Why are the Jews So Powerful?

By Farrukh Saleem

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, and son in law of Khalilur Rehman of the Jang Group.

There are only 14 million Jews in the world:

seven million in the Americas

five million in Asia

two million in Europe

100,000 in Africa .

For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims.

Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put together.

Ever wondered why?

Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish.

Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time and TIME magazine’s ’Person of the Century’, was a Jew.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew.

So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output has enriched the whole humanity:

Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle.

Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.

Albert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine.

Gertrude Elion gave us a leukemia fighting drug.

Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B.

Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis.

Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases.

Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission.

Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology.

Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy.

Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill.

George Wald won a Nobel for our understanding of the human eye.

Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology.

Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.

Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizes while only three Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.4 billion
Muslims (other than Peace Prizes).

Stanley Mezor invented the first micro-processing chip.

Leo Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor;

Peter Schultz, optical fibre cable;

Charles Adler, traffic lights;

Benno Strauss, Stainless steel;

Isador Kisee, sound movies;

Emile Berliner, telephone microphone;

Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faith include:

Ralph Lauren (Polo),

Levis Strauss (Levi’s Jeans),

Howard Schultz (Starbuck’s) ,

Sergey Brin (Google),

Michael Dell (Dell Computers),

Larry Ellison (Oracle),

Donna Karan (DKNY),

Irv Robbins (Baskins & Robbins) and

Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin Donuts).

Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is a Jew. So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state), Alan Greenspan (Fed chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman (US Senator), Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state), Casper Weinberger (American secretary of defense), Maxim Litvinov ( USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal ( Singapore ‘s first chief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia ), Benjamin
Disraeli (British statesman and author), Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM), Barry Goldwater (US Senator), Jorge Sampaio (president of Portugal ), John Deutsch (CIA director), Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM), Pierre Mendes (French PM), Michael Howard (British home
secretary), Bruno Kreisky (chancellor of Austria ) and Robert Rubin (American secretary of treasury).

In the media, famous Jews include:

Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara Walters (ABC News), Eugene Meyer (Washington Post), Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post), Joseph Lelyveld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (New York Times).

The most beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4 billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universities around the world.

Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has built a hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2 billion.

At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by winning seven gold medals; Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.

Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker (Tennis) are all Jewish.

Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman,
Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Kirk Douglas, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William Shatner, Jerry Lewis and
Peter Falk are all Jews.

As a matter of fact, Hollywood itself was founded by a Jew.

Among directors and producers, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling ( Beverly Hills 90210), Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Andrew Vaina (Rambo 1/2/3), Michael Man (Starsky andHutch), Milos Forman (One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Douglas Fairbanks (The Thief of Baghdad ) and Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish.

So, why are Jews so powerful?
Answer : EDUCATION

Why are Muslims so powerless?
There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet: one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million in Europe and six million in the Americas . Every fifth human being is a Muslim; for every single Hindu there are two Muslims, for every Buddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jew there are 100 Muslims.

Clip_7Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?
Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together have around
500 universities; one university for every three million Muslims.

The United States has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ , and intriguingly, not one university from Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Christian world had completed primary school, while less than 50 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Muslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Christian world attended university while no more than two per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Muslim world did the same.

Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims. The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million.

In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time researchers is 35,000 and there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs. (in the Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).

The Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while the Christian world spends around five per cent of its GDP.

Conclusion: The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge!

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per million are two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in a society.

In Pakistan , there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis while the same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK , the number of book titles per million stands at 2,000 while the same in Egypt is 20.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge. 

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports are an important indicator of knowledge application. Pakistan ‘s export of high technology products as a percentage of total exports stands at one per cent. The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; Kuwait , Morocco , and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent, while Singapore is at 58 per cent.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge. 

Why are Muslims powerless?

…..Because we aren’t producing knowledge,
…..Because we aren’t diffusing knowledge.,
…..Because we aren’t applying knowledge.

And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.

Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.

America , just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion; China $8 trillion, Japan $3.8 trillion and Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis).

Oil rich Saudi Arabia , UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500 billion; Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion, Catholic Poland $489 billion and Buddhist Thailand $545 billion.

….. (Muslim GDP as a percentage of world GDP is fast declining).

All we do is shout to Allah the whole day and blame everyone else for our multiple failures!

Muslims are not happy

They’re not happy in Gaza

They’re not happy in Egypt

They’re not happy in Libya

They’re not happy in Morocco

They’re not happy in Iran

They’re not happy in Iraq

They’re not happy in Yemen

They’re not happy in Afghanistan

They’re not happy in Pakistan

They’re not happy in Syria

They’re not happy in Lebanon

So, where are they happy?

They’re happy in Australia

They’re happy in England

They’re happy in France

They’re happy in Italy

They’re happy in Germany

They’re happy in Sweden

They’re happy in the USA & Canada

They’re happy in Norway

They’re happy in almost every country that is not Islamic!

And who do they blame?

Not Islam…

Not their leadership…

Not themselves…

THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN

And they want to change the countries they’re happy in, to be like the countries they came from, where they were unhappy.

Try to find logic in that!

Jeff Foxworthy on Muslims:

1. If You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor. You are a Muslim

2. If You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes. You are a Muslim

3. If You have more wives than teeth. You are a Muslim

4. If You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean. You are a Muslim.

5. If You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide. You are a Muslim

6. If You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against.
You are a Muslim

7. If You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing. You are a Muslim

8. If You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs. You are a Muslim

9. If You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four. You are a Muslim

 

Does Holy Jihad Entail Killing of All Non-Muslims?

This is a true story and the author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry 

The man who walks with God always gets to his destination. If you have a pulse you have a purpose.

The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States , especially in the minority races!

Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for maintaining my state prison security clearance.

During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths , who each explained their beliefs.

I was particularly interested in what the Islamic had to say. The Muslim gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video. After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers then it was my turn. I directed my question to the Muslim and asked:

Clip_11‘Please, correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that’s the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?’  

There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, ‘ Non-believers! ‘

I responded, ‘So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven.

Is that correct?’

The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He sheepishly replied, ‘Yes.’

I then stated, ‘Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine The Pope commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!’

The Muslim was speechless! I continued,’I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me!

Let me ask you a question:

Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?’

You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam hung his head in shame.

Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the ‘Diversification’ training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims’ beliefs.

In 20 years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President!

I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

Eyptian Women in Reverse Gear

One angry woman with a bleeding mouth and eyes streaming from the tear gas pulled off her headscarf and stood yelling at the other side, the supporters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood: “You are not Islam! You are not Egypt! Where is my freedom?”

So go most Fridays in Cairo over the past few weeks as liberal Egyptians have shown their virulent opposition to the president, Mohamed Morsi, as he has awarded himself new powers and pushed through a deeply contentious new constitution. Several buildings of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group behind Morsi, have been burned.

In post-Arab spring Egypt the revolution continues. But it’s women of all classes who have found themselves most alienated – written out of the jostling for power and subjected to a skyrocketing number of sex assaults, rapes and harassment.

Women who stood shoulder to shoulder with men during the 2011 Tahrir Square protests that brought down Hosni Mubarak found their position in society undermined almost immediately.

The parliamentary quota for women was removed without debate and a promised female vice-president failed to materialise, amid what political commentator Moushira Khattab called “a radical anti-feminist sentiment”.

Morsi threatened but stopped short of decriminalising Egypt’s practice of female genital mutilation, carried out on almost three-quarters of Egyptian girls, making it clear he would not tackle an issue he called “a family matter”.

25789_120790784603853_120780407938224_294705_1156145_nThe new constitution has swept away recognition of women’s rights and left the door open to the legalisation of perhaps Egypt’s most crippling social issue – underage marriage. Draft legislation that would allow the legal age of marriage to be lowered from 18 to 13 has been drawn up while clerics within the Muslim Brotherhood have indicated that marriage at the age of nine for girls is acceptable.

“They see women as, number one, objects of sex and, number two, to clean their floors. This is what the Egyptian ‘brotherhood’ is all about,” said Fatma, 24, an engineering graduate marching with her friends, some in burqas, some in headscarves. The women keep close together, arms linked and eyes alert for the men flying down the side of the demonstration on motorcycles grabbing and screaming at females. “They want to marry us at nine years old. Are these really the kind of men we want to run our country? Paedophiles?”

