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Dawood Ibrahim
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Students Islamic Movement of India

The Students Islamic Movement of India is an Islamic Student organization that was formed in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, in April 1977. The stated mission of SIMI is the ‘liberation of India’ from Western materialistic cultural influence and to convert it Muslim society to live according to Muslim code of conduct. This organization is believed by many, including the Government of India, to be involved in terrorism.

 

SIMI has been banned by the Indian Government in 2002 for its involvement in Islamic terror manaces in India, and its been labelled a Terrorist organisation by both India and the US. In August 2008, a special tribunal lifted the ban on SIMI. The ban was subsequently reinstated by the Supreme Court of India on the 6th of August, 2008.Fears exist in Government circles that SIMI has been penetrated by Al-Qaeda.

 

It is suspected that SIMI is now also operating under the name of Indian Mujahideen, an outfit that has taken responsibility for the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts, Jaipur blasts and 2008 Delhi blasts. Indian Mujahideen has taken responsibility of several terrorist acts in India and communicates with the Indian media under the pseudonyms of Al-Arbi and Al-Hindi.SIMI's founding president was Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi, now professor of Journalism and Public Relations at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL. SIMI originally emerged as a student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH). Inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, it stood for radical social change in India and the waging of Jihad in India, an approach not appreciated by the leadership of the JIH.SIMI has been influenced by Deobandi Islam which is a Muslim revivalist movement that started in India in 1879.

 

 

 
 

SIMI's founding president was Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi, now professor of Journalism and Public Relations at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL. SIMI originally emerged as a student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH). Inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, it stood for radical social change in India and the waging of Jihad in India, an approach not appreciated by the leadership of the JIH.SIMI has been influenced by Deobandi Islam which is a Muslim revivalist movement that started in India in 1879.

 

Deobandi Islam is perhaps most famous in the West as the philosophy of the past Taliban Government in Afghanistan[citation needed]. Its slogan is "Allah is our Lord, the Qur’an is our constitution, Muhammad is our leader, Jihad is our way and Shahadah is our desire". SIMI claims to have about 400 Ansar or registered members and about 20,000 supporting members known as IKHWANS. SIMI published several magazines in various languages, including Tahreek in Hindi, Iqraa in Gujarati, Rupantar in Bengali, Sedhi Madal in Tamil, Vivekam in Malayalam, Movement in English and Shaheen Times in English for children.SIMI identifies the Hindu organizations such as Sangh Parivar as enemies of Islam. As such, SIMI combines a social discourse with an Islamist one. In 1986 SIMI organized a national convention under the slogan "liberation of India through Islam". Indian Authorities (Federal and several State Governments) frequently charge that SIMI is involved in terrorist activities. SIMI has been accused of carrying out bomb blasts across India.The Government of India, by notification dated 08-02-2006 has banned SIMI for the third time. SIMI was first banned on 27 September 2001 immediately after the bombing of Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA on 11 September 2001.

Indian authorities believe that the attack at mumbai was carried combinely carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba andStudents Islamic Movement of India(SIMI).

 

 
 

26/11/08/Mumbai Blast: nobody is going to forget this date; very shocking and horrifying incident. Nobody expected the plans executed. In my last post about blasts, I indirectly mentioned war however after knowing the reality I am giving it a second thought. Well, we just can't attack any country like that.
   

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