They were also charged with terrorism for selling Ahmadi books. The bitter irony in all this is that Ahmadiyya spokesmen in the West such as Qasim Rashid and Harris Zafar routinely side with groups holding the same views on Islam as those held by their persecutors in Pakistan, and tar non-Muslim defenders of the Ahmadis as “Islamophobes.”
“Ahmadi bookstore owner and manager arrested under blasphemy law,” Rabwah Times, December 12, 2015:
Pakistani authorities have arrested two Ahmadi Muslim men for alleged Blasphemy.
Bookstore owner Abul Shukoor and manager Mazhar Ahmad were arrested Wednesday, Dec. 2 from Ahmadiyya Book Depot in Rabwah. Both men were taken to an unknown location after their arrest.
According to a leaked charge sheet the men were charged under section 298-C of Pakistan’s Penal code. The infamous law prevents members of Ahmadiyya sect from preaching and calling themselves Muslim.In a surprising turn of events, the two men have also been charged under Pakistan’s Anti Terrorism Act (ATA) of 1997 for the crime of selling books published by the minority Ahmadiyya community. The men have been charged under provision 8 of ATA which carries a prison sentence of up to seven years and under section 298-C they can face an additional three years in jail. Earlier this year in January Shukoor was harassed and had his store vandalized by local police. Before that he was arrested for wearing a ring with a Quranic inscription.
This has come as a shock to the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who are often times victim of terror attacks. The provision 8 of the anti-terrorism act was designed to stop sectarian hatred against minorities like the the Ahmadiyya but is being used by extremist clerics to unfairly target members of the Ahmadiyya sect.
In 1974, Pakistan declared the Ahmadiyya sect to be non-Muslim through a constitutional amendment, since then the Ahmadis have faced severe persecution both by the state and by local extremist groups like Khatm-e-Nabuwat.

Kronik_Infidel says
“They were also charged with terrorism for selling Ahmadi books.” Now if that isn’t calling the kettle black?! I thought the Ahmadiyya sect was one of the more progressive and moderate versions of islam?
gravenimage says
Kronik_Infidel wrote:
“They were also charged with terrorism for selling Ahmadi books.” Now if that isn’t calling the kettle black?! I thought the Ahmadiyya sect was one of the more progressive and moderate versions of islam?
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This should not surprise–Muslim nations regularly use “anti-terrorism laws” to persecute Infidels and other-sect Muslims.
They can then point to such laws to deceive credulous Kuffar into believing that they are actually fighting Jihad terror. This is not at all uncommon.
Westman says
How ironic. A sect of Islam, closest to being a “religion of peace”, is being persecuted by mainstream Pakistani Shias and their government which describe themselves as having the true “religion of peace” – for being a more peaceful religion.
Islam is such a sham. The ideology justifies any aggression against anyone, including family and former associates, if they can be smeared with or commit some “blasphemous” infraction. Unbelievers are worth a few bucks at the local slavemart.
Islam makes and turns civic laws into weapons.
Will CAIR do the right thing and declare that Pakistan “has nothing to do with Islam” when, blatantly, the state religion is not behaving as if it represents a religion of peace? Dream on.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“[The Ahmadiyya sect] is being persecuted by mainstream Pakistani Shias …”
By Shias? Not Sunnis? That seems inconsistent with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism_in_Pakistan
Westman says
Sorry, Mark, I reversed that – brain freeze. You’re right, Sunnis are like 80-90% in Pakistan. Unfortunately, same results; Ahmadiyyas and Baha’i are targets for Sunnis and Shia.
Adrian says
Menawhile Harris Zafar continues making the rounds on TV news shows… and clueless Bill O’Reilly laps up all the “moderate” mantra… O’Reilly even begged Zafar to produce “a Million Muslim March in Washington with national coverage to speak out against ISIS, so the whole world can see it”… fat chance, but what the heck would that prove? – it would still be only a “spectacle” for the media… how about some real action, like initiating a program to teach US Muslims why the Islamic State’s ideology is wrong?…
However, they unwittingly let the cat out of the bag by saying people should “pick up a Koran read it” to understand that extremists have the wrong idea about the Muslim faith. Oh, I just can’t wait…….
gravenimage says
Yes–Ahmadi Muslims have no trouble carrying water for mainstream Islam and whitewashing its vicious tenets–even though orthodox Muslims persecute and murder them.
“Indonesian Muslim Mob Beats Three Ahmadis to Death in Order to Stop Ahmadiyya Worship”
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/02/indonesian-muslim-mob-beats-three.html
خَليفة says
In 1974 Pakistan declared… Constitutional amendment…
This shows how truly perverted and hypocritical Islam is and that there is no distinction between sharia and “constitution” – i.e. a constitution implies people created laws and voted to pass them ( decided to obey those laws ) where as sharia is supposedly from Allah and people are not supposed to make their own laws ( thus the hypocrisy ) Like most Islamic countries, Pakistan wants to have “the appearance of being reasonable and just” yet never actually achieves it due to the perversions of Islamic doctrine.
