29 July 2014

Persecution of Ahmaddiya Muslims in Pakistan Is a Continuing Stain on the Country

.... An attack on Ahmadi Muslims is an attack on all of us as people of faith and an attack on basic decency and morality. As a British person of Sunni Muslim heritage, the more Ahmadi Muslims are attacked because of their faith, the louder people of Sunni heritage should shout out - 'Not in Our Name.' There are no ifs or buts and there are no alternatives to this, for we cannot allow such mob rule to take over and for injustice to prevail.

This is also why I support the campaign to Stop The Persecution and I call all those who seek a better, more just world to join me.

[A COMMENT] The plight of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan or the Middle East reveals blight within mainstream Is lam, whether Sunni or Shia - that others who do not agree with their very specific chronology and theology are apostates, infidels, kuffars, all those who somehow have "chosen" to repudiate "real" Is lam.

This is an unfortunate embarrassment that reveals the underlying question of whose version gets to be implemented in the global charge to cause everyone to submit to Is lam. [The Huffington Post UK] Read more