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2003-07-14 Home Front

A Muslim Missionary Group Draws New Scrutiny in U.S.

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Posted by 11A5S 2003-07-14 12:50:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Tablighi Jamaat started out as a non-violent movement aimed at 'purifying' those Indians who practised a mixture of Islam and Hinduism. It was in reaction to Hindu organisations who wanted to 'purify' the waverers into accepting Hinduism.
From this article on the TJ
an investigative report...brought to light for the first time the nexus between the TJ and the Harkat ul Mujahideen and their role in supporting Islamic extremist movements in different countries. He quoted office-bearers of the HUM: "Ours is basically a Sunni organisation close to the Deobandi school of thought. Our people are mostly impressed by the TJ. Most of our workers do come from the TJ. We regularly go to its annual meeting at Raiwind. Ours is a truly international network of genuine jehadi Muslims. We believe frontiers can never divide Muslims. They are one nation. They will remain a single entity.
The report also quoted the office-bearers as claiming that among foreign volunteers trained by them in their training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan were 16 African-American Muslims from various cities of the US and that funds for their activities mostly came from Muslim businessmen of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UK.
The February 1998, issue of the "Newsline", a monthly of Pakistan, quoted workers of the TJ as saying that the TJ had many offices in the US, Russia, the Central Asian Republics, South Africa, Australia and France and that many members of the Chechen Cabinet, including the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, were workers of the TJ and participated in its proselytising activities. . One of them, merely identified as Khalil, said: " It is possible that France may become a Muslim state within my lifetime, due to the great momentum of Tablighi activity there."

The article also claims that the major cause of the upsurge in Islamic extremism in Central Asia and the Caucasus that occured after the Soviet Union collapsed, was the presence of hundreds of TJ preachers. It also states that among it's members was Javid Nassir, the then head of the ISI, who was forced out by the Clinton administration due to Nassir providing unused Stinger missiles from Afghanistan to Bosnian Muslims instead of returning them to the CIA.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-7-14 2:35:33 AM|| 2003-7-14 2:35:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 he said Tablighi Jamaat had rescued him from drugs.

Correction: A mental drug was simply substituted for chemical drugs.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-14 10:05:24 AM|| 2003-7-14 10:05:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "What weâre trying to do is unite the hearts of all people, and politics has a propensity to divide,"

That Shia/Sunni thing is soooo political.

Posted by Pink & Fluffy 2003-7-14 10:37:45 AM|| 2003-7-14 10:37:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 These are barbarians in our midst who use the very freedom they wish to destroy as a weapon.

Posted by SPQR 2755 2003-7-14 10:42:46 AM|| 2003-7-14 10:42:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 --often young men searching for identity--

Ahhh, living the California dream.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-14 1:47:17 PM|| 2003-7-14 1:47:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks, Paul, for the excellent link.

I can't understand why someone isn't pumping money into the Brelvi/Sufi madrassahs and mosques to counter the Wahhabi/Salafi/Deobandi influence.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-14 2:12:11 PM|| 2003-7-14 2:12:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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