Political progress has been slow, with parliamentary elections scheduled for April now postponed with no new date. Frustrations have built.

“They are like a pack of dogs, tearing out the weakest first, raping and harassing the women and the girls, getting rid of them, and then fighting among themselves to be pack leader,” said Aya Kadry, 62.

Around Cairo hundreds of tower blocks are being built, extending the Arab world’s largest city leg by leg into the desert. This is where the vast majority of Egypt’s women are already living the constrained lives that the educated and middle-classes fear will be imposed by a radical government. Child marriage is common, the norm among the poor. Doctors are bribed to sign documents asserting a 14-year-old is 18 but most people don’t have the money so marriages go ahead without registration. Underage girls then have children who, essentially illegal, cannot have their births registered. Without papers those children cannot attend school, encasing a whole new generation in poverty.

In the poor district of Ezbet Khairallah 10 women are sitting around a metal cash box, holding the weekly meeting of their savings and loans group.

“We do not really have time to talk to our neighbours, there is a great burden of things to do in the home and for some of us our husbands do not like us to go out of doors, although we have convinced them we should meet for this social fund because it will help all the family,” said Seham Ahmed, 38, who is taking the opportunity to show the group how to make a basic liquid soap.

“I was married at 14,” she said, thumping a stick round a battered bucket and most of the women around her nod. “Pulled out of school one day and married that night. I hope my daughters can wait a little while but it’s quite difficult for girls who are not married at an early age to find a good man later and there is a lot of pressure. And fathers want girls gone because it is one mouth less to feed.”

Asmaa Mohamed Fawzy is 21. She was engaged but her family allowed her to break it off when her best friend died in childbirth aged 16. “I liked having the ring but I was only 15 and didn’t know any better. When Aya died it was a miserable tragedy and I’m lucky that my mum agreed with me I should not get married. I get teased and bullied. They shout I am not pretty enough, why am I the ugly one, but I do not want to die or to have children who cannot go to school. It is probably too late for me now and I’m sad I won’t have children.”

Her mother, Naghzaky Abdalla, 47, also endures being shunned by her neighbours. “When her friend died I too made up my mind. We only have one so we can afford to protect her. A neighbour had died at 15 of bleeding: the doctors wouldn’t treat her because she was married illegally and they don’t want to get involved. The girls’ bodies are not ready for childbirth and they are not ready for sexual relations which make their husbands impatient with them.

“Three girls in our street stay indoors now for ever because their husbands divorced them. If they cannot prove they were married and they are not virgins then they cannot get married again so they are shunned. Many are divorced because of course these girls are too young to understand what marriage means, she is still a child. In our community, though, a girl should be married before she is 16, maximum.”

Mrs Gihan, 45, a community activist with strong views, is fervently for the lowering the age of marriage to 13 in law. “We must do this,” she said. “Because all the unregistered children who cannot go to school need to be helped. These girls are denied healthcare, their children are denied a future. They have already decreased the legal age of work from 14 to 12 and I think this age too should be lowered. When Mubarak listened to international pressure and raised the age to 18 it changed nothing here. If you decree a legal age then you simply criminalise and marginalise. Men leave their wives before they turn 18 and their children are seen as being born into prostitution. We will raise awareness and stop child marriage this way.”

The stench of human waste coming from the river in another poor Cairo district, Manial Sheiha, is overpowering. The streets of packed earth are quiet with only children to be seen.

Nawal Rashid opens her door but remains on one side of the deep concrete threshold that she cannot cross – or allow visitors to cross – without her 70-year-old husband’s permission. He is at work. Her three-year-old son plays behind her and she insists she married at 18 – which makes her 21 now – but her neighbours all say she was 14. “I accepted the older man to help my family as there were four other children and my parents are very poor. I am quite content and happy to have sacrificed myself for my family.”

Next door is Etab, 19. She has two children and has returned to stay with her despairing mother Nearnat, 42, her ageing father and her three siblings.

“We thought by marrying her we would get her a better life,” said Nearnat. “Now she is divorced because he was a bad man. She refuses to get married again because then her ex-husband would take the children and now her younger sister is begging me not to go ahead with her marriage. I regret that my daughter was married young because now if she leaves the house her reputation will be ruined. The community all tease me.”

Clip_27Outside in the street a group of young men explain why they want to marry young brides. “Children need to have their rights but also you want to marry a girl who is much younger so she will stay young and beautiful when you are old. Also you can control her better and make sure she is not one of these girls who goes around wanting to be harassed,” said Abdel Rahman, 17. His friend Youssef, 20, agrees. “There are many girls who just want to be harassed, walking around in the streets with their eyes uncovered.”

Mona Hussein Wasef, 26, says that we were in Tahrir Square, side by side, men and women, educated and uneducated, rich and poor. Never have I felt so much solidarity. I was Egypt, we were all Egypt, fighting for freedom, shoulder to shoulder,” she said. She is too fearful to attend any political demonstrations these days.

“Now we have never been so far apart, men and women. In such a short time, such a gulf. Now we are fighting just for the right to walk down the street without being assaulted. It is so hard, so shocking. To see the rights we had being ripped away and lost in the power struggle. To see us go backwards.”

Rasmia Ahmed Emam was 17 when she was married to a 50-year-old stranger.

“My family is a big one so I had to sacrifice to support them. My dad went to a marriage broker to find a rich husband for me and she told us she had a Saudi man. He came and seemed to like me and gave my parents the money to build a roof on our house.”

But the desperation of poor families combined with the acceptance of child marriage has created opportunities for unscrupulous marriage brokers trading young girls to sex tourists. Rasmia thought she was getting married but in fact she was kept in a hotel room for two weeks before “her husband” went home.

“I felt insulted, scared. I had a nervous breakdown. My father went to the broker but we had no proof of the marriage. She offered to marry me again. I refused. All my neighbours knew I was a prostitute, all my friends abandoned me. My future is destroyed. Now three girls in my street have been Saudi wives. All men are liars.”

The phenomenon is becoming increasingly common in Cairo.The taxi drivers bring men from the airport to the brokers. These girls are being traded and trafficked and dumped back home, their lives ruined.

It is becoming clearer and clearer to Saudi men and other tourists that Egypt is the place for child marriage, for ignoring girls’ and women’s rights. It has got worse since the revolution and keeps getting worse every day.

Dr Peter Hammond Says that Muslims are Bad News

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat

25789_120790767937188_120780407938224_294701_4116005_nIslam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components.

The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

Islamisation begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well..

Here’s how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens.

This is the case in:

United States              Muslim 0.6 %
Australia                      Muslim 1.5%
Canada                        Muslim 1.9%
China                           Muslim 1.8%
Italy                             Muslim 1.5%
Norway                       Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytise from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

This is happening in:

Denmark                     Muslim 2%
Germany                     Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom         Muslim 2.7%
Spain                           Muslim 4%
Thailand                      Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves, along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

France                                     Muslim 8%
Philippines                               5%
Sweden                       Muslim 5%
Switzerland                 Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands          Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago     Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Prophet Mohammed’s cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections in:

Guyana                        Muslim 10%
India                            Muslim 13.4%
Israel                           Muslim 16%
Kenya                          Muslim 10%
Russia                          Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia                       Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia                         Muslim 40%
Chad                           Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon                      Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania                        Muslim 70%
Malaysia                      Muslim 60.4%
Qatar                           Muslim 77.5%
Sudan                          Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some state-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh                 Muslim 83%
Egypt                          Muslim 90%
Gaza                            Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia                    Muslim 86.1%
Iran                              Muslim 98%
Iraq                              Muslim 97%
Jordan                         Muslim 92%
Morocco                      Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan                       Muslim 97%
Palestine                      Muslim 99%
Syria                            Muslim 90%
Tajikistan                     Muslim 90%
Turkey                         Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ – the Islamic House of Peace.. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan                Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia               Muslim 100%
Somalia                       Muslim 100%
Yemen                         Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

‘Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidels.

