TABLIGHI JAMA'AT: Proselytizing Missionaries or Trojan Horse?

Given that the recent terrorist attack/massacre in San Bernardino by Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik has Tablighi Jama'at linkages, I'm posting my Tablighi Jama'at article (published in 2012) to warn others on the danger this highly secretive movement poses to us here in the United States after it has already suborned Pakistan and is working on Bangladesh and, to a lesser degree, India (which is overwhelmingly Hindu)

Syed Farook, like John Walker Lindh (captured in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban), attended a Deobandi mosque (the Deobandi movement is the South Asia equivalent of the Wahhabi movement and has Saudi ties). Some reports are claiming Syed Farook belonged to the Tablighi Jama'at and his wife, Tashfeen, belonged to the Jama'at-i-Islami. For someone raised in Pakistan, these two facts alone would raise some alarm bells.

Here is the article.

Journal of Applied Security Research, 8:98–117, 
(online December 19th, 2012


The Tablighi Jama’at: Proselytizing
Missionaries or Trojan Horse?
SHIREEN KHAN BURKI
Independent Scholar

Tablighi Jama’at, a transnational Deobandi (Sunni) Muslim proselytizing group with branches in over 150 countries today, has
garnered attention in the West since 2001. With increasing frequency, terrorist plots in the West reveal Jama’at linkages. Although its leadership enunciates a peaceful, apolitical stance; the organization does share the same core ideology and ultimate objectives (the expansion of Dar al Islam and the establishment of a global Caliphate) as the Salafis, Wahhabis and other “revivalist” Islamist movements such as the Ikhwan al Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood).

The only difference between the Jama’at and the Ikhwan, for example, is their respective modus operandi. Although the Tablighi
Jama’at stress proselytism as their sole objective, they have also provided cover, a conduit and a fertile recruiting ground for jihadi
organizations such as Al Qaeda and Lashkar-i-Taiba.

KEYWORDS Tablighi Jama’at, Islamic activism, Al Qaeda, Deobandi, Taliban, terrorism, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi,Jihad bil Saif, Muslim Brotherhood, Jaish-i-Muhammad, Jihad




Tablighi Jama’at (“Proselytizing Group”)—hereafter “TJ” or Tablighi—is the largest Islamic (Sunni) Deobandi missionary and revivalist movement in the world today (Zaman, 2007). However, many non-Muslims have never heard of them notwithstanding their presence in the West, beginning in the 1960s. The TJ have attracted controversy due to exposed linkages of some of its members with terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-i-Taiba,
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Jaish-i-Muhammad, and Sipah-i-Sahaba. Given the secret nature and amorphous structure of this group, it has been hard to gauge the actual intent of these proselytizing missionaries. The growing linkages between exposed terrorists and the TJ, however, does raise questions which require a careful scrutiny of this organization, rather than a tendency (in certain academic circles) to take them at face value, and to accept their pro forma statements which condemn violence in the name of Islam. This 
article will scrutinize the TJ and its modus operandi to glean whether or not it is an incubator for “jihadis” in the West and/or has the potential for metamorphosis into a more lethal and violent organization.

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: WHEN HUBRIS MEETS REALITY

We are at war. This is the new phase with innovative strategies, unholy alliances and unconventional tactics. It will get much worse. This is guaranteed. We are too late. Our leaders have ignored signs. Worse, they have been complicit on so many levels. They have, in fact, contributed/created Da'ish through the overthrow of regimes in the MENA (Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Egypt) and have worked feverishly, and illegally, to furnish an assortment of military hardware through Libya to Syrian rebels to overthrow the secular Assad regime. Washington supports regimes that covertly support Al Qaeda, Hizballah and the Muslim Brotherhood (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran). 



Parisians, on Friday the thirteenth (of November), were terrorized by eight young European born Arab Muslims, including two recent arrivals (Syrian "refugees"). The target of these Muslim youth: Western youth. 

Over a hundred --mostly young-- people were slaughtered as they enjoyed the start of the weekend. In cafes, bars, a soccer game and a concert, they were mowed down. None were armed and none tried to tackle their murderers. Like sheep, they were butchered. None resisted. Their false sense of security, notwithstanding recent foreboding events, placed their lives in peril. 

