On June 10, the All Pakistan Students Khatm-e-Nubuwat (End of Prophethood) Federation distributed pamphlets branding members of the Ahmadiyya community as "wajib-ul-qatl" (obligatory to be killed). The pamphlet, circulated in Faisalabad District of Punjab Province, said, "To shoot such people is an act of jihad and to kill such people is an act of sawab (blessing)."On June 13, reports revealed that terrorists were chalking out a plan to attack prominent members of the Ahmadi community, starting from Faisalabad. Sources also revealed that different terrorist groups have united for this mission and had initiated the campaign with the distribution of pamphlets and organization of meetings in local seminaries against the Ahmadis, claiming that the Ahmadi citizens of the country were involved in conspiracies against Islam and Pakistan.
Unfortunately, there is little that is new here.
| The Ahmaddis have been targetted as heretics since the sect formed in 1889, but things have gotten much worse since Pakistan's parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1974 declaring Ahmadis "not Muslim" -- much worse than mere heretics or apostates. This kind of thing is par for the course wherever Ahmadis are found throughout Dar al Islam; the one place where they can safely call themselves Muslim is in the United States. |