments in the walled city areas of Delhi. In short, the Muslim sentiment against Indira led Congress was highly vitiated and the Muslims felt that they were specially targeted for discrimination and socio-political and economic isolation. They were already high-strung over the defeat of Pakistan in 1971. The singed Muslim sentiment was also agitated by direct and indirect stimulation from the Muslim educational and religious institutes like the Aligarh, Jamia Milia, Nadwa, Firangi Mahall, Tablighi Jammat etc. During the emergency regime most of the important Jamait leaders were put behind the bars.

Other historic events around the time of birth of the Students Islamic Movement of India on April 25, 1977) require examination. Normal JeI student front is known as Islami-Jamait-e-Talaba. Such bodies existed before the SIMI was floated.

Right after defeat in Bangladesh war (1971) Z. A. Bhutto in collaboration with Jamait-e-Islami Pakistan utilised the Indian wing of the Jamiat to depute teachers and preachers to Kashmir valley to impart Islamic studies to the Kashmiri students attached to madrasas, Sufi Dargahs (holy mosques like Charar-e-Sharif) and other educational institutions. The objective was to subvert the Sufi-minded Kashmiri Muslims and to convert them to hardcore Hanafi Sunni Islamists.

This mission was also sustained by Zia-ul-Haq. According to intelligence reports Zia’s government provided financial support to the JeI Pak for mobilising the JeI Hind to achieve ideological conquest of Kashmir. The developments in Indian Kashmir and till 1989 when Pakistan unfolded its proxy war in so called IHK, bear testimony to the fact that the JeI Hind in collaboration with its counterpart in Pakistan and the ISI had succeeded in vastly destroying the moderate Islamic culture and Kashmiriyat of the people of the valley. Concerned agencies had kept the government of India adequately informed about silent cultural and religious revolution in Kashmir that could lead to political rebellion.

Inside Pakistan General Zia took command and introduced total Islamisation of the country. In Bangladesh Mujib was assassinated by the pro-Pakistani army officers and in 1977 General Zia-ur-Rahman allowed the Jamait-e-Islami leaders (Pak), who collaborated with Pakistan army, to return to Bangladesh and open their fundamentalist shop.

During 1977 Janata Dal rule in Delhi the Jamait-e-Islami leaders reopened their shop with great enthusiasm and tried to fill in the political vacuum left by Muslim alienation from the Congress. While still under ban the organisation expanded its membership to over 100,000. New halqas (branches) were opened in seventy locations all over India. The All India Muslim Students Union and other Muslim youth and students bodies were directed to organise meetings under cover of Dawa (service) and mobilise opinion of the Muslims by touring the interior areas. Main focus was in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Historical facts do not support the decision as to why the JeIH went for opening a new youth and student body. Ahmadullah Siddiqi, who started the organisation, was an important member of the JeIH. Had the JeIH wanted an organistaion ostensively outside its official structure foe carrying out different types of activities? Perhaps, yes.

It is on April 25, 1977 Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi of Aligarh Muslim University, the alma mater of Muslim renaissance, founded the Islamic Students Movement of India. A scholar in Physics Ahmadullah was inspired to change streams of massmedia and journalism for projecting better image of Muslims of India. He started it as a united platform for Muslim students and youth wing of the JeI Hind with the objective to restore the Caliphate for the unity of Ummah (Muslim community) by rejecting the concept of nationalism, secularism and democracy.

Though he stoutly denied after settling down in the US any inclination to Islamic fundamentalism his aim was to establish Dar-ul-Islam (land of Islam). The ideological inspirations were derived from Muslim thinkers who had launched Islamic movements in the subcontinent in the past, e.g. Shah Walliullah, Sayyid Ahmad and Haji Shariat Allah and Maulana Maududi, the founder of the Jamait-e Islami (JEI). SIMI was deeply inspired by the Maududi’s goal to make Islam the supreme organizing principle for the social and political life of the Muslim community.