There has been so much slaughter since 9/11 globally in the name of Islam, and it has generally been business as usual. Carry on. Don't be a "racist" or an "Islamophobe" is you dare to express concerns about a certain group of people. 


DA'ISH (aka the Islamic State/ ISIL/ISIS) is Al Qaeda on speed. The objective is shared. The objective is one that all devout Muslims believe in: spreading the 'true faith' of Islam (submission) across the Globe until there is no fitna (strife) and no kuffar (infidels or disbelievers).

OUR DIRTY WAR IN WAZIRISTAN: US Drone Strikes Bolster the Pakistan Army's War on Pakhtunkhwa

IF

Kipling's India
circa 1915
flickr




IF

By Rudyard Kipling

(1865-1936)

If you can keep your head when all about you
 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
  And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
  And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

WHAT'S UP WITH GERMANY? DACHAU 2015

Dachau liberated by US 7th Army, April 29, 1945

Willkommen Blue Badges!

Ahlan Wa Sahlan; Merhaba! 
As Salaam-Aelikum!

Don't you know?
Merkel wants you. Six million or more.

Germans love and admire your chutzpah.
It reminds them of...themselves
In the not-too-distant past.

A mere seventy or so years ago.
When their beloved Fuhrer
Invited the Mufti to tea.
To discuss how to exterminate fellow citizens.
Quickly. Efficiently.

We all know the rest of the story.
How will this one end?

Muslims arrive and seek to thrive.
Germany, not Mecca, is the new Holy Land.
The Promised Land.
Don't you know?
Merkel has told them so. 

Time to make hijra.
The conquest is back on.
Leave your sword.
Just bring the horde.

To Dachau we go.
Winter approaches.
Fire up the ovens.
Time to make bread.

Time to let the Germans compete.
To see who can meet
The needs of the new (e)migrant.
With the blue badge.

Those with the yellow badge couldn't compete.
They were too polite, timid and meek.
Too bright and decent for their own good.

Patriots all. Shipped to fall.
Either in a hail of bullets into a large communal grave.
With no marker; no Star of David.
Or...

Deceived to take showers with their babies.
Excruciating deaths. Of the finest and the decent.
Thrown into ovens to fill the night sky with ash.
The efficient German got rid of his human trash.

Jews who tried to hide found they were all alone.
Neighbors, friends. All. Coveted their home.
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.
They died. 

Slaughtered in that methodical German style. 
Along with the other badges... 
Christians, gypsies, dissidents, and all the rest.
Some near the Herb Garden 
During the test.

While Germans screamed their "heils."
Heil to Hitler.
Heil to evil.

Got rid of their finest. Got rid of their best. 
Scientists, poets, artists, writers and all the rest.
To make room for the (e)migrant shouting 
Allah Akbar. Allah Akbar.
With his blue badge.

The ghosts of Dachau. Nazi death camp. 
The ghosts of Dachau...
Will they have the last laugh?


ARTICLES:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3392512/How-beautiful-multicultural-cathedral-city-Cologne-gripped-fear-mistrust-MailOnline-reporter-Sara-Malm-visits-city-no-woman-walking-alone.html


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/19/the-refugees-who-live-at-dachau

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/KZDachau/DachauLife4.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3230670/Housed-notorious-concentration-camp-Refugees-fled-Europe-better-life-living-former-Nazi-barracks-Buchenwald-thousands-slave-labourers-died-subjected-medical-experiments.html

http://www.timesofisrael.com/dachau-building-shelters-refugees-homeless/

http://travelbluebook.com/holocaust-concentration-camps-preserved-sites/

THE IRISH SCHOLAR AND HIS CAT: PANGUR BAN

Pangur Bán" is an Old Irish poem, written around the 9th century at or around Reichenau Abbey. It was written by an Irish monk, and is about his cat, Pangur Bán.

PANGUR BAN

I and Pangur Ban my cat

'Tis a like task we are at:

Hunting mice is his delight,

Hunting words I sit all night.

Better far than praise of men

'Tis to sit with book and pen;

Pangur bears me no ill will

He too plies his simple skill.


"Tis a merry task to see

At our tasks how glad are we.

