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Peerbhoy, sources told 'The Indian Express', held a senior position at the Internet firm’s office in Pune and earned an annual salary of Rs 19 lakh. He is alleged to have headed the “media cell” of Indian Mujahideen which drafted and sent e-mails that spewed venom at the government and politicians minutes before bomb blasts.
A “brilliant student” who came from a “very well-to-do” family, he was working as a principal software engineer in the MNC when he was picked up on September 28. “It is really shocking that someone with Peerbhoy’s profile is also being arrested by us in terror cases. He hails from a very well-to-do and educated Muslim family in Pune. Preliminary enquiries have revealed that Peerbhoy himself is brilliant in academics,” one officer said.
Peerbhoy finished his schooling from Rosary School in the Camp area of Pune. He scored 93 percent marks in his 10th standard exams and 98 percent in his 12th standard. He studied computer engineering at a Pune college and has been working with the MNC since 2003, the officer added.
“We have learnt that Peerbhoy’s radicalisation began in late 2006 when Riyaz Bhatkal spotted him at a local mosque. Bhatkal introduced him to mechanical engineer Asif Bashir Shaikh, arrested for his role in planting the bombs in Surat, who then indoctrinated Peerbhoy through sustained brainwashing. He was made to read jihadi literature and see footage of the Palestine conflict, Iraq, Godhra and the 1993 Mumbai riots. Besides this, he was also taken to meet several ideologues and hear their speeches,” said the officer.
In May 2007, Bhatkal provided Rs 70,000 each to Peerbhoy and computer science graduate Mubin alias Salman Kadar Shaikh (also arrested) for attending a one-week course in hacking organised in Hyderabad. According to police, Bhatkal and his brother Iqbal used to hand over material for the terror e-mails to Asif, who would then make a rough draft along with Mubin. They would then take this draft to Peerbhoy for final changes as “he was very well versed in English”. The e-mails were sent by hacking into unsecured WiFi networks that had already been randomly located by the group.
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Why would one need to hack an unsecured Wi-Fi Network? There's NOTHING to hack. One could imagine hacking a secure Wi-Fi network. Also the term would be hacking, it would be spoofing. I really hope the police hasn't just put their hands on a random good software engineer and termed him as a terrorist just because he's muslim. What proof do they have that he is the one?
It's really sad and a bad development if educated people as falling pray to such rackets.
This seems to be well in line with the hey days of Naxalism, when the very educated flocked to it. Should the jihadist phenomena in India and abroad be still seen as something to do with just Islam. The source of the problem probably lies elsewhere. It is probably state inaction which is resulting in birth of reactionaries. But I accede that the state will hurt one religious group or the other even if it acts.
Naxalism and Islamism may have similar fanatical and ideological similarities. But to plug one's ears when the Jihadis are shouting out clear and loud what and why they attack Infidels is typical Ostrich Syndrome, with head in the sand, not willing to face the facts.The Fact is that Islam does provide motivation, inspiration for JIhad against Infidels, the Kuffar. To claim otherwise is to try to interpret Islam for the Muslims.