ABSTRACT
January 13, 2001. On an extremely cold morning in Aligarh, a town some 131 kilometers east of Delhi, the Civil Line unit of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) organizes a heated symposium on ‘The Issue of Terrorism: With Reference to the Country’s Contemporary Situation’. The audience is unusually large – almost five times greater than the usual strength of its weekly meeting. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, it is obviously a hot topic after September 11. Second, the symposium is to be addressed, as stated in the invitation letter, by ‘famous ideologues of the Islamic movement’. Maulana Yusuf Islahi, a national leader of the JIH, is the key guest speaker.