When at home we sit and find

Entertainment to our mind.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray

In the hero Pangur's way;

Oftentimes my keen thought set

Takes a meaning in its net.

"Gainst the wall he sets his eye

Full of fierce and sharp and sly;

"Gainst the wall of knowledge I

All my little wisdom try.


When a mouse darts from its den,

O how glad is Pangur then!

O what gladness do I prove

When I solve the doubts I love!


So in peace our task we ply,

Pangur Ban, my cat and I;

In our arts we find our bliss,

I have mine and he has his.

Practice everyday has made

Pangur perfect in his trade;

I get wisdom day and night

Turning darkness into light.

THE JUNDALLAH AKA "LONE WOLF" THREAT TO THE HOMELAND: A CURSORY ASSESSMENT

"Anarchical Jihad" constitutes the gravest challenge when it comes to Homeland Security in the 21st century. It is a phrase I coined back in 2011 to explain the growing phenomena in the West of "sudden jihad syndrome," increasingly conducted by "lone wolfs" or a "wolf pack," vice a professional cadre of operatives with extensive military and operational training. Unlike "professional terrorists," who are actual members, rather than ideological bedfellows, of publicly known terrorist/insurgent organizations, the "lone wolf" is hard to identify prior to his self appointed mission. 

Lexicon matters. Refusing to leverage terminology appropriately, or at all, while undertaking a serious, comprehensive, agenda-free assessment of what we face on the home front is to guarantee a flawed strategy and tactics in order to eliminate/mitigate the growing threat within our borders.

What do I mean by "Anarchical Jihad"? In Islamic theology, jihad or struggle to propagate the faith is considered fard ayn (mandatory obligation).

Perplexing why thoughtful commentators are minimizing/deriding this insidious threat as a PC construct? Is there a template and a venue for indoctrination/absorption of this template. Absolutely. But many of these jundallahs/loneoperators/lone wolves are acting as free agents, who are deeply embedded inwestern society and somehow (event/person) get triggered to go "jihadi." against the infidel. Tsarnov brothers, nidal hasan, abdulazeez, faisal shahzad,

Jundallah = soldier of God/Allah

Lone Wolf = a person who prefers to be or act alone
Simon:

There are no “lone wolves,” the latest politically correct neologism invented to explain (and explain away) the spread of single-actor terrorists proliferating across the world and now the U.S., notably with the latest murder of our unarmed military in Chattanooga by Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez.

“Love wolves,” like “Islamophobia” before it, is a bogus term of distraction, designed to take focus off the reality that a solid percentage of the billion plus Islamic world is at war with the West, seeking to take it over, militarily and/or ideologically.  These may be solitary individuals (or often not, as in Boston and Garland) but they are all acting from the same playbook — the Koran and Hadith.   They are simply soldiers in a massive global army.  They all know their instructions, which are in front of their eyes and couldn’t be simpler.

Attempts are being made to find an excuse — anything but Islam. According to CNN, Abdulazeez’s Jordanian relatives are claiming the young man was “depressed.”  So is almost everybody I know at one time or another … and guess what?  Not a single one of them is a terrorist.  Perhaps Obama should declare a War on Depression and give out free Prozac in the mosques along with condoms.  That should do it.

Meanwhile, I’m sure some exist, but I have yet to meet a single middle or upper class white liberal or progressive who has actually read the Koran or Hadith.  At most they answer, “Well, sure… back in school,” in which case you know they’re lying. Or they’ll launch into a disquisition on how it doesn’t really matter because all religions are equal, noting that there’s “bad stuff” in the Bible.  Somewhere north of ninety percent of these folks do not know that the Koran, unlike the Bible,  is considered by Muslims theverbatim dictation of Allah to Mohammed (therefore undebatable) or how the  inevitable contradictions that stem from this are rectified through abrogation. And they have even less idea what this abrogation adds up to, how it has ratified the ideology of the murderous modern jihad movement from the Muslim Brotherhood on into ISIS.  They don’t want to know.  They also don’t want to know that Muslim immigration is exploding and overwhelming the FBI. This is highly disruptive information to them and wouldn’t play well at the next PTA diversity meeting.