Ahmadiyya Persecution in Pakistan – Newsletter February 2015
This month’s issue reports on how a national TV show in Pakistan aired hate speech against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, labelling Ahmadi Muslims the “common enemy” of the nation. A […]
Editorial: Blasphemy cases
Dawn: OVER the years, as self-anointed ‘defenders of the faith’ have multiplied in a rightward-drifting Pakistan, the number of people accused of ‘offences against religion’ has gone up exponentially. As reported in this paper, the Punjab prosecution department, in collaboration with the home and police departments, has shortlisted 50 undertrial […]
Stop killing Ahmadi Muslims worldwide – Ahmadiyya Mission in Ghana
Spyghana: The three wings of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana have called for an end to the rampant killing of Ahmadi Muslims worldwide due to their faith and beliefs. […]
Dispatches: A Glimmer of Hope for Victims of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law
HRW: Some of the hundreds of people jailed and awaiting trial on charges of violating Pakistan’s dangerously ambiguous and discriminatory blasphemy law have reason to be cautiously optimistic. Punjab’s provincial judiciary has drawn up a shortlist of 50 cases of alleged blasphemy in which it found the accused have been […]
Persecution in Pakistan 2014: A Report
Extremists in Pakistan murdered eleven Ahmadi Muslims in faith-based attacks during 2014. Source: pressahmadiyya.com In one incident, a mob of 150 attacked an Ahmadi Muslim neighbourhood in Gujranwala and locked a group of […]
Muslim group fights prejudice
Telegram.com: FITCHBURG — Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are waging what they call an awareness campaign against extremism and radicalization in an effort to show that radical jihadists are far removed from the true teachings of Islam. Furqan Mehmud, regional youth leader for Ahmadiyya communities in the Fitchburg and […]
Then they came for me …
Source: nation.com.pk By Shamila Ghyas We Pakistanis are a very caring nation and constantly worry for the plight of others– the Muslims in India (Kashmir), the Muslims in Palestine, etc are […]
Following Obama’s advice Ahmadiyya’s married to Pakistan brides writes to Modi
Times of India: AMRITSAR: Following US president Barack Obama’s advice to India for protecting religious freedom during his trip to India, the Pakistani brides living in Qadian, Ahmadiyya Muslim sect’s headquarters in India, has blamed Narendra Modi government of religious discrimination and not giving Indian citizenship to Pak brodes despite […]
Pakistan: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns the attack against Shias in Shikarpur
Dozens of innocent Pakistanis were killed in Friday’s bomb blast. Source: pressahmadiyya.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community categorically condemns the attack against a Shia mosque in Shikarpur, Pakistan earlier today, where it […]
National heritage: The house that Dr Abdus Salam called home
ET: LAHORE: Since 1981, a small 400-square foot house comprising two rooms in Mohalla Dawood Nagar in Jhang tehsil has been designated a ‘national monument’. This is the house where Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam was born in 1926. Today marks what would have been Dr […]
Pakistan’s silent partition
Aljazeera America: by Zehra Abid — Bullet holes are seen at the Garhi Shahu mosque, where members of the persecuted Ahmadiyya community pray during Friday prayers, on July 16, 2010 […]
Because we are Ahmadis?
Source You Tube via Bushra Adnan of Germany. Note by Editor: Very impressive spoken English poetry about Ahmadies. Video Link
Fitchburg’s Ahmadi Muslim leader says violence not the answer
Source: sentinelandenterprise.com FITCHBURG — The response to cartoons that degrade and insult Islam needs to come from the pen, not the sword, according to local Muslim leader Bashir Mehmud. Mehmud, 72, […]
Getting Real About Blasphemy and Free Speech
Huff Post: On January 7, gunmen did not just commit the heinous murder of 12 people at theCharlie Hebdo office in Paris; they also unleashed a barrage of extremism on both ends of the ideological spectrum. On one end are some Muslim leaders, replaying the broken record of “We-condemn-this-and-please-don’t-blame-the-Muslims.” On […]
PCC: Pakistan is graveyard for minorities
Ahmadis played a key role in founding Pakistan, but today face persecution and killings. Source: examiner.com A leader of the Pakistani Christians in the United States has condemned the killing Saturday of an Ahmadi man and called upon the government of Pakistan to annul the second amendment in the the 1973 […]
Beleaguered denomination: Ahmadis running from pillar to post to return to their homes
ET: LAHORE: Nearly 125 Ahmadis from 23 families are still running from pillar to post to return to homes they had vacated after an enraged mob set alight eight houses belonging to members of the Ahmadiyya community on July 27 in Gujranwala, The Express Tribune has learnt. Four people were burnt […]
Pakistan: Mullah-Police anti-Ahmadiyya nexus continues in Rabwah
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The ink on Ahmadi murder victim Luqman Shehzad’s temporary tombstone in Rabwah hadn’t fully dried yet when this past weekend multiple groups of outsiders, facilitated by the Punjab Police, […]
An apology is not enough, Aamir Liaquat must be fired
ET: Social media is once again flooded with outrage at ‘Dr’ Aamir Liaquat – our nation’s foremost televangelist. During an episode of his morning show Subh-e-Pakistan, aired on Geo TV on December 22, one of Liaquat’s guests, Syed Arif Shah Owaisi, used inflammatory language to accuse the Ahmadi community of being responsible for terrorism […]
After years of persecution, Ahmadiyya followers seek redress at civil court
Malaymailonline: KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — Followers of the outlawed Ahmadiyya sect are challenging a crackdown on their activities nearly a year ago, on the grounds that they do not fall under the jurisdiction of Islamic law since they have been declared apostates by religious authorities in Selangor. On August […]