{"id":100818,"date":"2020-04-05T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100818"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T00:02:42","slug":"tablighi-jamaat-linked-to-one-third-of-indian-and-a-number-of-sri-lankan-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/05\/tablighi-jamaat-linked-to-one-third-of-indian-and-a-number-of-sri-lankan-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablighi Jamaat Linked to One Third of Indian and a Number of Sri Lankan COVID-19 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The cremation\/burial\ndrama seems to be a distraction from the real issue &#8211; Tablighi Jamaat. The\nevent held in New Delhi from March 13-15 by this group is the super spreader of\nthe Coronavirus in India. 34 had participated from Sri Lanka too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Introduction\nquoted from senior Indian bureaucrat, diplomat and politician K Natwar Singh is\ngiven below. He calls on the Indian government to ban the organization. Sri\nLanka must also consider banning their affiliated organisations in the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-sunday-guardian-live\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4dA5pT5X9P\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sundayguardianlive.com\/opinion\/tablighi-jamaat-banned\">Tablighi Jamaat should be banned\u00a0<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Tablighi Jamaat should be banned\u00a0&#8221; &#8212; The Sunday Guardian Live\" src=\"https:\/\/sundayguardianlive.com\/opinion\/tablighi-jamaat-banned\/embed#?secret=crbQzgwRhr#?secret=4dA5pT5X9P\" data-secret=\"4dA5pT5X9P\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alami Markaz in Nizamuddin is the headquarter of the fanatical Tablighi Jamaat. Its leader is Maulana Saad Kandhalvi. He is absconding. Many of his followers are responsible for a large number of coronavirus deaths, particularly in Tamil Nadu. These fanatics spread the pandemic in various parts of the country, by not observing the guidelines laid down by the Central government\u2014social distancing, no shaking hands and above all stay at home\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unquote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1,023 cases out of a\ntotal of 3,030 cases in India as at 3 April 2020 have linked with Tablighi\nJamaat. That is more than one third. 39 Indian deaths are also linked to them.\nIt was reported that 34 from Sri Lanka attended the service too and they are in\nSri Lanka. Pakistan (a Muslim country!) has quarantined all Tablighi Jamaat\nmissionaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quote &#8211; The Tablighi\nJamaat&#8217;s chief, Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, and other members of the group have\nbeen booked under the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 and relevant sections of the\nIndian Penal Code for violating government orders of not organising public\ngatherings and maintaining social distance to contain the spread of\ncoronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/current\/economy-politics\/coronavirus-outbreak-here-all-need-to-know-about-tablighi-jamaat\/story\/399900.html\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus outbreak: Here&#8217;s all need to know about Tablighi Jamaat<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka must\nalso follow suit to arrest and punish the organisers of this event under the\nsame Act. The British introduced the same Act in both Sri Lanka and India with\nonly minor differences. An offence in India is also an offence in Sri Lanka\nunder the Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing out these facts is not arousing racism. It is\nrealism. Lives and health of 21 million people must not be put to risk. There\nis no bigger racism than the callous disregard of life and health of fellow\ncountrymen belonging to other spiritual followings. Sri Lankan government and\nthe military must act now as it is a military matter, not just a health issue\nanymore. Don\u2019t get sidetracked by petty cremation\/burial dramatization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara The cremation\/burial drama seems to be a distraction from the real issue &#8211; Tablighi Jamaat. The event held in New Delhi from March 13-15 by this group is the super spreader of the Coronavirus in India. 34 had participated from Sri Lanka too. An Introduction quoted from senior Indian bureaucrat, diplomat and politician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}