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Pakistan has become the “super-spreader” of coronavirus to the entire Muslim world

Mar 28, 2020 2:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Pakistan certainly isn’t the only Muslim country that has been grappling with the influence of Muslim clerics. Despite the widespread bans in Muslim countries, many clerics continue to urge Muslims to continue prayer gatherings and be willing to die as martyrs if infected with coronavirus. In Canada, some Toronto area mosques have remained open despite the urging of the government and their own communities to close. The influence of foreign clerics has been blamed.

Although Pakistan has now started banning large public gatherings, it was one of the last countries to do so. Note again the influence of the Islamic revival movement Tablighi Jamaat, which aims to return Muslims to the practice of Islam as it was practiced in the days of Muhammad. Gaza’s first reported cases of coronavirus were people who attended a Tablighi Jamaat conference “alongside 250,000 Muslims in Pakistan last month that went ahead contrary to government advice.”

“Imran Khan allowed a quarter of a million Muslims to gather – and returning home, they’ve spread the coronavirus from Kyrgyzstan to Gaza.” Also, despite coronavirus warnings, Muslims continue to gather for Friday prayers in neighboring India.

Islamic clerics in Pakistan are currently having a ball with their coronavirus theories, while being invited on television ostensibly as experts on COVID-19. Prominent Deobandi cleric Muhammad Taqi Usmani revealed on national TV that Prophet Muhammad had come in the dream of a Tableeghi Jamaatmember and “shared the cure for coronavirus.” The cure was the recital of certain Quranic verses.

But despite the exhortations from Muslim clerics, Pakistan has finally banned domestic and international flights and train service.

“How Pakistan Became a Coronavirus Super-spreader to the Entire Muslim World,” by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Haaretz, March 25, 2020:

On Sunday, the Gaza strip reported its first two cases of coronavirus. The two Palestinian men had recently returned from Pakistan.

They were among the 250,000 people that gathered in Lahore two weeks ago, to participate in the Tableeghi Ijtema [literally “a congregation for outreach”] – an Islamic event organized by the local Tableeghi Jamaat [Outreach Congress].

An offshoot of the South Asian Deobandi Islamic movement, the Tableeghi Jamaat has spent the past century preaching Islam in the region, and now has a presence in over 80 countries. The Raiwind area in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province and home to 11 million inhabitants, hosts the annual Tableeghi Ijtema, which includes hundreds of thousands of participants from around the world.

This year, with the congregation set for March 11-15, there had been calls to postpone the event, given the spread of COVID-19. By the end of February, Pakistan had already reported its first coronavirus cases. On the eve of the ijtema the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus a pandemic.

Where Iran had cancelled the weekly Friday prayers and Saudi Arabia had suspended the Umrah pilgrimage by the end of February, the Pakistani government was still dillydallying over forestalling a gathering of over a quarter of a million people in the country’s second most populous city.

On March 12, the organizers were asked to disband the congregation, but only after around 250,000 people had already assembled in camps in preparation for the event. The reason cited for the closure of the event wasn’t the fact that world is in the midst of a pandemic which will completely change the global order – it was “rainy weather.”

The Tableeghi Jamaat’s reluctance to cite an infectious virus as cause for the disbandment is rooted in its regressive ideology, whose exponents have ranged from militant jihadists to radical preachers to Islamic televangelists unleashing a perilous blend of unscientific fantasies and bigoted fallacies. For these ideologues, cancelling congregational prayers owing to an infectious disease is synonymous with repudiating Allah’s command….

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  1. washingtonlaffitejones5 says

    Mar 28, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    So now we find out who survives Islam or Christianity

    • Len Eger says

      Mar 28, 2020 at 2:21 pm

      When it calms down we will see.
      Easter Sunday.
      Worship at home.
      Remember the lambs blood.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 28, 2020 at 7:58 pm

      I doubt it, washington. As awful as this virus is, even with infections it seems to kill about one in ten. This is a terrible toll, of course, but not enough to wipe out either Islam or Christianity.

      That does not mean, of course, that Islam cannot cause even more suffering and death.

      • James Lincoln says

        Mar 28, 2020 at 9:56 pm

        gravenimage,

        The death rate from coronavirus in Third World countries is very significant. Not sure if it’s quite 10%, but it could be close to that.

