Saudi Arabia has banned the Tablighi Jamat and Da’wah group, also known as Al Ahbab, calling it ‘danger to society and one of the gates of terrorism’.
- Tablighi Jamat is the Sunni Islamic missionary movement that was launched in Mewat in 1927 by the Islamic scholar and teacher Maulana Muhammad Ilyas. He coined the slogan “Oh Muslims! Become Muslims”.
- In 2013, Kazakhstan banned the Tablighi Jamaat and designated it as extremist.
- The movement is also prohibited in countries including Iran, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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