It’s extremely curious: while this is going on, U.S. Ahmadi spokesmen including Qasim Rashid, Harris Zafar and Kashif Chaudry carry water for the same forces that persecute them in Pakistan, and defame and smear those who speak out against the persecution of the Ahmadis in Pakistan. “In Another Attack On Ahmadis, Radical Islamists Demolish Minarets […]
Canada: Coast-to-coast campaign allows ‘opportunity to ask questions about Islam directly from Muslims’
In Canada, one is only allowed to present Islam as a religion of peace. No other dialogue is permitted, without being branded as “Islamophobia” speech. Canada even has an “Islamophobia czar” to make certain of that. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association is traveling all over Canada inviting people to ask them questions about Islam. I […]
Ramadan in Pakistan: Police destroy minarets and dome of local Ahmadiyya mosque
Ahmadis are considered heretics; they aren’t even allowed by law to call themselves Muslims in Pakistan. So while Bitter Winter is shocked that this sort of thing would happen in Ramadan, from the point of view of the perpetrators it’s actually a quintessential Ramadan, purifying the community as one is supposed to purify one’s soul […]
Pakistan: To become lawyers, Ahmadis have to sign statement renouncing their faith
This effectively prevents Ahmadis from becoming lawyers, so that when other Ahmadis encounter legal difficulties, they have to rely on lawyers who are immediately unsympathetic to them. “Pakistan: To Join Bar, Ahmadi Lawyers Are Asked to Deny Their Faith,” by Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter, March 21, 2023: …Saudi Arabia, which is an Islamic absolute monarchy, […]
Bangladesh: After prayers, Muslim mob attacks Ahmadiyya community, torching houses and vandalizing properties
Why do we see mob attacks of this kind so often after Islamic prayer? Because that prayer all too often inculcates hatred for the unbeliever and impresses upon the believers the imperative to act as the executors of the wrath of Allah (cf. Qur’an 9:14-15). “Bangladesh: Islamists attack Ahmadiyya community, torch houses, vandalise properties. Here […]
Pakistan: Encouraged by the police, Sunni Muslims attack Ahmadi mosques
In the U.S., meanwhile, Ahmadi spokesmen such as Qasim Rashid, Harris Zafar and Kashif Chaudry carry water for the same forces that persecute them in Pakistan. After Punjab, demolishing the minarets of Ahmadi places of worship started in Karachi. Today, a group of people demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship in Saddar. […]
Pakistan: Muslim cleric issues fatwa telling Muslims to murder Ahmadiyya women and children
This fatwa is based on Islam’s death penalty for heresy; both Sunnis and Shia consider Ahmadis to be heretics. In the U.S., meanwhile, Ahmadi spokesmen such as Qasim Rashid, Harris Zafar and Kashif Chaudry carry water for the same forces that persecute them in Pakistan. “‘Kill pregnant Ahmadiyya women and their children..,’ Maulana’s poisonous VIDEO,” […]
Pakistan: State patronage propels Sunni jihadis to target Shias, Ahmadis
Then in the West, Shia and Ahmadi leaders work with those who would persecute and victimize them in Pakistan. “Pakistan: State patronage propels Sunni groups to target Shias, Ahmadis,” ANI, September 18, 2022: Islamabad [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Sectarian violence in Pakistan is on the rise as Sunni groups are threatening Shias, Ahmadis and non-Muslim […]
Pakistan: Three Ahmadis arrested on Eid for presenting themselves as Muslims
The targeting of Ahmadis in Pakistan and elsewhere is as brutal as the persecution of infidels and apostates, because they are considered heretics in mainstream Islam, as is every other Muslim group (and individual) that doesn’t follow normative Islamic doctrine. So it is nothing out of the ordinary in Pakistan that three members of the Ahmadi community […]
Pakistan: Sunni Muslim stabs Ahmadi to death because of his faith
The targeting of Ahmadis in Pakistan and elsewhere is as brutal as the persecution of infidels and apostates, because they are considered heretics in mainstream Islam, as is every Muslim group that doesn’t follow normative Islamic doctrine. Yet despite the long history of persecution they have endured, Ahmadis routinely ally with Sunni groups and proselytize in the […]