Al Ummah is an Islamic radical extremist terrorist organisation mainly based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
[1] Al Ummah was founded by Syed Ahmed Basha in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in 1993, a year after the Babri Masjid demolition.
[2][3] It came under the spotlight after the 1993 bomb blast near an RSS office in Chennai which caused the deaths of 11 people.
[4] In 1995, the organisation was involved with throwing home-made bombs at Mani Ratnam's house for portraying romance of a Hindu man with a Muslim woman in his film Bombay.
In 1998, Al Ummah was planning to assassinate Bharatiya Janata Party leader L. K. Advani during the election campaign in Coimbatore.