        In the United States, according to the latest data, it’s about 1% – and that’s with the very best medical care…

        • ratty says

          Mar 29, 2020 at 9:43 am

          10% is a good starting figure

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 29, 2020 at 8:40 pm

          Agree, James and ratty.

  2. Buraq says

    Mar 28, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    The dinosaurs couldn’t adapt to the new environment ….. bye-bye dinosaurs. Islam can’t adapt to the new environment ………. bye-bye Islam!

    Clowns!

    • Derek Hewson says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 9:08 am

      He he…

    • Eugene So says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 10:23 pm

      Dear Buraq:

      There are rumors that the Corona virus thrives in colder environments. If that is true, then the warmer climates of many Muslim countries may inhibit the virus’s spread.

      Also, even thought I don’t like Muslims and Islam, I do not share your nasty wish to see a lost of life.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 11:38 pm

        Buraq said “Islam”, not Muslims. Islam is an ideology–it cannot catch a virus.

  3. tim gallagher says

    Mar 28, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    What’s this, Pakistan, this foul, hardline Muslim country, which has treated people like Asia Bibi so appallingly, along with so many other non-Muslims, is finally doing something good and worthwhile for the betterment of the world, by infecting as many of these knuckle draggers with the coronavirus as possible. This will help improve the world, which is something Pakistan has never done before. Well done, Pakistan. Your backward idiocy is finally contributing something worthwhile to humanity. Buraq, I like your comment about the dinosaurs, it is very accurate.

    • Lauren Hermann says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 8:30 am

      Dare I say, kudos to you, Tim, I couldn’t agree with you more, nor could I have said it better.

      • ratty says

        Mar 29, 2020 at 9:46 am

        fully agree well said

    • Deplorable Boogster says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 10:19 am

      It could not happen to a bunch of nicer guys. I don’t like to wish ill will on anyone but will make an exception in this case.

      The Kung Flu will kill many of their older people, hopefully most of their older Imams who preach hatred and division against us Kafir all day long. I hope it takes out all their Jihadist Political Islam scum. The World would be vastly improved if God took out Allah (Satan) and his most strident followers. I wish no ill will against peaceful Muslims, but 60-80% of them either support violent Jihad by inaction or by being murderous tools for the rich leaders of Political Islam, like the snakes analogy, where most Muslims are like the grass that hides the snakes, who are the murderous Jihadis.

      • tim gallagher says

        Mar 29, 2020 at 4:56 pm

        Thanks for the comments, Lauren, ratty and Deplorable Boogster. I consider Pakistan to be a particularly loathsome country. There always seem to be raving loony lynch mobs there calling for non-Muslims to be killed, (seems to be pretty much all they do) such as was the case with Asia Bibi. I think that Pakistan never does anything good, so I was struck by the fact that the people of that disgusting country were, accidentally, they’d never intend to do good, doing us all a favour. Here’s hoping they manage to infect endless of their fellow hardline Muslim maggots. It will reduce the amount of evil in our world.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 29, 2020 at 8:47 pm

          The first two recorded cases of Coronavitus in Gaza is from two Muslims who just returned from Pakistan.

        • tim gallagher says

          Mar 29, 2020 at 11:38 pm

          Yes, gravenimage, well that’s another good act the Pakistani Muslims have done for the non-Muslim world. Keep up the good work, Pakistani Muslims. Spread the virus throughout the Muslim world. I’m enjoying watching them shooting themselves and other Muslims in the foot, instead of killing non-Muslims in Pakistan and endlessly calling for Christians and other non-Muslims to be killed for “blasphemy”, which is what they seem to spend all their time doing.

    • peter says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 8:34 pm

      As long as they keep the gift of Islam to themselves like the inbreeding with passing of many inheritable disease as they have been doing for centuries .

      • tim gallagher says

        Mar 29, 2020 at 11:41 pm

        I agree, Peter. Just keep them away from the non-Muslim, civilised world. That’s the main thing we need to do. They can live their barbaric, backward lives in the hell holes that Islam has created in the Muslim world.

  4. Jayell says

    Mar 28, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    So Pakistan is now the super-spreader of a highly toxic biological virus to the muslim world. Nothing new there – Pakistan has been the super-spreader of a highly toxic pseudo-religious ideological virus to the civilised world for decades.

