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Pakistani authorities are looking for as many as 41,000 orthodox Muslims belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat who attended a gathering in Raiwind, Lahore last month and then dispersed throughout the country. The authorities fear that many of those people may be virus positive.
Pakistani authorities are looking for as many as 41,000 orthodox Muslims belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat who attended a gathering in Raiwind, Lahore last month and then dispersed throughout the country. The authorities fear that many of those people may be virus positive.
In South Asia, due to the normalized extremist culture, most Muslims consider Tablighi Jamaat as some kind of reformist movement that is far away from extremism and violence. That is simply not true. Tablighi Jamaat is not what many in South Asia believe it to be. Here's a thread
Tablighi Jamaat is an extremist Islamic movement, founded in South Asia but now global, that is an off-shoot of Deobandi movement and has acted as passive supporter of jihadist movements everywhere including in the West through its strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.
In France, as many as "80% percent of the Islamist extremists have come from Tablighi ranks, prompting French intelligence officers to call Tablighi Jamaat the 'antechamber of fundamentalism.' https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/19/religion.terrorism
In a foiled January 2008 bombing plot in Barcelona, Spain, some media reports stated that the fourteen suspects arrested by police in a series of raids (where bomb-making materials were seized) were members of Tablighi Jamaat. https://jamestown.org/program/spanish-police-arrest-jamaat-al-tabligh-members-in-bomb-threat/
Other terrorist plots that members of Tablighi Jamaat have been connected with include the Portland Seven, the Lackawanna Six, the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, the 7/7 London bombings, the 2007 London car bombs, and 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack.
With all its links to extremist Islam and jihadism, you'd think that Tablighi Jamaat might have been banned in at least some countries. Wrong. They continue to operate everywhere openly.
Here's a good read:
Tablighi Jamaat: An Indirect Line to Terror: https://web.archive.org/web/20140905014000/http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/tablighi_jamaat_indirect_line_terrorism
Here's a good read:
Tablighi Jamaat: An Indirect Line to Terror: https://web.archive.org/web/20140905014000/http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/tablighi_jamaat_indirect_line_terrorism
Former Assistant FBI Director Michael Heimbach has said: "We have significant presence of Tablighi Jamaat in the United States and we have found that al Qaeda used them for recruiting."
Link 1:
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/us/a-muslim-missionary-group-draws-new-scrutiny-in-us.html
Link 2: https://www.meforum.org/686/tablighi-jamaat-jihads-stealthy-legions
Link 1:
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/us/a-muslim-missionary-group-draws-new-scrutiny-in-us.html
Link 2: https://www.meforum.org/686/tablighi-jamaat-jihads-stealthy-legions
A report by The American Foreign Policy Council on Tablighi Jamaat says:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151227100411/http://almanac.afpc.org/tablighi-jamaat
https://web.archive.org/web/20151227100411/http://almanac.afpc.org/tablighi-jamaat
According to French expert Marc Gaborieau, the philosophy and transnational goals of the Tablighi Jamaat include the "planned conquest of the World". https://www.meforum.org/686/tablighi-jamaat-jihads-stealthy-legions
The unique thing about Tablighi Jamaat is that fashions itself as apolitical, which is at least somewhat true. It largely avoids the spotlight, including media and government spotlight, and has its own networking system and operates mostly in secrecy.
Its global conquest goals, at least for now, are also based on conquest through dawah instead of conquest through armed jihad, which helps it to avoid spotlight. Yet at the same time there are members of Tablighi Jamaat who have entered politics as well as armed jihad.
The Tablighi Jamaat, even though given birth in pre-partition India, became as powerful as it is today with some help from high profile people in Pakistan who acted on their own sympathies. Without them, perhaps it would not have been this powerful today.
For example:
1. Father of former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif was a Tablighi Jamaat member and financier. In his rule, Nawaz Sharif favored Tablighi Jamaat quite a bit and helped many of their members get key jobs.
1. Father of former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif was a Tablighi Jamaat member and financier. In his rule, Nawaz Sharif favored Tablighi Jamaat quite a bit and helped many of their members get key jobs.
2. In 1998, Muhammad Rafique Tarar, a Tablighi Jamaat sympathiser, took the ceremonial role of Pakistan's presidency.
3. Former heads of Pakistani intelligence ISI, Javed Nasir and General Mahmud Ahmed both became members of Tablighi Jamaat during their service.
3. Former heads of Pakistani intelligence ISI, Javed Nasir and General Mahmud Ahmed both became members of Tablighi Jamaat during their service.
4. During the rule of former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto, in the 1990s, the Pakistani military thwarted a coup attempt by several high-ranking military officers and civilians, some of whom were members of the Tablighi Jamaat.
So, you see where all that influence comes from. Once you understand how Tablighi Jamaat has managed to infiltrate the power corridors in South Asia, you will understand why it remains unbanned even in the West.
Just a little disclaimer:
This thread shouldn't be seen as endorsement of what's happening in India. I don't endorse blaming all Muslims for the TJ's actions, neither I'm calling TJ a terrorist group per se. Please see this thread in the light of academia.
This thread shouldn't be seen as endorsement of what's happening in India. I don't endorse blaming all Muslims for the TJ's actions, neither I'm calling TJ a terrorist group per se. Please see this thread in the light of academia.
To put it accurately, I see TJ as a problematic group whose strict orthodox fundamentalist teachings act as a bridge towards global extremism and armed Jihad. https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1245733303354875904
