No More Persecution
Home Thursday, 31 May, 2018 | 06:58 WIB TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – This nation has truly failed to guarantee the freedom of religion and faith. Although our constitution clearly guarantees […]
Persecution watch: Anti-conversion bills aimed primarily at Christians increasing in Asia
The laws, which regulate the act of converting to another religion, are aimed primarily at Christian missionary work. Several nations in the region also prohibit blasphemy and apostasy. Times […]
Divided Srebrenica awaits Mladic verdict 22 years after massacre
Reuters International This content was published on November 15, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former […]
Don’t turn Islamic State fight into battle against all Muslims – German defense minister
Our Source: Swiss Info Reporting by Shadia Nasralla and Andrea Shalal; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber MUNICH (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen warned […]
Pakistan’s Most Persecuted Minority Suffers Further Discrimination
September 07, 2016 September 7 is the date when 42 years ago one of Pakistan’s most persecuted minorities was declared non-Muslim through a constitutional amendment. Today, the Ahmadiyya community is facing increased victimization in the name of reducing intolerance and extremism. VOA’s Ayesha Tanzeem has more in this report. SOURCE: […]
Khatm-i-nabuwwat moot calls for social sanctions
By Our Correspondent Published: September 11, 2016 Mufti Muhammad Abdullah of the Jamaat-i-Islami said Ahmadis were stooges of the West and enemies of Pakistan. PHOTO: FILE MULTAN: A khatm-i-nabuwwat conference was organised in Multan on Saturday. Participants reiterated their call for more social sanctions on Ahmadis. In a first: Anti-Ahmadiyya advert […]
Report launch: ‘Change in attitude needed to protect minorities’
Tribune: ISLAMABAD: It is important to talk about issues considered a taboo and an attitudinal change is required to protect Pakistani minorities. This was consented at the launch of Jinnah Institute’s (JI) report ‘State of religious freedom in Pakistan’ and screening of its documentary, ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’, on Tuesday. […]
Is Pakistan Just a Huge Trumpistan?
By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist Source: Huffington Post I am a Pakistani immigrant to the United States. With the recent rise of Islamophobia here in […]
Intolerance versus legalised persecution
No parliament has the right, no matter how sovereign, to determine the faith of an individual citizen. This is not the job of a parliament. It is God’s job Yasser […]
Preliminary report: Police mishandled Jhelum riots
Source:ET ISLAMABAD: The police are responsible for the Jhelum tragedy as the high-ups failed to address the religious sentiments of a mob which not only led to displacement of some 1,200 Ahmadiyya community members but also caused them huge business losses, according to a preliminary report said presented to Prime Minister […]
Blasphemy allegations: Mob torches an Ahmadi’s factory in Jehlum
Blasphemy allegations: Mob torches factory in Jhelum Source: Tribune Express LAHORE: An angry mob set ablaze a factory owned by members of the Ahmadiyya community in Jhelum on Friday.According to […]
Why has Pakistan become so intolerant?
Mohsin Raza/Reuter PREACH 08.30.1512:01 AM ET Why Has Pakistan Become So Intolerant? I was beaten in Pakistan for my religion. I am far from alone. A Christian couple, parents of three children with a fourth on the way, were accused of blasphemy by a mob and incinerated in a brick […]
More Shia Dead as Extremism Becomes Commonplace in Pakistan
Posted: 18/05/2015 Fiyaz Mughal Become a fanDirector of Faith Matters and the Tell MAMA project In February of this year I drafted this article asking whether anyone really cared about the Shia of Pakistan. The brutal butchery committed by local extremist groups in Pakistan has […]
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion by Rabwah Times In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi, assistant professor at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan. According to a recent assessment of state persecution in […]
For minority Ahmadis, Ramadan means love despite persecution
Reviled Muslim sect tries to stay strong during Islamic holy month celebrations Katharina Lestari and Ryan Dagur, Jakarta Indonesia June 26, 2015 On the first Friday of Ramadan, some 80 […]
The Christian tragedy in the Middle East did not begin with Isis. A hundred years on from the Armenian genocide, and a Christian minority is again suffering
By Robert Fisk, The Independent One summer’s day in 1990, I walked into a beautiful Crusader chapel in Keserwan, a gentle mountainside north of Beirut, where an old Catholic Maronite priest pointed to a Byzantine mosaic of – I think – Saint John. What he wanted to show me […]
Beleaguered denomination: Protest in Rabwah postponed by 15 days
By Rana Tanveer Published: December 27, 2014 THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE LAHORE: A religious organisation has postponed the staging of a protest demonstration in Rabwah by 15 days after district authorities […]
Pakistan’s Original Sin
THE SOUTH ASIA CHANNEL Pakistan’s Original Sin BY USMAN AHMAD OCTOBER 13, 2014 The fields of Hampshire are usually associated with blazing crops of rapeseed and fragrant lavender. But on the final weekend of August, over 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims from all over the world converged on Oakland Farm in East […]
A normal day in the life of a Pakistani Ahmadi – Muslim
Copied from Twitter. and: Balal Haider @balalhaider @akchishti Ahmadi mosque currently under attack in Okara. Police nowhere from 2 hours.
Ahmadi Muslim arrested in Pakistan for ‘posing as a Muslim’
A 72-year-old British doctor is in prison in Pakistan for “posing as a Muslim”, charges that reveal an escalating ideological fight that often spills over into violence. Masood Ahmad is a quiet, reserved widower who returned to Pakistan to open a pharmacy in 1982 after decades of working in London […]