Ahmadiyya Times: Indonesia: FPI must be banned: House legislators

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The FPI has been implicated in “too many” violent incidents and there is more than enough evidence for police to bring criminal charges against the group.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Int'l Desk

Source & Credit: The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

By Hans David Tampubolon | June 29, 2010

A multi-party coalition of legislators in the House of Representatives legislators demanded that the Islamic Defender Front (FPI) be officially declared a forbidden organization, said a coalition representative.

Ahmadiyya Times: Pakistan: Nawa-i-Waqt leads anti-Ahmadiyya media crusade

Monday, June 28, 2010

“There is no room for Qadianis in the Muslim Ummah; it is a religious duty of every Muslim to dispatch a Qadiani to hell,” [International Khatme-e-Nabuwwat]

Family members praying for those killed in Lahore attacks

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Cross-post

Source & Credit: ViewPoint | Online

By Adnan Farooq | June 18, 2010

It is highly commendable that a section of the press, in particular Daily Times and its sister organization Aaj Kal, The News on Sunday and Dawn have clearly taken a position regarding persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan. Also, Dunya TV has shown some courage. Most importantly, Nawaz Sharif deserves credit for issuing a bold statement that annoyed his erstwhile religious allies. However, a dominant trend in media remains unchanged, even after the recent tragedy in Lahore.

Attack on Hospital Treating Victims Shows How State Inaction Emboldens Extremists

June 1, 2010

(New York) – Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments should take immediate legal action against Islamist extremist groups responsible for threats and violence against the minority Ahmadiyya religious community, Human Rights Watch said today.

Banyan's notebook | The Economist

Jun 10th 2010, 8:26 by Banyan

ON MAY 28th, during Friday prayers, two squads of gunmen entered a pair of mosques belonging to the Ahmadis, a minority Islamic sect, in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore. Methodically, they emptied AK-47s into the assembled worshippers, lobbed grenades and exploded suicide vests. Their rampage has claimed 95 lives to date. Our Pakistan correspondent writes about the perpetrators, the Punjabi Taliban.

One Myth, Many Pakistans

Lahore, Pakistan

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André da Loba

FOR many Pakistanis, the deaths of more than 80 members of the Ahmadi religious sect in mosque attacks two weeks ago raised questions of the nation’s future. For me, it recalled a command from my schoolboy past: “Write a Note on the Two-Nation Theory.”

পবিত্র কুরআনের ত্রিশটি আয়াতের আলোকে হযরত ঈসা (আ.)-এর মৃত্যুর প্রমাণ

জন্মিলে মরিতে হয় এটি একটি চিরসত্য কথা। কিন্তু অতিভক্তি বা আত্মপ্রতারণায় মগ্ন কিছু মানুষ হযরত ঈসা (আ.)-এর জীবন ও মৃত্যু উভয়টিকে বিতর্কিত করে রেখেছে। এভাবে শির্‌ক ও পৌত্তলিকতার সর্বগ্রাসী দ্বার উম্মোচন করেছে এবং পৃথিবীর কান্ডজ্ঞানহীন বহু মানব প্রজন্মকে ধ্বংসের অতল গহ্বরে ঠেলে দিয়েছে। কেননা, একজন মানুষকে যদি স্বাভাবিক জন্ম ও মৃত্যুর ঊর্ধ্বে মনে করা হয় তাহলে তাকে অতিমানবের স্থান দেয়া হলো; আর অজ্ঞ প্রজন্ম তখন সর্বশক্তিমান খোদাকে ছেড়ে এমন মানুষকেই খোদা মনে করে বসে; কেননা তাকে যে হাতের কাছে এবং দৃষ্টিসীমার মাঝে পায়। আর হৃদয় বিদারক হলেও সত্য যে, আজকের পৃথিবী এই পাপেই নিমজ্জিত। কিন্তু পবিত্র কুরআনে আল্লাহ্ তা’লা হযরত ঈসা (আ.)-কে মৃত ঘোষণা করেছেন আর আহ্‌মদীয়া মুসলিম জামা’ত-এর পবিত্র প্রতিষ্ঠাতা, হযরত মির্যা গোলাম আহমদ কাদিয়ানী (আ.) প্রতিশ্রুত মসীহ্ ও ইমাম মাহদী, ঐশী জ্ঞানের ভিত্তিতে পবিত্র কুরআনের আলোকে দ্ব্যর্থহীন কন্ঠে ঘোষণা করেছেন যে, আল্লাহ্‌র রসূল ঈসা ইবনে মরিয়ম (আ.) ইন্তেকাল করেছেন। হযরত ইমাম মাহ্‌দী ও মসীহ্ মওউদ (আ.) তাঁর বিখ্যাত পুস্তক “ইযালায়ে আওহাম”-এ কুরআনের ৩০টি স্থান থেকে আয়াত বা আয়াতাংশ উদ্ধৃত করে হযরত ঈসা ইবনে মরিয়ম (আ.)-এর মৃত্যু প্রমাণ করেছেন। নিম্নে উক্ত পুস্তকের আলোকে বিভিন্ন আয়াত বা আয়াতাংশ সমূহের সংক্ষিপ্ত ব্যাখ্যাসহ পাঠকের সম্মূখে উপস্থাপন করা হলো। পাঠকদের জ্ঞাতার্থে জানাচ্ছি, আহ্‌মদীয়া মুসলিম জামা’ত বিসমিল্লাহ্‌কে প্রত্যেক সূরার প্রথম আয়াত হিসেবে গণ্য করে।

