Ahmadis criticise govt inaction over targeted killings

Pakistan Punjab

Ahmadis criticise govt inaction over targeted killings

By Shamsul Islam
Published: September 10, 2011

Ahmadis say their community is facing dire threat. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE

FAISALABAD: Ahmadis are completely at the mercy of assassins who are targeting and killing them with impunity and police and other law-enforcement agencies were doing nothing to thwart their actions, the secretary of the Faisalabad chapter of the Jama’at Ahmadiyya said in a letter sent to foreign missions and top government functionaries.

Syed M Mahmood, the secretary of the organisation’s general affairs, said that he had “sent a letter (containing) forewarnings regarding the plight of the Ahmadiyya community in Faisalabad”, but no action was taken on it.

The letter was dispatched to the Human Rights Watch, the Asian Human Rights Commission, US embassy in Islamabad, the British High Commission and the embassies of France, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Islamabad.

He said that several victims, including Laeeq Ahmed, who was a member of the local chapter of the Jama’at Ahmadiyya, were brutally murdered in public, but police was trying to look the other way.

Citing the example of Laeeq Ahmed’s murder, he said: “It is shocking to know that neither the empties in the car were taken into the possession by the police nor the car was examined.”

According to him, another Ahmadi, Naseem Ahmad Butt became the victim of a targeted killing, but his killers were “roaming free” and asking about the whereabouts of his brother.

He reminded that “both the killings (occurred) in the constituency of the controversial Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, who sides with the extremist groups”.

Expressing his frustration, he said: “We cannot continue to see our dear ones murdered with impunity. I have no option but to send this report also to world organisations on human rights, to different embassies, to show them the disintegration and complete collapse of law and order in Punjab. We (fear) that this (city) might become a second Karachi.”

This letter was also sent to the governor of Punjab, the provincial home secretary, additional secretary (home), IG police, additional IG, RPO Faisalabad, CPO Faisalabad, SSP (Operations) Faisalabad and DCO Faisalabad,

In another letter sent to foreign missions in Islamabad and law-enforcement authorities, the Ahmadiyya community also protested over what they termed forced rustication of three female students from the National Textile University (NTU) in Faisalabad because of their faith.

It was pointed out, “NTU Faisalabad has become the hub of…extremist and militant groups”.

“There has been a planned subversion of all the decent norms of an educational institution. The target has been the Ahmadiyya Community and the weaker Ahmadi female students”.

“So much so, that all the female students had to leave the NTU Faisalabad. Their educational careers were abandoned midway. Moulvis were imported (to the campus) who harangued the students against the Ahmadiyya Community in such an abusive language which defies definition”.

The letter pointed out, “The parents of the students have been approaching the rector of the NTU Faisalabad, but he showed his inability to control the situation”.

“Even the magazine of the NTU, Faisalabad, exhorts that all Ahmadis should be killed.

“This is not a textile university, this is the killing factory of the Taliban.”

“This university, hotbed of extremism, should have no affiliation with any other educational institutions in the world. Otherwise, the name of other decent educational institution will be sullied.”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2011.

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URL: http://tribune.com.pk/story/249311/extremist-groups...killings/

Islamic hardliners plan Jakarta march

World

Islamic hardliners plan Jakarta march

February 20, 2011 - 1:29PM

AAP

Hardline Islamists are planning a second mass rally in the Indonesian capital as they continue to threaten to oust President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono unless he outlaws a minority Muslim sect.

The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), linked to recent deadly acts of religious violence in Indonesia, has called for a revolution like that seen in Egypt and claims thousands of its members and supporters will march on the State Palace next month.

On Friday, several hundred members of the group carried banners as they protested in central Jakarta calling for Dr Yudhoyono to disband Ahmadiyah, a minority Muslim sect, shouting that they wanted an “Islamic revolution”.

Advertisement: Story continues below Members of FPI have been linked to the murder of three Ahmadiyah during a violent rampage involving 1500 people in west Java’s Banten province two weeks ago, which prompted the president to call for extremist groups to be brought into line and for greater religious tolerance in Indonesia.

