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2007-04-23 India-Pakistan

Ahmadi cemetery fence razed in pre-dawn operation

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Posted by John Frum 2007-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Ahmadi Jamaat was one of the groups that pushed strongly for the creation of Pakistan - "the land of the pure".

Looks like they were not pure enough to live, or even die, there...

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-23 06:53|| 2007-04-23 06:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Professor Abdus Salam, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 was an Ahmadi.
His gravestone read Abdus Salam the first muslim Nobel Laureate

But Pakistan changed its constitution to declare Ahmadis as non Muslim and ban them from Haj pilgrimage.

Pakistani police were sent to his grave where they erased from his headstone the word Muslim.
Now the defaced headstone just reads Abdus Salam the first (blank) Nobel Laureate

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-23 06:59|| 2007-04-23 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 And Pak schoolchildren are not taught about Professor Salam. Instead they learn about the great hero of Pakistan, Dr AQ Khan.

Ironically Abdus Salam, when he visted India was honored by all. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was so in awe of him that she refused to sit on a chair next to him during a meeting.

She sat on the ground, at his feet.

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-23 07:02|| 2007-04-23 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Sharia equivalent of Eminent Domain?

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-23 09:24|| 2007-04-23 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "...Local Ahmadis believe the operation was a result of a campaign started by extremist clerics and religious organisations that had said the fencing of the graveyard was an attempt to create a mini Rabwah....

Rabwah is the burial site of Abdus Salam and other important Ahmadis. It is also the HQ of Ahmadi administration.

Posted by mhw 2007-04-23 12:51|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-23 12:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like they were not pure enough to live, or even die, there...

The usual "more Islamic than thou" ~~psychopathology~~ crapulence at work. With its "land of the pure" battle cry, Pakistan has infected itself with a limitless succession of evermore fatal purges that make Hollywood starlets look like absolute slackers.

While it is regretful that peaceful Muslims like the Ahmadis must suffer, Islam's curse upon this world of ours obliges me to say: Keep up the good work! Either substantial internecine strife ensues or slow elimination of those who follow the Koran. As to which, I do not have the time to worry about it. Perhaps the Ahmadis should.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-23 19:46|| 2007-04-23 19:46|| Front Page Top

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