His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad held a meeting with three members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly, Hon. Manmeet Bhullar, Hon. Rick Mclver and Hon. Darshan Kang who all welcomed him to Calgary
Source: Press Release
The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived in Calgary on 22 May 2013 as his historic tour of North America continued.
After inaugurating the Baitur Rahman Mosque in Vancouver last week, His Holiness has traveled to Calgary to deliver this week’s Friday Sermon from the Baitun Nur Mosque which is the largest Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in North America.
He arrived at Calgary International Airport at 7.20 PM after a short flight from Vancouver. At the airport His Holiness was greeted by 4 Members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and by Calgary’s Deputy-Mayor Ray Jones. After departing from the airport, His Holiness and his entourage were given a ten-car police escort to the Baitun Nur Mosque.
He arrived at the Mosque just before 8 PM and was greeted by more than 1600 Ahmadi Muslim men, women and children who were overcome and overjoyed at seeing their spiritual leader.
Later in the evening, His Holiness held a meeting with three members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly, Hon. Manmeet Bhullar, Hon. Rick Mclver and Hon. Darshan Kang who all welcomed him to Calgary.
During the meeting he strongly condemned the terrorist attack that took place earlier in the day in London and said “it had nothing to do with the real teachings of Islam” and that “Islam is a religion of peace.”
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Why should Mirza Masroor Ahmad do that? He is not responsible for this brutal attacks.
One thing, which has always bothered me to no end, is that western media and societies always demand that all Muslims in the world should denounce the brutal acts of violence committed by individuals.
There are two points in this issue to remember.
Most Muslims do denounce such acts but that gets very little coverage in the media. I know from personal experience that it is very difficult for people to even get a little letter to the editor published let alone have an invitation to appear on national TV to say express opinions.
Secondly, I never heard such demands of mass apology from American Christian public when Timothy James “Tim” McVeigh, an American terrorist detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 and killed hundreds of innocent American or someone asked the Norwegian public to take responsibility when Anders Behring Breivik bombed the party headquarters of the Labour Party in Oslo and then carried out mass shooting on 22 July 2011 killing 77 of innocent youth.
There are many other examples of individual terrorism, killing and mass murders committed by people in the west, especially in the USA where the shootings of innocent people is almost a weekly occurring.
I neither heard media describing such actions as Christian terrorism or demanding an apology or denunciation from the western public at large who are of course of Christian heritage.
So why this hypocrisy?
I am just asking question.
So let us have a sober deabte about it.
Dear Bashy: Well he condemns it first and foremost as a barbaric act against whole humanity. There is no reference exclusively to Islam. But Islam for us is true humanism. We are no apologists for militant terrorists but its important to ensure that true and humanist face of Islam should get press coverage. You are right it does not. So we will say it one way or the other whether we get press coverage or not as a matter of principle. Should we keep quiet if we do not get coverage? These individuals did say on record that they did for taking revenge for other Muslims being killed that must be addressed so that true voice of Islan can be reclaimed.
Did Andres Brevik or others who do mass killing come on record to say that this was done in the name of Christ?
I agree with Bashy Quraishy that there is a great hypocrisy in reporting. ‘Good News’ gets hardly noticed. 5000 Muslims gather in the Ahmadiyya Mosque to pray for the slain soldier. No International News Agency covers it. One man speaks rubbish and he is on the front page.