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In
such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death.

Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world’s population by the end of this century.

Iqbal: ‘India is the Greatest Muslim Country in the World’

Mohammed Iqbal was arguably the finest poet of his time.

But the man who wrote the immortal Saare Jaan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara is often reviled in India for championing the cause of Pakistan.

In this fascinating extract from his much acclaimed biography of the poet, Iqbal Singh explores Iqbal’s association with the genesis of Pakistan.

251740_233051386709872_100000150382164_1166277_3192267_nBefore 1930 Pakistan was not even a name or, if it was, nobody had heard of it in public. In that year Iqbal presided at the annual session of the All-India Muslim League held in Allahabad. As is customary on such occasion, he read a lengthy address at the opening session in which he made a tour de horizon of the general political situation in the country with specific attention to the problem of Muslim interests.

His address is somewhat different from the usual generalities and platitudes which are the stock-in-trade of presidential addresses. It has seriousness, an intellectual gravity, and a dignity which never failed him when he really directed his mind to any particular problem. There is good deal in that is parochial and polemical, but it also has passage of remarkably lucid prose.

He begins by denying that he has any special political axe to grind:

“I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to a careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and literature. This constant contact with the Spirit of Islam, as it unfolds itself in time, has, I think, given me a kind of insight into its significance as a world-fact. It is in the light of this insight, whatever its value, that, while assuming that the Muslims of India are determined to remain true to the Spirit of Islam, I propose, not to guide you in your decisions, but to attempt the humbler task of bringing clearly to your consciousness the main principle which, in my opinion, should determine the general character of those decisions.”

He then proceeds to develop the argument so dear to his heart regarding the true nature of Islam. It is not, he contends just another religion among many religions, but a unique world-view embracing the whole sphere of human activity; a total philosophy if you like, which cannot be reconciled with narrow nationalistic ideals.

It differs, moreover, from other religions like Christianity, for example, in that it is not other-worldly, but accepts the world of time and space and believes in a Kingdom that is of the earth. As the whole argument is fundamental to Iqbal’s position and is here stated with greater clarity than anywhere else by him, it deserves to be quoted at some length:

“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity by which expression I mean a social structure, regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal — has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own. Indeed it is no exaggeration to suggest that India is perhaps the only country where Islam, as a people building force, has worked at its best. In India, as elsewhere, the structure of Islam as a society is almost entirely due to the working of Islam as a culture inspired by a specific ethical ideal. What I mean to say is that Muslim society, with its remarkable homogeneity and inner unity, has grown to be what it is, under the pressure of the laws and institutions associated with the culture of Islam.

“The ideals set free by European political thinking, however, are now rapidly changing the outlook of the present generation of Muslims both in India and outside India. Our younger men inspired by these ideas, are anxious to see them as living force in their own countries, without any critical appreciation of the facts which have determined their evolution in Europe. In Europe Christianity was understood to be a purely monastic order which gradually developed into a church-organisation. The protest of Luther was directed against the church-organisation, not against any system of polity of a secular nature, for the obvious reason that there was no such polity associated with Christianity. And Luther was perfectly justified in rising in revolt against this organisation, though, I think, he did not realise that in the peculiar condition which obtained in Europe, his revolt would eventually mean the displacement of the universal ethics of Jesus by the growth of a plurality of national and hence narrower systems of ethics. Thus the upshot of the intellectual movement initiated by such men as Luther and Rousseau was the break-up of the One into a mutually ill-adjusted many, the transformation of a human into a national outlook, requiring a more realistic foundation, such as the notion of country, and finding expression through varying systems of polity evolved on national lines, on lines which recognise territory as the only principle of political solidarity.

“…The universal ethics of Jesus is displaced by national systems of polity and ethics. The conclusion to which Europe is consequently driven is that religion is a private affair of the individual and has nothing to do with, what is called man’s temporal life. Islam does not bifurcate the unity of man into an irreconcilable duality of spirit and matter. In Islam God and the universe, spirit and matter, church and state, are organic to each other. Man is not the citizen of a profane world to be renounced in the interests of a world of spirit situated elsewhere. To Islam matter is spirit realising itself in space and time… A Luther in the world of Islam is an impossible phenomenon; for here there is no church-organisation, similar to that of Christianity in the Middle Ages, inviting a destroyer. In the world of Islam we have a universal polity whose fundamentals are believed to have been revealed, but whose structure, owing to our legist’ want of contact with the modern world, stands today indeed of renewed power by fresh adjustments. I do not know what will be the final fate of the national idea in the world of Islam. Whether Islam will assimilate and transform it, as it has transformed and assimilated before many ideas expressive of a different spirit, or allow a radical transformation of its own structure by the force of this idea, is hard to predict… At the preset moment the national idea is reclaiming the outlook of Muslims, and thus materially counteracting the humanising task of Islam… I hope you will pardon me for this apparently academic discussion. To address this session of the All India Muslim League you have selected a man who has not despaired of Islam as a living force for freeing the outlook of men from its geographical limitations, who believes that religion is a power of the utmost importance in the life of individuals as well as states, and finally who believes that Islam is itself Destiny and will not suffer a destiny…”

After this bold declaration, Iqbal descends to more mundane regions — to the problem of reconciling the various groups and their interest in India. He repeats the unexceptionable platitude that ‘the unity of an Indian nation, therefore, must be sought, not in the negation, but in the mutual harmony and co-operation of the many… And it is one the discovery of Indian unity in this direction that the fate of India as well as of Asia really depends….’

But why has it been impossible to discover this principle of harmony and co-operation?

Iqbal has his diagnosis; not a very brilliant diagnosis, but certainly a revealing one. We have failed because, he observes, ‘we suspect each other’s intentions and inwardly aim at dominating each other. Perhaps in the higher interest of mutual co-operation we cannot afford to part with monopolies which circumstances have placed in our hands…’

The passage is significant. After the sublime flight into the sphere of the ideals of Islam which is ‘a Destiny and will not suffer a destiny’ we are pulled down by the force of gravity into the not so heroic realm of economic exigencies. The real reason why Indian unity has been impossible to achieve, according to Iqbal, is because certain groups (presumably, the Hindus) having established monopolies in various economic fields are not prepared to share them with their Muslim counterparts.

This is not a very original analysis of the origin of Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, thought it happens within limits, to be a correct analysis. It might have been furnished by any mediocre middle class politician. But coming from the Poet of Islam it has a unique significance.

Excerpted from The Ardent Pilgrim, An Introduction to the Life and Works of Mohammed Iqbal by Iqbal Singh, Oxford University Press, 1997, Rs 295, with the publisher’s permission. Readers in the US may secure a copy of the book from Oxford University Press Inc USA, 198, Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA. Tel: 212-726-6000. Fax: 212-726-6440.

 

Rights of Women Under Islam in Egypt

During its decades as an underground Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood has long preached that Islam required women to obey their husbands in all matters.

“A woman needs to be confined within a framework that is controlled by the man of the house,” Osama Yehia Abu Salama, a Brotherhood family expert, said of the group’s general approach. Even if a wife were beaten by her husband, he advised, “Show her how she had a role in what happened to her.”

“If he is to blame,” Mr. Abu Salama added, “she shares 30 percent or 40 percent of the fault.”

Now, with a leader of the Brotherhood’s political arm in Egypt’s presidential palace and its members dominating Parliament, some deeply patriarchal views the organization has long taught its members are spilling into public view. The Brotherhood’s strident statements are reinforcing fears among many Egyptian liberals about the potential consequences of the group’s rise to power and creating new awkwardness for PresidentMohamed Morsi as he presents himself as a new kind of moderate, Western-friendly Islamist.

In a statement on a proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women, the Brotherhood issued a list of objections, which formally laid out its views on women for the first time since it came to power.

In its statement, the Brotherhood said that wives should not have the right to file legal complaints against their husbands for rape, and husbands should not be subject to the punishments meted out for the rape of a stranger.

A husband must have “guardianship” over his wife, not an equal “partnership” with her, the group declared.

