US-based Pak Jamaat fronts weaponizing human rights issues to exploit Indian democracy: Report

The organization said those Jamaat fronts have been created to exploit the Indian faultlines in the name of rights and freedom.

"They are given prominence by Indians not knowing their truth. One such front is Justice for All," according to the report.

"Justice For All (JFA) is a Chicago-based organization, founded in 1999 by a Pak national Abdul Malik Mujahid, former Head (1975-77) of Jamiat-e-Talaba (Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan’s youth wing)," it added.

The report claimed JFA is the hotbed of anti-India narratives, creating multiple fronts in name of practically all Indian rights issues to exploit the Indian faultlines, and its core objective is to "paint India with labels of fascism, Islamophobia, and genocide."

"For example, #SaveIndia project is a key project of JFA to ‘fight fascism in India’," the report stated, adding that "it was conceived by JFA & IAMC founder Shaik Ubaid, first as ImanNet, a networking site for US Muslims." "It was later renamed as Save India!"

 

DisinfoLab claimed that Burma Task Force (BTF), another JFA project run with Shaik Ubaid, had hired US lobby firm Fidelis Govt Relations (FGR) to get India blacklisted by USCIRF.

"BTF collected funds in the name of Rohingyas and Uyghurs, and paid $267 thousand to FGR, the US lobby firm," it said.

The fact finding organization said ‘Free Kashmir’ is another project of JFA against India where it operates along with other Pak-ISI and Jamaat backed fronts such as Stand With Kashmir and ISI operatives Ghulam Nabi Fai.

"JFA is supported by another front ‘Sound Vision’ which was also founded by Mujahid in 1988 when he was associated with Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). The ICNA is Jamaat offshoot in the West," according to the report.

"ICNA is key to connect all Islamist fronts in the US. ICNA was set up by Jamaat, being inspired by a similar front of Muslim Brotherhood called Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)," the DisInfoLab report read.

"The core of JFA comprises Pak origin Jamaat linked individuals viz. Md. Yunus, Hena Zuberi, Kalim Farooki, Taha Ghayyur, Md. Khalid Riyaz etc etc," said the  disinformation tracker, adding that "The only prominent Indian member in JFA is SIMI founder Ahmadullah Siddiqi."

According to the report, Hena Zuberi, Director of JFA, is a ‘journalist’, and is cousin of Retired Pak Army Colonel Kaleem Zuberi.

"Hena is also associated with the Afia Foundation, which was set up to defend Aafia Siddiqui aka #LadyAlQaeda, who aided the 9/11 attacks mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the report read.

"For some reasons, JFA has hidden all links with Pak from its revamped website, but the archives gave away. JFA’s early website redirected to ‘pakgovnet-kashmir’ of Pak Govt, whose ‘Kashmir’ section endorsed JeI thinktank- Islamabad Policy Studies and YesPakistan.Org," DisInfoLab's report added.

"YesPakistan.Org is a lobby front set up by Pak expats in the US in the 1970s to influence US body-politics; and shares the same Kashmir toolkit of JFA. It is run by the Human Development Foundation, which in turn is run by retired Pak army officials," the report said.

According to the report, other than denting India’s image, JFA remains busy raising funds for the big villas in the US, business class travels, and at 5-star events, and also for their children’s costly education in the US.

DisInfoLab said in the report that despite being founded and run by all Pakistani members, JFA doesn’t raise a single human rights concern of Pakistan.