- 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
Navaneeth Joshi 