Daughters should not have the same inheritance rights as sons.

Nor should the law cancel “the need for a husband’s consent in matters like travel, work or use of contraception — a reform in traditional Islamic family law that was enacted under former President Hosni Mubarak and credited to his wife, Suzanne.

The statement appeared in many ways to reflect the Brotherhood’s longstanding doctrine. Feminists said its statement also may reflect the views of most women in Egypt’s conservative, traditionalist culture.

During its decades as an underground Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood has long preached that Islam required women to obey their husbands in all matters.

“A woman needs to be confined within a framework that is controlled by the man of the house,” Osama Yehia Abu Salama, a Brotherhood family expert, said of the group’s general approach, speaking in a recent seminar for women training to become marriage counselors. Even if a wife were beaten by her husband, he advised, “Show her how she had a role in what happened to her.”

“If he is to blame,” Mr. Abu Salama added, “she shares 30 percent or 40 percent of the fault.”

Now, with a leader of the Brotherhood’s political arm in Egypt’s presidential palace and its members dominating Parliament, some deeply patriarchal views the organization has long taught its members are spilling into public view. The Brotherhood’s strident statements are reinforcing fears among many Egyptian liberals about the potential consequences of the group’s rise to power and creating new awkwardness for PresidentMohamed Morsi as he presents himself as a new kind of moderate, Western-friendly Islamist.

In a statement Wednesday on a proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women, the Brotherhood issued a list of objections, which formally laid out its views on women for the first time since it came to power.

In its statement, the Brotherhood said that wives should not have the right to file legal complaints against their husbands for rape, and husbands should not be subject to the punishments meted out for the rape of a stranger.

A husband must have “guardianship” over his wife, not an equal “partnership” with her, the group declared. Daughters should not have the same inheritance rights as sons. Nor should the law cancel “the need for a husband’s consent in matters like travel, work or use of contraception” — a reform in traditional Islamic family law that was enacted under former President Hosni Mubarak and credited to his wife, Suzanne.

The statement appeared in many ways to reflect the Brotherhood’s longstanding doctrine, still discussed in classes like Mr. Abu Salama’s and in the group’s women’s forums. Feminists said its statement also may reflect the views of most women in Egypt’s conservative, traditionalist culture.

The government objected to the United Nations declaration condemning violence against women only over issues like whether to describe restrictions on abortion as an act of violence against women. That offended the cultural norms in many Arab and African countries, according to one Morsi adviser.

Asked about the statement’s apparent attempt to shield marital rape from legal prosecution, the female adviser brushed off the issue as an irrelevant foreign concern.

“Marital rape? Is this a big problem that we have?” she said, suggesting that it might be a Western phenomenon, while sexual harassment in the streets was a far greater concern in Egypt.

“Should we import their concerns and problems and adopt them as ours?” she asked. “We’re talking about things that aren’t widely agreed upon, like abortion. We can’t give women the freedom to have abortions whenever they want.”

Do not pick issues not pressing in Egypt, she said, “and then tell me that I’m in a conflict with the international community.”

Some Egyptian feminists, though, called the statement a vindication of their warnings that the Brotherhood might lead Egypt in a more conservative and patriarchal direction.

“They do not believe that when domestic violence is present, the women should resort to the justice system or the legal process,” said a member of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. “It should be kept at home and under the protection of the family — that is their claim. And there is no such thing as marital rape because a husband is entitled to have sex with his wife any time that he wants.”

“This is the first time we have heard it said publicly on the world stage,” she said, “but this has been in their rhetoric for ages.”

Mr. Abu Salama justified the group’s approach to marriage by explaining that Islam also required husbands to be compassionate, just as it required women to be obedient.

294295_249221028462379_100743523310131_782114_793001227_nQuoting Muhammad’s injunction that a man “must not fall on his wife like an animal,” a textbook in Mr. Abu Salama’s class said Islam instructed men to engage in foreplay before sex and attend to their partner’s satisfaction. As for inheritance, Islamic scholars have argued that a son should have a greater share, but also an obligation to look after the financial well-being of a sister.

But Mr. Abu Salam also argued that husbands should keep their wives under tight control. “It’s the nature of the weak to overstep the required framework if she is given the space and the freedom, like children,” he said. Most of the women nodded in agreement.

Closing its statement on the proposed United Nations declaration, the Brotherhood appeared to go even further. The provisions discussed are “destructive tools meant to undermine the family as an important institution,” the statement concluded, and “would drag society back to pre-Islamic ignorance.”

Saudis Dismantling Oldest Sections of Kaaba

Kaba ReconstructionThe authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun dismantling some of the oldest sections of Islam’s most important mosque as part of a highly controversial multi-billion pound expansion.

Photographs obtained by The Independent of London reveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the eastern side of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.

The building, which is also known as the Grand Mosque, is the holiest site in Islam because it contains the Kaaba –  the point to which all Muslims face when praying. The columns are the last remaining sections of the mosque which date back more than a few hundred years and form the inner perimeter on the outskirts of the white marble floor surrounding the Kaaba.

The new photos, taken over the last few weeks, have caused alarm among archaeologists and come as Prince Charles – a long-term supporter of preserving architectural heritage – flew into Saudi Arabia yesterday for a visit with the Duchess of Cornwall. The timing of his tour has been criticised by human rights campaigners after the Saudis shot seven men in public earlier this week despite major concerns about their trial and the fact that some of the men were juveniles at the time of their alleged crimes.

Many of the Ottoman and Abbasid columns in Mecca were inscribed with intricate Arabic calligraphy marking the names of the Prophet Muhammad’s companions and key moments in his life. One column which is believed to have been ripped down is supposed to mark the spot where Muslims believe Muhammad began his heavenly journey on a winged horse, which took him to Jerusalem and heaven in a single night.

To accommodate the ever increasing number of pilgrims heading to the twin holy cities of Mecca and Medina each year the Saudi authorities have embarked upon a massive expansion project. Billions of pounds have been poured in to increase the capacity of the Masjid al-Haram and the Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina which marks where Muhammad is buried. King Abdullah has put the prominent Wahabi cleric and imam of the Grand Mosque, Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, in charge of the expansion while the Saudi Binladin Group – one of the country’s largest firms – has won the construction contract.

While there is little disagreement over the need to expand, critics have accused the Saudi regime of wantonly disregarding the archaeological, historical and cultural heritage of Islam’s two holiest cities. In the last decade Mecca has been transformed from a dusty desert pilgrimage town into a gleaming metropolis of skyscrapers that tower over the Masjid al-Haram and are filled with a myriad of shopping malls, luxury apartments and five star hotels.

But such a transformation has come at a cost. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of Mecca’s millennium-old buildings have been demolished in the past two decades alone. Dozens of key historical sites dating back to the birth of Islam have already been lost and there is a scramble among archaeologists and academics to try and encourage the authorities to preserve what little remains.

Many senior Wahabis are vehemently against the preservation of historical Islamic sites that are linked to the prophet because they believe it encourages shirq – the sin of idol worshipping.

But Dr Irfan al-Alawi, executive director of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation which obtained the new photographs from inside the Grand Mosque, says the removal of the Ottoman and Abbasid columns will leave future generations of Muslims ignorant of their significance.

“It matters because many of these columns signified certain areas of the mosque where the Prophet sat and prayed,” he said. “The historical record is being deleted. A new Muslim would never have a clue because there’s nothing marking these locations now. There are ways you could expand Mecca and Medina while protecting the historical heritage of the mosque itself and the surrounding sites.”

There are signs that King Abdullah has listened to concerns about the historical destruction of Mecca and Medina.

Last October The Independent revealed how new plans for the masjid an-Nabawi in Medina would  result in the destruction of three of the world’s oldest mosques on the west hand side of the main complex.

However new plans approved by King Abdullah last week appear to show a change of heart with the bulk of the expansion now slated to take place to the north of the Masjid an-Nabawi.

However key sites are still at risk. The Independent has obtained a presentation used by the Saudis to illustrate how the expansion of Mecca’s main mosque will look. In one of the slides it is clear that the Bayt al-Mawlid, an area which is believed to be the house where Muhammad was born in, will have to be removed unless plans change.

