The Guardian ran a front page artilce about Tabligh Jamaat couple of weeks ago. The article, titled ‘Inside a secretive Islamic group: the Guardian gains access to a fundamentalist Islamic movement being monitored by MI5 and the FBI’, led to this reaction by my brother:
The Guardian visits a Tabligh Jamaat meeting, and it is cause for a front page headline? Have I died and moved to a parallel universe? Since when did Tablighis become a secretive group? F…ing ignorant foreign pieces of s…t.
The Guardian was not the first foreign lot to identify Tabligh Jamaat as a Jihadi group. In his much overrated book on the CIA, Robert Litell said some of the Afghan Mujahedin the CIA was paying to fight against the Soviets may have been as extreme politically as Tablighis. But then, these days even Desi commentators seem to think that Tablighis ‘would have to remain under the scanner…’
