As Friday prayers end thousands of believers stream out of the mosque. Keen-eyed men with Pashtun cheekbones hover by a convoy of cars, many of them wearing the traditional hats of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier province. Were it not for the Tube depot in the background, one could be in that exotic land with its long and sometimes unhappy links with Britain. Departing last, and driven safely away, is Hadhrat Mizra Masroor Ahmad, the fifth leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya community. …
A fortnight ago, tens of thousands of members of the Ahmadi Muslim community gathered in the historic English market town of Alton. They were there for an annual conference. This year, the community was also marking the centenary of its presence in Britain. As far back as 1926, the Ahmadis established London’s first mosque. In countries as diverse as Canada and South Africa, there are similar events that take place throughout the year. But the one country where Ahmadis aren’t …
On 25th January 2013 ( 12 Rabiul Awwal ) Muslims around the world celebrated the birthday of the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H.). Mullahs associated with Mjalis e Ahrar and Khatm e Nabuwat movement used the celebrations as an excuse to carry out an anti-Ahmadiyya procession in Rabwah. The procession started from Kot Wasawa, a suburb of Chenab Nagar and went on to Aqsa square via the Degree College. On its way to the bus stand it stopped infront of the local …
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Bangladesh marked its 100 year anniversary by holding its Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) in Dhaka on Thursday. The Convention was moved to the community’s headquarters in Dhaka after the previous venue in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir upazila was attacked by two to three thousand Muslim extremists on 6th February, The mob led by fanatical religious clerics from ‘Jamaat Islami’, Khatm e Nabuwat and other groups, entered the stadium and set the area alight. According to National Ameer of the community Mobasherur Rahman the …
A group of religious bigots which witnesses said numbered around 20,000, torched six tents of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat at Mouchak in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir upazila last evening. The Ahmadiyya Muslims were preparing for their three-day annual convention scheduled to start from tomorrow at Mouchak Scout Ground near Dhaka. The tents were setup to accommodate 10,000 members of the Community and over 200 foreign guests who were to attend the three day annual convention, said Ahmad Tavshir Chowdhury, an executive committee member of …
Takbeer TV has been put on notice by media regulator Ofcom for continuous breach of broadcasting rules including content that constituted abusive treatment of the Ahmadi community. Takbeer aired two programmes ‘Global Khatm-E-Nabuwat Movement’, broadcast on 9th June 2012 and ‘Khatm Nabuwat’, broadcast on 3rd July 2012 in which they both encouraged callers to make “derogatory and extreme” statements about the Ahmadi community. The Khatm-E-Nabuwat organization is believed to be involved in the persecution of the minority Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan.
It turned out to be a rumour that around 25 members of Ahmadiyya community managed to gather at a ‘disputed’ worship place in Rawalpindi to attend Friday prayers, when local police carried out a search operation of the building on the request of a mob, fraught with great emotion, gathered in front of the worship place. The rumour was aired by none other than Sharjil Mir, the head of so-called Action Committee Khatm-e-Nabuwat. However, later it exposed that Mir had …
Members of a Muslim sect persecuted in Pakistan have called for action to prevent groups from peddling hate against them in the UK. The Ahmadiyya community in the UK says it is being targeted through various media and in mosques and conferences by behaviour that it says amounts to religious hatred but is not caught by the definition of that offence under UK law. The community moved its headquarters to the UK in the 1980s after the Pakistani government passed a law …
Rabwah once again braces itself for yet another Khatm e Nabuwat conference which is set to take place at Madrassa Arabia on 13th and 14th October, Both the Madrassa Arabia & the adjoining Khatme Nabuwat Mosque have been built on illegally occupied land. For years, the Khatm-e-Nabuwat conference has been used to spread hate against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan. Khatm-e-Nabuwat and its leaders are guilty of proposing plans to evict Ahmadis from their own town. A similar conference …
A south London mosque is at the centre of allegations it helped promote of acts of terror and hate in Pakistan. Leaflets circulating in Pakistan calling for the murder of members of the Ahmadi Muslim sect directed readers to a website naming Stockwell Mosque. The website mentioned on the leaflets in turn advised people with queries to contact the mosque in Stockwell. Angry trustees at the mosque said its name had been misused and it had no links to the …
Security in Rabwah has been tightened as the general public gears up for the 24th International Khatme Nabuwat conference which is set to take place tomorrow on 7th September 2011. Hundreds of posters publicizing the conference have been put up all along the route from Chiniot to Chenab Nagar (Rabwah). The International Khatme Nabuwat Movement was setup by Molana Manzoor Chinioti and Abdul Hafeez Makki in 1985. This year’s conference will be held at Jamia Usmania in Muslim Colony, Rabwah.
A 55 year old man was killed last night in the Samnabad neighbourhood of Faisalabad. According to reports around 1’o clock last night 4 unknown men entered the house of Naseem Butt by jumping over the walls of his house and started shooting at him. He was hit in the abdomen and in the back. Afterwards the gunmen escaped from the scene.