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.
“Pakistan, Council of Islamic Ideology Asks for Even Harsher Persecution of the Ahmadis,” by Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter, August 20, 2024:
The battle about the Mubarak Ahmed Sani case and the decision issued last February by the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court is difficult to understand for non-Pakistanis, primarily because Pakistanis themselves disagree with each other on the meaning of the verdict.
The decision concerned the possibility for the persecuted members of the Ahmadiyya community to print and disseminate the “Tafseer-e-Sagheer,” the shorter version of the 10-volume “Tafseer-e-Kabeer,” the commentary to the Holy Quran by Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the son and successor of Ahmadiyya founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. A man called Mubarak Ahmed Sami had been arrested on January 7, 2023, for disseminating the “Tafseer-e-Sagheer,” thus breaching a Punjab law of 2021 prohibiting the printing and distributing of “heterodox” editions and commentaries of the Holy Quran. The man claimed that he had distributed the book in 2019, when the law was not yet in force. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Qazi Faez Isa agreed with him, noted that criminal laws cannot be retroactive, and had him released.It was immediately clear that the decision was perceived differently by different sectors of the population in Pakistan. Some legal scholars hailed the decision as a step, modest but real, in favor of religious liberty, as Ahmadis rarely win court cases. The Ahmadiyya community largely did not perceive it as such, as the decision did not establish their right to print and distribute the “Tafseer-e-Sagheer” or other publications and was only based on the issue of non-retroactivity. Radical Sunni Muslims, on the other hand, took to the streets insulting the Chief Justice for having “sided with the Ahmadis.”
The controversy led the Supreme Court to the rare decision of having the February verdict re-examined by a panel of three judges, including the Chief Justice, who on July 24 issued a lengthy explanation. The Justices clarified that they do believe that the Ahmadis are heterodox and cannot call themselves Muslims, nor are they allowed to propagate their ideas outside of their places of worship. The February decision, the Justices said, was only based on the issue of retroactivity.
However, the July 24 verdict did not appease the radical Sunni Muslims either. The reaction came from the Council of Islamic Ideology, which is not a private organization but a constitutional body charged with giving advice to the Parliament and the government on Islamic issues. While it is unclear whether the Council also objected to the Supreme Court’s comments on retroactivity, it considered “scandalous” and “perturbing the whole nation” the fact that the Justices stated in paragraph 42 of their decision that the Ahmadis are not allowed to profess their faith “outside of their places of worship.” This means that they can profess their faith “inside” their places of worship.
The Council commented that “the latter part of paragraph 42, which permits Ahmadis to profess or preach within their places of worship should be reconsidered. They must not be allowed to profess or preach in any manner even within their houses, community centers or in places of worship… They must not be permitted to profess or preach openly, inside their houses or otherwise, as their actions directly desecrate the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Islam, the Quran, and the Sunnah. They should be unequivocally declared as apostates.”…
somehistory says
Trying to make sense of mozlums arguing among themselves is akin to trying to understand a drunk man talking in his sleep.
War, extortion, rape and murder, are the ways of life for mozlums; while demanding anyone who disagrees with their version of these things, needs to be silenced. Whichever group of them is greater in numbers, rules over the others with an iron rod, and proclaiming that they are the ‘right, the just, the virtuous’ and all others are deserving of death.
satan the devil has a very short time left and his anger is felt through the actions….and even the words….of these murderous ghouls.
tedh754 says
2 Thumbs Up
somehistory says
Thank you, Tedh754
abu taleb says
The only “reason” for muslims to attack churches in Indonesia is the churches do not have permit for worshipping places. So houses which are used for gathering place for the Christians where they pray and sing together with some preaching probably can be attacked too by the Islamist for that very reason. Not much different from the muslims says in the article.
Of course it is just an artificial reason, the real reason muslims attack non muslims is that Islam tells them to do it. Once the governor in my province said that there were more than 100,000 Islamic worshipping places (mosques and mushollas) without permit, he promised to help obtaining the permit. No Islamist has ever attacked Islamic worshipping places that do not have permit to worship.
We can trust what Islamists say, they will lie, lie and lie even when they worship their false god.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology says Ahmadis ‘must not be allowed to preach even within their houses’
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.
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Yep…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
“Council of islamic ideology”? Thank you, Pakistan, for admitting that islam ain’t a religion!