    • Benny says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 6:55 am

      Rotherham

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 28, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    Pakistan has become the “super-spreader” of coronavirus to the entire Muslim world
    ………………

    This scarcely surprises. Even by the standards of most Muslim crap holes, Pakistan is an armpit.

  6. somehistory says

    Mar 28, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    There are a multitude of things that moslims will do, but one thing they won’t do is admit that they are wrong.

    Getting all heated up for a large gathering, to bend over and pray to satan is not enough. They must also do this when it is clearly against all common sense.

    Claiming that their ‘god’ demands such, means that they will never not do it, even when their life may depend upon it.
    And the stan of the paki’s (land of the paki’s) is so backward, they can’t see that it is detrimental to their health personally and to the nation’s community to gather for ‘preying’ that they could easily do in their private houses.
    How many had symptoms? How many had the virus without symptoms\? Who knows? The moslims don’t know and don’t care. It’s all jihad to them. Kill and be killed. What a waste of human lives islam causes. And that is the plan of satan, its inspiration. To kill as many as he can before his time is cut off.

  7. Jeffrey says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 5:42 am

    When you see all the Moslems praying as they do, they seem to be worshipping the bottom just in front of them. Can the virus be spread by farting? If so, the virus may bring diwn all if Islam

    • Dr. Bukk says

      Apr 9, 2020 at 12:53 pm

      Interesting ANALysis! I rectum so.

  8. ronyvo says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 6:58 am

    Muslims would not let a chance like this to use it as a weapon to kill more non-Muslims and even some Muslims and address as jihad.

  9. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 11:48 am

    ; Mohammedans can keep licking their shrines, and Mosques, because, thankfully, the Coronavirus is “inclusive”, “anti-racist”, “tolerant of all religions”, and “diverse”.
    It’s an all-time, politically correct, win!

  10. Louise says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 3:02 pm

    Cool! So what’s the problem?

  11. OLD GUY says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    The death toll in Muhammad land may far exceed that of the Christian countries due to their stupidity.

    • peter says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 8:40 pm

      Any Muslim volunteers to go to Mars!

  12. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    I wish them Allah-speed in their endeavors.

  13. Marigold says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 2:30 am

    I suppose Prince William and Kate will not be going to Pakistan again for a while!

    Meanwhile Meghan and Prince Harry have hotfooted it to the US.They probably think its safer there than Canada if the imans are ignoring government regulations and getting away with it. Knowing Trudeau he won’t have the backbone to enforce the regulations but even if he did he would soon find out that Islam is not such a ”religion of peace” as he thinks it is.I am glad President Trump made a point of telling them that the US taxpayer would not be paying for their security.After all she rudely ignored him when he was over in the UK and by doing that she didn’t care a jot that she also insulted many Americans who voted for him.

  14. Rufluc says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 6:06 am

    Could it be the one true and LOVING God has placed this virus among us all with the sole purpose of eradicating mainly those who worship the evil that is Islam? A virus that is spread mainly by the foolish and the stupid.

    A very contagious virus that exploits the mass gatherings of the ‘nose to ground, arse to air’ heathens that are polluting the West by their very presence in our lands? Only time will tell, but the signs are looking good.

    Now that really would be divine intervention!

  15. Jitendra Desai says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 7:26 am

    Thousands of Muslims have died as of now and many more thousands are infected across Muslim world.And still these maulvis want Muslims to belive that Allah will save them from Corona.Maulvis from India too are inciting Muslins to congregate relying on Allah to save them.So many religious leaders of Indian Muslims have appealed to them to remain indoor.And yet thousands are congregating.Ordinary Muslim folks are going to sùffer most because of this madness.

  16. infidel says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 11:26 am

    In India we call this self destructive pig headed behavior as BHASMAASUR… after that wicked demon who invoked a boon from Lord Shiva that if he touches anyone on the head, that person or living being will reduce to ashes. And then this demon embarked on a spree of mindless destruction of innocents. Finally, Lord Vishnu tricked this monster to touch his own head and the demon thus burnt down to ashes with his own hands. These mad Muslims are like that.

  17. JHL says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    Quite frankly, let all .Muslim be banished by coronavirus.

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