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Wahabis infiltrating Tamil Nadu mosques

Published : Jun 1, 2016, 12:42 am IST
Updated : Jun 1, 2016, 12:42 am IST

Pro-Islamic groups in Tamil Nadu have warned that Wahabism and preaching of ISIS fundamentals have been gaining ground in Tamil Nadu through a section of mosques.

Pro-Islamic groups in Tamil Nadu have warned that Wahabism and preaching of ISIS fundamentals have been gaining ground in Tamil Nadu through a section of mosques.

In a recent communiqué to the state police and also in their recent congratulatory message to chief minister J. Jayalalithaa last week, Ahlus Sunnath Wal Jamaths Federation (ASWJF), belonging to Sufi persuasion, a peaceful majority among Muslims, along with Tamil Nadu Waqfs Protection Council, has alleged that extremist Wahabis and Deobandis have infiltrated the managing committees of a few Chennai-based dargahs and mosques and are promoting ideologies of 34 banned organisations.

“The shrines, graves, madrasas, khanwahs and masjids constructed by pious followers (murideen) of saints are under threat and these structures are embodiment of Hindu-Muslim unity,” Syed Ali Akbar, organiser, Ahlus Sunnath Wal Jamaths Federation, told this newspaper.

To start with, CBSE schools, hospitals and colleges should be constructed in waqf property to benefit society. The state should step in and prevent misuse of waqf board administration by Deobandis, Wahabis who are now taking over operations of Sunni shrines like Kancheepuram Dargah, Juma Masjid, Walajah and Syedani Masjid at Triplicane and Mount Road Dargah, he said.

According to Shoukath Ali, legal adviser, ASWJF, the federation has estimated the value of the waqf property in the state at around Rs 14,500 crores and property worth Rs 4,500 crores are under encroachment. There was friendship between a majority of Muslims and Hindu community in Tamil Nadu.