A second mass protest is now planned for March 1, when FPI members are expected to camp outside the State Palace with one member of the group, Misbakhul Hanan, telling the Jakarta Globe newspaper that if their demands are not met, “the revolution that happened in Egypt will happen in Indonesia too”.

The comments came as FPI chairman Habib Haziq used his Friday sermon to say he would not rest, no matter what the risks, until Ahmadiyah was eliminated.

“In the name of Allah, I swear that until the last drop of my blood, whatever the risks, Ahmadiyah must not exist in Indonesia,” he reportedly said.

Human rights organisations have voiced concerns about a recent upswing in religious violence in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, after mobs also ransacked a court and burnt Christian churches in Temanggung in central Java, just days after the attack on Ahmadiyah worshippers.

The riot in Temanggung came after a Christian man was sentenced to the maximum five years in jail for insulting Islam, disappointing the crowd which demanded the court hand him over so that he could be executed.

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Crowds of FPI demonstrators arrive in Central Jakarta

JAKARTA Fri, 02/18/2011 3:11 PM

Crowds of FPI demonstrators arrive in Central Jakarta

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Hundreds of people representing various Islamic organizations crowded around the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta at midday on Friday, demanding the government disband the Ahmadiyah sect.

The demonstrators represented, among others, members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Islamic Peoples Forum (FUI) and Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia.

A report on kompas.com says the protesters carried flags and banners that read “Cut off those who contempt Islam”, “Muslims are ready to guide victims of Ahmadiyah infidels” and “Muslims [must] disband Ahmadiyah”.

The demonstration is a reaction to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s recent statement in which he said that unlawful and violent organizations must be disbanded.

URL: www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/02/18/crowds...jakarta.html

Pak clerics warn of protests if blasphemy laws are amended

December 13, 2010

Pak clerics warn of protests if blasphemy laws are amended

Updated on Monday, December 13, 2010, 15:32

Rawalpindi: Religious parties in Pakistan have warned that they will launch a movement called the Tehreek Namoos-e-Risalat (TNR), if the government moves to amend the country’s blasphemy laws.

Talking to reporters after attending an all parties Namoos-e-Risalat conference here on Sunday, Markazi Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Ameer Pir Atiqur Rehman said that Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) president Dr Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair had been nominated as the convener of the newly formed group.

The Daily Times quoted him, as saying further that a six-member action committee, comprising Liaqat Baloch, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri, Abdul Rauf Farooqi, Sikandar Abbas Gillani and Maulana Muhammad Abbas, had been formed to evolve the TNR’s future strategy.

“The purpose of the meeting was to convey a message to the government that the nation would not tolerate any type of amendment in the blasphemy law, especially in the article 295-C of the Constitution,” Dr Abul Khair Zubair, a religious leader, said.

“The future strategy will be evolved in a meeting to be held in Islamabad on December 15,” he added.

Dr Zubair further said that the heads of all the five Wafaqul Madaris (religious educational boards) had also ratified the outcome of the conference.

Syed Munawar Hassan, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Professor Sajid Mir, Allama Sajid Naqvi, Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Dr Abul Khair Zubair, Pir Atiqur Rehman, Hamidul Haq Haqqani, Liaqat Baloch, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri, Abdul Rauf Farooqi, Sikandar Abbas Gillani and Maulana Muhammad Abbas attended the conference.

ANI

URL: http://www.zeenews.com/news674210.html

Pakistan Ahmadi man forcibly exhumed in Lahore

South Asia

2 November 2010 Last updated at 16:18 GMT

Pakistan Ahmadi man forcibly exhumed in Lahore

By M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Islamabad

Ahmadis are despised by many
Pakistanis

Police in Pakistan have forced a family of the Ahmadi sect to exhume the body of a relative because it was buried in a Muslim graveyard.

Officials in the Sargodha district of Punjab province say they took the unusual move after anti-Ahmadi Muslim groups threatened peace in the area.

Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims but a 1984 law barred them from identifying themselves as followers of the faith.

The law also put restrictions on their religious practices.

‘Law and order situation’

Shehzad Waraich, a farmer in the Bhalwal area of Sargodha district, died on 30 October and was buried in a shared graveyard designated by the government.