It’s time to return Pakistan to its pre 1947 borders. Pakistan is the epitome of what you get when you give Muslims their own country by taking land away from another country.
the renegade says
not being inhuman. but just deserts for this “progressive” muslim community that played a key role in carving out islamic pakistan out of india.
how they are being appreciated. if one muslim is killed in india which has a population of over 1.25 billion the whole west derides india as being intolerant.
mean while churches being bombed in Pakistan, temples demolished on a regular basis, hindu pundits from kashmir being ethnically cleansed etc. not a peep from west that use these islamic nuttty countries for their own nefarious ends.
west even backed Pakis during three pak wars they had with india. but they were defeated.
ISLAM WILL BE DEFEATED PERMANENTLY. THEIR ILLUSIONS OF ISLAMIC WORLD ORDER WILL NEVER BE FULLFILLED. GOD GAVE THEM OIL TO RUIN THEM.
Donald Trump gave a great reply to Saudi Prince when Saudi asked him to drop out of race:
@dopey prince wants control if our politicians with Daddy’s moneY. Cant do it when i get elected.
The above comment holds true for western politicians who have been bought off with islamic oil Money and they wont speak against their islamic masters.
Angemon says
Ah, the fabled solidarity of the ummah!
siesmann says
Please guys.Don’t take Ahmadis to task .They are the ones persecuted .They have to live among blood-thirsty mullahs and their zombie crowds.Help them to get out of that god-forsaken land called Pakistan.I have always advised Ahmadis to leave this violent sect called Islam.- a sect that kills people for leaving Islam,and then also kills someone who wants to claim himself Muslim.Mullahs of Pakistan will keep killing them for being Ahmadis,but they-Ahamdis- know if they were to become Christians, Buddhists etc,Mullahs will kill them for aposatacy.The government doesn’t protect them,police mostly become the part of the crowds haunting them.If somebody in Pakistan says or does something for their protection,he will be killed for doing that.
seismann says
here is what Pakistani children are being taught-an essential part of curriculum
seismann says
Here is another example of Pakistani Islam(recent burning of Ahmaddiya businesses and attempt to burn them)
billybob says
We in the ‘West’ take countries like China and Russia to task for Human Rights abuses, while we remain mute about countries that practice Sharia and Gender Apartheid?
Like… I don’t get the difference. Why do Islamic countries get a pass for the horrible atrocities to their people? Blasphemy laws, laws against apostasy, beheadings, amputations, and stonings…. How are they any less a crime than secret trials in China or persecution of gays in Russia, or any number of abuses from fascist or totalitarian states that we routinely condemn?
Every time a Western leader goes to China, he is expected to “raise Human Rights issues”. Why isn’t there that same expectation every time a Western leader goes to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan? Why aren’t these countries told that their abuses of their citizens are unacceptable?
There is something very wrong here. While our governments may be slow to arrive at proportionality, we should be educating our children in the West about abuses under Sharia as being Human Rights issue like any other kind of abuse. There is no way we should be teaching them to respect the ideology of Islam.
When I argue this angle with Leftists here in North America it’s like they are deaf to these kinds of issues. Problem is they are basing their views on Islam on what they see in North America, where Muslims are better integrated and more affluent than anywhere else in the world. These North American Muslims are an outlier, and hardly represent Islam. Wait until more have arrived, and they reach critical mass, and then you will see they are no different than Muslims elsewhere. Countries like Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and all those Islamic countries collectively represent Islam, and show it as the evil scourge it is.
Every time I hear about Muslims ‘being radicalized’ or that ISIS are ‘extremists’, I think of what I said above, that North American Muslims are an outlier, and hardly represent Islam. In fact, the peaceful well integrated ones are the radicals and extremists who would be accused of apostasy back in their countries of origin, because they don’t follow traditional Islam and the exigencies of the Quran. For example, take the Muslim war heros Obama refers to who “fought and died for America”. While I respect such, these have committed a crime against their faith by putting America ahead of Allah. These “ain’t no Muslims, bov”.
Infovoyeur says
I don’t know about the Ahamaddi group, but I sometimes review books on Amazon.com. And one Harris Zafar recently wrote “Demystifying Islam.” I struggled for hours to capture his serpentine, insidious and skilled propaganda in the space of a book review. Couldn’t do it. I RECOMMEND his book as an advanced example of–Shinola, Newspeak, you name it. If a reader ALREADY knows much or enough about this whole subject, s/he could learn about Islamist propganda–all other readers would be fooled, in fact intellectually drugged and never knew that they had been sandbagged…