Ahmadiyya Times: Pakistan: Sherry Rehman resents grant given to Jamaat ud Dawa

Saturday, June 19, 2010

“Giving an outright grant to the JuD, when it has been banned, tells us that some elements in the Punjab government are still not committed fully to the idea that jihadist outfits like the LeT, with known leadership and cadre links to the JuD, must be rooted out and that their activities shut down.” [Sherry Rehman]

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff |

Source & Credit: The Express Tribune

By PPI | Express | June 18, 2010

Voicing her objection to the Rs82 million given to Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD) after it was banned as part of a terrorist purge, former Information Minister and PPP MNA, Sherry Rehman on Friday asked why no one has questioned the grant made by the Punjab government.

Frayed ends of sanity

by Nadeem F. Paracha on 05 29th, 2010 | Comments (374)

Over and over again I have been using Dawn and Dawn.com to hit home the point about the vicious, soul destroying mindset the bulk of Pakistan’s urban middle-classes (especially in the Punjab) have fallen in to.

I have tried to give numerous examples to highlight this devastating observation and here again is another one: On May 28 when terrorists associated with what is called the ‘Punjabi Taliban’ attacked various places of worship of the Ahmadiyya community in Lahore, the TV channels were out in force covering the gruesome event. However, that did not stop them from running happy-go-lucky commercials of their corporate sponsors during breaks, giving the whole event a rather surreal feel.

DAWN.COM | Front Page | Lahore mourns as death roll rises to 80

Lahore mourns as death roll rises to 80

Saturday, 29 May, 2010

People from the Ahmadi Community carry a casket of a victim of Friday's attack by militants, to bury it in a graveyard in Rabwa, some 150 kilometers northwest from Lahore. Gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets and took hostages in attacks on two places of worship packed with worshippers from a religious minority group in Pakistan. –AP Photo/Anjum Naveed

LAHORE: Militants attacked two places of worship packed with hundreds of worshippers from a religious minority in Lahore on Friday, holding hostages and battling police, officials and witnesses said. Some 80 people died, and dozens were wounded in the worst attack ever against the Ahmadi’s, reports AP

But they are not “real” Muslims or so I am told

I am deeply saddened and pained by the news that at least 80 Muslims from the Ahmadiyyah sect were murdered in Pakistan by terrorists during Friday prayers. This great loss of humanity should reverberate throughout the Muslim world, however it won’t likely even be mentioned. Unfortunately, due to great ignorance and hypocrisy, my fellow Muslims who claim to be Sunni as I am don’t seem to think much of Ahmadiyyah’s. What crime have they committed that could have possibly warrant the slaughter of so many men, women, and children? What beliefs could they hold that are so “anti-Islam” that it could warrant decades of oppression, slaughter, and inhumanity by those who themselves ironically claim the title of “Muslim”? Allah (swt) knows best.

Qadian - home to Swiss couple for 17 years

Yudhvir Rana, TNN, Jun 13, 2010, 06.57am IST

QADIAN: Influenced by the teachings of Ahmadiyya Islam, a Swiss couple not only embraced the faith but also decided to shun their European lifestyle to shift to Qadian, a small township in Gurdaspur district, which also houses the faith’s headquarters in India.

Calendar World Cup 2010 by MARCA.com

Calendar World Cup 2010 by MARCA.com

A nice worldcup 2010 Calendar.

