Tablighi Jamaat has been making headlines after becoming known as the super-spreaders of the novel coronavirus across South Asian countries, India in particular, where they held a gigantic religious congregation, despite the government-sanctioned lockdown. If mingling with thousands of Indians and transmitting the virus in a country of 1.4 billion people was not enough, Jamaat members and their accomplices have resorted to pelting with stones the police officials who came to quarantine them and the medical officials who tried to treat them. They also harassed female medical staff by marching naked in front of them in hospitals. Despite these actions, their apologists race to defend them, because the Muslims can never be wrong.
However, this is not the first time India is reeling under the threat of the Islamic radicals of Tablighi Jamaat. In February 2002, the Muslim extremists who torched the Sabarmati Express in Godhra, burning 57 Hindu devotees to death, are also suspected to have been members of this Jamaat.
Though little known, the Tablighi Jamaat is far from being an innocuous socio-cultural organisation, as liberal media would like you to believe. It is an India-based radical Islamist hydra with multiple heads, and has its tentacles spread worldwide, with corroborated connections to violence, vandalism, terrorists and terror activities across the globe. The movement, which operates out of 150 countries, boasts between 50 million and 150 million adherents. An offshoot of the fundamentalist Deobandi movement, the Jamaat believes Islam must have hegemony over all other faiths, and is out to establish the rule of Islam globally, albeit stealthily.
British terrorist Richard Reid, who attempted to detonate a shoe bomb on American Airlines flight 63 en route from Paris to Milan in 2001, had converted to Islam while being imprisoned for petty crimes, and was a follower of this fanatic movement. Tablighi Jamaat’s name also surfaced during the investigations of the July 2005 London Underground bombings, the plotting of bombing flights en route to the United States from London in 2006, and the attempted bombings of London and Glasgow in July 2007.
Wikileaks reveals that the Al-Qaeda 9/11 plotters spent some days at the Nizamuddin facility of the Jamaat in Delhi, India. Jose Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, who was convicted of plotting radiological bombs and sentenced to 21 years in prison in the US, flaunts links to the Tablighi Jamaat. Also, the Washington D.C-born John Walker Lindh, who converted to Sunni Islam and became a Taliban supporter, and is convicted of participating in conspiracies to murdering U.S nationals and providing material support to terrorist organizations, has links to the Jamaat.
According to FBI estimates, close to 50,000 people are associated with the Jamaat’s mission in the United States. Tablighi mosques operate in major states, including Texas, California, and New York, and the Al-Falah Mosque at Queens, New York is apparently their North American headquarters.
Around 80% per cent of the Islamist radicals in France are connected to the Tablighi Jamaat through miscellaneous links, and it acts “as a as nursery for indoctrinating Islamist terrorists,” according to Dr Farhan Zahid, a Pakistani counter-terrorism expert, in his analysis “Tablighi Jamaat and its links with terrorism.” Many of the Jamaatis have overlapping membership with other jihadist associations also. The French Muslim recruits of the Jamaat were found to have played a large role in planning the attacks by the Portland Seven and the Lackawanna Six in the US.
Back in 2008, after a series of raids conducted on a mosque, a prayer hall and several residential buildings in Barcelona, Spanish police seized explosives and arrested 14 men who were plotting bomb attacks throughout the city. All these detainees were Islamists from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and all were members of the Tablighi Jamaat.
The 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, the youngest of the London Bridge attackers of 2017, had attended meetings of Tablighi Jamaat as a student in Morocco before migrating to the UK. British terrorists Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, who led the 7/7 bomb attacks claiming 55 lives in London, would frequent the Jamaat’s mosque in Yorkshire. The roots of Tablighi Jamaat run deep in the United Kingdom due to the thriving presence of South Asian Muslims in the country. The Markazi Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is run by the Tablighis, and is designated as the Jamaat’s European headquarters.
At face value, it may appear to be a harmless egalitarian organization, but in the deeper scheme of things, the Tablighi Jamaat urges liberal or moderate Muslims to examine their own life choices, and demands that they return to orthodox Islam. These members are then prepared to execute radical operations.
Templer says
Islam is a santic cult they do not thinck corna virse will infacte them Becouse santic sent the virse satin controllers islam of our eyes muzeys do get corna virse profe satin is delivering there sqnticminds islam is false mo is a pedo the Koran is false satin is the great desever islam is deserving its self full ?
mortimer says
Mr. “Templar” (correct spelling). You are a parody of urself, aren’t you? A compassionate psychiatrist can help you with this disorder.
Kerry Wade says
You are a moron Mortimer.
gravenimage says
No, Mortimer is *not* an Islamist troll.
I think he is wrong about Templer here, but that doesn’t change the fact that Mortimer is one of the most knowledgeable posters here, and a staunch Anti-Jihadist.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, it is clear that English is not Templer’s language.
