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Clamping down?: Dawat-e-Islami comes under military’s radar
By Kamran Yousaf
Published: September 12, 2011
[Salmaan Taseer’s assassination] has changed our opinion about the organisation," Intelligence source.
ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented move, military authorities in Pakistan have decided to curtail the activities of a proselytising organisation in their ranks after reports by intelligence agencies warned that its growing influence in the armed forces will have serious implications.
Dawat-e-Islami, an ostensibly apolitical Barelvi proselytising organisation, had never been under the strict watch of security agencies until now, primarily because of its non-violent religious views.
That appears to have changed after the assassination of former Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in January this year by one of the elite police guards in his security detail, who was believed to be a follower of Dawat-e-Islami.
Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the self-confessed assassin of the late governor, is thought to be the first person affiliated with the organisation to publicly use violent means in the name of religion.
(Read: ‘Osama and Obama bad, Qadri good’)
“That incident has changed our opinion about the organisation,” said a source in the intelligence agency which recently compiled a report about the growing activities and influence of Dawat-e-Islami in the armed forces.
“We do understand it was an isolated event but we cannot be complacent now,” the source added, justifying the decision to put Dawat-e-Islami under the radar in military.
According to the intelligence report, the contents of which have been shared with The Express Tribune, not only is the influence of Dawat-e-Islami increasing in the armed forces, its followers in the military have become the organisation’s key source of funding.
“Over Rs20 million were collected from the Pakistan Air Force for the organization, during the month of Ramazan,” said a security official who requested to remain anonymous.
Founded by Ilyas Qadri in 1980 in Karachi, Dawat-e-Islami has hundreds of thousands of followers in Pakistan and abroad. The organisation has its own website and a TV channel called ‘Madani TV’.
Downplaying the move
A military official, when approached, tried to downplay the move by authorities to stop the growing influence of Dawat-e-Islami in the armed forces.
“It is nothing new. We have zero-tolerance for all such organisations within the military,” the official insisted. He acknowledged that Dawat-e-Islami has a following in the armed forces but it is not unusual.
“You can’t stop individuals practicing their own religious beliefs, if they are not violating the military discipline,” he argued.
Pakistan armed forces personnel are often accused by the west of having links with religious extremists.
In June, the army confirmed that it had detained one of its senior officers, along with four other military personnel, for links with the banned Hizbut Tahrir.
Brigadier Ali Khan and four unnamed majors have been in the military’s custody since then.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2011
Mysticreed (09-12-2011)
hmmmm agar haq aur sach ki mehnat ker rahay hain aur ALLAH kay yahan qabool kerli gaey hay in ki mehnat tau dunia ki koi taqat in ka koch nahi bigaar sakti laikin agar goomrahi pehlanay may masroof hain tau phir dunia ki koi taqaat inhay Allah ki azaab say nahi bachaa sakti chahay abhi aey ya baad may.
Mujhay tau bas ya afsoos hay kay ya log baitullah shareef jaa ker bhi jamat ki namaz imam e kaba k peechay nahi pertay iss say baari mehrooumi kia hogi kay wahan jaa ker bhi wahan ki ba jamaat namaz say mehroom hojatay hain.............. bayshak Allah he taufeek dayta hay naiki ki aur baaadi say ruknay ki.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm interesting news
i know that they way they are going soon they will be noticed by the enemies of islam
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yeah u r right what a mahroomi cant say the salah with jammat in holy mosque
but if the Worst person on earth become the imam in holy mosques then will u accept him as ur leader
may be u will but i dont
Allah made him the Imam of Bait ullah.... how is it possible to enter in your own home without your permission? O my dear if without your permission nobody have a guts to enter in ur house than how a worst person become an Imam of the house of Allah...... May ap kay liya dua go hoon.
[MENTION=120022]m.omair[/MENTION] so Pakistan army is against Islam? why don't you leave Pakistan and live somewhere where their army is not against Islam. and take your freaking qadarinization aka dawat e islami with you
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[MENTION=1274]Ath3r[/MENTION] how Allah appointed imam Kaba? talk some sense, and you think Allah stop any human being from entering Kaba? May be your forgetting Allah is Allah of all human brings no matter if the human is Muslim or non Muslim
All mulla led groups, oganisations, parties and mdrassas must be disbanded asap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are Najdi mulla slaves who get paid to do propoganda for them by Najdis. Then there is another group who amongst the inner circles of Najdi mulla slaves are categorised as deviants but yet they are supported by the same deviant groups like tabligi jamaat etc. I will say the first group is more intelligent then the second group because the second group is nothing but duffers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want to even discuss such issues with a dumb and duffer like you. I am sure no Tabligi mulla of yours ever taught you about the conditions and requirements in sharia of an Imam. As a muslim I have rights in sharia to not to follow any Imam who doesn't seem to fulfill the criteria and conditions of Imamat.
