60 Indian Muslim Officers Urge Muslim Citizens to Practice Social Distancing

[Balbir]

Muslim Officers Urge Muslim Citizens to Practice Social Distancing
SEEMI PASHA15H 33M AGO



Muslim bureaucrats and police officers who have been tirelessly working on the ground, making arrangements to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and for the treatment for those who have already contracted the virus, have appealed to fellow Muslims to cooperate with the authorities.

A letter, which has been signed by more than 60 IAS, IRS and IPS officers says,

“The global outbreak of COVID-19 is a huge challenge to the country and all humanity. We are struggling hard to keep it at bay.”
The officers claim they are worried by reports of Muslims not adhering to social distancing and other measures employed to counter the spread of the pandemic.

“Distressing videos are in wide circulation showing stone-pelting at health workers, and clash of men from the Muslim community with police personnel who were enforcing the law. In some videos, policemen are baton-charging the people hell-bent on going to a mosque for prayer. Today on 4 April 2020, a national daily reported that 25 percent of the positive cases of novel coronavirus reported in India are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in Delhi in March.”

The officers have appealed to the Muslim community to act responsibly and stand out as examples to fellow citizens in the fight against coronavirus

They have also invoked Islamic law to underline how it is sinful to harm oneself. They have equated contracting the virus to ‘suicide and courting danger and disease by one’s rash and negligent act’ and said that such an act is ‘haraam’ or forbidden in Islam.

They have tried to explain in the letter how the virus does not remain confined to the body of the infected person, but spreads to his family and society.

The officers then go on to quote from their holy book to say that,

“The Quran says if one kills an innocent human being, it is as if he had killed all mankind, and whosoever saves the life of one, it is as if he had saved the life of all mankind.”
They have also invoked sayings and practices of the Prophet, to say that there are clear directions given to take steps to protect oneself and to prevent the spread of epidemics in the Hadith

The group of civil servants has appealed to Muslims to refrain from gathering at mosques, to pray at home as responsible citizens and help health workers and police officers carry out their duties.

The letter has been signed by the following officers:

1. Asif Jalal, IPS (2002-HP)
2. Najmul Hoda, IPS, Inspector General of Police, Tamil Nadu-2001 batch
3. Sohail Malik, IRS 2010 batch, Joint Commissioner of IT, Delhi
4. Rashid Munir Khan, IPS 2008-WB
5. Muzammil Khan, IAS
6. Mohammad Shayin, IAS 2002 batch Haryana
7. Mohd Mustafa IPS 1985 Punjab
8. Noorul Hasan ,IPS,2015,MH
9. Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh, IFS, 2004, Consul General of India, Jeddah
10. Ms. Gudrun Nehar IRS 2005 batch Delhi
11. Shaikh Aminkhan, IRS 2011 batch Kolkata
12. Javed Akhtar IRS 2002 Delhi
13. Zafar Ajmal Kidwai, IPS 2011 ,West Bengal
14. Dr Saleem Ali, IPS (Retd.) 1978 batch, Tripura
15. Shuja Mahmood IRPS, 2006 batch, Hubli
16. Imtiyaz Khan, IPS 2016, Haryana
17. Maqsood Ahmed, IPS, 2016 batch Haryana
18. TA Khan, IPS( Retd.) West Bengal 1968
19. Showkat Ahmad Parray, IAS, 2013 batch Punjab
20. Tariq Mabood IRS 2009
21. Imamuddin Ahmad, IRS, Commr. CGST, Mangalore
22. Zuhair Bin Saghir, IAS. 2006 batch, Uttar Pradesh
23. Dr mohd Suhail Fazal IA&AS 2013 batch, Delhi
24. Md. Imteyaz Alam, IRTS, 2011 batch, Danapur, Bihar
25. Mansoor Hasan Khan, IDAS 2002.
26. Mohammed Rizwan, IRS, 2004
27. Dr Hanif Qureshi, IPS 1996, Haryana
28. Zaigham Ali Khan IRAS 1999 SEC Railway Chhattisgarh
29. Md Abu Sama IRS 2002 batch
30. Haris Bin Zaman, IPS 2017 batch, Jharkhand
31. Dr Mohd Sohail Fazal, IA & AS, 2013 batch
32. Ms Aisha Khan, IOFS, 2013 batch
33. K Asif Hafeez, IRPS 2010 batch, Senior Divisional Personnel officer, Begaluru
34. Md. Shamshad Alam, IRS 2004 batch
35. Dr Mohd Rehan Raza, DANICS 2012 , Delhi
36. Hammad Zafar, IPoS, Patna, Bihar
37. Akhtar Rashid, IRS, 2006 batch
38. Mohd Kamal Ahmad, IES 1989 Bhopal MP
39. Gaudh Alam, IPS 2017, Telangana
40. Syed Haamid Bukhari, ICLS, 2017 batch Jammu and Kashmir
41. Noman Hafiz, IOFS, 2015 Batch
42. Suhail A Kazi, IRS, 2009, Pune, Mah.
43. Mohammad Saim , IRS 2014, Hyderabad.
44. Shakil Ahmad Ganie,IRS 2016,Srinagar
45. Saddik Ahmed, IRS,2013, Hyderabad,
46. Arif Hafeez , IPS , 2015 AP
47. Mazid khan, IRS 2013, Delhi.
48. Yunus, IAS 2010 batch Himachal Pradesh
49. Mohd Owais IRTS, 1989 batch
50. Sabiha Rizvi IRS 2009 Jodhpur
51. Suboor Usmani, IRS 2003, Maharashtra
52. Amna Tasneem IAS 2015 batch Haryana
53. Sameer Shaikh, IPS 2016 batch, Maharashtra
54. Mohd Owais, IRTS, 1989 Batch
55. SM Qasim Abidi , IPS 2017 batch , UP cadre
56. Sameer Shaikh, IPS 2016 batch, Maharashtra cadre
57. Shakeel Maqbool, ICAS 2013, J&K
58. Waseem Akram, IPS, Haryana
59. Masroor Ahmad, IA&AS 2015, Odisha
60. Ezaz Ahmed IAS 2018 WB
61. Hamna Mariyam Khan, IFS, 2017, Jeddah.
62. Syed Ali Abbas, IPS,2018,UP
63. Hamid Akhtar IPS 2008 Haryana
64. Amanullah Tak, IP&TAFS 2013( Director, DoT, Ministry of Communications)
65. Ansari Shakeel Ahmed, IRS 2013 batch

