CORONA SPREAD AND TABLIGHI JAMAAT
True, there is a definite connection between the two though it cannot be said the latter is the only causative factor for the former. But, it has been amply confirmed that at a time when Delhi was complacent about the corona spread there and confident that it could be contained fully to set an example even - due to and since the general lockdown in the entire country from 24 March 2020 onward, this Jamaati explosion of Corona affliction had upset all calculations and the Jamaati Corona spread even affected Nepal, not just other States in India. Earlier inside the large Markaz buildings in Nizamuddin, Delhi also they did not implement self-isolation and social distancing measures and it is alleged that Maulana Saad, the Head, himself exhorted the participants to congregate and be not afraid. Anyway, they - some 2300 persons found inside – were vacated by 1 April and most of them were shifted to quarantine and some disease afflicted to the Covid19 hospitals. Later from various states also the dispersed and hiding Jamaati participants, including several foreigners, were traced and caught but by that time much harm was done by their transmissions. So much so that even Arvind Kejriwal, the liberal CM of Delhi, himself stated on 6 April that most of the then spurt in Delhi was due to Jamaat sources, some 67.4% [259/384 as on that date]; the same was the course in Telangana [about 80%], in AP also, in Tamil Nadu, etc. This was a very unfortunate defiance of lockdown and consequent increase in Corona spread, and the other violators are the migrant labor exoduses and occasional birthday/ religious celebrations at some places. Though Tablighi Jamaat is not a terrorist organization, studies point out that it is a very orthodox Islamic propaganda/conversion association with no formal structure and no membership details etc. reported to the governments. Considered in many countries as an extremist organization with links to terrorists, it is banned outright/officially discouraged in some like Russia, Uzbekistan, even Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. Its annual conferences (‘ijtema’s) in India (its origin-country) and other countries draw lakhs of people (including thousands of foreigners). Recently Pakistan also found them quite harmful, had to close their Sind headquarters and arrest some of them too. Such rigidly orthodox religious extremist organizations [‘antechambers of fundamentalism’], dreaming of a religious-power-seizure, should be harshly dealt with, strict sanctions must be placed on, and due transparency demanded of, them. §§§
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