“The police approached the relatives of Mr Waraich on 31 October and asked them to remove the body from the Muslim graveyard as this could lead to a law and order situation,” Salimuddin, an Ahmadi community spokesman, told the BBC.

“The family complied with the request and exhumed the body. They have now buried it in a different graveyard reserved for the Ahmadis several miles away from the village.”

The police said the family was asked to exhume the body because the burial was “illegal”.

“They buried Mr Waraich in a Muslim graveyard, which is against the law,” Javed Islam, the Sargodha district police chief, told the BBC.

“Members of the Khatm-e-Nabuwat organisation and some local people approached the police and conveyed their objection to the burial. The objection was within the ambit of the law, so we acted accordingly,” he said.

Khatm-e-Nabuwat is an anti-Ahmadi religious organisation that acts as a watchdog on their activities.

Mr Islam said that he was not concerned about the moral aspect of the exhumation of Mr Waraich’s body - his job was to enforce the law.

Ahmadis in Pakistan are often mobbed and lynched by extremist elements who critics say are encouraged by favourable laws.

The Ahmadi spokesman, Salimuddin, said it was the 30th incident since 1984 in which an Ahmadi body has been forcefully exhumed by the administration to satisfy the opponents of the community.

“The administration always sides with our opponents, and has a convenient argument that they are trying to maintain peace,” he said.

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URL: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11675405

Should The Mayawati Government Remove Ahamadiyya Sect From Syllabus

Published: August 28, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor

Should The Mayawati Government Remove Ahamadiyya Sect From Syllabus

By Sultan Shahin, Editor, New Age Islam

Muslim Juhala Threatens Mayawati Government Over Ahmadiya Issue

The mullahs and maulvis in Uttar Pradesh and some other self-styled Muslim leaders have threatened the Uttar Pradesh Mayawati government of dire consequences unless a chapter on the Ahmadiya Islamic sect is removed from the Social Study book of standard Xth.

These maulanas, reverentially called ulama (scholars), although most of them are completely ignorant of the world around them, should rather be called Juhala (ignoramuses). They have warned Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati of country-wide protests, if this section of the book is not immediately removed.

The maulanas may have actually struck gold in the form of this mention of Ahmadiyas as an Islamic sect in the Uttar Pradesh social science book. They have long been on the lookout for an emotional issue on which to create more disturbances in the country and mint money. The Babri demolition not only robbed the Sangh Pariwar of an issue to befool Hindus with; it also made the maulanas jobless.

Kafirs, Murtids galore, deserve their throats being slit

A few questions these Juhala should be asked. How is it that you all get so excited, if even a nincompoop like Chander Mohan claims to have embraced Islam, even if it is clear, right from the beginning that he is merely out to cheat his wife as well as his mistress? A wave of jubilation runs through the community almost world-wide even if one silly conversion takes place, even if it is done under compulsion which is totally opposed to Islamic teachings.

On the other hand, practically every Muslim “scholar” is eager to denounce virtually every Muslim sect other than his own as Kafir or murtid and out of Islam.

Now I ask why should the Mayawati government merely exclude Ahmadiyas from the text books? Why not Shias? Why not Wahhabis? Why not Sunnis? Why not Bareilwis? Why not Deobandis? Why not Sufis? And so on. They are all kafirs in the eyes of one or the other sect.

If no one knows what Islam is all about, why teach Islam at all?

Ask all these Juhala, mentioned in our report, who are asking for Ahmadiyas to be excluded from the text books, ask them the question posed by the former chief justice of Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Munir. Chief Justice Munir was investigating the widespread riots against the Ahmadiyas in 1953, and asked the Juhala of every sect in his country: Who is a Muslim? How would you define Islam? No two Juhala, he reported, in his report [available on this site in full], even from the same sect agreed on any definition of a Muslim.

So the real question before the Mayawati government would be: If no one knows what Islam is all about, why teach Islam at all? Excluding Islam itself from the text books should be the safest option.

Sultan Shahin
Sultan Shahin is the Editor at NewAgeIslam.Com

URL: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100828061254isla.nb/topstory.html

Islamic organization's Anti-Ahmadiyya Demo

Islamic organization’s Anti-Ahmadiyya Demo

Google Translated Version
14/07/2010 22:12

Liputan6.com, Garut: Hundreds of people from various Islamic organizations rallied at the Simpang Lima Tarogong, Garut, West Java, on Wednesday (14/7). They demanded the agency to clean the area from the Ahmadiyah congregation.

