Tablighi Jamaat’s links with Terrorist Organizations Al Qaeda, Taliban and Kashmiri Terrorists

The role of Tablighi Jamaat in the spread of Wuhan Corona virus has been revealed in many states of India. At least ten people have died after participating in an Islamic religious event organized by the Islamic Organization in Markaz, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi. By the way, India is not the only country which is affected by the negligence of the Tablighi Jamaat. Other South Asian countries are also suffering from this. In such circumstances, the Tablighi Jamaat’s relationship with terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda becomes highly meaningful.

Secret US documents released by Wikilix in 2011 showed that some al Qaeda operatives used the Jamaat to obtain visas and funds for their visit to Pakistan. Documents state that they lived in Delhi or even around it. Citing Saudi Arabia’s Abdul Bukhari as ‘an experienced jihadist’, the report prepared by US officials in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba states that the Jamaat member he met in 1985–1986 had sent to Pakistan. Visa helped him. This report dated July 25, 2007 stated that a member of Jamaat Tablighi bought a Pakistani visa for a detainee , after which the detainee and other Saudis traveled to Lahore.

WikiLeaks reveals that the prisoner was then asked to dedicate a life to the organization introduced to the leader of Jamaat Tablighi in New Delhi. The captive told Jamaat Tablighi that he needed to think about this as he did not want to devote his life to service, pilgrimage and missionary work. He then returned to Lahore for two weeks and then went to Saudi Arabia.

In a report published on September 1, 2008, on Somali detainee Mohammed Soliman Barre, Jamaat Tablighi, a proselytizing institution, has been identified as an Al Qaeda cover story. Al Qaeda facilitates and funds international travel of Jamaat Tablighi members. The report said that he was refused UN refugee status in India, but took a visa to visit Pakistan under the sponsorship of Jamaat Tablighi. The detainee stated that he had no intention of fulfilling missionary duties or serving with the Jamaat Tabligi, he had only used the group to obtain visas.

Tabligi Jamaat is also mentioned in another report. A report on Amir Muhammad of Sudan, prepared on 27 January 2008, states that in early 1991, the captive Sudan traveled to India via Kenya. While flying to India, the detainee met a representative of the Tablighi Jamaat, who told him about a large Tablighi center in New Delhi, where he could go for assistance. The report stated that the detainee presented himself as a tabligi to obtain Pakistani visas.

It is thus clear that Islamic organizations used the Tablighi Jamaat as a pipeline to facilitate their members’ visits. In 2003, Ohio truck driver Ayman Faris, accused of a terrorist plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, used the Jamaat to secure a trip to Pakistan to complete an assignment for al Qaeda. Tablighi Jamaat’s name came to the notice of investigators after the 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States. It was followed by at least four high-profile terrorism cases.

Stratfor, an iconic Geopolitical Intelligence platform, published a detailed report on the Tablighi Jamaat and its relation to the world of global jihad . The report says there is evidence of an ‘indirect connection’ between Jamaat and anti-Shia sect groups, Kashmiri militants and the Taliban. It added that the Tablighi Jamaat organization serves as a de facto group for Islamic extremists and for groups such as Al Qaeda to recruit new members. Tablighi encounters the world of fundamentalist Islamism when he visits Pakistan for his initial training. Once admitted to Pakistan, terrorist organizations such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen try to contain them.

People associated with the Tablighi Jamaat regularly participated in terrorist attacks before ensuring their heavy involvement in the spread of the Wuhan Corona virus worldwide. One of the attackers in the 2017 London Bridge attack, Yusuf Zagba, was linked to the Tablighi Jamaat. Mohammed Siddiqui Khan, the mastermind of the 7/7 terrorists who carried out the London bombings in 2005, and aide Shehzad Tanveer, were also associated with the Tablighi Jamaat.

Considering the dubious methods of the Tablighi group in the spread of the Wuhan Corona virus and its history of links to terrorist organizations, there is a possibility that it may be a part of the ‘biological terror’. The religious programs of the Tablighi Jamaat have spread the virus in South Asian countries in Pakistan, Malaysia and now also in India. If it was really a case of deliberate spread, it would mark the most dangerous turn of events that the authorities of the countries would now have to face. Also, this disgusting act of negligence has endangered many lives.