"As scholar Yoginder Sikand perceptively noted, SIMI's aggressive polemic gave "its supporters a sense of power and agency which they were denied in their actual lives.""
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Swami, P. (2017). India's invisible jihad. Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, 22, 80-115,160.
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