Action of the protesters turned into riot, when they sealed a number of agency offices in the area, such as Parliament’s office, Board of Trustees, and the Department of Education. The police tried to block the action.

Not satisfied sealing government office, protesters staged a theatrical to illustrate the role of local officials for being followers of Islam. (IDS / SHA)

Original Indonesian Version

Liputan6.com, Garut: Ratusan warga dari berbagai ormas Islam berunjuk rasa di Simpang Lima Tarogong, Garut, Jawa Barat, Rabu (14/7). Mereka menuntut pembersihan instansi di daerah itu dari jemaah Ahmadiyah.

Aksi para pengunjuk rasa sempat diwarnai kericuhan, ketika mereka menyegel sejumlah kantor instansi di daerah itu, seperti kantor DPRD, Badan Pengawas, dan Dinas Pendidikan. Polisi pun berusaha menghalangi aksi tersebut.

Tidak puas menyegel kantor pemerintahan, pengunjuk rasa menggelar aksi teatrikal untuk menggambarkan peran pejabat setempat selama menjadi pengikut Ahmadiyah. (IDS/SHA)

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Ahmadiyya convention faces heat

---Times of India, Ludhiana, India

Ahmadiyya convention faces heat
TNN 25 December 2009, 10:30pm IST

LUDHIANA: Muslims led by Shahi Imam Habib-ur-Rehman Sani protested against the annual convention being organized by the Ahmadiyya community in Qadian, district Gurdaspur, from December 26 to 28. Muslims from all across the state have joined hands against this meet, which according to them is a platform for converting Muslims.

Reportedly finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to attend the Salaana Jalsa (annual congregation) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community at its international headquarters in Qadian that lies in the Punjab’s border district of Gurdaspur. The Muslim community burnt the effigy of the finance minister on the Jagraon Bridge and blocked the entire traffic for over half-an-hour causing inconvenience to the commuters. The protesters demanded that the administration should cancel the seminar as it hurt their feelings. They alleged that the Ahmadiyya community indulged in bringing other Muslims to their fold, which was not acceptable to them.

It would be pertinent to mention here that this protest by the Muslim community follows the protest by radical Sikh organizations against Swami Ashutosh Maharaj on December 5. The swami had earned the wrath of the radical Sikh groups for allegedly preaching against their religion.

To control the situation, the police had to impose curfew in the city for three days in order to avert any mishap. During this protest one Sikh person had died while several got injured. While talking about their protest, Shahi Imam said that they were opposing the seminar as conversion of Muslims was not acceptable to them. He asserted that if this seminar took place they would start agitation at mass level.

Following the Namaaz on Friday, Muslims staged protest against this seminar. They also handed over a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, to be forwarded to the chief minister, Prakash Singh Badal. The protest was also organized in the Jama Masjids of all the districts in the state, including Moga, Amloh, Pathankot, Nawanshahr, Patiala, Phagwada, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Bathinda, Rajpura, Jagraon and Ajitwal.

URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lud...ticleshow/5378968.cms

'MNA promoting violent protest against Ahmadis'

--- Daily Times, Pakistan

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

‘MNA promoting violent protest against Ahmadis’

LAHORE: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member of National Assembly from Layyah has instigated the local people to observe a protest today (Tuesday) against four teenagers and a man belonging to the Ahmadiyya community arrested on the charges of blasphemy, a rights body said on Monday. The accused will be brought before a court today. A press release issued on Monday by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) stated that some radical groups had announced a show of strength against Ahmadis to pressurise the court not to grant bail to the five Ahmadis. The accused were arrested on January 28 on charges of writing blasphemous comments in a mosque toilet. They were shifted to Dera Ghazi Khan Central Jail, where the fundamentalist groups had asked other inmates to ‘fix up’ the Ahmadis, according to the statement. The commission urged the Punjab government to stop the violent campaign. staff report

Source: www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?...ry_17-2-2009_pg13_4