The Independent asked the Saudi Embassy in London a number of questions about the expansion plans and why more was not being done to preserve key historical sites. They replied: “Thank you for calling, but no comment.”

Further reading

Mecca for the rich: Islam’s holiest site ‘turning into Vegas’

Why don’t more Muslims speak out against the wanton destruction of Mecca’s holy sites?

Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history

Media Interpreting Islam For Us

Orya Maqbool Jan writes in Dunya that a real religious scholar is the one who is educated on a mat of a mosque for decades and has written books on the supremacy of Islam.

Democracy is a fraud. We are all in trouble of one kind or another today because of the un-Islamic banking system.

Democracy, free media and judiciary are a fitna. Our journalists fear nobody. They can publish anything against anyone and get away with it.

171298_149889901735767_100001442757621_287347_3798033_oSleeveless outfits are haram

Responding to a question by a reader, Aapa Hammad writes in Khwateen Ka Islam that sleeveless or half-sleeved outfits are haram for women unless they wear it for their husbands in the bedroom. 

She said unnatural sex between a husband and a wife was haram, although some men try to justify it. But during her menstrual periods, a woman could satisfy her man using other methods.

Pakistanis are the wisest nation in the world

Writing in Dunya, Rauf Klasra says his foreigner friend was surprised to hear about a survey according to which Germans were the wisest nation in the world. He thought Pakistanis were the wisest nation in the world because even the children here are politicians and experts on everything under the sun. The people of the West cannot even imagine the number of conspiracy theories that Pakistani children have memorized.

Media presents gloomy picture of Pakistan

Daily Jang quotes PM Raja Pervez Ashraf as saying that the situation in Pakistan is not bad at all. It is the media that presents a gloomy picture of Pakistan.

Donkeys are in demand

Nawae Waqt reports in its famous column Sare Rahe that a political party has asked for the election symbol of a donkey. The Election Commission has banned certain symbols like a donkey, a Lota and a shoe. But now that we know donkeys are in demand, if the request is approved, the price of donkeys will increase.

Flog those who celebrate Valentine’s Day

Reported in daily Jasarat (Feb 12), Mufti Naeem, administrator of Jamia Binoria in Karachi, has demanded a ban on Valentine’s Day celebrations declaring them un-Islamic, immoral and obscene. He said those who celebrate the day should be tried under Hudood laws and flogged in public. He accused the West of promoting obscenity through the Valentine’s Day.

Iran should drop nuclear bomb on its enemy

Quoted in daily Islam, Pir Izharul Bokhari says he hopes Iran will not keep its nuclear bomb in a beautiful cupboard in its drawing room but show the courage to use it when the enemy will threaten it. He urged the Pakistani government to drop a nuclear bomb on India if it crossed the Line of Control again.

Women wearing lenses will face God’s wrath

Weekly Jarar says women are not allowed to wear contact lenses. It is a great sin. When women wear lenses, the color of their eyes becomes attractive and lures strangers. Such women will face the wrath of God.

Women can also not wear sunglasses because it makes them look seductive and invites male attention.

Hoodbhoy is a traitor

Daily Jasarat criticizes renowned scientist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy for writing a book in which he allegedly said Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were unsafe, or could fall into Al Qaeda’s hands.
It says everybody knows Hoodbhoy is a traitor. He dug a symbolic grave for Dr AQ Khan when Pakistan went nuclear.

Revealing clothes cause breast cancer

Writing in Khwateen Ka Islam, Aapa (Auntie) Hammad says 53% women suffer from breast cancer in Pakistan. The reason is that they wear thin and revealing shirts, which are forbidden in Islam. Breast cancer is a wrath of God for such women.

Malaysian PM Calls for Attention to Muslim Youth

222271_122515587828148_100002091238819_182595_6714554_nProfound change is underway in the Middle East and North Africa. It is too early to be definitive about causes, but I believe there is a common thread: young people in Islamic societies face an opportunity deficit.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change. In seeking more open societies and more responsive governments, young Arabs demonstrated a yearning for democracy. But they also expressed a deep sense of loss — not just of personal or political freedom, but of opportunity.

This unrest was the result of a basic misallocation of resources. Not natural resources, or capital, but people. The underrepresentation of youth in the economy created conditions in which tensions could grow — tensions that were fanned by a lack of political reform. Politically and economically disenfranchised, young people found an outlet in protest.

These pressures are not unique to Arab countries; they are felt throughout the world. Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation’s future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to. This means comprehending two great changes affecting their lives.

The first is demographic: The Muslim world is experiencing a “youth bulge.” In 2010, people under 30 comprised about 60 percent of the population in Muslim-majority countries. A younger population means a bigger labor force. Higher investment and capital is needed to utilize this spare capacity. A big demographic change can warp fiscal policy for decades, as “baby boomer” countries are discovering. In social terms, the short-term impact can be even greater. A youth bulge introduces latent energy into a nation’s economy and society. Left untapped, it can become a destabilizing force.

In 2010, youth unemployment in the Middle East was 25 percent; in North Africa, 24 percent. Such levels are toxic. When young people lack opportunity, they grow restless. Dependency robs them of their dignity; without an economic stake in society, they can lose their sense of belonging. That can spill over into hostility to the state. From 1970 to 2000, eight out of 10 countries experiencing new civil conflict had populations in which 60 percent were under 30.

The second great change is technological. Twenty-one years ago, there were no Web sites; today, there are more than half a billion. In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

The age of information has its own generation, the digital natives — those who have only ever known a connected world. They expect information to be free, democracy to be responsive, communication to be global. They want an active role in the digital economy.

Empowered by technology, young people can articulate their frustrations to a global audience. This has a profound implication: the emergence of a new, international political consciousness.

These two forces — demography and technology — shape young people’s aspirations. In an age of self-determination, they crave freedom of opportunity. They aspire to world-class education. And they demand open and accountable government. Our challenge is to deliver those freedoms without sacrificing our traditions. But this is only possible if we show leadership and commit to reform.

Access to education is improving, but many young people still find that their qualifications do not match the opportunities available, so we must focus on vocational and technical training. We should also continue to open our economies: 23 percent of the world’s people are Muslim, but the 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation conduct just 8.3 percent of global trade. Structural reforms must be pursued so that our private sectors become more dynamic. We must reform public services and confront institutions that stifle opportunity, remaining ever vigilant against corruption.

We must also respond to technological change. Our starting point must be recognition of the fundamental principle of the Internet — its autonomy. It should stay that way. This does not mean unregulated behavior, but independence. We should equip our youth with the skills to think critically about sources, to understand that just because information is free does not mean it is accurate. But the online space should remain one in which the free exchange of views is encouraged, in the best traditions of discourse.

As a Muslim nation, Malaysia faces many of these challenges. I believe we should see our youth not as a liability, but as an asset. They are an untapped resource that can lay the foundations for great success. Economic and political reform can give young people what they aspire to: a future defined by opportunity, not dependency. It is time to realize the hidden wealth of Muslim nations.

Najib Razak is prime minister of Malaysia.

Majority of Ahmedis are Sunni Punjabis

by Sheharyar Shaikh

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I do not believe that one should boycott anyone from holding a dialogue. One always learns something from an exchange, no matter how abhorrent or deviant their beliefs may be from one’s vantage point. One of the few exceptions I make is in the case of the lay Muslim’s engagement with the Ahmedi missionaries and proselytizers.

This  reasoning is similar to the one used by the elders of Mecca,  when they advised their folks not to listen to the Holy Prophet pbuh otherwise they will lose their iman in idols whom their forefathers had been  idolising.

In fact this has been the tool of all opponents of حق truth to create a wedge between the Prophets and their followers and the people at large. For this reason they even propagated, as recorded by Holy Quran,  that  the prophets were of unsound mind مجنون  (Zaariat 51:53). They had no other option than telling such lies as as they were unable to logically counter the message brought by these prophets.

The mainstream Muslim boycott of the Ahmediyya Jamaat is in the best interest of the Muslims because of its deceptiveness and trickery in getting a lay Muslim to agree to certain points favourable to them in a discussion and its need for Muslims to attend their community events and programs in order to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the wider audience.

