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6) How many Deobandi Masjids are there?

I don't think there are more than a dozens, when for “Deobandi Masjid” we simply mean musallahs
runned by Pakistani-Bangladeshi brothers affiliated to Tabligh (and thus excluding the good number of
“Tablighi” masjids runned by Arabs or by mixed groups).

Tabligh is alhamdulillah growing strong in Italy, but maybe also for the good partecipation of Arabs
(who have their own doctrinal references, and represent maybe even half or more of the Tablighi
brothers here), this effort is not linked to the Deobandi Manhaj, nor – as far as I could see – any
effort is done in the direction of promoving the Deobandi Manhaj outside of the brothers from the
Subcontinent: all the other ethnicities are reached only by the Tablighi activities, not by any kind of
“Deobandi Da'wah” (not that is necessary for any Muslim in the world to be a “Deobandi”, nor I intend
to promote sectarianism, but this kind of “Deobandi Da'wah” is needed a lot in the main cases in
which the alternatives consist of Batil methodologies).

Our Musalla in Genova is the only “Deobandi” association as such that I know of, but our activities are
quite limited, and we aren't much well-known outside the internet world, except than in our city,
where we are alternatively pictured as “Wahhabis” or “deviated Sufi”, “Sectarian Italian extremists” by
the rest of the community, which doesn't understand why “the Italians” have decided to escape from
their patronizing tutelage (the reasons that led to this would be quite long to mention, but it's about
the other musallahs running things in a (Shari'ah-wise) unsatisfactory way, and them being
unwelcoming to the halaqahs we had been organizing in “their” musallahs).