I am writing to you again regarding a video that I saw on You Tube of an indoctrination lesson being given by your eminent Prince, Taher Khuzaima Qutbuddin to your very few followers via the internet. At the end of his lengthy lesson, one of your Qutbi followers, a certain Abizer, asks him why people believe in Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS and aren’t believing in you. Taher, your eldest son, has been widely rumored to be next in line in your Qutbi Dawat since all current relayed waez’s from your FatemiDawat website are of him from his living room in Bakersfield California. Others are saying that since it is very difficult to understand you, your followers requested that Taher’s waez’s be relayed instead of yours so the youngsters in your religious organization could be indoctrinated more easily. In any case, Taher offers a lengthy answer in which he says that fear is the main factor why people haven’t flocked to your cause. This video was back in April, so I guess you know by now that of course that isn’t true and it is love and devotion to Burhanuddin Moula RA and Mufaddal Moula TUS why people have been scared of you and not followed your call to anarchy. In his answer, Taher then goes on to say that people choose to believe in all sorts of wrong things even when they know that they are wrong. He goes on to give the example of Kufa and Imam Husain SA, explaining how history is full with people having followed the wrong side and having accepted tyranny. He explains that Hitler also killed so many people and how something as horrendous as the holocaust happened only sixty years ago while people watched by and let it happen. While his example of Hitler is true and the world went to war for those actions, Taher then goes on to say that the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi (this video was in April), is also like Hitler because he massacred so many Muslims in Gujarat, and turned neighbor against neighbor. He says that history shows that people have been on the wrong side and followed a tyrant and points out that this occurred with Modi only 10 years ago. And then he says, “now they want to make him the Prime Minister.” The video I found where he insinuates these allegations is posted above.
Respected Prime Minister Modi paying his respects to Burhanuddin Moula RA and recently also to his Janisheen, Mufaddal Moula TUS.
I wanted to remind you that Prime Minister Modi had wonderful relations with our late Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA. He paid a lot of respect to Burhanuddin Moula RA and often came to many of our miqats and even to Saifee Mahal to pay that respect and foster a relationship of honor and love for our Moula RA and in turn for our community, the Dawoodi Bohras. Aqa Moula RA also had foreseen the potential and ingenuity that President Modi possessed and today he would have been very happy that he has become the Prime Minister of India because of the new horizons to which he will take India. The Prime Minister has previously demonstrated such a successful record in his reformation of the infrastructure and economy of Gujarat and because of him, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, and all Indians of every religion and creed have prospered. He will bring his success and vision to the country and hopefully move India to the top of the global community. So when Burhanuddin Moula RA paid so much respect and admired Prime Minister Modi, why would Taher liken him to Hitler, especially in a religious indoctrination lesson which he broadcasted on the internet? Again, why is the Qutbi ideology so different than what we were taught to espouse under Burhanuddin Moula RA. Are Qutbis generally indoctrinated to be anarchists?
Burhanuddin Moula RA always taught us to be loyal to the country that we live in and to support the government for its betterment so that it can help all people and Mumineen through its own prosperity. Furthermore, because of the respect and relation that was fostered between Burhanuddin Moula RA and the current Pradhan Mantri, Narenda Modi, much honor and respect has come to the Dawoodi Bohra community. Why would you and Prince Taher choose to damage that by your hurtful and unproven allegations? Why would you choose to openly insult the Prime Minister (who was not in office yet at the time of the video) and demonstrate so much animosity to him? It seems that you are not only brewing anarchy within the Dawoodi Bohra community with your new religion but also within the Indian government. Are these the actions of a peace loving community? I hope that someone from your family can reply soon. We have been waiting for someone to come and answer the questions on this website.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin, based in Thane, India. From his compound he leads the cult of the Qutbi Bohras, a few offshoot followers of the Dawoodi Bohra religion. His ideologies have the workings of a cult mentality.David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the American leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. Howell legally changed his name to David Koresh on May 15, 1990 (Koresh being the Persian name of Cyrus the Great (کوروش, Kurosh). A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch outside of Waco, Texas, in McLennan County. Koresh and 75 others were found dead after the fire.
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Cult \ˈkəlt\
noun , often attributive
: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
I wanted to compare your antics and the formation of your Qutbi sect to the studies done by Berkeley regarding the behavior patterns of cults. There are 19 characteristics listed that are highly comparable to the patterns of your religious cult. I was wondering if you or any of your eminent princes could comment and say why you’re Qutbi religion functions very much like a cult.
Recruitment
1. Deception – Group identity and/or true motives are not revealed. The group leaders tell members to withhold truth from outsiders.
This is very familiar to what you and your children have been doing. Qutbi Bohras are told to keep their mission secret. For instance, claiming that nass was done but no one besides the group leaders, i.e. Sakina Qutbuddin, Abdeali Qutbuddin, Taher Qutbuddin, and the others were privy to this knowledge.
