The Jakarta Post: The Ahmadiyah and Shia communities in East Java are urging the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, a non-profit organization established by US Jewish leader Rabbi Arthur Schneier, to reconsider its plan to award President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the religious tolerance in Indonesia. The leader of Sampang Shiites in refuge, Iklil Al Milal, […]
The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis. Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites – and especially Twitter – “has lost this world and his afterlife”. Twitter was the platform for those […]
Russia Today: Afshin Rattansi Dreadful conditions for workers in factories producing goods for the West, and plans for the US Seventh Fleet’s relocation make fertile ground for anti-Americanism in Bangladesh, which […]
Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim: In the hyper righteous hype before the current elections, the chorus of political experts, anchor analysts and pseudo liberal moralists kept exhorting the nation to go to vote and prove that the nation stands united against Taliban. Well the nation went to vote in […]
Source: NY Times By Manan Ahmed Asif, an assistant professor of history at Columbia, is the author of “Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination.” JUST after the […]
MTA: An Urdu discussions on state sponsored persecution of Ahmadi Muslims and other minorities in Pakistan. This one focuses specially on how State led apartheid has isolated the Pakistani Muslim Ahmadis from taking part in elections. Ahmadiyya Muslims made a full representation to Election Comission of Pakistan. Mujeeb-ur-Rahman advocate explains […]
The Friday Times: There are nearly three million registered minority voters in Pakistan, according to NADRA, of which 200,000 belong to the Ahmadiyya Community. All of the minorities will cast their votes on May 11 under a joint electorate system, except the Ahmadis. There is a separate voters list for them, […]
Washington Post: By Fahim Younas: On May 11th, the world’s second most populous Muslim country, Pakistan, will mark a historic election. The country’s 66-year history is marred by the presence of martial laws and never before has one elected government replaced another. As Pakistanis rush to the polling stations to cast their vote, over 4 […]
BBC-Urdueملک کے طول و عرض میں الیکشن کی گہماگہمی عروج پر ہے اور آج انتخابی مہم کا آخری دن ہے۔ اسی طرح انتخابات اور اس کے بعد آنے والی حکومت کے بارے میں قیاس آرائیاں اور پیش گوئیاں بھی جاری ہیں جن کی شدت میں اب شاید مزید اضافہ ہو […]
* Minority community’s boycott due to separate electoral lists By Kashif Hussain LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community. Historically, the Ahmedis have not taken part in any election at any […]
Written for Muslims Times by Abdul Alim 07 May 2013: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will boycott of Pakistan 2013 Elections. We look at the implications and impact of this on […]
IPSnewsnet: Zofeen Ibrahim: KARACHI , May 6 2013 (IPS) – Twenty-five-year-old Syed Hasan, a doctor practicing in a private hospital in Lahore, plans to spend most of May 11, Pakistan’s long-awaited Election Day, in bed. Members of the minority Ahmadi community in Pakistan say they have been disenfranchised by the country’s […]
India Today: By Pervez Hoodbhoy Blaise Pascal, the famous 17th century philosopher and mathematician, observed that “men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it for religious conviction”. His words could apply to Gujarat 2002. Or to today’s Pakistan, where your religious affiliation-whether by birth or […]
ET: DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline protesters in the capital Dhaka, police and medical officials said Monday. Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman said police used sound grenades, water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse at […]
NITICentral: Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community on Sunday announced that it would boycott the general elections on May 11 to protest discrimination against its members. “No Ahmadi will vote on May 11 to register his or her protest on the discrimination against Ahmadis,” said Saleemuddin, the spokesman for the Jamaat Ahmadiya […]
Source: The Daily Times COMMENT : The anatomy of a press release — By Yasser Latif Hamdani Jinnah was repeatedly pressured on the Ahmadi issue; he repeatedly shot it down publicly […]
TEMPO.CO , Tasikmalaya – (translated by google from original Bahasa) in addition in Tenjowaringin, District Salawu, unidentified mob also burned mosques and houses belonging to Ahmadiyah in Cipakat, Singaparna district, Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Sunday morning at 03.30 am. In fact, the mass burning the Koran in the Ahmadiyya mosque.Allegedly, after damaging a mosque in […]
Die Welt: From Miriam Hollstein and Freia Peters (translated by Google- Original in German) Islam is threatening and does not fit here. Say, according to the Bertelsmann study, 50 percent of Germans. However, the concept of […]
mta.tv: Youtube: Published on May 2, 2013: Watch this MTA Pakistan production with short interviews of prominent human rights activists in Pakistan and discussion with Spokesperson of Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan and Advocate Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Sahib on what future holds for Pakistan. http://www.persecutionofahmadis.org A series of discussions on state sponsored persecution of Ahmadi Muslims and […]