It is a miracle that India with its huge Muslim population is enjoying sporadic incidences of terrorism outside Kashmir by radical extremists. This shows that Indian Muslims have rejected radicalism by and large. Blaming them collectively may change this. It would be foolish.

Dear Shaadan Alam ,

It’s really tragic that your heart bleeds for SIMI ,which has alleged links with foreign terrorists .

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Excerpts from an article ”Students Islamic Movement of India: A Profile ” by Animesh Roul in Terroriosm Monitor -Volume 4, Issue 7 (April 6, 2006) .

The ideological affinity with Hamas was revealed by SIMI’s financial secretary Salim Sajid following his arrest in June 2002. According to Sajid, Hamas’ former spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yasin had endorsed the ”freedom struggle” in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state and the reconstruction of the demolished Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh (Times of India, June 29, 2002). Sajid’s interrogation also exposed SIMI’s covert connections with Saudi Arabia’s Jamayyatul Ansar (JA) and Bangladesh’s Islamic Chhatra Shivir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (Times of India, June 29, 2002). JA is primarily comprised of expatriate Indian Muslims working in Saudi Arabia and is suspected of channeling funds to SIMI. Other sources of funding have included the World Assembly of Muslim Youth in Riyadh, the International Islamic Federation of Students Organizations based in Kuwait and the U.S.-based Consultative Committee of Indian Muslims (The Hindu, September 28, 2001).



Additionally, Pakistani terrorist outfits like Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) have had strong logistical and operational ties to SIMI. In late 2002, Maharashtra police seized as many as 30 compact discs containing speeches of Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Muhammad, along with clippings of communal riots in Gujarat from SIMI offices in Aurangabad. Furthermore, there is clear evidence of operational ties between HM militants and SIMI. The arrest of Sayeed Shah Hasseb Raza and Amil Pervez with explosives in the Kolkata railway station in 2002 substantiated earlier claims of terror ties. Both Raza and Pervez were senior members of SIMI and earlier worked for HM. Investigation officers believed that the duo were in Kolkata to carry out subversive activities and recruit youth for jihadi activities (Times of India, March 2, 2002).

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Allah,...whom to blame now.pl tell us.do you think SIMI is a social organisation,working for India’s unity and those bombs were meant just for making fun.

You may read the details of the banned organisations alongwith the reasons on Ministry of Home Affairs website.

Obviously the reasons are not enough to ban VHP and other similar organisations. If you don’t know, the bans have to meet critical judicial scrutiny of the court. Now don’t say that the government, the judiciary and the bureaucracy are all biased. Remember, India had 3 Muslim presidents, 2 Muslim Chief justices and many Muslim Chief ministers.

The terrorist tag on Muslims has got stuck to them after a lot of hard work by the community to earn it.

The picture is manipulated. The Taj faces south. Muslims don’t pray northwards in India.

TODAY R.S.S. IS ONLY A SINGLE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION WHO ARE TOTALLY DEVOTEE TO THE NATION,

ITS AGENDA IS VERY CLEAR, IST IS COUNTRY AND NOTHING IS OTHER THAN COUNTRY, AND IF ANYBODY COMPARE THIS ORGANIZATION WITH SIMI AND HURRIYAT ITS MEAN HE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THE RSS OUR NATION AND WAHAT IS THE FARE NATIONAL THOUGHT.

R.S.S. does not have monopoly on nationalism. There are scores of nationalist and patriotic organisations. Do you think Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti, a less patriotic organisation?

Yes R.S.S. does not have monopoly on nationalism, and this is one of nationalist organizations and you can’t compare with simi and others

IF the Muslims in the country are so loyal then why did the riots in Mumbau take place. By nature Hindus have always been tolerant towards other religions and believed in freedom to choose ones calling. But if u look up the history lessons, it was Ghori and Ghazni who taught us to plunder other ppl’s faith and their places of worship, they and their ilk taught us to be fanatic abt religion.

”No amount of time has been taken while banning SIMI organization because it’s a Muslim organization but why no ban is ever placed on RSS, VHP when they create mayhem in the country,destroy buildings, vandalize paintings and other arts. Why do Indians follow such double standards”

It seems like you’re only too tempted to say ”you Indians” in the last line!!

If you think that SIMI is a harmless organization then please don’t blame the rest of the nation in branding each and every Muslim a terrorist!!!

If you’re going to support a terror outfit then that’s the label that you’re going to get and of you love the label then why crib???

As for the self-righteous Hindu outfits, you should know that the ordinary Hindus don’t support the kinda violence they propagate... and the masses you see rallying behind them are just Bhade ke Tattu... The same kinds that you see at most political rallies...

Regular middle class Hindus aren’t out there participating in stalling and vandalizing and destroying the nation that is built mostly from their hard earned Tax rupees!!!

P.S. I have nothing against the Muslims of anywhere... But any Muslims living in India who cannot muster up any compassion for the lives of their compatriots are most welcome to go live in Pakistan!!!

@Asmita very well said/ written. Agree with u all the way!

The RSS and the VHP are NOT terrorist organisations who go on planting bombs in public places. The SIMI does exactly this. They have supported terrorists before, they are doing so now in the name of Indian Mujahiddin and they will do so in the future.

Yes, the picture that is accompanying the post is a complete fake just as the contention of the writer here. A fake man writing a typically anti-Hindu (read Indian) article just to grab some attention with absolutely no facts in it.

SIMI has been banned because it has been proved that the organization was involved in bomb blasts done in Ahmedabad and Bangalore and that too in the hospitals! They were even targeting Delhi at the time of coming Diwali! This has been the confession of a SIMI activist only! The last Diwali blasts of Delhi, which took over 100 lives, was also the mastermind of a Muslim outfit. How many hindu outfits have been involoved in terrorist attacks? SIMI has been banned just for the simple reason because we as Indians can’t allow any fanatic organization to take hundreds of lives in the name of revenge and religion on every festival of ours. And being an Indian, I think u should also support us instead of standing against us.

I agree that we should not blame the Indian Muslims. The only entity that is to be blamed is Al Qaida that has found a cool nursery of hatred against India and Indians in SIMI and spawning new indigenous terrorists who are carrying out serial blasts across the country.

Well written

Labeling a human being as terrorist on the basis of religion is not done.

To Radhika, Asmita and Megha,

Many thanks to all of you, for putting your hearts and souls into your observations. Such a bent of mind is necessary to curb the growth of separatist’s views in the nation. Let’s not forget that ghosts of Muslim League have once again come alive in this nation .It’s time for souls like you to give a fitting reply to those harbouring the wish of another division of India.

I agree with you that Hindus have always been tolerant towards other religion. The reason lies in the humane principles environing the Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism. It’s tragic that Hindus are paying a heavy price for exhibiting this tolerance .We are living in a strange world wherein good attributes of the human life have been painted in wrong colours . Probably, this is why talk about restoration of Hindu ideals is treated as communalism while extension of jehadi spirit is considered to be mark of secularism. It’s time to kill this double standard.

I think you are confusing Mumbai Riots of December 1992 after the babri masjid demolition with Subsequent Bomb blasts of 1993, Ghatkopar and train blasts. Srikrishna Commission reached the conclusion that fanatical Hindu organisations including Shiv Sena were responsible for December 1992 Mumbai Riots. Subsequent bomb blasts are the handiwork of Muslim terrorists. TADA Court found more than 190 Muslims guilty. Sanjay Dutt was punished by the same Court and is still out on bail. Trial for the other crimes are on.

What do you do if the religious ideology is to expand through terror?