Again this reasoning is just the same as was extended by Kuffar-e-Mecca when they boycotted Holy Prophet pbuh and the small Muslim community in Shaib Abi Talib for three years and caused such hardships as a result of which Ummul Momineen  Hazrat Khadija ra and Hazrat Abu Talib died soon afterwards.

Holy Quran does not teach boycott. Rather it invites everybody to bring forth arguments if one claims to be true. (Baqra 2:112)

At any major Ahmedi event held in the western countries the overwhelming majority of Ahmedi attendees hail from Pakistan with Sunni Punjabi roots. The Ahmedi missionaries have made deep inroads in convincing the lay Sunni Punjabi Muslims, beyond others, of their version of Islam. Sure, a token Arab or a white Canadian may be seen meandering about in the corner, but it does not change the fact that the Pakistani Punjabis at home or abroad, continue to fill their organizational rank and file.

The comment reflects regional bias and maybe linguistic as well.

Acceptance of truth, being full of hardships and sacrifices, is always a field worth only for brave and courageous. If as per this statement, Sunni Punjabi Muslims have been brave enough in accepting the truth, it is a tribute to them and should be envied. However one should not overlook the inroads made by Ahmadies in Africa, particularly its West Coast, Indonesia and in recent past in Arab world. If Western Ahmadies are still  less in number, it is mainly due to  West’s indifference to religion.

If the Ahmedi missionaries subject the Pakistani Muslims of small towns and villages to a “pir”-like persona of Ghulam Ahmed, they present a overly pacifist, rational, “science-friendly” Islam to the urban middle class Pakistanis and young professional Muslims overseas. The latter category, often cut off from their religious support and family system, become easy preys.

Ahmadies only present the truth.

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the  reformer of the age appointed by God to reform Islam to its original form and to establish its supremacy on all other religions of the world.

Islam in its teachings is rational and  as the words of God do not differ with His acts, there cannot be any real conflict between Islam and science. This preaching perhaps can only  be objected by those who under rate the Islamic teachings and consider these unfit for modern world.

If then, it attracts ‘young professional Muslims overseas’ there is no need to attribute  reasons other than the truth itself.

One thing not brought readily to the table are Mirza Ghulam Ahmed’s bizarre visions, his 20-year obsession with a 14 year old girl, Muhammadi Begam, his absurd religious interpretations, his claims of being 202 historical/honoured figures of other nations (male and female), his use of foul language toward his opponents, vulgarity in his writings, abnormal quirks of behaviour and his unfulfilled prophecies which he presented as evidence of his truth.

Mere accusations. No proof. No support. Funny as well, the age of obsession 20 years and the age of girl only 14. This is a mockery of the sort mentioned in  Holy Quran  in these words

‘Alas for the men, not a single messenger came to them but they mocked at him’ (Yasin 36:31).

Facts are that  Hazrat Sb was a great visionary, aspiring for creation of new spiritual world order  to be ruled by his master Hazrat Muhammad pbuh and the Holy Quran. With his passionate love and God gifted knowledge of Holy Quran, he was an unprecedented interpreter of its teachings and successfully reversed the ruthless attack on Islam by Christians and Arias. In the capacity of reformer of age he, under the Divine scheme of things, also  fulfilled the prophecies of reformers of later days mentioned in other religions. He was a pious man even in his young age as witnessed by many including Allam Amir Hassan,  the beloved teacher of Allama Iqbal. Hazrat Sb. also challenged with prize money  if any body can raise a finger on his character, behaviour  and personality. Nobody came forward. His prophecies run in thousands which all came true in his life time and many afterwards and still many are in the the process of fulfillment. A few got deferred or fulfilled partially as the concerned persons repented and begged for Allah’s mercy. The prophecy referring a lady was fulfilled to its desired outcome.  Three irrefutable facts are:   i) The father of the lady Mr. Ahmad Baig, after marrying her elsewhere, died within prescribed period of 3 years. ii) The husband, Mr. Sultan Muhammad, having seen the divine wrath, repented and publicly admitted the truthfulness of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. iii) The son of this pair, Mr.Muhammad Ishaq, admitting the fulfilment  of the prophecy, became an Ahmadi.

Of the 86 books Mirza wrote in his lifetime (most of which are rubbish and can be readily read at www.alislam.org) the Muslims are usually presented two works:  Mirza’s The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam and Revelation and Rationality, Knowledge and Truth penned by his grandson, Tahir Ahmed (along with a team of helpers and translators).

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was bestowed with Divine knowledge which he extensively spread through his writings.The quality and effect of his great writings has been acknowledged by learned scholars of his time and of later days.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, rightfully stated that the writings of Hazrat will always remain the defense line of Islam against its enemies.

His writings reversed the on going success of Christian missionaries against Islam, taking  a toll of at least 200 ulema and prayer leaders of big mosques, alongwith hundreds of thousands of Muslims converting to Christianity,  to a humiliating retreat and defeat. This is such an obvious fact that it has to be admitted  by all knowledgeable persons as did Dr. Asrar Ahmad in a TV talk show by saying that these writings made Mirza Sb تارا star in the eyes of all Indian Muslims.

The ‘Philosophy of Teachings of Islam’ is of course a jewel in its right. It was a lecture Hazrat Mirza wrote for a religious conference and foretold in a prophecy of God that it will be supreme of all essays to be presented on that occasion. This is a must reading for all who wish to see the beauty of Islamic teachings. Jamaat has therefore translated in almost all important languages of the world.

The Ahmedi missionaries frame the discourse by limiting the discussion to the present status of Jesus – whom the mainstream Muslims believe to have ascended physically into heaven by divine miracle. Whether Mirza Ghulam Ahmed fits the profile of a divinely sent prophet, let alone Jesus is largely neglected. But herein lies the test.

Even if the world accepts Mirza’s half-baked theory of Jesus being taken off the cross, carried to India to live a happily married life with kids and eventually buried there at a ripe age of 120, it still needs to be proven how Mirza the claimant qualifies to be Jesus upon his return. Mirza certainly did not “break the Cross” if that means Christianity’s final annihilation – much as their cult claims. He certainly did not “end all wars”, religious or secular; WWI broke out a few years after his death.

How Hazrat Mirza qualifies to be the Promised Massiah, is a proven fact for anybody who is open to reason. It  is apparent by his great personality reflecting attributes of Allah خدا نما وجود , by his innumerable prayers granted by Allah, by his hundreds of thousands fulfilled prophecies, by the help and support extended by Allah to him throughout his life and after him to his successors, by the spiritual revolution he brought in his followers, by the impact his holy person had on people all over the world, by the selfless services and sacrifices his followers are rendering for last 123 years now reaching to the 5th/6th generation of his companions and the great acceptance and unmatched success Allah has granted to these humble efforts by  spreading his message to the corners of the world.

This can be proved by applying on him all علامات  signs mentioned symbolically in Holy Quran and Ahadees about the second advent of Hazrat Isa.

Irrespective of his many manifestations i.e. Ummati Nabi, Masih Mauood and  Imam Mehdi, the basic status and claim of Hazrat Mirza Sb  is مامور من اللہ, a God appointed reformer. Such claim is not new. Holy Quran mentions about 28 such claimants. At times Quran also gives arguments in support of their claims. The truth of Hazrat Mirza Sb, being one of the same clan, can be verified against any rather  all such arguments mentioned in Holy Quran through which  the truthfulness of any previous nabi is established.

Hazrat Mirza did break the Cross.

The Christianity is based on  its beliefs of Trinity and atonement کفارہ . By the logical reasoning and heap of arguments put forth  by Hazrat sb about Jesus coming alive from  cross and  later dieing a natural death, both these beliefs come to ground. Holy Quran has already established this principal that ‘he who would perish might perish by clear proof, and he who would live might live by clear proof’ ( Anfal 8:43).

With the spread and acceptance of these facts Christianity will come to an end  as admitted in the documentary aired on BBC about tomb of Jesus in Kashmir.