Personally Ahmadullah was a member of the International Islamic Students Federation, Rabita-ul-Alam-e-Islami and was profoundly influenced by the Iranian revolution. His speeches in the Aligarh University testify his affinity to revolutionary Islamic resurgence. He had organised protest demonstrations during Yassir Arafat’s visit to India on grounds that he was a ‘stooge’ of the US. Ahmadullah was a staunch supporter of the Iranian backed Hamas that was making space in Palestine and Lebanon with Iranian support.

He was Assistant Secretary General of IIFSO and had joined Jamait-e-Islami of India in 1973. He has also served on the Board of Directors and Governing Boards of Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi, India, Centre for Studies on Sciences, Aligarh, India, Students Islamic Trust of Indian and All-India Council for Muslim Educational Upliftment, Bombay, India. Later he renounced the violent activities of the SIMI and declared that he had not set up the movement to fight armed jihad.

Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi migrated to US in 1981 and is now a professor of Journalism and Public Relations at Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois. Dr. Siddiqi now serves as Honorary Vice President of the American Islamic College Chicago and is a member of the College’s Board of Directors. Even after rooting in the US Dr. Siddiqi had not left keen interest in the welfare of the Muslims. He is the founding member and Secretary General of the North American Association of Muslims Professionals and Scholars (NAAMPS).

Dr. Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi

After his departure from India the SIMI had started rooting in different parts of the country recruiting over 1000 Ansars or registered leading members and about 50,000 Ikhwans (supporting members). SIMI published several magazines- Tahreek, Hindi; Iqraa, Gujrati; Rupantar, Bengali; Sedhi Madal, Tamil; Vivekam, Malayalam; Movement in English and Shaheen Times in English for children. Tauqeer, now wanted in Ahmedabad bomb blast edited the Shaheen Times for some time.

Objectives and Ideology of the SIMI:

* Governing of human life on the basis of the Holy Quran

* Propagation of Islam

* Jihad for the cause of Islam

SIMI attempts to utilize the youth in the propagation of Islam and also to mobilize support for Jihad and establish a Shariat-based Islamic rule through ‘Islami Inqulab’ (Islamic revolution). As the organization does not believe in a nation-state, it does not believe in the Indian Constitution or the secular order. Among its various objectives, the SIMI aims to counter what it believes is the increasing moral degeneration, sexual anarchy in the Indian society as also the ‘insensitiveness’ of a ‘decadent’ west. Ideologically, SIMI maintains that the concepts of secularism, democracy and nationalism, keystones of the Indian Constitution, are antithetical to Islam. Parallel to its rejection of secularism, democracy and nationalism is its oft-repeated objective of restoration of the ‘khilafat’, emphasis on ‘ummah’ (Muslim brotherhood), and the need for a Jihad to establish the supremacy of Islam.
In recent years the SIMI started preaching that partition of the country had not solved problems of the Muslims. Nearly 20 crores Muslims of India, in combination with the Muslim population of Pakistan and Bangladesh form the largest mass of Muslims and they have the assigned right to shift the centre of Islamic gravity from Saudi Arabia and Egypt to Delhi, from where the Muslim rulers once ran a parallel Khilafat. India should the centre of the new Khilafat. In a speech at Ujjain in 2005 he had even mentioned about regaining Taj-e-Hind.

“To bring Islamic revolution in the country we considered the parliamentary system election process is useless and futile. It is difficult to keep the Islamic revolutionary character during the process of election. Therefore SIM will not participate in the election or will not give votes to anybody. During the time of election SIM will expose the nature of the system democracy, socialism, secularism, nationalism etc. and ask the people to boycott the election and march for the Islamic revolution.”

At some stage the SIMI dropped the last ‘I’ and converted to SIM-Students Islamic Movement. Its website was also known as www.simofindia.org. Some media hype after Abu Basher’s arrest that SIMI has changed name to SIM is cheaper than wayside rag. SIMI had adopted a new front-name Indian Mujahideen as it was still involved in legal battle to get over the stigma of government ban. Indian Mujahideen name was devised to give impression that jihad had taken indigenous character and it had no link with foreign jihadi tanzeems. This should not mislead any objective observer and analyst. The objectives of the organisation were spelt out in its website before it went out of the electronic stream. Some quotes are revealing and should be perused by leaders like Lalu, Mulayam and Rambilas etc who see no evil in anything that give them drops of vote-milk.

