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Rabwah Times

Je Suis Charlie! Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns Charlie Hebdo gun attack

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 …

Islamist Extremists plan march against Ahmadis in Rabwah

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 …

Hate speech on Geo TV leads to killing of an Ahmadi man in Gujranwala

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 …

Geo TV attacks Ahmadiyya Muslim minority, brands them “enemies of Pakistan”

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 …

Ahmadi Muslims arrive in India for 123rd annual convention

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 …

Ahmadiyya Muslims launch campaign to stop homegrown terrorism

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, …

Caliph of Islam calls for urgent action against ISIS

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 …

Caliph of Islam gives peace prize to Christian charity founder

The Christian founder of school feeding charity, Mary’s Meals, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, is pictured above at the weekend, accepting the award of the 2014 Prize for the Advancement of Peace by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK at its 11th National Peace Symposium. He received the award at Europe’s largest mosque, the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden in Surrey – and was presented with it by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Caliph, His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, who leads the global community that …

Christian couple burnt alive in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy

A Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry crowd after being accused of desecrating a Koran, police say. Shahzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama Bibi, a married couple with four children, were beaten and then burnt alive in a brick kiln where they worked yesterday (4 November) after they were accused of desecrating the Quran by a co-worker. According to the Pakistan Christian Post, mosque loudspeakers in Kot Rada Kishan, Kasur district of Punjab, …

Gambian State Imam fired for making anti-Ahmadiyya comments

A senior Islamic cleric & Imam of THE STATE HOUSE MOSQUE of Gambia Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty who called for the expulsion of Ahmadis and a complete ban on Ahmadiyya teaching in the country has been fired from his job as Imam of the State House. Alhaji Abdoulie Fatty, in an interview to the private Standard Newspaper in Banjul called for the expulsion of  Ahmadis from Gambia and said “Ahmadiyya’s are not Muslims,” The Saudi Arabia educated cleric confirmed to a local newspaper that …

British Ahmadiyya Muslims raise funds for Poppy Appeal

OVER the next few weeks, hundreds of young Muslims belonging to the largest and oldest standing Islamic Caliphate will be taking to the high streets, rail and tube stations, stadiums and airports around the UK, raising thousands of pounds for the Poppy Appeal. For the 5th year running, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) will be in partnership with the Royal British Legion. They see it as a mark of good citizenship and a testament to the Islamic …