https://www.thequint.com/news/india...-officers-appeal-to-muslims-social-distancing

 

[masterchief_mirza]

The things Muslims in India have to write just for acceptance by Hindus.

 

[Secularindian]

The things Muslims in India have to write just for acceptance by Hindus.

So What That is how we Lived with Each Year
We Will Curse,Fight ,Unite And Die With each other

That is how India Works

 

[Balbir]

The things Muslims in India have to write just for acceptance by Hindus.

Duh, they live with Hindus so obviously they will show solidarity with Hindu and not with Martian living in Jupiter.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Good that they are trying to educate their less educated brethren in the country. This was required. This sets a good precedence.

 

[Balbir]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1246696335564103681

 

[masterchief_mirza]

So What That is how we Lived with Each Year
We Will Curse,Fight ,Unite And Die With each other

That is how India Works

Then educate your dumb folk as one, with a unified message regarding social distancing, instead of feeding into the "Muslim blaming bandwagon" by demanding they educate their people and condemn their people specifically. Why is nobody condemning the migrant workers for swarming bus stations? Where is the signed open letter addressed to them?

This is simply feeding the myth that Muslims are blameworthy and culpable above non-Muslims.

Duh, they live with Hindus so obviously they will show solidarity with Hindu and not with Martian living in Jupiter.

1. Martians live on Mars.

2. Showing solidarity does not mean blaming yourselves and committing self-flagellation simply to gain acceptance by a dominant group.

It reminds me of when Muslim citizens handed over cheques to village councils to pay for damages during protests, while no such circus act was expected of Hindu protesters in Delhi recently. So please spare me your nonsense.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...damages-anti-caa-protests-1502838367.html/amp

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Then educate your dumb folk as one, with a unified message regarding social distancing, instead of feeding into the "Muslim blaming bandwagon" by demanding they educate their people and condemn their people specifically. Why is nobody condemning the migrant workers for swarming bus stations? Where is the signed open letter addressed to them?

This is simply feeding the myth that Muslims are blameworthy and culpable above non-Muslims.


1. Martians live on Mars.

2. Showing solidarity does not mean blaming yourselves and committing self-flagellation simply to gain acceptance by a dominant group.

It reminds me of when Muslim citizens handed over cheques to village councils to pay for damages during protests, while no such circus act was expected of Hindu protesters in Delhi recently. So please spare me your nonsense.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...damages-anti-caa-protests-1502838367.html/amp

A specific message for some element of the less educated Muslim population in India was required. Recent events have indicated that and it's good that these educated and high achieving Indian Muslims have risen to the occasion.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

What about Hindu Extremists?

Don't they need to practice social distancing or will they continue to spread Coronavirus unabated?

 

[masterchief_mirza]

A specific message for some element of the less educated Muslim population in India was required. Recent events have indicated that and it's good that these educated and high achieving Indian Muslims have risen to the occasion.