 

 

What is Taghooti?

This is an Arabic word that generally means forces that are antithesis to the forces of the Allah. Hudhayfah Ibnul-Yamaan a close follower of the Prophet interpreted this expression of battle between the forces of the Allah and the forces of evil in the following way– He asked: Messenger of Allaah, no doubt, we had an evil time (i.e. the days of jahiliyyah or ignorance) and Allaah brought us a good time (i.e. Islamic period) through which we are now living. Will there be a bad time after this good time? He (the Prophet) said:

There will be among them men who will have the hearts of devils in the bodies of human beings. I said: What should I do Messenger of Allah, if I (happen) to live in that time? He replied: You will listen to the ameer and carry out his orders; even if your back is flogged and your wealth is snatched, you should listen and obey.

 

 

 

 

It is good enough to stop here. SIMI’s objective is to resume the war against the infidels who have forced bad times on the Muslims and to restore the good times of Islamic rule.

It has been claimed that the SIMI has over 1000 Ansars and over 50,000 Ikhwans. No reliable data are available about the territorial distribution of the cadre. However, since the SIMI was hooked up by the ISI of Pakistan and was drawn to the vortex of Afghan Mujahideen war sponsored by the CIA, Saudi Intelligence and the ISI some of the radical SIMI leaders reconstructed the original ideological architecture of the organisation.

By 1990 the concerned agencies noticed that nearly 15 SIMI volunteers from UP, Delhi, Andhra and Maharashtra had travelled to Kathmandu from where they were transported to Pakistan. Twelve of them acclimatised in training camps run by the ISI in Quetta area and returned to India. More significant was the observations of clandestine contacts between the Delhi’s Pakistan embassy-based intelligence officials and some of the SIMI leaders in Delhi, Ajmer Sharif and Mumbai. These well recorded evidences were clinching.

Later, at the height of Sikh turmoil in Punjab three SIMI functionaries from Aligarh were tapped by the ISI to locate themselves temporarily to a hotel in Maharajganj Market, Kathmandu and assist the Sikh militants in transporting and safe-housing arms and explosives in certain places in western UP. These arms and explosives were recovered by the concerned agencies.

Your author had the opportunity in unearthing that SIMI-Pakistan link.

Government ministers who shed vote-bank tears for SIMI should ask their own agencies to apprise them of these reports, if the agencies can trust such on these vote-hungry politicians.

For those in and out of government, especially for the vote-hungry politicians, who doubt about SIMI’s early contact with Pakistan I quote from V. Balachandran former Additional Secretary RAW, “Reports about SIMI’s involvement in recent bombings have ignored that a triangular process of punishing India had started much earlier. The first judicially tested evidence of Pakistani-Khalistani-SIMI nexus had surfaced in 1992 ending up with a Supreme Court judgment on 9 January 2001, which everybody seems to have forgotten. The case which was contested for nine years in several courts started with the arrest of Lal Singh, alias Manjit Singh, an ISI-trained Khalistani militant on 16 July 1992 at Dadar railway station by Gujarat Police on prior intelligence. A search of his safe house in Ahmedabad on 25 July revealed considerable quantity of arms and explosives. The CBI took over the case in August 1992. Investigation revealed his connections with Basheer of Kerala who had organised a SIMI convention in 1991 in Mumbai where the linkage was firmed up. Basheer absconded, but 21 persons including Pakistani national Mohammad Sharief, Mumbai residents Tahir Jamal, Saquib Nachan and Shoaib Mukhtiar were apprehended. Lal Singh confessed planning to blow up Madras Stock Exchange for which a survey was done on 2 July 1992, besides trying to assassinate South Indian Hindu leaders and police officers. The Supreme Court confirmed life sentence to Lal Singh and Mohammad Sharief, while others were given ten-year prison terms. Absconding Basheer, a postgraduate diploma holder in aeronautical engineering, was later suspected to have been involved in the 2003 Mulund, Ghatkopar, Gateway and Zaveri Bazaar blasts, besides being a SIMI fundraiser.” Police & State (published in Covert-Sept 16 to 30th). SIMI hand was noticed in Bombay Stock exchange bomb blast (Dawood Ibrahim fiat). The list is too long and need not be reproduced here.