2. Emotional Leverage/Love Bombing – Instant friendship, extreme helpfulness, generosity and acceptance…Group recruiters “lovingly” will not take “no” for an answer-invitations impossible to refuse without feeling guilty and/or ungrateful. “Love”, “generosity”, “encouragement” are used to lower defenses and create an ever increasing sense of obligation, debt and guilt.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin’s call for openly funding various Mumineen’s businesses and education ventures, buying them homes through Zahra Hasanaat Scheme displays generosity and extreme helpfulness. However, it has also left many Qutbi Bohras trapped. Many Qutbi Bohras do feel that the ideologies put forward by Khuzaima and his children is fantastical – however they feel a ‘sense of obligation, debt, and guilt.’ Khuzaima Qutbuddin and his children have been kind to many, and therefore, many of their followers do so because they feel indebted.
3. Exploit Personal Crisis – They use an existing crisis as a means of getting you to participate. They exploit vulnerability arising from:
Broken relationships
Death in the family
Loss of job
Move to new location
Loneliness/depression
Guilt/shame
Stress/fear
Exploiting personal crisis – The demise of Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin RA was a crisis for everyone in the community. Everyone keeps on asking – why did Khuzaima Qutbuddin wait three years to finally say something. Or why did he think that the demise and janaza of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA was the opportune time to say that nass was done on him privately with no witnesses 50 years ago. He did this because he could exploit the vulnerability from the situation and use the grief of those who held him in favor to his advantage.
4. Crisis Creation – They employ tactics designed to create or deepen confusion, fear, guilt or doubt. i.e. “you aren’t serving God the way He intended.” Questions areas of faith never before examined or explored and attack other faiths specifically.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin created a crisis around the demise of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA by launching his website, FatemiDawat.com to deepen confusion and bring about shakk in Mumineen. “You aren’t serving God the way He intended” became “Tame haqq par nathi because mein Mazoon hato ane koi mane maan nota aapta.” (Most people never saw you or knew you outside of Mumbai and Bakersfield.)
5. All The Answers – Provide simple answers to the confusion they, themselves, create. Support these answers with material produced or “approved” by the group.
This is exactly what Fatemidawat.com was used for. Although most of the material on the website were cherrypicked arguments devoid of any actual context and truth, they made it look like they could provide all the answers where others couldn’t. The main reason for this was because all their evidence and ideas were unwarranted and unheard of by most people.
Programming
1. Intense Study – Focus is on group doctrine and writings. Bible, if used at all, is referred to one verse at time to “prove” group teachings.
If you hear Husain Qutbuddin’s youtube videos and his use of the Quran to justify Khuzaima Qutbuddin’s every move – even claiming that certain ayats were playing when Khuzaima went to Saifee Mahal to pay his respects to Aqa Moula’s RA janazah mubarakah – to prove his legitmacy. The sabaqs that the Qutbis are giving through youtube and other means show that a lot of attention is being given at the moment to emphasize group doctrine and indoctrinate their followers with an offshoot version of their old religious ideologies. The Qutbis have gone to extreme lengths through online channels to “prove” group teachings to their followers. Because they don’t have any institutions or physical means they are using the net to reach a global audience.
2. Opposer Warnings – Recruiters are told that “Satan” will cause relatives and friend to say bad things about the group to try to “steal them away from God.” Recruits soon believes group members, alone, are truthful/trustworthy.
The children of Khuzaima constantly warn followers not to engage in dialogues with other Dawoodi Bohras. They tell them to be nice to them and invite them in their homes but are unwilling to even try to listen to what they are saying. They reject every truth that is said to them without giving it much thought. It is just total rejection. Every piece of advice or outreach of affection to keep them as part of the community is seen as an attack on them.
3. Guilt and Fear – Group dwells on members’ “sinful nature” (many use public confession). Guilt and fear arising from “failing God” are magnified to manipulate new member.
Upsetting Khuzaima Qutbuddin by thinking his claims are unprecedented and unheard of in the history of Dawat becomes a fear held by most members. It is better to reject truth and precedence rather than think that he might be wrong for a second.
4. Schedule Control & Fatigue – Study and service become mandatory. New member becomes too busy to question. Family, friends, jobs and hobbies are squeezed out, further isolating the new member.
He kept everyone in Thane right after the demise of Moulana Mohammed Burhanuddin. No one was allowed to leave his compound to the extent that he forbade his followers to participate in funeral of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin. Much like the cult of David Koresh in Waco, Texas (pictured above), people were trapped in the Darus Sakuna. People were not able to question. They are made too busy in spreading the Qutbi cause that they are unable to think logically.
