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In analysis on the above, you Deobandi sectarian apologists insist you are not a sect, but merely an academic affiliation. You insist that you are nothing more than what an Azhari is - an academic affiliation. Many Deobandis do actually live and breath that. But you sectarian nutjobs are anything but. For you, this is a strategic disclaimer, designed for you to project intellectual openness while deflecting the uglier implications of what your version of Deobandism has become in practice in current times, especially in your own dark quarters of it. With Deobandism rupturing into a thousand pieces (like its Salafi forerunner), I'm surprised that there is still you lot who want to maintain Deobandi purism, whatever that means. Maintaining an air of an open intellectual tradition - spanning Aqidah, Fiqh, Tasawwuf, Da'wah, and Siyasah - while acting with disciplinarian authority of an almost cult-like ideological body is a contradiction of epic proportions. And who from you gets to exclude others? It's not as if there are red lines or set boundaries. It's all done on a whim, driven by those who hold any level of institutional power, and enforced their street thugs online and offline. We've seen your police, engaged in the type of thuggery and intimidation that is the hallmark of Madkhalis and Barelwis. So, to the sectarian Deobandi, a tiny but vocal minority, I just say this: Sing the praises of your very own Nanotwi Ka Lashkar. Sing your favourtie anthem: jur'at ka nam hey deoband waley. Shout your sar ba-kaf, sar buland, deoband deoband. Sing to your hearts' content, then keep singing until the cows come home. You are a sect. Own it. Everyone from Allamah Ahmad Sadeck Desai, to M. Sa'd Kandhalwi, to M. Zafar Ahmad Usmani's sons, to Pir Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi, to Molvi Hibatullah Akhunzadah - they are all yours. You may now start making your calls to exclude them from the Maslak. PS: The Mahdi issue and it's removal from Haitham Haddad's book upon the instruction of Mufti Taqi Usmani was already discussed before, but it seems you Looney Tune Deos have the memory of a goldfish: https://t.me/KnowledgeRevival/16290. You can now exclude Mufti Taqi (and S. Yunus Jaunpuri, and Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri, and Husain Ahmad Madani, and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi...) for all the crimes they have committed against your very own Maslak.