Based on certain reliable reports the approximate strength of the SIMI in different states is given below. Any reader having better figures and data may correct me. For brevity A has been used for Ansar and I for Ikhwan. The estimates of known figures are based on several agency reports and the author’s personal ground studies.

Assam=15 A, 600 I; Manipur= 5 A, 15 I; Tripura=8 A, 12 I; West Bengal= 50 A, 400 I; Bihar= 40 A. 430 I; Jharkhand= 25 A, 200 I; Uttar Pradesh= 300 A, 1000 I; Delhi= 40 A, 600 I; Orissa= 5 A, 15 I; Madhya Pradesh=80 A, 480 I; Chhatisgarh= 45 A, 150 I; Rajasthan=80 A, 275 I; Gujarat=100 A, 280 I; Maharashtra 200 A, 1050 I; Andhra Pradesh= 60 A, 200 I; Karnataka=30 A, 150 I; Kerala= 43 A, 120 I; Tamil Nadu=26 A, 145 I.

For visual understanding the spread is depicted in the sectional maps:

These locations have not been pinned arbitrarily. Almost every district in the mentioned States has units of SIMI, besides in the educational and professional institutions. Most of these are located in cell and module form where the strength is not overwhelmingly visible. Some units have been drafted to the underground outfit: Indian Mujahideen. The rest try to go by legitimate student/youth labels.

However, the earlier style of recruiting the youths from madrasa centres has given way to general and minority educational institutions and hostels, IT training centres, IT facility vendors, professional institutions and population clusters which are nearly impenetrable to peoples of other communities and even to the government functionaries. The pattern is similar almost all over the country with exception that in rural areas of UP, Bihar, Bengal, Assam and the mining and industrial belt of Jharkhand mosques, madrasas, labour unions and people belonging to service (manual) sectors are exploited for field operations purposes. In a city like Delhi and Mumbai the pattern gives way to intensified word of the mouth, clandestine video CD, and limited cable operations etc. The picture is nearly the same in the southern part of the country.

The SIMI, like most motivated terror groups which are inspired by religious fanaticism has an ideological base. This has been explained in earlier paragraphs. It has a well laid down apparatus divided into two clear segments: open segment and underground segment. The open façade looks like a loosely structured youth and student body running indoctrination classes, managing print magazines, websites and organising cultural events. The other part of the façade consists of a labyrinthine structured body, right from the President to the Ikhwans assigned with different tasks. It is more or less like an underground tech-apparatus of any revolutionary organisation modelled after the Hamas. The underground apparatus is still in developing stage and has not taken the solid shape like its counterparts in Pakistan such as Lashkar and Jais. An illustrative diagram would make it easier for the readers to understand:

However, our investigating agencies have so far been studying the SIMI on the basis of personalities and certain basted hideouts. I suppose they are required to go into the labyrinthine spade work that has been established by the SIMI, with support from Jamait-e-Islami Hind and other jihadi organisations. Interestingly, a SIMI Ikhwan can also be found to be an active worker of Deendar Anjuman or Muslim Liberation Tiger Army (Assam). There is no ban on cross-organisations membership. A SIMI Ansar can also be a member of the HuJI. There are instances of SIMI Ansars and Ikhwans collaborating with Lashkar-e-Toiba etc Pakistani tanzeems.

