but this group has been tied to actions in kashmir.
i think that's the subtext here, not the west directly---the west as it is seen as supporting india, which has been accused to brutality in kashmir (on this topic, i am at the moment agnostic)....here's a little wikiblurb about the history of conflicts over kashmir that highlights the role of guerilla organizations in getting the last war underway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_conflict
this is one of the problems that follow from the discourse of "terrorism" a la bush administration--it reframes things so they refer to nutty frames like the huntington thesis, which in turn says nothing particular about india and so rebounds back onto what that "thesis" talks about--the "clash of civilizations" between christendom ("the west" and the Other (read islam)....