Also have you forgotten that there used to be idols in this same house of Allah for many centuries placed by jahil Makkans by 'permission' of Allah ??????????????????
Also don't even want to go in the details of Umvi dynasties and the successive dynasties but Imams of Masjid Haram mostly after the Rashidun caliphate have been 'sarkari' mullas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude there is nothing known as sufinizaton. Sufis never impose their beliefs on others but do hold the rights to defend themselves in discussions when attacked by haters like your mullas. Sufis don't preach violence or terrorism and also don't indulge in the takfiri producing business unlike your pet mulla. Sufis have spread Islam in the last many centuries peacefully and successfully unlike your mulla who got the opportunity to preach his 'ism' on various tv channels and yet hasn't been able to convince a handful. Sufis are not munafiq like your mulla and they also don't flee the scene in fear of harm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes no 'brand' of what you call Islam must be imposed on army and also on civilians !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should have banned dawate-islami long time ago,they are sufi black magicians,promoting sectarianism they are worst than Talibans,surprised to see that intelligence has just found it now,i knew it longtime ago that they are thugs.and sunni tehreek is their militant wing.
DAWAT E ISLAMI IS ATRUE TABLIGHI JAMAT OF THE MASSES OF PAKISTANI MUSLIMS ,THEY ARE NOT INVOLVE IN TERRORISM LIKE TAKFEERI tableeghi jamaat, they dont have DANDA BERDAR TALIBAN INSIDE BURQA,,THEY ARE PREACHING TRUE ISLAM AND THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL IN IT, IT IS NOT SURPRISE THAT IF ARMY SUSPECT THEM IN ANYWAY, THEY WILL BE HERE ALREADY,AS THEY ARE SINCE THE DAWN OF ISLAM.
TAKFEERI ,WAHABI JALTE RAHAIN GE OR ISSI UMMEED PER ZINDA RAHAIN GE KE ISLAM KA SATIANAS KERDAIN.
what a stupid reply
there was a time when Kaba was full of idols so
why Allah All mighty let those ppl make idols in his home???????
and
so on in history there are many event like this
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[QUOTE=rao7;2993982]@m.omair so Pakistan army is against Islam? why don't you leave Pakistan and live somewhere where their army is not against Islam. and take your freaking qadarinization aka dawat e islami with you
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lolz
yeah u have qadiani murted and drunken ppl at general rank in ur army and still they are not enemies of islam
and further more killing muslim with the help of kufar uep they are still islamic
and about leaving pakistan this is my answer
چین و عرب ہمارا ہندوستان ہمارا
مسلم ہیں ہم وطن ہیں سارا جہاں ہمارا
and InshAllah soon this will become true when all muslim countries will be united and there is no identity other than Muslim
listen backhole, tell me why you have problem with army confronting the terrorists? if they are getting help from USA then what is your problem? would you not rather have a peaceful country?
what about the salafi , saudi funding of terrorists? how do you think they are able to fight a state for 10 years?
is it possible without help? and saudis and other wahabi arbs are exposed themselves who are funding these terrorist organisations
why dont you criticise them?
so if a muslim is giving money to a terrorist to explode bombs that is ok for you?
but if army gets help from kafir to kill that terrorist bastard your islam is indanger and you have problem?
wonderful ideas
first of all take away that Qadari out of ur name it doesnt suits u the way u talk calling other backhole
2nd i am not talking about the war in pakistan i talked about the war in afganistan the same mistake done by the one muslim ruler in spain he help the christian aginst the othe muslim ruler to save himself but in the end he was also kicked and soon the same will gonna happen here in pakistan BTW its already started
3rd about the war against the taliban in pakistan i will simply say Shaitan Vs Shaitan so who wins obviously Shaitan
so pak army or taliban they are both corrupt
the thing which u call aid from USA will going to be the snake of pakistan neck