AMs, teachers and community leaders will be at the event organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Source: walesonline.co.uk Muslims to gather in Cardiff for peace conference in wake of Paris attacks […]
Aljazeera: Reports emerged last week that Saudi Arabia intends to imminently execute more than 50 people on a single day for alleged terrorist crimes. Although the kingdom hasn’t officially confirmed the reports, the evidence is building. Okas, the first outlet to publish the report, has close ties to the Saudi […]
Huff Post: In a recent incident in Pakistan, an Ahmadi mosque has been burnt and members of their community have been arrested on charges of blasphemy. This by stretch of imagination is not a new incident as Pakistan has witnessed a flurry of such incidents in the near past. In […]
middleeasteye.net: He offered rare praise for his former nemesis Angela Merkel for her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria’s war to come to Germany, but said that “Europe has lost its capacity to respond rationally to common problems” over the refugee crisis. Merkel had done more than […]
Huff Post: Recently, a bloodthirsty mob torched an Ahmadi owned factory in the Pakistani city of Jhelum. In contrast to Canada, where communities galvanize against hate, there were no rallies in defence of Ahmadi neighbours, and social media was ablaze with their “heresies” instead of condemnation of persecution. However, outside […]
Newsweek: PAKISTAN’S AHMADIS FACE PERSECUTION, THREATS FROM LOCAL MOBS AND THE STATE. “Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?” two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan’s persecuted Ahmadi minority, who are currently living in hiding. The toddler’s family […]
Huff Post: How we respond to future attacks will shape our future for generations to come. Our shock at the recent terror attacks across Paris, the Middle East, and Mali has been predictably followed with calls for mindless retribution. ‘Bomb and be done with it. Destroy the enemy, and all […]
agsiw.org: A growing trope in mainstream Western analysis, which is also present in some parts of Arab and Muslim discourse, casts the kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the political and moral equivalent of the terrorist group ISIL (also known as ISIS, the “Islamic State,” and Daesh). This conflation is wrong […]
Source: tribune.com.pk | paktribune.com JHELUM: Police have arrested up to 35 people over riots in the Jhelum, which reportedly forced members of the Ahmadi community to flee their homes, authorities said Tuesday. The unrest […]
Dawn: Welcome, to the beautiful land of the pure. Here, we are blessed with four wondrous seasons and the geographical features are aplenty. This is a land hard won through the sacrifices of many and now, you too, are a part of this nation of the free. There is only […]
Tribune: All hell broke loose and the balance of the world was skewed when Hamza Ali Abbasi took to social media to write about his grievances yesterday. Usually the most popular regarding his views, this was the first time when tables were turned on him because he spoke up for […]
Daily Times: It seems there is an organised campaign to target the Ahmedi community’s economic well being by destroying their businesses, harassing their youth and ransacking their communal properties The burning down of a factory owned by an Ahmedi family followed by the ransacking of an Ahmedi place of worship […]
QZ.com: Despite what conservative political leaders want you to think, the reason the Muslim world hasn’t done more to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) isn’t because it secretly sympathizes with the terror movement. No, the Muslim world has remained maddeningly ineffective against ISIL because it […]
Source: Guardian, June 2015 By Seumas Milne The sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the western states that incubated it in the first place Contact author: @seumasmilne Shares: 414,259 Comments: 1,880 The war […]
Guardian: Pakistan’s supreme court has called on the country’s politicians to ensure that hundreds of people facing imprisonment and even execution under controversial blasphemy laws have not been falsely charged, often […]
The Times of India: WASHINGTON: The US on Wednesday lashed out at the Pakistan government for its failure to prosecute those responsible for religious freedom abuses, saying such environment encourages intolerance and acts of violence. “In Pakistan, the government’s general failure to investigate, arrest or prosecute those responsible for religious […]
Source: Huffington Post By Raza Habib Raja Freelance journalist, PhD Student First of all, let me make it clear that I am NOT an Ahmadi. This clarification is essential […]
The Guardian: Supreme court says Mumtaz Qadri should be executed for shooting dead Punjab governor who backed reform of country’s hardline blasphemy laws A former police bodyguard revered as a […]
PERSECUTION can be overt at times, subtle and insidious at others; and most people would likely agree that it is an ugly, despicable thing. However, there is one minority community in Pakistan — the Ahmadis — against whom persecution of both kinds not only exists but is celebrated as a […]
Guardian: Extreme caution has long been the watchword of Saudi monarchs: caution in foreign policy, and caution especially when it comes to internal change. Since 2005, when the king nervously decided it was safe to allow elections for half the members of municipal councils (the other half were to be […]