The Covid-19 crisis of India has given the opportunity to many noble and selfless organisations to step up and serve humanity. They are working day and night to ensure that the lives of ordinary Indian citizens are made less miserable. What the second wave of the pandemic has also given rise to, however, are fraudulent organisations and thug-like NGOs who are prying upon ordinary people and scamming them in the name of Covid relief work. At fault also are unaware citizens, who are mindlessly donating to such fraudulent organisations without any basic study of what the NGO is and how it operates.
One particular America-based NGO has especially courted controversy in India, by specifically targeting the country’s youth on Instagram. The Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA) has been running paid advertisements on Instagram, and even coughing up money to paid influencers and promoters on the platform to share its posts and stories. IMANA Cares was found to have gone tremendously popular in India overnight a few days ago, and has since been getting tremendous traction and support from India’s youngsters.
Mind you, the NGO is an American one, with the stated objective of having Muslim physicians treat Muslim patients. IMANA has partnered with ISNA and coincidentally even their partners are dedicated to the betterment of Muslim society alone. Interestingly, ISNA got its charity status revoked in 2018 by Canadian authorities for ‘non-compliance’ and also for having links to the Hizbul Mujahideen, which is waging a war against the Indian state in Kashmir. To put it simply, Indians have been sharing posts and promoting the fundraiser of an NGO which has ties to the ISNA, which in turn has been caught funding Islamist terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir.
As of the moment this report was filed, the website of IMANA Cares (https://imana.org/) remained non-functional, and they cited “technical difficulties due to unprecedented traffic” as the reason for their website not functioning. However, such technical difficulties are easily overcome by normal organisations. IMANA’s website has been down for hours on end. This, after chatter began in India of the NGO in fact, duping Indians under the garb of Covid relief work and the ‘Help India Breathe’ campaign.
Speaking of the ‘Help India Breathe’ campaign, IMANA Cares started a fundraiser on Instagram. Interestingly, Instagram fundraisers have not yet been made operational in Indian jurisdiction. To overcome this hurdle, IMANA directed well-intentioned scapegoats to a separate link listed on their bio. Here, however, the list of donors hardly has any Indians. So, although Indians have been donating to the NGO, why are they not being listed?
Initially @imanacares aimed for ₹1.8 Crore as total amount to be collected, which on the same day was increased upto ₹3 Crore and later to & ₹5.6 Crore by the org.
So u see the total aim for donations was increased, everytime the previous reached its mark.#COVID19#Imana pic.twitter.com/p6Ih62ICFN
— Deeksha Negi (@NegiDeekshaa) April 30, 2021
What is even more dubious is the fact that IMANA Cares has no less than three times changed their targets on the Instagram fundraiser. This, because they were able to allegedly fool Indians in large numbers, and seeing the popularity of their fundraiser, kept on raising their targets. The possibility of them having swindled away large sums of money only increases due to their continuous enhancement of targets. Initially, IMANA Cares aimed for ₹1.8 crore as the total amount to be collected, which on the same day was increased to ₹3 crore and later to & ₹5.6 crore by the organisation.
There is a huge possibility that Indians have been duped by the American NGO, whose primary aim is to serve Muslims in the United States. Interestingly, many of those who seem to have contributed to IMANA are the same individuals who continuously spin conspiracy theories regarding the PM Cares Fund in India.
This article is despicable. Why not do some research on how many countries and how many lives IMANA has saved with its charity work.
IMANA has been on the ground in India far before this Covid crisis.
The author of this article is a pathetic hate monger
This article is wise to look underneath the benign appearance of IMANA which is treatment for Muslims by Muslims . Lots of non Muslim Indian youngsters have been fooled into donating this Islamic charity . They should be mindful how they are funding their own spiritual and Civilizational downfall
WAR IS DECEIT
“Sanbeer Sing” – Aspiring journlist or Islamophobe? Is it a crime for muslims to help their native land? Your hatred is worse than Hitler’s was against the Jews. Go find something else to write about.
What a trash article.
Has no clue that IMANA is a group of doctors that help all individuals and not just Muslims. Shit journalism and author that is slandering a well brought up organization from the ground up.
This is so absurd. The bhakts and the Hindutva ideology and their IT cells are spread across the world and they have infiltrated into local politics and in state and federal agencies and are now furthering the Hindutva agenda. They must be checked. Doctors, and professionals are no match for these IT cell trained BJP and RSS people. These are the same people who call innocent, unsuspecting civilians in the USA and pretend as if they are from IRS etc and make them give out their personal information and then dupe them and their banks of their money. Shameful. This is a paid machinery. IT professional who are trained hackers. The US government should take action against them. Shame on these rascals that they are doing this when Indians are dying because of covid. Over 40 countries are helping india right now and the very first consignment of OXYGEN was sent from Sauid Arabia and other Muslim countries. They are attempting to divide.
Many Muslims are using fake names and posting when anything objectionable is investigated against Islamic organisations and their hate campaign against Non Muslims… Read the article and question IMANA and ISNA rather than the journalist you stupid extremist fools….