iya, tumben guardian ngocol begini. biasanya mereka akurat lo.
At 04:45 PM 8/19/2006, you wrote: >kalo ada yg mengatakan bahwa jamaah tabligh ada hubungannya dengan wahabi, >ini orang pasti ngocol abis. soalenya jamaah tabligh justru dianggap sesat >sama orang wahabi karena dekat dengan sufisme. > >kdan kalau ada yg bilang jamaah tabligh dekat dengan teror, makin terlihat >kalau orangnyda ndak pernah ngubek ngubek nyelidikin dalemannya jamaah >tabligh. > >salam, >Ari Condro > >On 8/19/06, Ambon <<mailto:sea%40swipnet.se>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1853800,00.html>http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1853800,00.html > > > > Inside the Islamic group accused by MI5 and FBI > > > > Paul Lewis > > Saturday August 19, 2006 > > The Guardian > > > > A man in a traditional Islamic hat. Photograph: Linda Nylind > > > > > > Thousands of young Muslim men are attending meetings in east London every > > week run by a fundamentalist Islamic movement believed by western > > intelligence agencies to be used as a fertile recruiting ground by > > extremists. > > Tablighi Jamaat, whose activities are being monitored by the security > > services, holds the tightly guarded meetings on an industrial estate close > > to the area where some of the suspects in last week's terror raids were > > arrested. > > > > This week it emerged that at least seven of the 23 suspects under arrest > > on suspicion of involvement in the plot to blow up transatlantic airliners > > may have participated in Tablighi events. > > > > The organisation - influenced by a branch of Saudi Arabian Islam known as > > Wahhabism - has already been linked to two of the July 7 suicide > bombers who > > attended a Tablighi mosque at the organisation's headquarters in Dewsbury, > > West Yorkshire. The jailed shoe bomber Richard Reid is also known to have > > attended Tablighi meetings. > > > > Until now, the leaders of Tablighi Jamaat - which means "group of > > preachers" - have refused to open their doors to outsiders, shrouding the > > organisation in mystery. > > > > Tablighi enthusiasts say that the organisation, founded by a scholar in > > India in the 1920s, has no involvement with terrorism and simply encourages > > Muslims to follow the example of the prophet and proselytise the teachings > > of the Qur'an. As one sympathetic imam put it, they were the "Jehovah's > > Witnesses of Islam". > > > > On Thursday evening, the Guardian witnessed around 3,000 men from as far > > afield as Great Yarmouth and the Isle of Wight stream through the > > backstreets of Stratford to the meeting. There, at the gates of a seemingly > > derelict industrial site, men in fluorescent jackets waved those who are > > known to the Tablighi Jamaat hierarchy under a security barrier, and into > > one of three fields that surround a cluster of prefabricated > buildings which > > form a temporary mosque. > > > > As the Guardian entered the complex one person spoke admiringly about the > > "main man" for the south-east division of Tablighi Jamaat. "We can't call > > him a prophet," he said. "No one can be a prophet. But when you meet him > > you'll realise. He's helped a lot of people in Walthamstow to follow the > > right path, the path of the prophet. He'll talk to you openly this evening > > and everything will make sense." > > > > Seconds later, the main man stood next to his red van in Islamic dress and > > a smart blue waistcoat as hundreds of men, many carrying suitcases and > > sleeping bags, filed past him into a network of six rooms cobbled together > > with planks of wood and corrugated plastic windows. He later said he was > > from Walthamstow. > > > > The largest room was reserved for the main speaker, an elder from Preston > > who spoke in Urdu. His sermon was relayed through a microphone to > five other > > rooms in which interpreters provided simultaneous translation into English, > > Arabic, Sinhala, Turkish and Somali. > > > > The English-speaking room heaved as a sea of faces, white, black and > > Asian, spilled into the hallway. Most were teenagers and men in their 20s > > and 30s dressed in Islamic dress, caps and beards. Some came in suits and > > ties, others in jeans and hoodies. There were old men too, who > weaved slowly > > through to the front of the room, and a few young boys. > > > > The Walthamstow man took a seat in the middle of the room to interpret > > proceedings. The murmur of hundreds of whispering voices stopped as he put > > on his headphones. "We come to submit our will to Allah," he > began. "We have > > to live the life that Allah has prescribed for us. We have been > invited into > > Allah's house." > > > > He continued to translate the preacher's message. "If a person is > > drowning, the man who saves him needs to take him out of the water. If he > > has swallowed too much water, that water must come out. At the > moment we are > > in a worldly ocean and we are all drowning. For us to become successful, we > > must come out of this world for a short period of time." > > > > Although not a scholar, the interpreter is deeply respected. Quietly, some > > in the congregation whisper that he has seen miracles - the sign of a truly > > committed Tablighi. > > > > After an hour the preacher concluded with a call for followers to join the > > effort and commit to a trip away. "We must leave our houses, our > businesses, > > our families, for a short period of time, and follow the path of Allah and > > practise the ways of the prophet, going from mosque to mosque," said the > > interpreter. "Then [the behaviour] will become second nature to > us. We shall > > go to India and Pakistan for four months to follow these ways." > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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