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⭐️Times of India publishes a write-up today on "Zakat Center #India" and how it helped small businesses hit by Covid Pandemic!!!
Let us check what @TOI and some mainstream media channels published about #Hindu Temple charity work during #Covid Pandemic!!!
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@toi 1. Who is the "Zakat India Center"?
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) President Mr. Syed Sadatullah Husaini launched a charitable body, Zakat Center #India (ZCI) on 26th March 2022.
(zakatcenterindia.org)
#Hindutva #Islam #Zakat #TimesofIndia

@toi 2. What is Zakat?
a. The Qur’an describes Zakat as: The means by which to attain Allah’s mercy.
b. Every Muslim possessing the designated minimal amount of wealth (called Nisab) for the full cycle of a year must, as a matter of worship, give Zakat.
#Hindutva #Islam #Zakat

@toi 3. What is Nisab?
The Zakat nisab value is the minimum threshold required for an individual to be eligible to pay Zakat in that specific year. Your total overall wealth must meet or exceed the nisab value in order for you to be eligible to pay Zakat, /n

@toi 3(a) which is prescribed as the equivalent of:
- 87.48 grams (7.5 tolas) of gold or
- 612.36 grams (52.5 tolas) of silver, respectively.
#Hindutva #Islam #Zakat

@toi 4. Who is Jamaat E Islami Hind?
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is an Islamic organization in India, founded as an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which split into separate independent organizations in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh following the Partition of #India in 1947.
#Hindutva

@toi 5. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was officially formed in April 1948, at a meeting in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The Government of India twice banned the organization though both decisions were revoked by rulings from the Supreme Court of India. During the mid-1980s,
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#India #Hindutva

@toi 5(a) it allowed its members to vote in elections in India. By 2002 it was described to be campaigning against advances by Hindu nationalists. On 18 April 2011, it facilitated the launch of a national political party Welfare Party of India, /n

@toi 5(b) under a leadership that included top functionaries of the organization and members from the wider Muslim community and outside, including a Christian priest.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 6. Present leadership of Jamaat E Islami Hind?
Jammat E Islami Hind has its head office at Okhla, Delhi, and Syed Sadatullah Husaini is its present president.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 7. Jamaat E Islami Hind Leadership:
S. Ameenul Hasan vice president of Jamaat E Islami Hind, heads the Hyderabad-based Zakat Center India.
#Hindutva #India

@toi 8. Rest of the leadership details of Jamaat E Islami Hind can be found at the below link.
#Hindutva #India
jamaateislamihind.org/eng/our-curren…

@toi 9. Jamaat E Islami supporting Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)
In year 2008 Jamaat E Islami issued an official statement against Govt of India reinstating ban on radical organisation SIMI as "Terrorist Organisation" under "UAPA 1967" act.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 10. Jamaat E islami and SIMI Connection
On 25 April 1977, SIMI was founded in Aligarh, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, with Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi as its founding president.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 10(a) (Siddiqi currently serves as a Professor of English and Journalism at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL. In 1981, SIMI activists protested against PLO leader Yasser Arafat's visit to India and greeted him with black flags in New Delhi.
#Hindutva #India

@toi 10(b) Young SIMI activists viewed Arafat as a Western puppet, while the senior Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) leaders saw Arafat as a champion of the Palestinian cause. The JIH also became uncomfortable with SIMI's support of the 1979 Iranian Revolution /n

@toi 10(c) and its communal orientation. After distancing itself from SIMI, JIH reverted to relying on the older student organization, the Students Islamic Organization.
#Hindutva #India

@toi 11. Ramees EK has been elected National President of SIO of India for the term 2023-24. A look at his Facebook profile shows his post with a flag showing separate South India flag of South India Student Action committee and showing allegiance with them.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 12. In the year 2015 Jamaat E Islami issued a statement against Govt of India's introduction of Yoga as a compulsory part of the school curriculum across the country under the garb of constitutional freedom to exercise one's own religion.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 13. In the year 2020 Jamaat E Islami supported Bheema Koregaon's violence and accused Stan Swami by stating that the arrest of Mr. Stan Swami by NIA is illegal and unconstitutional.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 14. In the year 2016 Jamaat E Islami supported radical Muslim preacher Zakir Naik by stating that whatever Zakir Naik is doing is allowed under constitutional freedom offered by the constitution of India.!!!
#Hindutva #India

@toi 15. We all know the record and history of Zakir Naik and his anti-Hindutva anti-India rhetoric. He is the founder of the Islamic Research Foundation and runs a channel named "Peace TV". Zakir Naik, his foundation and his channel are banned in India due to his involvement with /n

@toi 15(a) Radical elements and Terrorist activities. In 2016, Indian authorities charged Naik for money laundering while abroad in Malaysia; Naik did not return to India and became a citizen of Malaysia.

