- Penetrating the historical footprints of orthodox Islamic movements, since 1927 till today’s Manchurian virus outbreak.
This movement grabs the attention among the majority moderate Muslim population in South Asia. They are religious zealots who aims to bring back the Islamic unity as it was during the period of Muhammad. They do conventions to target moderate population. The Tablighi Jamaat movement was established in Mewar, India, in 1927 which roots from the Deobandi brand of the Hanafi Sunni school of jurisprudence. Deobandi is the most commonly practiced form of Islam in South Asia.
Spanish police conducted a series of raids on apartment buildings, a mosque and a prayer hall in Barcelona on Jan. 19 of 2008 and reported that detainees were Islamists belonging to a “well-organized group named Tablighi Jamaat that had gone a step beyond radicalization.”
Tablighi Jamaat also has its link with Kashmiri sepratists, Taliban and al Queda. It was also suspected for involving in infamous hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 in 1999 and 2002 Godhra roits. Wikileaks 2011 files reveals that al Queda used Jamaat to get visas and fund terrorist to travel Pakistan. Saudi Arabian named Abdul Bukhary, as “a veteran jihadist”, the report submitted by US authorities in-charge of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, said a Jamaat member, whom he met in 1985-1986 helped to obtain his visa to travel Pakistan. Iyman Faris, accused by captured for plot to destroy Brooklyn bridge in 2003 was helped by the same jamaat to travel Pakistan.
”We have a significant presence of Tablighi Jamaat in the United States, and we have found that Al Qaeda used them for recruiting, now and in the past,” Michael J. Heimbach, the then deputy chief of the F.B.I.’s international terrorism section, is quoted as saying in an NYT report from 2003.
Futher detainees captured in New Delhi, Somalia were helped by these Jamaats to get funds for plotting and visas to fly.
Footnotes : Stratfor Global Intelligence
Very well written, also try to address radicalism, fake Islamist and also write about what is jihad and it’s ideology.
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Very well gathered info
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carry on with your great work … good collective information 👍
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There are two aspects to the Tableeghi Jamaat – first is of course the proselytising part of it trying to make the Muslim society into a homogeneous entity in their thought and identity including appearance by conglomeration of Muslims from different parts of the world but mainly from South Asia. This aspect has been the historical one… With the rise of Islamist radical n violent groups, the Jamaat gradually slipped into becoming a wheeler dealer group supporting the cause of violent groups… The second aspect is relatively recent. In the present context of the Markaz Nizamuddin Conglomeration the striking part is the audiotape of the Maulana appealing to the members to abandon the governmental directions on social distancing as they are falsifications to divide Muslims and dilute their ongoing protests against CAA n NRC. This particular idea could not have come into the wisdom of Jamaat leadership by itself, rather was a sinister plan by intelligence agencies of other countries particularly Pakistan. Hence the thread if properly followed will be leading to ISI with the help of local break India forces like the Commies. Indian intelligence has many questions to answer about the inability to see this ploy prior to its happening as it was in the heart of Delhi
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