SIMI leadership, so far unfolded, were identified as Dr Shahid Badar Falah functioning as the national president and Safdar Nagori as the general secretary. Delhi Police arrested Falah on September 28, 2001 after the organisation was banned. Safdar Nagori, the next president was arrested by police from Indore along with twelve Nagori is known to have firm linkage with the ISI and was in the process of linking us with Taliban. He considers Mullah Omar as the Amir ul Momineeen. Other leaders like Mohammad Aamir, (Uttar Pradesh unit chief), a prime accused in the Kanpur riots of March 16, was arrested on April 25, 2006. Abul Bashar Qasmi, who succeeded after Safdar Nagori’s arrest, was apprehended on August 16, 2008 from a village in Azamgarh. He had masterminded the July 26, 2008 Ahmedabad (Gujarat) serial bomb blasts, and is suspected as a vital link in Bangaluru, Jaipur and Delhi blasts.

SIMI leaders are supported by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), Riyadh. It is affiliated to the International Islamic Federation of Students’ Organizations (IIFSO) in Kuwait. Jamait-e-Islami Pakistan and Markaz-ud-Dawa-al-Irshad are known to have funded the SIMI. Chicago-based Consultative Committee of Indian Muslims (related to the founder president of SIMI) supports SIMI morally and financially. SIMI’s links and active collaboration with Bangladesh JeI, Islamic Chhtra Shibir, and HUJI are well established. Several operations, especially the Benaras, Hyderabad, and Mumbai blasts were jointly accomplished by the SIMI Ansars, Ikhwans and the HUJI elements from Bangladesh. SIMI volunteers had undergone training with Hizbul Mujahideen in Pak occupied Kashmir. Three Jalgaon (Maharashtra) youths Sheikh Asif Supdu, Sheikh Khalid Iqbal and Sheikh Mohammad Hanif had reportedly died in Indian border force firing in 2000, while crossing over from Pakistan. SIMI links with Lashkar-e-Toiba has been proved beyond doubt. They were partners in several blast incidents in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Interrogation of Nagori and others have brought out that they were trying to establish linkages with Tehrik-e-Taliban, Pakistan and Afghan Talibans for training and material assistance for carrying out jihad in India.

Besides linkage with smaller jihadist bodies the SIMI also functions through certain front organisations. Some of the front organisations are: Muslim Youth Cultural Forum, Muslim Youth Front, All-Bengal Islamic Students Conference, Khidmat-e-Khalaq, Ameer-ul-Muslimeen, Darul-Khuda, Juhapura Youth Federation, Students Islamic Federation, Sauhridaya Library, Quran Foundation, Minority Rights Watch, Ittehadul Musalmeen and Naujawan-e-Islam. Some of these outfits are state-specific, while others operate on a national or regional level. At the national level, Simi uses Tahrik Tahaffuj-e-sha’aire Islam (TTSI), Wahadat-e-Islami, Tahrik-e-Ehyaa-e-Ummat and Tehrik-Talaba-eArabia for over ground activities.

In Southern India, besides the Musli Munnetra Kazagham and Deendar Anjuman etc the SIMI is connected with the following organisations: National Development Front (NDF), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of Coimbatore serial blasts accused Abdul Nasser Mahdani, and several fringe outfits, including the Muslim Youth Cultural Forum, Karuna Foundation, Muslim Aikya Vedi, Sahridaya Vedi, Samskara Vedi, Solidarity Students Movement and the Movement for Protection of Islamic Symbols and Monuments.

In Kerala Shibli Paidhikar headed a strong group and had set up at least 20 modules. They had organised training in forest areas in which a maulana from Lakshadwip had also taken part. Similar training camps were organised at Hubli, Karnataka, Indore, Ujjain, Badodra, Aurangabad and Bijapur. The instructors trained the Ansars in physical training, indoctrination, use of explosives and fabrication of IED and other techniques of terrorist strike in urban areas. Downloaded websites of Hamas, Lashkar etc were projected to illustrate fidayeens training. An illustrative training manual obtained from a delicate source contain the following subjects, for daily training:

a.Prayer, b. taqrir (lecture) on Islam and motivation quoting profusely from Quran, c. Physical exercises modelled after army physical training and as depicted in Al Qaeda training video, d. lectures on atrocities on Muslims, e. firing from air rifle using targets and pellets, f. theoretical and practical lessons in bomb fabrication using RDX, locally available materials, preparation of Molotov Cocktail, g. ground surveillance , h. exploiting sympathetic contacts in explosive and ordnance factories and ex-army personnel, i. DVD films on guerrilla warfare, urban terrorism etc.

