Algeria

From the Algerian Press: Security Services Arrest 25 youth, Elders Of Ahmadiyya Followers

2Religious affairs minister: Algeria is protected from extremism 2017/01/15 Mourad.B/English version: Dalila Henac Research and investigation team dismantled, in coordination with other units of the National Gendarmerie, in Biskra (southern Algeria), on Sunday, a network that is affiliated with the Ahmadiyya community, which is made up of 25 people who […]

‘The Ahmadis of Algeria’, By Jacob Lindelöw Berntson

Source: https://conflictcauses.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/the-ahmadis-of-algeria-the-governments-most-convenient-security-threat/ Despite numbering in the few thousands, the followers of this branch of Islam have been branded a major security threat by the Algerian state. Now, they are facing both a crackdown and a propaganda war. By Jacob Lindelöw Berntson In the last six months, at least 70 individuals belonging […]

Algeria: Police arrests 12 members of Ahmadiyya Muslim community for proselytism

Source: https://me-confidential.com/15185-algeria-police-arrests-12-members-of-ahmadiyya-religious-community-for-proselytism.html The Algerian police Wednesday announced the arrest of 12 members of Ahmadiyya religious community accused by authorities for promoting the outlawed movement. The men were arrested at Chlef, north of the country, the national police announced in a statement aired on radio. “Members of this movement were in possession […]

Ahmadiyya and Algeria

Source: ME Confidential The Algerian police Wednesday announced the arrest of 12 members of Ahmadiyya religious community accused by authorities for promoting the outlawed movement.The men were arrested at Chlef, north of the country, the national police announced in a statement aired on radio.“Members of this movement were in possession […]

Why Ahmadiyya being targeted?

Source:Quora They are extremists having wrong interpretation of religion, misguided, ignorant,and misguiding others to act like them doing it for political and personal benefits. We condemn such acts. Some groups of Muslims use unlawful means and suicide bombers, bombing in the name of religion to kill and harm non-Muslims including […]

Human Rights Without Frontiers is calling upon the Algerian authorities to stop harassing & imprisoning Ahmadis Muslims

Source: http://hrwf.eu/algeria-waves-of-arrests-of-ahmadis/ By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (06.02.2017) – In the last two weeks of January 2017, many Ahmadis were arrested during multiple police crackdowns in Algeria. Their names have not been made public. In Sidi Bel Abbès, two individuals were sentenced to three years in prison, three […]

Algeria continues to arrest Ahmadis

November 30, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | Algerian Government has continued to crackdown on members of the minority Ahmadiyya sect of Islam. The Ahmadiyya Community which has less than 3,000 members in the country has expressed concern over the religiously motivated arrests. On Friday, November 25th Algerian security forces […]

Ahmadiyya offer Friday Prayers and get Arrested

Source:TQA Algeria’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Wakfs, Mohamed Aissa, says in coming days he’ll work hard to prosecute the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community the Algerian Security Service have arrested last Friday for performing Friday prayers at a private villa. The arrests were made under the pretext of ‘public […]

Children of equal gods

Source: Dawn Black Skin, White Masks is characterised by its eclectic but sharply focused reading and quotations, its neologisms and Creole inflections, and its anger. It details the collective mental illness imposed by racism. Fanon lambasts European psychoanalysis’s obsession with the Oedipus complex. He observes that for non-white subjects, trauma […]