The mention of end of wars was for religion. Like Jesus, Hazrat also was for peace and friendship. He forbade from taking arms for spread of religion and to attack those who are not stopping the practice and preaching of Islam by force. He also prophesied that use of force for these purposes will not succeed any more. We all witness the fullfilment of this  prophecy. Wars for worldly reasons is a different area. These wars have always been there. In fact Hazrat was told by God Almighty of five  great human tragedies to occur in future. According to these prophecies 1st and 2nd World wars have already taken place and 3rd is not far off.

One thing the Ahmediyya Jamaat never reveals on its own is the official status of the 1.5 billion Muslims from its point of view. Whereas they express much furor over being ostracised from the mainstream Muslim community, they hide the fact that it is their leaders who declared the mainstream Muslims as infidels for rejecting Mirza Ghulam Ahmed (May Allah deal with him) as a prophet.

A review of the   quoted words and phrases with context will be enough to repudiate the created wrong impression.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmed unequivocally called his non-followers (Muslims): “non-Muslims” (tazkira-e majmu’a-e ilhamat, pg. 600),

In 3rd edition of Tazkira on pg.601 a Persian revelation from God الہام  appears. Its wording are چو دور خسروی آغاز کردند    مسلماں را مسلماں  باز کردند  . It means that with the inception of age of Masih Mauood the Muslims in name will be converted to real Muslims.

The concept of a person being an apparent Muslim but not real one  is Quranic as per following verse:

‘The Beduins say, we believe. Say thou, you have not believed but say, we obey, and faith has not entered your hearts.’(Hujrat 49:15).

In the quoted revelation of Hazrat both are also named Muslims. Hence the allegation that all Muslims are dubbed as ‘non-Muslims’ is not correct:  “complete kafir(s)” (infidels) (Kalimatul-fasl, p. 110)

There is no book written by Hazrat titled Kalimatul-fasl. Hence  this quote is wrongly attributed to him.

“bastards” (walad ul-haram) (Anwar ul-Islam, pg. 30, RK vol. 9, pg. 31)

The discussion,  on this page  of the book Anwar-ul-Islam,  in context of which this word is used is that Hazrat Sb was persuading a Christian missionary Mr. Abdullah Atham, who had just  escaped the wrath of Allah by refraining during the period of prophecy from his notorious utterances against Islam and Holy Prophet pbuh, to state on oath that he had not inclined towards the truth of Islam during this period. He further wrote that if Mr. Atham did not opt for this course of action and still somebody جو شخص claims victory for Christians it will be assumed that he likes اس کو شوق ہے  to become  ولدالحرام .
It is apparent that to attribute this statement to Muslims, instead of the local Christian supporters of this missionary, is incorrect and misleading: “children of whores” (dhuriyyat ul-baghayaa) (A’ina-e Kamalat-e Islam, pg 547-548, RK vol. 5, pg. 547-548)

This compound  phrase  ذریت البغایا used in  an Arabic writing of Hazrat sb means  sinful and rebellious. To consider its constituent words  individually and then to put their translations as one phrase is simply against the rules of the language. There are other similar phrases in Arabic e.g. ابن الدینار ،ابن السبیل ، ابن الوقت which when translated separately mean ‘son of time, son of passage and son of money’ but in phrase mean cunning, traveller and greedy respectively.  Even school going children know that individual words used in an idiom / phrase may mean any thing but the idiom itself will have different meaning. That is why it is funny to translate میرا دل باغ باغ ہو گیا as my heart became garden and garden.

Why people claiming to be literate should do such tricks?

Maybe just because out of enmity of Ahamdiyyat and with the bad intention to persuade illiterates to hate  Ahamdies: “swines… and their women have become worse than bitches” (Najm ul-Huda, pg. 53, RK vol. 14, pg. 53).

The missing part of  this partial translation of a couplet of an Arabic poem  is the object of these words. This omission seems purposeful because without having done this it was not possible to deceitfully attribute these words to ‘non-followers (Muslims). These omitted words are ‘our enemies who abused’ ہمارے دشمن جنہوں نے گالیاں دیں .
So these words are used not at all for non-followers Muslims, not for everybody, but for those select enemies who vehemently abused Islam, Holy Quran and Holy Prophet pbuh and Hazrat.  He in his book کتاب البریہ  has recorded some of these abuses. (Kitab-ul-Bariea RK Vol.13, pg.119-152). Any reader of this slander will perhaps desire to use even harsher words than used by Hazrat in this couplet.

Again one will question the motive for this open deceit and hate mongering . Answer perhaps is same.To incite and inflame uneducated Muslim masses against Ahamdies by misdirecting their feelings of love for Holy Prophet pbuh.

So much for the “Love for all, hatred for none” slogan.

The use of harsh words, when needed, is only a factual statement. Holy Quran at times had named the specific non believers as ‘apes’ بندر (Maida 5:61), ‘swine’ سوءر (Maida 5:61), ‘dog’ (Aaraf 7:177), ‘vilest of animals’ جانوروں میں بد ترین (Anfal 8:56), ‘illegitimate’ ولد الزنا (Qalam 68:14), ‘asses’ گدھے (Muddasir 74:51), ‘worst of creatures’ مخلوقات میں بد ترین (Bayyinah 98:7).

New Testament also records similar expressions  used for their opponents by Hazrat Isa. A few examples are ‘dogs’ (Matthew 7:6), ‘swine’ (Matthew 7:6), ‘evil and adulterous generation’ برے اور زنا کار (Matthew 12:39)), ‘satan’ شیطان (Matthew 16:23)), ‘serpents’  سانپ (Matthew 24:33), ‘generation of vipers’ سانپوں کی اولاد (Matthew 24:33), ‘son of devil’ ابلیس کی اولاد (John 8:44)۔

If then Hazrat has of necessity used harsh words for a few deserving, there is nothing new and it does not affect his overwhelming love for humanity and the  slogan “Love for all, hatred for none”.

If there was ever a hope of turning to true Islam, Ghulam Ahmed’s son and a spiritual authority of the Ahmedis made clear that “(Ghulam Ahmed) has instructed us in detail that we differ with (the rest of the Muslims) in each and every thing (in Islam).” (Khutba-e Mirza Mahmud, al-Fazl, v.19, pg. 13). Moreover, he called it a “fard” (religious obligation) to consider all Muslims as “infidels” (Anwar-e Khilafat, 70). This even includes their “six month old babies” (Paygham-e Sulh, vol. 24, No. 49, August 3, 1936). Mahmud Ahmed went on to declare that those Muslims who have not given allegiance to Ghulam Ahmed are “infidels (kafirs) and out of the pale of Islam, even if they have not heard the very name of Maseeh Ma’ud (i.e. Mirza Ghulam Ahmed)” (Aina-e Sadaqat, pg. 35).

The true meaning of these out of context hand-picked phrases is surely not what these are given to portray and can be explained individually. (There is no book titled Payghame Sulh  written by the son of Hazrat Sb and hence a  reference attributed  to him is incorrect). However as a simple way we can just refer to the explanation given by the writer, the second successor of Hazrat, himself in 1953 enquiry court  and published by Jamaat.

In reply to the question what he considers of the Muslims who do not believe in Mirza sb. he explained the difference in the meaning of words Muslim and Momin as used by Holy Quran and then stated that ‘nobody can be called a non-Muslim by not accepting the Holy founder of Ahmaiyyat. As prophesied by Holy Prophet pbuh they will continue to be Muslims for name sake. As many scholars including, Maulvi Maudoodi, Maulana Siddiq Hasan Khan, Allama Iqbal, Maulana Haali, have declared them to be.

Another question was if a non-believer is infidel کافر ? In reply he explained that words کافر and non-believer are synonymous. So such person will be a kafir of Hazrat, but again he will not be out of pale of Ummat-e-Muhammadia.

However for those non-believers who consider Ahmadies as kafir following  principal  specified by Holy Prophet pbuh will apply:
‘When somebody names his brother as kafir then one of the two will be a kafir. If the person who is dubbed as kafir is not  then the accuser will be a kafir.’ (Sahih Muslim).