We do the same. All countries do. But in India, Muslims are forced to admit culpability and admonish themselves to appease their "secular" masters. They are only accused because of malevolent testing practices that have resulted in this baloney:

. "Today on 4 April 2020, a national daily reported that 25 percent of the positive cases of novel coronavirus reported in India are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in Delhi in March.” "

This statement is unsubstantiated and yet is the focal point of this open letter, justifying a position of culpability. Let me say it for the umpteenth time - in India, because you have not even tested anywhere near 0.1% of the population even, you cannot extrapolate targeted testing done on TJ members and state brazenly that 25% of positive cases are linked to the Delhi gathering. This is misleading, intellectual dishonesty and a perversion of statistics. Your sample size is too small to make such a claim that is by virtue of its wording misleading and inflammatory against an entire group.

If you pseudo-secularists cannot understand this manipulation, then you are beyond help.

Have 100 MILLION migrant workers been tested following their swarms?

No, of course not. Yet if they were tested, the "Muslim segment" of your little pie chart would diminish immediately.

India lies exposed as a Hindu rashtra hell bent on blaming Muslims whenever it can for whatever it can.

@xeuss @jamahir etc...do remain alert to hindutva treachery and malevolence.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

We do the same. All countries do. But in India, Muslims are forced to admit culpability and admonish themselves to appease their "secular" masters. They are only accused because of malevolent testing practices that have resulted in this baloney:

. "Today on 4 April 2020, a national daily reported that 25 percent of the positive cases of novel coronavirus reported in India are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in Delhi in March.” "

This statement is unsubstantiated and yet is the focal point of this open letter, justifying a position of culpability. Let me say it for the umpteenth time - in India, because you have not even tested anywhere near 0.1% of the population even, you cannot extrapolate targeted testing done on TJ members and state brazenly that 25% of positive cases are linked to the Delhi gathering. This is misleading, intellectual dishonesty and a perversion of statistics. Your sample size is too small to make such a claim that is by virtue of its wording misleading and inflammatory against an entire group.

If you pseudo-secularists cannot understand this manipulation, then you are beyond help.

Have 100 MILLION migrant workers been tested following their swarms?

No, of course not. Yet if they were tested, the "Muslim segment" of your little pie chart would diminish immediately.

India lies exposed as a Hindu rashtra hell bent on blaming Muslims whenever it can for whatever it can.

@xeuss @jamahir etc...do remain alert to hindutva treachery and malevolence.

Most of the recent cases have come from the TJ, that has already been confirmed from various sources. In any case, this is not about the congregation itself of TJ is not the issue but the various attacks on doctors recently that have unfortunately come from some uneducated sections of the Muslim community.

In relation to testing the migrant workers. Firstly, i am quite certain that their numbers were not hundred million or even close to that. May be you can find an authentic source for that number ? In any case, only those people have been tested who showed symptoms which hardly anyone did. Others have either gone back home and are self quarantining or have been put in quarantine centres for 14 days. Even amongst the TJ crowd, only those were tested who showed symptoms, others without any symptoms are just either just self quarantining or put in quarantine centres.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Most of the recent cases have come from the TJ, that has already been confirmed from various sources. In any case, this is not about the congregation itself of TJ is not the issue but the various attacks on doctors recently that have unfortunately come from some uneducated sections of the Muslim community.

In relation to testing the migrant workers. Firstly, i am quite certain that their numbers were not hundred million or even close to that. May be you can find an authentic source for that number ? In any case, only those people have been tested who showed symptoms which hardly anyone did. Others have either gone back home and are self quarantining or have been put in quarantine centres for 14 days. Even amongst the TJ crowd, only those were tested who showed symptoms, others without any symptoms are just either just self quarantining or put in quarantine centres.

I have read the figure of a hundred million numerous times. Here is one reference which further cites an internal Indian economic survey estimation from 2016-17 that these workers are 20% of India's workforce.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...ols-trap-migrant-workers-200402031123631.html

Now you know as well as me it is physically impossible for any nation, even China, to screen so many, especially when they're already swarming bus stations desperately trying to get home.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

I have read the figure of a hundred million numerous times. Here is one reference which further cites an internal Indian economic survey estimation from 2016-17 that these workers are 20% of India's workforce.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...ols-trap-migrant-workers-200402031123631.html

Now you know as well as me it is physically impossible for any nation, even China, to screen so many, especially when they're already swarming bus stations desperately trying to get home.

Not all migrant workers went back home. It was a problem limited mainly to migrant workers in Delhi and that too not all in Delhi. The actual numbers are probably in tens of thousands or maximum hundreds of thousands.

 

[The_Showstopper]

So What That is how we Lived with Each Year
We Will Curse,Fight ,Unite And Die With each other

That is how India Works

It used to, not anymore.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Not all migrant workers went back home. It was a problem limited mainly to migrant workers in Delhi and that too not all in Delhi. The actual numbers are probably in tens of thousands or maximum hundreds of thousands.

Ok, for argument's sake, the folks who stayed put then, did they get screened? The pictures on social media alone add up to more than 100,000 people in these migrant swarms by the way. It has been likened to the partition migration.

People are saying Modi triggered a second 1947 and you're burying your head in the sand.