An outfit calling itself the Indian Mujahideen came to light in 2008 with multiple large scale terror attacks . On November 26 , 2008 , a group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for a string of attacks across Mumbai . The '' Weekly Standard '' claimed , " Indian intelligence believes the Indian Mujahideen is a front group created by Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami to confuse investigators and cover the tracks of the Students Islamic Movement of India , or SIMI , a radical Islamist movement with aim to establish Islamic rule over India . In the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir , Kashmiri Muslim separatists opposing Indian rule are often known as '' mujahideen ''
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