SRINAGAR, Mar 31:
Asserting that Muslims should not be blamed for the spread of Coronavirus in the country, former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said people tweeting stuff with hash tags like Tablighi virus are more dangerous than any virus nature could ever conjure up.
Abdullah, who is NC vice-president, was responding to reaction of many people, who were associating the COVID-19 spread with a congregation of Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim religious organisation, at Nizamuddin in Delhi earlier this month.
“Now the #TablighiJamat will become a convenient excuse for some to vilify Muslims everywhere as if we created & spread #COVID around the world,” Mr Abdullah wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
“People tweeting stuff with hash tags 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 said.
“At first glance it would appear the #Tablighi Jamaat 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 & advice the same as anyone else,” he added.
Abdullah said important to read the statement that was put out by Tablighi Jamaat, clarifying all the steps they took to implement the Government guidelines. “I tried to get it in a format I could share directly here but that wasn’t possible so sharing this tweet instead,” he said.
The former Chief Minister also tweetted the copy of the statement released by the organization. (UNI)
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