99 Ahmadis persecuted in 2010: Report

The community was not allowed to construct a single place of worship in 2010.


Express March 18, 2011

LAHORE:


The Jamaat Ahmadiyya (JA) has claimed that 99 Ahmadis were persecuted during 2010 on the basis of religion.


A detailed annual report issued by the Jamaat Ahmadiyya here on Thursday, said the killings of Ahmadis on the basis of religion was increasing and since 1984 the number of killings has reached to 202.

The report said that during the previous year, 67 cases were lodged targeting the community. It added that because of discriminatory laws in Pakistan, 234 Ahmadis were attacked, but they fortunately survived. Meanwhile, some worship places of the community were razed, while 28 others were sealed by the government during last year, the report asserted.

The report added that 15 of their worship places were illegally taken over and 29 bodies of community members were exhumed, while 51 others were not allowed to get buried in combined graveyards. Construction of not a single place of worship was allowed in the country and the police forcefully stopped construction of some places of worship in different areas of the country.

The report added that Ahmadis were not allowed to organise a single demonstration even in Rabwa, an area that has a 95 per cent Ahmadiyya population. At the same time, the report claimed that other people were allowed to hold protest demonstrations in Rabwa where derogatory language and hate speeches were used against their community.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18th, 2011.

COMMENTS (41)

Wadood Chaudhary | 13 years ago | Reply @RHK: It would be useful for us to study the prophecies regarding Messiah at the time of Jesus. Those waiting then also had much bigger hopes and they were also waiting for a world class superman type warrior Messiah which will beat the hell out of their enemies and bring them back the glory days of David. He was expected to defeat the Romans and push them out of their lands. When Jesus came, they put him on the cross, because he talked not of war but of peace. What Jesus did, however, was start a movement which in 300+ years engulfed the entire region and toppled the Roman empire in his favor (as they all became Christians and his followers). When Holy Prophet of Islam prophesied about a Messiah and also said that his Ummah will behave like a true copy of Bani-Israel, it'd be instructive to see what he means. I am not saying that Ahmadi messiah or some other was true or not but that fantastical Messiah of Mullah will never come. Like wise, no 2,000 year old Jesus will ever descend from heavens. It is just pure fanatsy, similar to what has deluded our Jewish brothers for 2,000 years. If a Muslim Messiah ever came, he would resemble his namesake in letter and spirit and at best start a movement to restore and reform and not to kill and terrorize, and all of this is going to take longer than most Muslims today have the patience for! Take care,
Iram Shahzada | 13 years ago | Reply I read the daily headlines often hoping that one day the headlines will be different; hoping that one day the persecution of my fellow Ahmadi Muslims will come to an end. I’ve been waiting, but nothing has changed. I am an Ahmadi Muslim living in Canada. Even though I live far away, I am not immune to the effects of hate speech against Ahmadi Muslims in other parts of the world. Nevertheless, I don’t want to berate the perpetrators of attacks against Ahmadi Muslims . Instead, I want to let other Muslims know that they have no reason to fear Ahmadi Muslims. Ahmadi Muslims, like all Muslims, believe in one God, Allah. We believe in the Holy Prophet Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets. We read the Qur’an and offer Salat five times a day. We do believe that the Promised Messiah has come in the person of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, but we do not hold him as an equal to the Holy Prophet. As adherents of the motto: “Love for all, Hatred for None”, Ahmadi Muslims embody and spread the message of peace. All we ask for in return is to be able to live in peace.
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