5. Attack Independent Thought – Critical thinking is discouraged as prideful and sinful, blind acceptance encouraged.
If any Qutbi follower thought independently then they would wonder why Burhanuddin Moula was never with Khuzaima Qutbuddin in most events for the last 25 years but kept Mufaddal Moula at his side throughout. However, critical thinking has escaped them because they aren’t allowed to reason. They just use obscured and misinterpreted textual evidence to try and prove their beliefs. Everything else is a lie, be it the ‘amal of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin and his outright actions. The hospital video is a lie. The Nass at Raudat Tahera is a lie. They mask reason with fantasy.
6. Divine Commission – Leader(s) claim new revelation from God, within past 200 years, in which all but their group are rejected by God. They, alone, speak for God.
Nass, its witnesses, Sh. Ibrahim Yamani’s diary, Moula’s nass at Cromwell Hospital and at Raudat Tahera do not mean anything. Khuzaima Qutbuddin can raise the Quran and swear that he is appointed by Imamuz zaman and Khuda and that suddenly becomes truth refuting everything else. Everything in Dawat’s history before about Nass and witnesses becomes unnecessary, devoid. Suddenly, Khuzaima, alone, speaks for God and not the years of Burhanuddin Moula’s efforts to cultivate this Dawat ni waari. All 98 % of the believers are wrong – only Khuzaima Qutbuddin is right. His life is valued over everything else, even walking in Moula’s janazah. Nass was not pronounced to save his life, but it doesn’t matter that if such an action would eliminate 98% of the followers. This is because Khuzaima is divinely commissioned.
7. Absolutism – They insist on total, unquestioning obedience and submission to the group, both actions AND thoughts. Group “love” and acceptance becomes dependent upon obedience and submission. Unconditional love…isn’t.
No room to interpret that Khuzaima Qutbuddin might have misinterpreted Moula’s words for which he thought was nass. He’s right and everyone else is wrong.
8. Totalism – “Us against them” thinking. Strengthens group identity. Everyone outside of group lumped under one label.
This is why the Qutbis have propounded the ideology regarding the followers of Rasullullah’s Dawat and Ali’s Dawat as being few. They call their new Qutbis the Ansar u Dawat and even have opened a fund in the same name. They want to show that it is ‘us against them.’ The 98%, once all brothers and eating in one thaal, are now enemies. Had their call not been a form of totalism – then they would have employed the three years of Nass on Mufaddal Moula to argue their cause.
Retention
1. Motive Questioning- When sound evidence against the group is presented, members are taught to question the motivation of the presenter. The verifiable (sound documentation) is ignored because of doubts over the unverifiable (presenter’s motives). See Opposer Warnings (#2 above).
Qutbis maintain that all of Aqa Moula’s Shehzadas and every hudood of Dawat, including Syedi Husain Bs. (former Mukasir Saheb and current Mazoon Saheb) who prepared Mumineen to do Moula’s khidmat are lying about Nass. No one is right. Everyone is making something up. All the events and material evidence is fabricated.
2. Information Control – Group controls what convert may read or hear. They discourage (forbid) contact with ex-members or anything critical of the group. May say it is the same as pornography making it not only sinful and dangerous but shameful as well. Ex-members become feared and avoidance of them becomes a “survival issue.”
Qutbis are told not to read sites like 53 Reasons and Qutbi info and just gain knowledge directly from the cult leaders like Tahera Qutbuddin and Husain Qutbuddin. Also Sabaqs are regularly given by the other children like Taher and his Insiya. They are using brainwashing techniques so that the Qutbis cannot think for themselves or on the precedence of Dawat’s bayaano.
3. Isolation, Separation & Alienation – Group becomes substitute family. Members encouraged to drop worldly (non-members) friends. May be told to change jobs, quit school, give up sports, hobbies, etc.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin has isolated his cult followers from their family members. He has caused fathers to be away from their children, husbands and wives to get divorced, grandparents to be away from their granchildren, and total rejection and separation of people who believe in Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin. He has broken families. What kind of person claiming to be a religious leader would do so.
4. Coercion – Disobedience, including even minor disagreement with group doctrine, may result in expulsion and shunning.
Qutbis are not allowed to leave their religion.
5. Phobias – The idea is planted that anyone who leaves goes into a life of depravity and sin, loses their sanity, dies, or will have children die, etc. Constant rumors of bad things happening to people who leave. No one ever leaves for “legitimate reasons.”
Qutbis can’t leave because they fear that they will go to hell and worse if they leave Khuzaima.
ADDED – Thursday Dec. 24th 10:52 PM (IST)
cult
\ˈkəlt\
noun , often attributive
: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous.
Respected Prime Minister Modi paying his respects to Burhanuddin Moula RA and recently also to his Janisheen, Mufaddal Moula TUS.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin 