Waqas Ahmed, 30, from Claremont Meadows. Arrived from Pakistan in 1995 There are laws in Pakistan that make the lives of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan difficult. The older you get, the harder it gets. You live a life of always finding shelter, being very careful about how you choose your words, how you show emotion. We can’t openly defend ourselves. We cannot call ourselves Muslims over there, if we do, we can potentially go to jail. We believe in the …
A day of great pain. A mother’s pain. A family’s pain. A city’s pain. A country’s pain. A nation’s pain. The gut-wrenching day on which Pakistani Taliban’s barbaric and ruthless murder of more than 148 school children and teachers occurred. Around 140 innocent youngsters, who probably had not even the slightest idea of what was right and what was wrong. What had they done to deserve this? What was their fault for yearning to learn and become something in life? …
The leader of the world’s largest organised Muslim community believes we should arm all police in Britain to stop Islamic extremists. Speaking to Shelagh Fogarty, Mirza Masroor Ahmad also said that all sermons in mosques should be monitored by the government. In a rare interview, the leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community told LBC: “The police should be given more powers.
A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has sentenced two Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) men, Moavia and Abdullah, to death on Saturday for their role in a deadly attack on an Ahmadi place of worship in 2010. Ninety-four people were killed and over 100 others were injured in the May 28, 2010 attack on two Ahmadiyya Mosques in Lahore. The Taliban claimed responsibility. The attacks sparked more than two hours of gun battles with police and commandos. Muaviya and Abdullah were detained at …
In a statement, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemned the attack at the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday, which left 12 people dead. Nasim Rehmatullah, vice president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of the US said “Nothing justifies this barbaric and inhumane attack,” Rafiq Hayat, National President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK, said: “Under no circumstances does Islam permit a person to take the law into his own hands. It is never right to mock the sensitivities of any religion; nevertheless, there is …
Khatme-Nabuwat Sargodha an anti-Ahmadiyya Islamist group has postponed the staging of a protest demonstration in Rabwah by 15 days after district authorities promised to redress its grievances. The organisation had originally planned to stage the demonstration on December 26th but has decided to postpone the protest by 15 days after receiving assurances from district authorities. A representative of the organization said the organisation would stage nationwide demonstrations if the government did not accept its demands. According to the poster circulated …
Gunmen in a Punjab village shot dead a member of the Ahmadi religious minority on Saturday, five days after a Muslim leader denounced Ahmadis on a popular television show. “Lucman Ahmad- who was in his 20s- left his house for his agriculture farm on Gujranwala-Hafizabad road yesterday morning, when two unidentified motorcyclists intercepted him and opened fire at him, killing him on the spot,” Saleemuddin, spokesperson for Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan, said on Sunday. Kot Ladha SHO Malik Fayyaz Ahmed said …
In a morning TV show on Pakistan’s most watched TV channel televangelist Aamir Liaquat Hussain along with panel of Muslim clerics declared Ahmadiyya Muslims “enemies of Pakistan” and “enemies of Islam”. Responding to the broadcast the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community issued the following statement: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns a recent edition of the programme, ‘Subh e Pakistan’, broadcast in Pakistan on GEO Television on 22 December 2014, hosted by Amir Liaquat Hussein, in which so-called religious scholars made completely false …
The three-day annual international conference of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community began today at its headquarters in Qadian town of Indian Punjab, with the participation of more than 17,000 delegates from all over the world including 6,000 from Pakistan. The first batch of delegates from Pakistan arrived in Qadian through different buses via Wagah border on December 17th. The Indian government has granted visas to 6,000 Pakistani delegates to take part in the conference. Sayed Tanveer Amhad, External Affairs Secretary and …
Ahmadi Muslims mourn 150 children in Peshawar murdered by Taliban Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack on Peshawar Government schools. Reports indicate at least 150 children have been killed and scores more injured.
TORONTO ─ In the wake of the recent killings of two soldiers on Canadian soil by homegrown jihadists, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada is launching a campaign to fight youth radicalization. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada launched the Stop The CrISIS initiative on Wednesday at the Tahir Hall in Vaughan, Ontario just north of Toronto.The campaign includes events in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Brampton, Mississauga, Calgary, Saskatoon and Vancouver, among other communities. Events taking place in each community features a keynote address, …
On 8 November 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Caliph, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 11th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. During his address, His Holiness categorically condemned the activities of ISIS and other extremists groups as “entirely un-Islamic” and said they were “viciously spreading a network of terror” in the world. The event was held at the Baitul Futuh Mosque, the largest mosque …