Historically ulema were first in calling Hazrat Mirza Sb and his followers as kafir. So the status of these ulema and their followers was obvious in view of the above tradition of Holy prophet pbuh. This explains the use of this term in some writings of Hazrat sb.

Now comes the point of how to deal with the Ahmediyya Jamaat, especially in the west. The overall best policy for the Muslims is to not deal with them at all, unless strictly for da’wah conducted by those who are acquainted with this cult’s vile agenda. It neither is, nor ever will be inshaAllah a serious threat to the global Muslim community. Our organization was approached many times to hold debates with them, and let it be known that we are always ready to hold a debate so long as it is public.

Against the normal response of entering into a dialogue to understand others’ viewpoint and to ascertain truth, ‘not to at all deal’ has always been considered ‘best policy’ by the addresses of Prophets of Allah. Holy Quran has recorded this response but  also disapproves it, as stated:

‘And they say, our hearts are enclosed. Nay, God has deprived them of His blessing on account of their disbelief’. (Baqrah 2:89).

‘Vile agenda?’ Ahmadies have an open agenda from day one. Hazrat saw in a vision creating a new world and a new heaven. We are after it. To make this world a heaven of peace and tranquility, Holy Quran being its law and the Holy Prophet pbuh being its saviour. This agenda can only be  ‘vile’ for enemies of Islam.

As regards your readiness ‘to hold debate’, what about placing this response on your website and let this discussion continue  in this fashion?

With reference to the upcoming conference on the Prophet (s) to occur in the Roy Thompson Hall on Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012, (for which we have so far received 4 invitation cards, 2 email invitations, a letter by mail and personal invites), I strongly advise the Muslims not to attend it. The purpose behind the event is to to attract the naïve Muslims to their ground for possible conversions by posing themselves as the foremost “defenders” of the Prophet (s)’s honor. Secondly, it is to present themselves as peaceloving Muslims to the Canadians so as to win their sympathies and support.

You and all those who did not attend the function under your (ill)advise have missed a great opportunity. By the Grace of Allah, Jama’at Ahmadiyya Canada was able to arrange a world-class gathering to highlight the noble person of Holy Prophet  (peace be upon him). The  Around 2500 Non Muslims and  Non Ahmadi Muslims  attended this great event.

Against the alleged ‘purpose behind the event’ this historic effort of Jamaat Ahamdiyya Canada  was an expression of our love for our master and  the most honorable human ever being. It was also  a true response to counter the attempts of blasphemy by the misguided against Hazrat Muhammad pbuh. To judge for yourself you may please view the proceedings from the following  link.
www.theprophet.ca

Of course had they cared for the Prophet’s honor they would have rejected Ghulam Ahmed who claimed equality with or superiority over the Prophet (s) in the following words :

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad always placed himself as a humble servant of Holy Prophet pbuh. He repeatedly mentioned that all his spiritual exaltation was only because he was an Ummati of Hazrat Muhamamd pbuh and his dutiful disciple. He once said that even if his good deeds have equaled mountains he would have not got any status had he not been a follower of Hazrat Muhamamd pbuh. All otherwise allegations of claiming equality or superiority are therefore  false and incorrect.

“..I am Muhammad (pbuh)” (tatimma-e Haqiqat ul-Wahi, pg. 521)

As always this reference is tampered and the words that follow and clarify earlier are deliberately omitted.  These words are یعنی بروزی طور پر  ‘that is to say in appearance of his attributes’. This is in accordance with the Quranic prophecy of second coming of Hazrat Muhammad pbuh mentioned in following verses

‘It is He who has raised up amongst an unlettered people a messenger from amongst themselves…… And to others from among them who have not joined them yet, (Jumah 62:3-4)

“I have been declared the very being (وجود ) of Muhammad (Ek Ghalti ka Izala, pg. 10)

These words are preceded by the above Quranic verse and  followed by these explanatory words  میں ظلی طور پر محمد ہوں ‘I am a reflection of Muhammad’. Now a reflection can never be equal to the original.

“Whosoever differentiates between me and Mustafa (s) has neither seen me – nor recognized me” (Khutba ilhamiyah, pg. 171)

These words precede following sentence پس وہ جو میری جماعت میں داخل ہوا درحقیقت میرے سردار خیرالمرسلین کے صحابہ میں داخل ہوا۔اور یہی معنی آخرین منہم کے لفظ کے بھی ہین۔
To refer to Holy Prophet as ‘my master’ negates any thoughts of equality or superiority.

And no, he is not “Muhammad (pbuh)” who is greater in glory than ever before in the form of Mirza Ghulam Ahmed (آگے سے بڑھکر ہيں اپنی شان مي )   (Badr Qadyan, 25 October, 1906, pg. 14).

This reference from a poem of an Ahmadi poet having no authority in Jamaat carries no weight. Further the second successor of Hazrat sb reprimanded the poet and stated that these words are نا پسند یدہ اور بے ادبی کے ہیں unacceptable and of disrespect. This statement appeared in Alfazal, 19 Aug 1934 i.e. 78 years back and still it is being used for the ulterior motives.

How shameful it is that the Acting Consul General of Pakistan in Toronto, Imran Ali, has emailed all Pakistani-Canadians “requesting” them to make “the (Ahmedi) event a success” – this too from his official capacity! Subhannallah, to my knowledge the Consul General Imran Ali has never officially promoted any mainstream Muslim event, let alone for a cult that heavily relies on obtaining immigration visas to Canada based on false claims and smearing Pakistan’s image. I have heard the Ahmediyya leadership vilify Pakistan before non-Muslim attendees during their Ahmediyya conference at University of Waterloo.  What I have not heard is their use of “Zindabad”(long live) for Pakistan at their events as they routinely do for others.

And here is the Consul General of Pakistan Imran Ali so concerned to promote an Ahmediyya event that he even asks us to “invite fellow Canadians” to it. I can just see the Ahmediyya leadership ‘high fiving’ each other to be able to so easily exploit such a gullible and incompetent diplomat; a cult he called “Muslim” in the email – perhaps not knowing or caring that the Ahmediyya Jamaat has a non-Muslim status in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan which he represents.

Article 260 of the Constitution of Pakistan states:

 A person who does not believe in the absolute and unequal finality of the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him), the last of the Prophets or claims to be a prophet in any sense of the word or of any description whatsoever, after Muhammad (peace be upon him), or recognize such a claimant as a prophet or a religious reformer, is not a Muslim for the purposes of the Constitutional Law.

The Application for Pakistani passport contains the following declaration:

DECLARATION (FOR MUSLIMS ONLY)

I do not recognize any person who claims to be a prophet in any sense of the word or of any description what so ever after Muhammad (peace be upon him) or recognize such a claimant as prophet or religious reformer as a Muslim. I consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani to be an imposter nabi and also consider his followers, whether belonging to the Lahori or Qadiani group to be non Muslims.

Please write to Imran Ali Chaudhary expressing your disappointment at  imranali@pakmission.ca or call him at 647-821-7166.

You need to remind Imran Ali albeit with respect that his responsibility as Consul General is to improve consular services of Pakistan in Toronto, for which he is paid for by the taxpayers, and certainly not to promote Ahmediyya events in his official capacity. Jazakallah khayr.

The above mostly concerns the Consul General of Pakistan who seems to be an  unbiased dutiful person and perhaps  for this reason is being targeted by the writer who is all for promoting hatred. I have all my sympathy with Mr. Imran Ali and wish him good luck and pray that Allah may grant him courage to withstand these hatemongers.
Interestingly the writer has quoted an article from constitution of Pakistan declaring Ahmadies as not-Muslims and also a declaration for passport requiring any claimant to be a Muslim to first abuse Hazrat Miarza Ghulam Ahmad and still has the guts to complain having not heard Pakistan Zindabad from  those  Ahamdies who are forced by these circumstances to leave their homeland and settled in Canada!

Sheharyar Shaikh is the former President of North American Muslim Foundation.  He is currently the Imam of Masjid Qurtabah. He specializes in Quranic exegesis with contemporary Islamic thought and modernity

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