Omar lashes out at netizens targeting Tabligh-e-Jamaat members

Srinagar, Mar 31: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference vice-president, Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that Muslims should not be blamed for the spread of Coronavirus in the country.

Reacting to netizens” response to reports that several people who tested positive for COVID-19 had attended a congregation of Tabligh-e-Jamaat, a Muslim religious organisation, at Nizamuddin in Delhi earlier this month.”
Omar in series of tweets wrote:  “Now the Tablighi Jamat will become a convenient excuse for some to vilify Muslims everywhere as if we created & spread COVID around the world.”

“At first glance it would appear the Tablighi Jamat were nothing if not irresponsible in the way they went about things but that”s not unique to them. The majority of Muslims in India have heeded government guidelines and advice the same as anyone else,”* he added.

Omar said those people who were associating the COVID-19 with the Tabligh-e-Jamaat were more dangerous than any virus.     “People tweeting stuff with hashtags like Tablighi virus are more dangerous than any virus nature could ever conjure up because their minds are sick while their bodies may very well be healthy,” he  wrote.

 

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