Our self-proclaimed demagogues – The Express Tribune

Our self-proclaimed demagogues

By Editorial

June 11, 2010

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It was bad enough that they could not unequivocally condemn the brutal massacre of nearly 100 Ahmadis in Lahore. Yet the temerity of the leaders of 13 religious and political organisations to label the attack a conspiracy aimed at repealing the discriminatory laws against Ahmadis is nothing short of morally repugnant. If ever these so-called religious leaders had any semblance of moral authority, they have ensured that none remains. In essence, what these people are saying is that the Ahmadis deserve no sympathy from their compatriots simply because their views on faith do not conform to the specifics that these so-called clerics deem within the ambit of the religion. Who appointed them the arbiters of God’s mercy? Who told them that they could create a poisonous environment where Ahmadis are barely considered human? Who told them that they could prevent the rest of us from weeping for their tragedy?

Biography of some of the Martyrs of 28 May 2010

Summary of Friday Sermon

Delivered by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad ^at, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

June 11 ^th, 2010

NOTE: Alislam Team takes full responsibility for any errors or miscommunication in this Synopsis of the Friday Sermon

In the Friday sermon today, Hadhrat Khalifatul Massih V (aba) mentioned some of the martyrs who were mercilessly attacked during the massacre in Lahore two weeks ago. Huzoor (aba) said these are those Ahmadi Muslims who were absolutely fearless even in the face of death, who did not beg for life before the assailants, instead remained occupied in the remembrance of Allah and tried to help others and save the life of others. They did not panic but supplicated before God and tried to overpower the attackers, if they could. Some of these believers were granted the status of martyrdom, which is eternal life, and their names shall shine bright like stars in the heavens in the annals of Ahmadiyyat, Insha'Allah. May Allah Almighty elevate their status in Paradise, Ameen.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Pakistan mosque attacks in Lahore kill scores

---BBC Bews, UK

Last Updated: Monday, 8 August, 2005, 11:41 GMT 12:41 UK

Pakistan mosque attacks in Lahore kill scores

Eyewitness Nadeem Khalifa describes the scenes inside one of the mosques

Gunmen have launched simultaneous raids on two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in Lahore, killing more than 80 people, Pakistani police say.

DAWN.COM | Editorial | Laws that stoke violence

Laws that stoke violence

By Kunwar Idris
Sunday, 06 Jun, 2010

Sectarian fanatics will get deadlier unless some basic changes are made in principles underlying state policy. — Photo by Reuters

Pakistan

Four million living under Taliban rule in Pakistan

THE FORGOTTEN ONES

Four million living under Taliban rule in Pakistan

The 1971 war is a sad chapter in Pakistan’s history which every citizen and soldier would like to forget. But not the children of Maj-Gen Nasir Chaudhry. They recall with some pride that their father was the only general seriously wounded on the frontline.

Now, 40 years later, they mourn his death at the age of 90 and in a hail of bullets and grenades fired by his own countrymen. The invading Indians gave him a chance to fight back and live, the sneaking fanatics of his own country did not. They killed him while he kneeled in prayer.

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পাকিস্তানে আহমদীদের নির্বিচারে হত্যা

