Muslim Sect Members Spread Message At The Fair (wisn.com)
Posted in Media, Online, Print on Dec 14th, 2010
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 sure when that brick wall is...
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Knife (The Huffington Post)
Posted in Op-Eds on Nov 22nd, 2010
After the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963, a white reporter asked Malcolm X in reference to civil rights movement, “You feel however, that we are making progress in this country?” Malcolm responded by saying, “No. You stick a knife into my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress.”
Such is the condition of the likes of Asiya Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman accused of blaspheming Prophet Muhammad, facing the death penalty under section 295B of the Pakistani Penal Code. This is the same law that has subject Pakistani Ahmadi Muslims to...
Moderate Islam under threat (The Independent)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Oct 26th, 2010
Being an Ahmadi Muslim from America, I was deeply disturbed to read your report “Hardliners call for deaths of Surrey Muslims” (21 October). This is too much change since my last visit to London in April.
Over the past six months, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has launched a bus campaign with our slogan “Love for all, hatred for none” in London. The same bus campaign then took to the streets of New York, Wisconsin and Houston in the USA. Our youth went door-knocking with “Muslims for Peace” leaflets. In the USA, we have reached out to over 25 million people with...
USA: Assimilation? Try “education” instead (Asbury Park Press)
Posted in Op-Eds on Oct 10th, 2010
The assimilation of my wife and I into American culture started in Long Branch in 1996. That is where we, both doctors, settled after moving from Pakistan.
As I started my medical residency at Monmouth Medical Center, she sacrificed her career for our newborn daughter and became a full-time homemaker. Our inability to afford a car left us stranded on weekends.
And even though a NJ Transit train station was right across from our home, round trips to Manhattan were expensive. This always left us one available and affordable excursion: a walk to the beach.
As practicing Muslims, you could recognize us...
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...
Troubling answer to query ‘Where are moderate Muslims?’ (Boston Globe)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Jul 8th, 2010
NEWS OF suicide blasts at a Lahore, Pakistan, Sufi shrine, which promotes a moderate version of Islam, is unsettling (“Attack on Pakistani shrine leaves 35 dead,175 wounded,’’ Page A6, July 2). Even more disturbing is the backdrop of terror attacks in the same city that killed at least 93 Ahmadi Muslims, another moderate sect within Islam, just over a month ago. Both groups have been labeled as heretics by the Wahhabi school of thought because of their views.
During my visit to Pakistan in 2004, I asked friends the question many Americans had asked after Sept. 11, 2001: Where are the moderate...
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