WHAT AILS DADA SHOIAB IF THE CROWD IS GETTING THICKER IN IZTEMA OF TABLIGI JAMAT ???
Alarming rise of Tablighi Jamaatby Salah Uddin Shoaib ChoudhuryLast week annual congregation of Tablighi Jamaat took place in Bangladesh and for the first time since secularist Bangladesh Awami League formed government in 2009 in Bangladesh, now the Tablighis have announced to hold the congregation in two phases with a pause of four days instead of single congregation, which has been taking places since past few decades. Reason behind such enhancement of congregation period is due to tremendous increase in number of attendees in the Tablighi congregation, which has already crossed two million.
Tablighi Jamaat [TJ], a fanatic Muslim organization, which is already known in the world as one of the instigating elements of Jihad and terrorism is not only spreading its wings in South Asia, but it is also gradually gaining strength in a number of Western countries, including United States and United Kingdom. It is also alleged that, Tablighi congregation and activities of this suspected outfit is funded and sponsored by several Islamist militant groups such as Al Qaeda, Hamaas, Lakhkar-e-Taiba etc.
The Tablighi Jamaat [Group for Preaching] movement was established in Mewat, India, in 1927 and stems from the Deobandi brand of the Hanafi Sunni school of jurisprudence. Deobandi is the most commonly practiced form of Islam in South Asia, and TJ is but a small subset of the larger Deobandi community. TJ was designed to be an apolitical, pietistic organization that sends missionaries across the globe on proselytizing missions intended to bring wayward Muslims back to more orthodox practices of Islam. TJ followers [Tablighis] are mostly of South Asian origin, though there are Tablighis from many different ethnic and national backgrounds. In fact, TJ operates in 150 countries and has an estimated 70 million to 80 million active followers, making it the largest Muslim movement in the world. Its annual gatherings in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh reportedly bring together the largest congregations of Muslims in the world outside of the Hajj. The group's stated mission is to work at a grassroots level, reaching out to Muslims across the social and economic spectrum. Tablighis do not solicit or receive donations, but rather are largely funded by senior members. It is also alleged that The TJ organization also serves as a de facto conduit for Islamist extremists and for groups such as al Qaeda to recruit new members.
At face value, TJ is a peaceful, egalitarian and devotional movement that stresses individual faith and overall spiritual development. In a sense, TJ is a widespread training system that urges average Muslims to examine their own lives and become involved in calling their fellow Muslims back to orthodox Islam. Because of TJ's tactics, some Islamist groups refer to its members as "Muslim Jehovah's Witnesses" and accuse them of abandoning politics and jihad. Upon joining the movement, Tablighi recruits are given the option of attending the Tablighi center in the Pakistani city of Raiwind, near Lahore, Pakistan, for four months of additional religious training to equip them to preach the Tablighi message.
It is important to understand that TJ is a loosely controlled mass movement rather than a centralized group, as some would maintain. Although TJ operates mosques, it has no fixed membership and Tablighis are free to leave the movement. The mosques are used to support the efforts of the independent jamaat [groups of 10 preachers] that undertake preaching missions. The type of work performed and the duration of that work are left solely to the discretion and conscience of the individual jamaat. Some jamaat choose to serve a short period of time while others preach for months or even years. Although TJ is Deobandi, it allows any Sunni Muslim to join in its missionary work as long as that person accepts the group's austere creed.
Because of the large number of South Asian Muslims in the United Kingdom, TJ is very strong in that country. The Tablighi-run Markazi Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is the group's European headquarters. The organization's strength in Britain was demonstrated in 2007 when it announced plans to construct an 18-acre mosque complex in STRATFORd, East London, on a site near the 2012 Olympic Park. According to some reports, the new complex would have a capacity of up to 70,000 people, making it the largest religious building in the United Kingdom and the largest mosque in Europe. The construction of such an enormous mosque has raised some concerns and more than a bit of controversy among the British people.
The organization, however, also has a presence in most other European countries, while French authorities have claimed that 80 percent of the radical Islamists they have encountered have had some sort of contact with the TJ movement.
In the United States, the FBI believes some 50,000 people are associated with Tablighi Jamaat missions, while Tablighi mosques currently operate in several U.S. states, including California, Texas and New York. The Al-Falah Mosque in the Corona area of Queens, N.Y., apparently is the group's North American headquarters.
With the rise and expansion of Tablighi Jamaat in the world, particularly in South Asia, there is disturbing news of rise of a Jihadist outfit in Bangladesh named Hizbut Towhid. According to vernacular daily newspaper The Manabzamin, a group of Hizbut Towhid activists attacked an anti-Jihad rally at Uzirpur village on January 25, 2011. It may be mentioned here that, Hizbut Towhid members are actively spreading Jihadist notion in Bangladeshi society for years under the leadership of one Bayejid Khan Panni alias Selim Panni. During such instigative activities, villagers at Uzirpur brought out a demonstration procession against the pro-Jihadist propaganda of Hizbut Towhid and demanding immediate banning of this outfit. Hearing the news of such procession, Hizbut Towhid members attacked the rally of the villagers with lethal weapons thus injuring a few dozens of people. Following this attack, though police arrested a few members of this notorious group, there was no action taken against the main kingpin of Hizbut Towhid for reason unknown.
For the sake of global peace, it is extremely important not only to check the activities of any pro-Jihadist group or organization in the world. Massive expansion of Tablighi Jamaat as well as other pro-Jihadist groups should come under strict surveillance of every government and peace loving masses in the world.
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