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U.S. Commission Urges Action After Attack on Ahmadi Mosque in Rabwah

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a bipartisan body of the U.S. House of Representatives, has strongly condemned a violent attack on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan and urged the U.S. State Department to take decisive action to protect religious minorities in the country. The Commission reacted to reports of six Ahmadis being injured when gunmen opened fire at the Bait-ul-Mehdi mosque in Rabwah during Friday prayers. In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), the Commission described the incident …

US authorities seek extradition of mother who killed husband and fled to Pakistan

American authorities are trying to have a woman extradited from Pakistan to stand trial in her husband’s 2002 murder. On a May night in 2002, Beverly McCallum loaded her dead husband’s body into her van along with her two young daughters, police said. Caraballo’s badly burned body was found on May 8, 2002 in a metal footlocker. He remained unidentified until 2015, when an anonymous caller provided a tip that cracked the case open again. Eaton County Sheriff’s Department Detective …

U.S. Human Rights report criticizes Pakistan for its treatment of Ahmadis

The United States on Wednesday criticized Pakistan for its treatment of Ahmadis and other religious minorities. A country report by the U.S. State Department noted Pakistan’s use of discriminatory laws against Ahmadis, Shias and Christians. The reported stated: Courts routinely failed to protect the rights of religious minorities. Courts discriminatorily used laws prohibiting blasphemy against Shia, Christians, Ahmadis, and members of other religious minority groups. Lower courts often did not require adequate evidence in blasphemy cases, and some convicted persons …

Tributes, condolences pour in for Pakistani-Canadian activist Shahid Rashdi

Pakistani-Canadian leader Shahid Mahmood Rashdi died Wednesday from a post-surgery infection. He had undergone a successful heart surgery just days before. Rashdi, 70 was a former Pakistan Air Force pilot who migrated to Canada in late 90’s where he soon made a name for himself as a community leader and activist. He was much loved by the Pakistani-Canadian community and was held in high regard by political leaders for building community relations without regard for race, religion or political persuasion. …

South Asian Islamists gain ground in Philadelphia

Only a few days after the annual 4th-of-July festival brought thousands of people to celebrate American independence in the streets of Philadelphia, the city hosted a different kind of gathering. The Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), an organization with deep ties to the south Asian extremist group Jamaat e Islami (JI), chose the City of Brotherly Love as the venue for its annual Islamist convention. Over the weekend of July 7 and 8th, a number of fanatical speakers addressed …

CAIR Denies Condemning Anti-Semitism

Part of how lawful Islamist groups are so insidious is that they are perfectly willing to pretend to respectability by mouthing the correct pieties of our tolerant society, but are quick to jettison their professed tolerance when it suits them – to the detriment of moderate Muslims everywhere. In the past few days, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) gave us a clinic in how it is done. CAIR’s frequent ally, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), has a recurring problem with anti-Semitism. …

Accident at Maryland Mosque leaves two injured

A vehicle crash at Maryland Mosque on Sunday left two injured. Police say a 76-year-old man, was trying to park when the car fell into the lower level of an outside enclosure near the building. The incident happened just before 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Baitur Rehman Mosque on Good Hope Road. Firefighters removed the driver and the passenger — a 71-year-old woman — from the car. They were taken to the hospital with injuries that …

Hardline Islamic Cleric to start U.S. Speaking Tour

On April 6, Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari, a British cleric from the Deobandi movement, a hardline South Asian Islamic sect, will commence a three-day speaking tour, speaking at five mosques in New York and New Jersey, as well as at St Johns University in Queens. His most widely-advertised lecture, at the Quba Institute in New York on April 7, is titled ‘Women’s Rights in Marriage.’ The hosts call on their audience to come along and “stand up against domestic violence.” …

U.S. places Pakistan on watch list for religious freedom violations

The U.S. State Department has placed Pakistan on a special watch list for “severe violations of religious freedom,” it said on Thursday, days after the White House said Islamabad would have to do more to combat terrorism to receive U.S. aid. The State Department also said it had re-designated 10 other nations as “countries of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act for having engaged in or tolerated egregious violations of religious freedom. The re-designated countries were China, Eritrea, …

Muslim groups cite first amendment in defense of ‘extremist’ event

Muslims groups have defended their decision to host a hate conference which called for the use of force against ‘non-Muslims’. CAIR executive director also spoke out in defense of the organizers. A week earlier Rabwah Times through covert video and audio recordings revealed how speakers at an Islamist conference in Virginia called for the use of force against ‘non-Muslims’ and urged American Muslims to not vote for ‘Non-Muslim’ candidates. The sister organizations Idara Dawat Idara Dawat-O-Irshad Inc and Khatme Nubuwwat …

Pakistani-American Muslims call for restrictions against ‘non-Muslims’

Pakistan born Islamic cleric Rafiq Khan defined America as “The land of Infidels” at a fundraiser for his Islamic charity this Saturday. The event which was held at a Holiday Inn in Springfield, Virginia attracted over 100 participants. Speakers included an Islamist from Pakistan as well as radical Imams from the states of Maryland, Virginia, and Texas. The conference revolved around the topics of Jihad, Infidels and what can the American Muslim community do to counter conspiracies against Islam. We went …

U.S. senators want to declare Pakistan a ‘country of particular concern’

In a statement, six U.S. Senators including former Presidential candidate Marco Rubio (R-FL) have urged the State Department to declare Pakistan a country of particular concern (CPC). CPC is a designation given to countries for severe violations of religious freedom. If the Secretary of State designates a country as CPC, the U.S. Congress is notified, which can then use both non-economic policy options or economic sanctions to bring about stop severe religious freedom violations. In a letter dated October 27, …