Anti-Ahmadiyya campaign
I have a blunt question. What the are the organisers of the anti-Ahmadiyya movement likely to gain from the recent violent and virulent attacks? They have the audacity to challenge a democratically elected government. They are holding the police and district administration hostage. These misguided, ill-motivated bigots have created a law and order situation. Like most of the redoubtable Muslim fundamentalist outfits they are 'equipped' with leaders with dubious and misleading devilish designs.
Ahmadiyyas are well organised, better educated and financially better off than many. In Pakistan, in the fifties, they were occupying twenty percent of the jobs and business, and the riot initiated by Abul Ala Moududi served more than one purpose. It incited the misinformed Muslims into performing acts of 'Sawab' and also marginalised the Ahmadiyya business people to some extent. We could only wish, if the 'Beeshbrikha' named Moududi were hanged in 1953, there would have been less trouble now. Alas! That didn't happen.
In any case, the civil society and all the right thinking people should rally round and resist these self-seeking devils with more might.
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