Important leaders who attended such trainings along with other Ansras are Safdar Nagori, Abul Basar, Adnan of Bijapur, Shibli of Ernakulam, Amir Parvaiz-Ujjain, Kamruddin-Ujjain, Sameer Salim-Ujjain (computer expert), Asadullah-Hubli, Allah Bux-Karnataka, Dr. Moon Rose-Belgaum, Samsuddin-Ahmedabad, Md. Yunus Mansuri-Ahmedabad, Razik, Zahid-Ahmedabad, Imran, Usman Agarbatti, Kayamuddin @ Ashfaq Iqrar-Baroda, Mehboob-Khandwa, Imran-Khandwa, Md. Ali-Jabbalpur, Shahid, Iqrar-Ujjain, Subhan Qureshi-Mira Road Mumbai, Khalid Kharemba, Abul Sar, Habib, Wasik, Shahid Badr Falahi, Faizan- Azamgarh, Shahbaz Hussain-Aminabad, Kalim Akhtar-Lucknow, Salim, Javed-Lakhimpur, Mistabul Hussain, Rafiq-West Bengal, Amir Mehfuz, Arif-Allahabad, Hummam-Sultanpur. These are names of only a part of the top leaders who have been trained in demolition works, and it is not the end-list.

The comprehensive list of active and leading Ansars highlight place-names like Ujjain belt, Ahmedabad and Azamgarh. The first recorded communal conflagration in Ujjain-Dhar belt had taken place in 1695, the first recorded Ahmedabad communal conflagration was in 1704 (jeweller Kapurchand case in the court of Emperor Farrukhshiar) and Azmgarh in UP’s ‘purvannchal’ had earned communal notoriety way back in 1893 during ‘Gorakhshini’ agitation. There have been repeated communal conflagrations in the Gorakhour-Azamgarh belt at regular intervals between 1897 and 1947. Muslims rioted on the day of Holi in 1975 and on 26th January on the occasion of Republic Day, simply because some people raised ‘Bandemataram’ slogan.The latest incident involving firing on the procession of Yogi Adityanath, a BJP MP and a notorious Hindu protagonist is fresh in memory. The involvement of Azamgarh youths in Delhi bombing should be understood that in that light. It is a strong fort of jihadis in Eastern UP.

Sarai Meer and nearby villages in Azamgarh enjoys other distinctions. Bdr Falahi, president of the SIMI hailed from this village. Abu Salem, the Dawood Ibrahim related mafia don also started his journey to the world of crime from Sarai Meer. Abul Basar, arrested by Gujarat police is a product of this famous place that once supplied weapons to Mumbai underworld. Interestingly Anees Ibrahim, brother of Dawood Ibrahim and late Haji Mastan are also matrimonially related to this new Mecca of Indian terror.

This does not mean Amamgarh always produced mafia dons and terrorists. It has produced many poets, singers and literary luminaries. The Muslim royal family of Azamgarm patronise even today major Hindu festivals. Smuggling operations with Nepal, Mumbai, Kolkata underworld connection and SIMI’s initial footing in Azamgarh, amongst other factors, have misled a section of youth to take the path of jihad.

Pakistan had exported jihad to the mainland India from Kashmir and it was ably assisted by the DGFI from Bangladesh. Gradually, after testing Indian unpreparedness, they started sending own jihadi tanzeems to perch the flag of Islam through violence. During last 20 years such efforts have borne fruit. SIMI’s umbilical growth, the Indian Mujahideen and other tanzeems in different parts of India have emerged as the open faces of hidden International Islamic Jihad. They may change names but the kernel of SIMI-Lashkar-ISI-DGFI linkages would remain intact.

Unfortunately our political leaders and the people in general treat these as terrorist incidents. What is happening in India today is not terrorism; it is the first stage of unveiling the open face of concealed jihad. Unless the political masters take a lesson or two in national security matters and threat posed by forces like Maoist revolutionaries and the Islamists they would not even be in a position to bargain with the enemies from abroad and within like Jagat Seth, Omi Chand and Mirzafar had vainly bargained with the determined colonialists who inched in taking advantage of Indian ignorance and greed-be it for money or vote.

