The devotees came by the thousands from all corners of India and beyond, converging on a large white complex in a crowded quarter of Delhi to share a message of piety.
When they left in the first weeks of March, they unknowingly carried the Coronavirus with them.
Gatherings last month at the headquarters of a prominent Muslim missionary group are emerging as India’s first “super-spreader” event, complicating efforts to control rising infections in this nation of 1.3 billion people.
More than 400 confirmed cases and at least 10 deaths across the country — stretching from Tamil Nadu in the south to Kashmir in the north — have been linked to people who attended events at the Tablighi Jamaat center near a historic shrine Hazrat Nizamuddin in India’s capital.
Hate and Brutality towards Tablighi Jamaat
After some COVID19 positive cases reported in some parts of India, the Muslims especially Tablighi Jamaat face brutality online as well as offline. Lots of fake news circulated, which cause too much hate. Many hate incident reported, in which one of a video in which a without uniform person acting like police asking a muslim Vegetables vendors about his name. When the vendor replied his name with prefix “Mohammad”, the person started beating him with stick or rod like thing in hand and abused the Muslims’ prophet and shown disrespectful nature towards Muslims regarding COVID-19. This incident was the real life event but if we talk about online, a flood of hate speeches with hashtag #JamaatVirus #MuslimVirus etc spread till last week.
Lots of fake news online spreads—in which top 10 fake news were mentioned in our of previous post Check here.
How they became “Super Savers”?
Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who has been booked by the Delhi Police for holding a religious congregation here during the lockdown, on Tuesday appealed to coronavirus survivors to donate blood plasma for infected people.
From previous 4-5 days, when some of the people linked with Jamaat recovered and tested negative, they start donating blood plasma, slowly the recoveries increased and more than 100 till now donated blood plasma. Twitter is being flooded with tweet and top trending hashtag #TablighiHeroes having nearly 200k tweets in a day.
Firstly they suffered a lot, due to fake news, now they are being appreciated.
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Anzer Ayoob is the Founder and Chief Editor to The Chenab Times
