Wajid Shamsul Hassan’s speech at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s annual convention in UK. Legislators from both ruling and opposition benches in Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly on Thursday severely criticised the statement of former Pakistani diplomat to UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan in which he said that the decision to declare Ahmadiyya Muslims a minority in Pakistan was wrong.
More than 30,000 Muslims gathered in Hampshire this weekend to hear Barrie Schwortz, an Orthodox Jew, discuss the significance of the Shroud of Turin, a Christian artefact. The Jalsa Salana UK Convention is run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which believes the Shroud of Turin bears the image of Jesus, alive in the tomb after his crucifixion. A life-sized replica of the Shroud of Turin was one of many exhibits on human rights and the Koran on display at the …
HAMPSHIRE, England – Education is the key to breaking the influence that media-savvy, violent extremists have on young, disaffected Muslims, the leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) believes. Security officials estimate up to 700 people have left Britain to become involved with extremist groups such as the Islamic State (IS). About half have returned. At least 43 women and girls have fled to Syria in the past year.
The leader of the Muslim Ahmadiyya community has called for the authorities in the UK to monitor what happens in mosques and madrassas or Islamic religious schools, to help counter radicalisation. Ahmadiyya Muslims number many million across the world, and are a movement that started in India more than 100 years ago. However, they are considered apostates by other sects within Islam, and have suffered persecution in countries such as Pakistan where they are banned. Their annual gathering of more …
An Ahmadi Muslim man has been shot dead by four attackers on a motorbike in Taunsa, a city in the south of Punjab province of Pakistan. 37 year old Ikramullah was in the pharmacy that he owned when four gunmen on motorbikes stormed the store and opened fire. Ikramullah was shot several times and one of the bullets went through his skull.
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of West Bengal, India came under attack by local Muslim extremists which resulted in 10 people being seriously injured On 7th August 2015, a mob of local muslim extremists forcefully invaded the home of a local Ahmadi Muslim yielding knives, bricks and metal rods and attacked the residents. Ten people including women were seriously injured in this horrific attack. The attackers then surrounded the house for the entire night and refused access to the Police and emergency services.
It was August 14, 1984. I was only two-years-old. My father decorated the veranda of our small house with lights and green buntings. My parents were excited, as were my elder brother and I. Though I was too young to remember, pictures of that day bring on a strong sensation of déjà vu. Yet, and sadly, before the following Independence Day, we had to leave Pakistan. Persecution, which gained momentum under President Ziaul Haq, forced many Ahmadis to leave for …
At least three suspected terrorists were killed late Wednesday night in an alleged police encounter, while two managed to escape. According to a police spokesman, policemen were taking two men Muhammad Hanif and Raja Iftikhar Ahmad accused of orchestrating attacks on Ahmadiyya Mosques, to recover hidden arms, when four to five armed men opened fire at the police party on Indus Highway near Taunsa Bypass.
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published more than 60,000 secret documents from Saudi Arabia and said that it had more than half a million additional documents that it will be releasing in the upcoming weeks as part of the “Saudi Cables”. The secretive organization, headed by 43-year-old Australian Julian Assange, was launched in December 2006. The organization facilitates the anonymous leaking of secret information through its website to expose the wrongdoing of governments and corporations.
CHAKWAL: On a first visit, one only notices the calm which engulfs the sleepy village of Pichnand, located some 90 kilometres from the district capital, in Talagang tehsil. Most of its 24,000 residents earn their livelihood from agriculture and cattle farming. And walking through the quiet winding streets of the village, it is hard to tell that underneath the calm, simmer religious tensions with extremism on the rise in the Talagang tehsil, 45 kilometres from Chakwal. New blasphemy cases are …
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 …
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 …