@toi 16. Here is a brief summary of Zakir Naik's involvement with the UK-based Muslim charity "Muslim Aid" which was found to be a terror financier in the middle east and India through a web of charities and trusts including Zakat Foundation India.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 17. It is noteworthy that Zakir Naik and his Peace TV are banned in the UK, Canada, Bangladesh, and India. Surprisingly founder of Zakat Foundation India is Syed Zafar Mahmood who served as 'Officer on Special Duty' for the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh!!!

@toi 18. In the Year 2020 Jamaat E Islami hosted Tablighi Jamaat congregation at its head office in New Delhi, Jamia Nagar, Okhla, Markaz Manzil at the peak of Covid Pandemic.
#India #Hindutva

@toi 19. The Delhi conference, an annual event, was inaugurated on 3 March 2020, though there are differing accounts of when it may have ended. What is clear is that once it ended many people - including 250 foreigners - chose to stay on. Most of them were Covid infected. /n

@toi 19(a) This led to widespread outrage and NIA raids at various places in New Delhi and other parts of India to nab expat members of Tablighi Jamaat to deport them back to their respective home countries. Markaz manjil was sealed by Govt authorities for flouting covid protocols.

@toi 20. In the year 2022 president of Jamaat E Islami Syed Sadatullah Hussaini tweeted in the support of AltNews cofounder and popular hate monger Zubair, protesting his branding Zubair as a pioneer in bursting fake news

https://twitter.com/sadathusaini/status/1541667562072592384?s=20

#India #Hindutva

@toi 21. In the year 2022, Javed Mohammad, an activist associated with the Welfare Party of India (Political wing of Jamaat E Islami) and father of JNU radical activist Afreen Fatima, was arrested /n
#Hindutva #NupurSharma

https://twitter.com/Benarasiyaa/status/1535991720109780997?s=20

@toi 22. for allegedly being the key conspirator behind the protests that turned violent in Prayagraj on 10 June over the derogatory remarks made by suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
#Hindutva #NupurSharma

https://twitter.com/Benarasiyaa/status/1535980512073818112?s=20

@toi 23. Again, president of Jamaat E Islami Syed Sadatullah Hussaini tweeted in the support of Javed Mohammad by terming police action and bulldozing of his house as vandalism by police.
#Hindutva #NupurSharma

https://twitter.com/sadathusaini/status/1536016676474392576?s=20

@toi 24. During farmer protests when Modi Govt rolled back farm reform laws, Jamaat e Islami Congratulated farmers by terming it as a victory of Democracy.
#Hindutva #Farmerprotests

https://twitter.com/sadathusaini/status/1461703504775368707?s=20

@toi 25. Despite all these shenanigans of Jamaat E Islami in the name of religious freedom and openly courting Indian National Congress as front of secular forces, our media keeps glorifying such elements with any remorse.
deccanherald.com/national/natio…

@toi 26. While during Covid Pandemic, Hindu temples, and Shrines did noteworthy work to support covid relief efforts of Govt of India and Modi ji, none of the media houses highlighted it and portrayed them as donations soliciting place of reverence.

@toi 27. Here is a snapshot of all the good work done by Hindu temples and religious institutions during Covid Pandemic.
Credit - @OpIndia_com

@toi @OpIndia_com 28. But the media was busy panning these holy places by showing how much dip came in for donations to these places of Hindu reverence due to Covid Pandemic.
#Hindutva #India

@toi @OpIndia_com 29. Newspapers like the Times of India displayed highly selective pick-and-choose journalism to ensure that their secular choices are highlighted in a better contrast compared to Hindu temples are institutions of reverence when it comes to Covid relief work.

As per Islamic tradition, every Muslim shall donate 2.5% of his annual earnings as zakat if he meets the criteria of zakat eligibility.