Do we even want this barbarism to stop? (The Express Tribune)
Posted in Op-Eds, Print on Aug 24th, 2010
What are some of the key features of the Sialkot tragedy? Innocent young men being mauled by a mob filled with hate, and with dozens of people standing by, including the police, all doing nothing. These are not the hallmarks of a regular terror attack where in a split second dozens of lives are lost.
There is a striking parallel between the Sialkot lynching and the massacre of more than 90 Ahmadis in Lahore on May 28 this year. Those worshippers were just as innocent — and the assailants filled with just as much hatred, even a willingness to give up their lives in the process. At the same time, there...
Islamophonia and Ground Zero Mosque controversy (NPR Affiliate Radio)
Posted in Radio on Aug 20th, 2010 Denying relief on the basis of belief (The Express Tribune)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Aug 20th, 2010
BALTIMORE, US: This is with reference to Abdul Manan’s article “The politics of relief: Aliens in their own land” (August 18). It was sickening to read the news story about 500 flood-stricken Ahmadi families being discriminated against by the government and clerics in southern Punjab. Let the record show that this is the same community who responded valiantly for the help of hundreds of thousands of Pakistani earthquake victims in 2005. Less than 100 Ahmadi families were affected by that earthquake. Not only that, but the Ahmadi community responded benevolently towards millions in Indonesia after...
Muslim sect spreads a message of Peace (ABC News, Milwaukee)
Posted in Media, Video on Aug 6th, 2010
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WEST ALLIS, Wis. — Young members of a Muslim sect delivered a message of peace Friday at the Wisconsin State Fair.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community’s message is no more terrorism. But that’s a message not everyone here at the fair is buying.
“I didn’t really open (the pamphlet). I read it. I knew it was a Muslim issue, and it bothers me a little bit,” one fairgoer said.
“Whenever you hand someone something they’re going to be thinking, What is this?” said Maanaan Sabir. “There’s a brick wall up. We have to make...
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