But I don’t see how his condemning Islam and pedophilia means that he has some sort of mental disorder, and I’m not sure why you would think that.
gravenimage says
first language
Boromir's Horn says
It’s estimated that 1 out of every 3 muslims are just as stupid as the other 2
Ray Jarman says
When Radhika Singh states, “appear to be a harmless egalitarian organization,” I remember reading a newspaper using the exact depiction when they have been attacked in Pakistan. Until being apprised by several of the writers here at Jihad Watch, I knew little to nothing about this version of the monstrous subhuman cult and, unfortunately, most remain ignorant about what they truly are because the cowardly press refuses to perform its obligated duty of informing readers of the peril posed by this scum.
mortimer says
A totally SUPERB analysis by Radhika Singh. We hope to read many more from this writer in future!
This article alerts us that Tablighi Jamaat is not an insignificant nobody in jihadism, but a major player, cooperating with other jihadic organizations.
Thank you, Radhika !
mortimer says
Radhikha, this may seem an absurd question, but ARE THE TABLIGHI JAMAAT CRAZY ENOUGH TO USE THEIR PEOPLE INTENTIONALLY TO INFECT OTHERS WITH THE VIRUS?
Chintamani says
Mortimer :: They are the Corona Fidayeen Brigade of the International Jihad Network. When they came to know that they are infected, they started spitting, urinating and defecating in the Hospitals when they were asked to get themselves tested and medicated. They are not bothered that they will die, but they want to kill others …. and that too…. as many as possible. They are spreading a Corona Jihad.
dumbledoresarmy says
I would not be the least bit surprised. Incidentally: a very SIMILAR Muslim gathering took place in Malaysia, AFTER the Malaysian govt – which has remnants of basic commonsense – had forbidden mass gatherings. The Muslims came from all over – including Philippines and Australia – and.. cross-infection took place as they all crowded in cheek-by-jowl. And then.. they returned to their home countries and took the infection with them… notably, the Philippines had had very few covid-19 infections UNTIL Muslims with Filipino citizenship, wh had attended the big gathering in Malaysia, came ‘home’, bringing the disease with them.
dumbledoresarmy says
Here’s the link (an article published on 19th March)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-19/coronavirus-spread-from-malaysian-event-to-multiple-countries/12066092
Coronavirus COVID-19 cases spiked across Asia after a mass gathering in Malaysia. This is how it caught the countries by surprise
Correction of headline should be – “.. after a mass MUSLIM gathering in Malaysia..”.
One may note that infected Muslims from that event carried the disease ‘home’ to Singapore, Australia, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines – all majority-non-Islamic countries. Singapore had had things pretty much under control.. UNTIL infected Muslims came home from this big get-together/ cross-infection Event in Malaysia…
I quote:
“On Monday, the number of confirmed cases in [overwhelmingly-non-Muslim – dda] Cambodia suddenly doubled to 24. Of those, 11 were linked to the mosque in Kuala Lumpur.
“[Majority-non-Islamic – dda] Singapore, which had 90 of its own citizens attend the mosque event, has also imported several new cases.
“Vietnam [another overwhelmingly-non-Islamic country – dda] now has two confirmed cases linked to the mosque.
“Over in North Sumatra, health authorities are desperately trying to trace about half of the 700 Indonesians who attended the event.
“In the [majority-non-Islamic – dda] Philippines — which for weeks had only two or three confirmed cases in the entire country — there are now 187 people with COVID-19. Fourteen have died…”.
I wonder how many of those affected and those who died, were Filipino non-Muslims?
Khushi says
They are already doing that. They are spitting at doctors, nurses, policemen and all workers who are working despite the risk to their own health. At one hospital the Tablighi men paraded naked in front of the health care workers.
don vito says
As part of vetting, when coming to the West, and/or to the USA on H -1b work visas, should be determined whether they are members of Tablighi Jamaat, and if found to be a member of TJ be denied entry. If found to be a member of TJ after admittance be expelled immediately.
DHazard says
For a further look into the mindset of adherents of the TJ cult read this interesting and slightly ominous article about them from 2009:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/sep/08/religion-islam-tablighi-jamaat#maincontent
I did not hear about this when it happened and would have remained ignorant of T. Jamaal’s existence until reading this article. Richard and his team are the hardest working, most dedicated and most accurate group of journalists that I read. It’s clear why so many want to tarnish Richard’s name and why the most radical groups, like Abba Dabba Doo here, seek to both hasten and celebrate his execution.
Uma Maheswar Nakka says
Good Afternoon,
Excellent article. One reader commented
‘It’s estimated that 1 out of every 3 Muslims are just as stupid as the other 2’.
Very true
like ‘not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims
Regards
Uma
Jitendra Desai says
When placed under quarantine they are spitting at doctors and nurses.They are urinating and defecating in the hospital lobbies.They are attacking doctors and nurses in the cities where they have gone to spread this virus.Non Muslims dont know if this is as per their prophet’s teachings.
gravenimage says
India’s ‘Covid-19 super-spreader’ Tablighi Jamaat has links to jihad terror activities in North America and Europe
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This Jihad terror group spreading the Coronavirus is likely the least of the harm they are doing.