Tablighi Jamaat continues to spell trouble for India and other countries, especially in Southeast Asia. The Islamic revival group has consistently ignored all warnings about COVID-19, and has recently brought together large assemblies of Muslims: 250,000 in Lahore and 16,000 in Malaysia. In Indonesia, a Tablighi Jamaat event of 9,000 was halted, and the attendees forced into quarantine. Still, the group is not fazed in the least. The group is now being defended by Muslim Students of JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and more aggressive Islamic supremacists. It is also reported to have ties with al Qaeda, Taliban, and Kashmir jihadis.
Now the usual, familiar term “Islamophobia“ is being utilized to further the Tablighi Jamaat agenda, in response to Indian authorities’ attempts to limit the group’s activities, which are threatening to spread the coronavirus to the rest of the population:
Defending the Muslim clerics of Jamaat who were found spitting out on roads while they were being transported to the treatment centres, the JCC ascribed the punitive measures taken against them to “bigotry and Islamophobic fantasies of the government”.
“Islamists who organised anti-CAA ‘protests’ stand in solidarity with Tablighi Jamaat super-spreaders, demand FIR be revoked calling it ‘Islamophobia,’” Opindia, April 1, 2020:
As hundreds of cases of COVID-19 with the history of their visit to the congregation organised by Tablighi Jamaat emerge from various parts of the country, sending authorities scrambling to contain the extent of the spread of the contagion, Jamia Coordination Committee and ‘Muslim Students of JNU’- a Facebook page once operated by the mastermind of Shaheen Bagh protest, Sharjeel Imam, have come to defend the Jamaat as it faces the wrath of the authorities for organising a large gathering and providing a breeding ground for the virus to spawn.
The Delhi Police had yesterday registered FIR against Tablighi Jamaat preacher Maulana Saad and other members of the outfit under section 3 of The Epidemic Diseases Act (1897) for organizing the congregation at the times of severe lockdown amidst the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
The event which gave rise to the numerous positive cases of coronavirus across states was organized in the mid-march. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that 1,548 people were evacuated from the Markaz Tablighi Jamaat over the past three days. Out of these, 441 people were found with the symptoms of COVID-19 and have been isolated at the hospitals while others are quarantined.
In support of Tablighi Jamaat, the ‘Muslim Students of JNU’ uploaded an image on its Facebook page, expressing solidarity with the Jamaat and demanding cancellation of FIR filed against the Jamaat management. The Facebook page which was once handled by Sharjeel Imam, who advocated the secession of the NE states from India and incited communal passions, also tried to cast the delinquent management of Jamaat as victims by accusing the government of being ‘Islamophobic’ for initiating action against them.
Kenek says
Hmmm.. hundreds of thousands of infected moslems.. Hmmm.. I am trying to find a down-side.
Not sure why anyone wants to stop this.
Save Europe says
I get what you’re saying. However, due to their belligerent and fatalist nature, they seek to deliberately infect non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
They will be infecting plenty of non-Muslim Indians, as well.
OTTER says
Old Muslim refrain: “Our madness is always your responsibility.”
Islam and the Quran are a prison manual who think they are the Magna Carta.
David says
Kenek, surprisingly there are some very kind-hearted but misguided people that wish to help muslims.
It will be interesting to see how Allah’s plan for the muslims works out. We watch with baited breath. It is good for different countries to try different approaches. If they die, they will be martyrs, according to the Koran.
UVG says
https://youtu.be/kee3VHILlqQ
mortimer says
The Islamophobia slander is Sharia blasphemy law by other means. Any valid criticism of Islam is called ‘Islamophobia’ so Muslim supremacists may avoid saying ‘blasphemy’. The result is that Muslims may control all speech about Islam. That is their goal.
Muslims do not believe modern virology, because Mohammed tells them diseases are not contagious.
Muslims who do not accept the sober advice of modern science are endangering their own communities first.
mortimer says
JCC complained of “bigotry and Islamophobic fantasies of the government”.
Meanwhile, Islam contains a canonical doctrine of bigotry and KAFIROPHOBIA known as ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA” (an Islamic version of apartheid and bigotry).
To be a Muslim means one must be dualistic and have double standards.
Jaladhi says
In the Muslim delusional world everything is Islamophobia!! The world has not seen such liars ever in the history of humanity!
Frank Zarzar says
They will spread it and kill millions!!!!
A Gnostic Agnostic says
Here they are projecting their own “Islamophobia” onto the world again.
Islam: the world is your scapegoat.
Roland says
A Tablighi Jamaat gathering of 250,000 in Lahore? That’s astonishing! That’s astronomical. 0
gravenimage says
Yes–this would be deeply disturbing even if there was no global pandemic to worry about.
Umaid V Gupta says
Tablighi infectees now account for over 30 percent(and counting) of all covid 19 cases in India
Jayell says
And what percentage of the Indian population do these Tablighis represent?
gravenimage says
India: Muslims claim charges that Islamic convention was super-spreader of coronavirus are just “Islamophobia”
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Um…right. Because mass gatherings have never led to the spread of infectious diseases…sarc/off
Aunty Podes says
I look forward to seeing how their beloved one protects them from COVID 19. Will he provide them with immunity or use the virus as a means of gathering his chosen ones to his bosom?
Giacomo Latta says
‘Muslims claim charges that Islamic convention was super-spreader of coronavirus are just “Islamophobia” ‘
Note to muslims: we no longer call it ”Islamophobia”; we call it science.
OLD GUY says
Well of course anything that questions or criticizes islam or muslims is automatically “Islamophobia”. One thing that Islam can’t stand is the serious questioning of the Muhammad and the Quran teachings. Their only response to questioning is that you are Islamophobic just for asking.