Pakistan: Muslim policemen paint over Qur'an inscriptions on Ahmadi graves

Yet in the United States, Ahmadis like Harris Zafar run interference for the Islamic supremacists who persecute them elsewhere, by attacking and defaming the very people who are standing up to their jihadist persecutors. As Jihad Watch reader David, who sent this in, noted, maybe if tools like Zafar work even harder for the Islamic supremacists in the West, the Islamic supremacists in Pakistan will ease up on persecuting Ahmadis. But probably not.

"Policemen vandalise graveyard of minority Ahmadi sect," from PTI, August 19 (thanks to David):

Lahore: A graveyard of the minority Ahmadi sect in Pakistan's Punjab province has allegedly been vandalised by policemen, who used black paint to cover up verses from the Quran inscribed on 64 graves.

The incident occurred in Hafizabad district, 90 km from Lahore. Policemen painted the tombstones yesterday at the "request" of anti-Ahmadis clerics, who called for the Quranic verses to be removed from the graves.

The police action has sent shock waves through the 2,500-strong Ahmadi community living in Hafizabad and made them feel vulnerable, Ahmadi leaders said.

Nasir Javed, the acting chief of the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya in Hafizabad, told a news agency that police had called him a few days ago and asked him to remove Quranic verses from the tombstones in the Ahmadi graveyard as it was "hurting the sentiments of Muslims".

"We asked them how such verses could be removed as they were not provocative by any means. The police chief of the district said they would do it on their own as the issue could lead to tensions between the two communities," Javed said.

"Yesterday we found 64 graves vandalised with black paint, which is outrageous," he said. He condemned the police action and asked: "If the state is doing this to us, to whom should we turn to for justice?"

Hafizabad district police chief Waqas Yasin told a news agency that police had acted after receiving a complaint from local clerics.

"As the Ahmadis are not Muslims, they cannot have Quranic verses inscribed on their tombstones," he said.

Police had first asked the Ahmadi community to erase the verses themselves but they did not comply, he said.

After that, the police had to act, he added.

Earlier, there was a joint graveyard for Ahmadis and Muslims in the district.

Following a protest by an extremist group six years ago, the Ahmadis had to separate their graveyard. Pakistan's Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim but were declared non-Muslims through a constitutional amendment in 1974.

A decade later, they were barred from proselytising or identifying themselves as Muslims in Pakistan....

Police in Punjab province have taken action against several Ahmadi mosques this year. They demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi mosque at Kharian city, 200 km from Lahore, last month.

In March, couplets from the Quran written on tiles at an Ahmadi mosque at Sultanpura in Lahore were removed by police.

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Memo to the Ahmadis.

The rest of the Mohammedan Mob will never accept you as part of the Mob.

They already regard you as apostates. They're going to try to kill you anyway.

Sooo - you may as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb.

APOSTASISE!

And rejoin human civilisation.

Some Quranic verses "hurt the sentiments of Muslims". Some don't!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/accursed-book-le-livre-maudit.html

This isn't the first time the Paki authorities have vandalized Ahmadi graves. The gravestone of Abdus Salam -- Nobel Prize winner for physics in 1979 -- was originally engraved "the first Moslem Nobel Prize winner". But later a Paki judge ordered that the word "Moslem" be chiseled out.

Here it comes again - another arrest in Pakistan for 'desecrating' the Koran. This time it's an 11-year old Christian girl:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19311098

Naseem needs to rush in and straighten out these pious Muslims....

What an irony! Back in the early 20th century, the Ahmadis were the wedge of Islamic proselytism in Western countries, so much so that they attracted the attention of no-one less than Arnold Toynbee. How strange they should end up "Taqfirred" in their Panjabi land of origin.

Ordinarily grave desecration is an activity for thugs, not police.

Oh, wait ... Pakistan.

Never mind.

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