Thread by @AartiTikoo

The Islamic missionary Tablighi Jamaat which has done everything to bring disrepute to itself in India by being the ‘super spreader’ of Covid19 contagion, can hardly claim that its reputation is being maligned by media. Follow @ians_india’s BATTLE against a Jamaat’s member here.

https://twitter.com/sandeep_bamzai/status/1247805624882085889

Recent examples of #TablighiJamaat’s “glorious” reputation in India.

(A case has been registered against two members of Tablighi Jamaat for allegedly defecating in front of a room at a quarantine centre in Narela.)

m.economictimes.com/news/politics-…

Another example of #TablighiJamaat’s “shining” reputation.

(Tablighi Jamaat patients making vulgar signs, roaming nude inside hospital: Ghaziabad CMO tells police)

indiatoday.in/amp/india/stor…

In 2003, the then-assistant director of the FBI, Michael Heimbach, said there was "a significant presence of Tablighi Jamaat in the United States" and that "al-Qaida used them for recruiting."—Voice of America News. #TablighiJamaat reputation

voanews.com/east-asia-paci…

#TablighiJamaat- influenced by a branch of Saudi Arabian Islam known as Wahhabism - has already been linked to two of the July 7 suicide bombers who attended a Tablighi mosque at the organisation's headquarters in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.-Guardian theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/19…

But since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, #TablighiJamaat, once little known outside Muslim countries, has increasingly attracted the interest of federal investigators, cropping up on the margins of at least four high-profile terrorism cases.—NY Times

nytimes.com/2003/07/14/us/…

#TablighiJamaat-sponsored trips to Pakistan put young men in contact with fundamentalists of many stripes, including adherents of Salafism, a fundamentalist school of Islam whose radical fringe advocates war against non-Muslims.—NYTimes
nytimes.com/2005/04/28/wor…