The Nation is more important than a few more Votes; Mr. and Mrs. Politicians. The sand of history is running out. It is time to Act by shedding all pretensions of ‘misplaced interpretation of secularism’ and criminal apathy towards the festering sores of Jihadi advances and Maoist movements. These sores are becoming gangrenous.

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  Upananda Brahmachari

  Saturday, February 4th at 18:32

  Islam has its definite plan to ruin all the reminiscence of Hindu Heritage and History. From Hindukush to Hyderabad, Bamiyan to Kashmir Islam tells a destruction all along.
  http://tribune.com.pk/story/328768/ramkot-fort-centuries-old-kashmiri-heritage-site-on-the-verge-of-destruction/

  

  Ramkot Fort: Centuries-old Kashmiri heritage site on the verge of destruction

  tribune.com.pk

  Slackn­ess from local author­ities has led to the deteri­oratio­n of the 500-year-old fort.

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  Rajiv Lochan Das

  Saturday, February 4th at 4:07

  

  Lord Varahadeva protected Mother EARTH from the Demon

  
   vasati dasana-sikhare dharani tava lagna
  sasini kalanka-kaleva nimagna
  keshava dhrta-sukara-rupa jaya jagadisa hare
   
  "O Keshava! O Lord of the universe! O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of a gigantic boar! All glories to You! ...

  

  Rajeev Khurana HARE KRISHNA

  Saturday, February 4th at 7:30

  

  Kakali Som om namo bhagobate basudebay

  Saturday, February 4th at 15:06

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  Upananda Brahmachari

  Friday, February 3rd at 21:35

  

  The Final fall of Islam.

  
  The Final fall of Islam.
   
  ~ Upananda Brahmachari.
   
  One may write many things about it. One can research and prepare a doctoral thesis. But I have not the time so far. ...

  

  Upananda Brahmachari THE EQUATION OF 786, EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW. What is 786 in Islam? One of my friend pointed out that the Muslim clerics teach the mystery very confidentially. 786=? 7th Century: Birth. 7+8=15th Century: Peak. 7+8+6=21st Century: Fall. 786 depicts the birth, rise and fall of Islam in this encapsulated chronicle of bloodiest phases of human history. Estagfirullah.أستغفر الله. It should not be public. Allah may be annoyed much. In shaa'Allah. إن شاء الله. PBUE. Peace be upon everybody including Allah and Mohammad(صلى الله عليه وسلم).

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  Partha Kansabanik Great explanation- Great article.

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  Katyayan Seraph

  Friday, February 3rd at 9:54

  

  Join my cause: stop starting leather industrial complex in and aroung Thiruvannamalai, holy place for Hindus.

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  By joining this cause, you can help accomplish its mission: Thiruvannamalai is sacred for all Hindus , A praposal for starting leather industrial comples is announced by Leather experts. recently.

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  Prasenjit Chakraborty

  Friday, February 3rd at 2:55

  Excerpts from the order of Justice BP Katakey, Hon’ble Judge, Gauhati High Court, given on February 1, 2012, in regard to the Writ Petition filed by North East Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. and our demand for justice, “Mr. Bhowmik, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the management of North East Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. is agreeable to pay whatever amount to which the concerned workmen are entitled to if the issues referred to the Industrial Tribunal are answered in favor of the workmen and against the management.”
  “Since the management has expressed its desire to settle the matter by making payment to the concerned workmen, as indicated above, Sri Prasenjit Chakraborty, the Respondent No.4, who has appeared in person, shall apprise this Court on the next date fixed about the following :
  1) How many workmen are concerned in the reference proceeding ;
  2) Whether any workman has given up their claim challenging the retrenchment, if so, howmany workmen still have the claim;
  3) To which amount or benefit the workmen would be entitled to in the even the issues as referred to the Industrial Tribunal are decided in their favor.
  

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