প্রতিবাদে আহমদীয়া সমপ্রদায়ের সংবাদ সম্মেলন ও কিছু কথা

মাহমুদ আহমদ সুমন

গত ৫ জুন আহমদীয়া মুসলিম জামা'ত বাংলাদেশের কেন্দ্রীয় কার্যালয় ঢাকার ৪নং বকশীবাজার লাইব্রেরি কক্ষে পাকিস্তানের লাহোরে আহমদীয়া সম্প্রদায়ের ওপর জঙ্গি হামলার প্রতিবাদে এক সংবাদ সম্মেলন করেন। এতে আহমদীয়া সমপ্রদায়ের নেতারা বলেন, আজকে বাংলাদেশের আহমদীয়াদের বিরুদ্ধে পরিচালিত কোন আক্রমণের বিষয় নয় বরং পাকিস্তানের লাহোরে গত ২৮ মে, ২০১০ তারিখে দুটি আহমদীয়া মসজিদে জুমার নামাজ চলাকালীন পরিচালিত বর্বর ধর্মান্ধ সন্ত্রাসী আক্রমণের বিষয়ে কিছু বলার জন্য আমরা এই যৌথ সংবাদ সম্মেলনের আয়োজন করেছি। গত ২৮ মে পবিত্র জুমার দিন জুমার নামাজ আদায় করার জন্য আহমদীয়ারা লাহোরের দারুয যিকর ও বায়তুন নূর মসজিদে সমবেত ছিলেন। খুতবা চলাকালে কয়েকজন ধর্মান্ধ সন্ত্রাসী অতর্কিতে গ্রেনেড হামলা চালিয়ে এবং স্বয়ংক্রিয় বন্দুকের গুলি ছুঁড়তে ছুঁড়তে মসজিদে প্রবেশ করে এবং আহমদীয়া মুসলিম জামাত, লাহোরের আমির ও মসজিদের ইমামসহ ৯৪ জনকে শহীদ ও ১২৫ জনকে গুরুতর আহত করে। এই উগ্র-ধর্মান্ধদের তা-ব আড়াই ঘণ্টা পর্যন্ত চলতে থাকে। এরই মধ্যে তারা নিজেদের হীন উদ্দেশ্য চরিতার্থ করার লক্ষ্যে মসজিদের মূল হল ঘরে আহত অবস্থায় পড়ে থাকা মুসলি্লদের বেছে বেছে গুলি করে হত্যা করে তাদের কাজ সম্পন্ন করে। ইন্টারনেটের মাধ্যমে প্রাপ্ত ভিডিও চিত্রে আমরা দেখেছি, মৃত্যু পথযাত্রী আহত আহমদীয়া বুজুর্গরা কীভাবে দরুদ শরিফ ও দোয়া পড়তে পড়তে তাদের প্রভুর কাছে ফিরে গেছেন। (ইন্না লিল্লাহে ওয়া ইন্না ইলায়হে রাজেউন)। যারা প্রাণে রক্ষা পেয়েছেন তাদের অনেকে বিকলাঙ্গ ও পঙ্গু জীবনযাপন করবেন আর নিকট আত্মীয়স্বজন হারানোর বেদনা বহন করে জীবন কাটাচ্ছেন অনেক আহমদীয়া। আমরা অর্থাৎ আহমদীয়া মুসলমানরা মহান আল্লাহর জন্য যে কোন পরিস্থিতির সম্মুখীন হতে সদা প্রস্তুত। তার সন্তুষ্টি লাভের উদ্দেশে যে কোন ত্যাগ স্বীকার করতে পারাটাকে আমরা আমাদের জন্য মহা সৌভাগ্য বলে মনে করি।

VIEW: Not an eye-opener: time to act - Daily Times, Pakistan

Not an eye-opener: time to act

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

VIEW: Not an eye-opener: time to act —Daud Khattak

The current set up of militants is the amalgamation of many diverse elements from different areas and backgrounds with the apparent patronage of the Wahabi-dominated al Qaeda out to carry forward its religious-political agenda in the region

Few countrymen rejoiced as the military high command announced victory against militants in the Orakzai tribal agency the other day mainly because the bleeding sore is finally emerging in the heartland of Pakistan now.

After 80 Days of Detention: State Security Prosecutor Releases All Ahmadi Detainees... EIPR: Article 98(f) of the Penal Code must be abolished and an investigation launched into the torture of the detainees | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

Freedom of Religion & Belief

Tuesday 8 June 2010

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) welcomed the decision by the Supreme State Security Prosecutor yesterday, 7 June 2010, to release six citizens detained for more than 80 days because of their affiliation with the Ahmadi confession. The prosecutor’s decision came four days after a summary court judge issued an order releasing three other defendants in the same case. The EIPR urged the Public Prosecutor to drop the charge of showing contempt for religion, leveled against the detainees by the Supreme State Security Prosecutor, and to hold officials who detained and interrogated citizens in violation of the constitutional right to freedom of belief and expression accountable.

Ahmadiyya Times: The suicide-bomb attacks on Ahmadiyya Mosques in Lahore, Pakistan

I have worked with the many traumatized widowed Ahmadiyya women and their children and can attest to the devastation faced by these families. I have been extremely passionate about this work but it did come with some criticism. This criticism was mainly that Sunnis (dominant Muslim sect) should not be helping the ‘anti-Islamic’ Ahmadiyyas.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | US desk

Source & Credit: Oye! Times | June 8, 2010

By Tahmena Bokhari | Toranto, Canada

My condolences to all of the families who have lost their loved ones on May 28th in Lahore. This is a loss not only for the families or the Ahmadiyya community, but for all of Pakistan and Pakistanis everywhere. My thoughts are with all Pakistanis and the world community as we are living through some of the most difficult times since partition. We as the citizens of Pakistan, despite (or perhaps even due to our diverse) religious and spiritual backgrounds, along with the world community, must stand up against such attacks. It is not a question of the Ahmadiyya community alone, it is that of the Shia community, the Christian community, the Ismaili community, and the Sikh community – all of whom are very afraid since these attacks. This was an attack on all of humanity and no one should remain a silent bystander. We must stand together as human beings for justice and stand up against the culture, the laws, and the ideologies that promote hate and violence.

ANTI AHMADIYYA LAWS 1974 & 1984! PAKISTAN PUBLIC VIEW 3/4

ANTI AHMADIYYA LAWS 1974 & 1984! PAKISTAN PUBLIC VIEW 2/4

ANTI AHMADIYYA LAWS 1974 & 1984! PAKISTAN PUBLIC VIEW 1/4

High Commissioner offers condolences to Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at « Al Islam eGazette

7th June 2010

PRESS RELEASE

High Commissioner offers condolences to Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at

Pakistan’s long term well being was honesty and justice

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the UK, Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan visited His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at the Fazl Mosque in London on 2nd June 2010 to offer his condolences for the terrorist attacks that took place at two Ahmadi Mosques in Lahore on May 28.

Ahmadiyyas condemn Lahore killings

Ahmadiyyas condemn Lahore killings

- Staff Correspondent

The Ahmadiyya community in Bangladesh on Saturday called for drawing up a global charter to curb violence against religious minorities, hate campaigns and religious discrimination to make the world a better place to live in.

Five steps to sanity [Column] - Daily Dawn, Pakistan

Five steps to sanity

Five steps to sanity

By I.A. Rehman
Thursday, 03 Jun, 2010

The moment the custodians of state power start treating some of the people as second-class citizens they push the latter into a high-risk alley. - Photo on file

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Security of Ahmadiyyas demanded

Staff Correspondent

Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at and civil society members yesterday condemned the May 28 bomb attacks on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore, Pakistan, that killed 85 people.

Death hangs heavy as toll edges to 100 | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com

Death hangs heavy as toll edges to 100

Fri, Jun 4th, 2010 4:50 am BdST

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Dhaka, June 3 (bdnews24.com)--Fire burned, smoke plumed. The odour of death stood. It was the old city humbled and scared as death counts from Thursday night's roaring blaze at Nimtali were creeping up to 100.

With 88 deaths confirmed and many still trapped in buildings or fighting to survive critical burn wounds in hospital, the effort to search and pull out people--dead or alive--stretched into early Friday.

Death hangs heavy as toll set to top 100 | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com

Death hangs heavy as toll set to top 100

Thu, Jun 3rd, 2010 11:54 pm BdST

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Dhaka, June 3 (bdnews24.com)--Fire burned, smoke plumed. The odour of death stood. It was the old city humbled and scared as death counts from Thursday night's devastating fire at Old Dhaka's Nimtali were creeping up to 100.

Pak Minority Body Demands Action Against Extremists - Outlook, India

Pak Minority Body Demands Action Against Extremists

M Zulqernain/ Lahore | May 31, 2010

Pakistan’s minorities are feeling more vulnerable than ever before after the deadly attacks on Ahmedis and want the government to deal with Taliban and hardline religious elements with an “iron hand,” an organisation representing them has said.

“We urge the government to take effective measures to check the increasing influence of Taliban in Pakistan, especially the province of Punjab where they are targeting any sect at their will,” the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance said in a statement.

Briton killed in Lahore attacks on Ahmadi's - Daily Dawn, Pakistan

Briton killed in Lahore attacks on Ahmadi’s

Briton killed in Lahore attacks on Ahmadi’s

Monday, 31 May, 2010

Shoes of members of the attacked Ahmadi community lie outside the building's entrance in the Garhi Shahu area of Lahore. A British businessman Muhammad Bilal was among those who lost their lives in the attack. — Photo by AFP

Violence against us enjoys 'legal sanction': Ahmadis - The News International, Pakistan

Violence against us enjoys ‘legal sanction’: Ahmadis

	Monday, May 31, 2010, Jamadi-us-Sani 16, 1431 A.H.

Violence against us enjoys ‘legal sanction’: Ahmadis

Monday, May 31, 2010
By our correspondent

LAHORE

AHMADIYYA Community Director Mirza Ghulam Ahmed has alleged that all violent acts against the community members enjoy ‘legal sanction’.

Addressing a press conference at the community’s worship place in Garhi Shahu on Sunday, he lamented that since 1974, those associated with the Jamaat had been facing prejudicial treatment, and were even losing their lives at the hands of terrorists.

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