Ironically, this is the same argument that has been used by right wing extremists who have threatened violence against the mosque for similar reasons. He also claims, without citing any sources, that the Saudi government is funding the mosque; again, fomenting hysteria about Saudi plots to take over America is a common tactic of neo-conservative Islamophobes.

With New York being home to over 800,000 Muslims, the fear-mongering in response to the Ground Zero mosque at times borders on absurdity. This is how Clyde Haberman of the New York Times summed up the controversy: “The center, which could rise as many as 15 stories and has the blessing of local officials from the mayor on down, makes some people uneasy. The reasons are understandable, if not entirely admirable. Some opponents, mostly political conservatives, have exploited the discomfort with statements that are inflammatory or misleading, or both.”

Naseem Mahdi, one of the foremost Qadiani clerics in the United States, recently claimed that his group represented “one of the leading movements” aimed at “bringing Muslims out of the dark ages.” Again, the resemblance to radical neo-conservative dogma is striking. For it was none other than Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defense secretary under Pres. Bush, who said “We need an Islamic reformation” and then proceeded to lead the invasion of Iraq.

More to the point, such remarks lead one to question how the Qadiani leadership reconciles their laudable doctrine of “Love for all, Hatred for None” with their apparent support of intolerance and bigotry towards Muslims in America.

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LUDHIANA: Muslims led by Shahi Imam Habib-ur-Rehman Sani protested against the annual convention being organized by the Ahmadiyya community in Qadian, district Gurdaspur, from December 26 to 28. Muslims from all across the state have joined hands against this meet, which according to them is a platform for converting Muslims.

Reportedly finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to attend the Salaana Jalsa (annual congregation) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community at its international headquarters in Qadian that lies in the Punjab’s border district of Gurdaspur. The Muslim community burnt the effigy of the finance minister on the Jagraon Bridge and blocked the entire traffic for over half-an-hour causing inconvenience to the commuters. The protesters demanded that the administration should cancel the seminar as it hurt their feelings. They alleged that the Ahmadiyya community indulged in bringing other Muslims to their fold, which was not acceptable to them.

It would be pertinent to mention here that this protest by the Muslim community follows the protest by radical Sikh organizations against Swami Ashutosh Maharaj on December 5. The swami had earned the wrath of the radical Sikh groups for allegedly preaching against their religion.

To control the situation, the police had to impose curfew in the city for three days in order to avert any mishap. During this protest one Sikh person had died while several got injured. While talking about their protest, Shahi Imam said that they were opposing the seminar as conversion of Muslims was not acceptable to them. He asserted that if this seminar took place they would start agitation at mass level.

Following the Namaaz on Friday, Muslims staged protest against this seminar. They also handed over a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, to be forwarded to the chief minister, Prakash Singh Badal. The protest was also organized in the Jama Masjids of all the districts in the state, including Moga, Amloh, Pathankot, Nawanshahr, Patiala, Phagwada, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Bathinda, Rajpura, Jagraon and Ajitwal.

In these days when Muslims all over the world are under attack, it is no surprise that some people are not happy about a group that sides with the killers of Muslims, while claiming to be the “true Muslims” themselves, especially when these self-styled “True Muslims” label all 1.5 billion Muslims as “pakka kaafir”

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For years, many of us in the Ahmadiyya awareness network have been asking the quite legitimate question: “Why don’t the Ahmadis have free speech?” You see, we have forums, like the trend-setting and hugely influential ahmedi.org, once a powerhouse and still a lively and interesting forum, and thecult.info as well as a few others, where Ahmadis have had greater freedom of speech than in their own community! The recent live programme on Iqra TV that featured “Anwar Mirza” was testimony to the openness of the Muslims compared to the closed cult of the Ahmadiyya. MTA could never invite a top Muslim scholar onto their show, they’d lose half of their membership overnight!

Try expressing a displeasing idea in the Ahmadiyya community as a member and you would soon find yourself ostracised, boycotted and expelled; whereas Muslims have given Ahmadis freedom of speech, yet Ahmadis don’t ponder this.

The first example I saw of an on-line community was the Yahoo forum run by irshad.org – reading that forum went a long way towards convincing me that Islam was not the barbaric religion that Ahmadiyya had scared me into believing it was.

So it was with some surprise that I learned today that the Ahmadiyya has opened up a new forum – at forums.alislam.org

(They did have a kind of forum before, but it was quickly closed down.)

Before you all go rushing off there, you should know that I laughed wryly when I learned that membership is by invitation only. Well that rules out debate then. And boy did I laugh when I noticed that they have avoided the subjects of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and Ahmadiyya. In fact, so careful are they, that their disclaimer reads: “Views expressed in these forums are not necessarily the beliefs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.” -

Ahmadis, when will you learn? The leadership doesn’t want you to know the truth about your founder because you would become disillusioned and leave. They keep changing references, they keep deleting offending segments, anything to try and keep you trapped in their web of lies!

Come to Islam brothers and sisters, join us on the straight path. Leave the cult behind.

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From the LA Times, Qadiani propaganda machine in full swing:

Pakistan officially labels the Ahmadiyya sect non-Muslim and forbids Ahmadis from practicing some of Islam’s most basic elements.

Reporting from Chino – During the last days of Ramadan, Ahmad Chaudhry Nuruddin shut himself inside a small cubicle at the Bait ul Hameed Mosque with only a mattress, a chair and a few religious books.

The slightly stooped 79-year-old strung a white sheet over the entrance to perfect his isolation.

For the next few days, Nuruddin would follow the Islamic custom of I’tikaf, in which believers become virtual hermits, secluding themselves from the world to focus on the divine.

“You spend your time remembering that God Almighty has created the world for the benefit of its people,” he said. “He created the sun, the moon, the planets, the vegetables and fruits, and he sends the waters so people can enjoy those fruits.”

Educated, kindly and broad-minded, Nuruddin seems the very embodiment of a religious man.

But back home in Pakistan, he says, he can’t even call himself a Muslim without fear of prison, harassment or death.

“We are not allowed to say our prayers openly,” said Nuruddin, who was visiting from Lahore. “We can’t call our mosque a mosque.”

The palatial 27,000-square-foot mosque in Chino is one of the biggest in Southern California and serves about 800 people belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect.

The sect ran afoul of mainstream Islam in the late 19th century by proclaiming founder Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the long-awaited Messiah destined to be the “reformer of the age.”

Traditional Islam holds that Muhammad was the last in the line of holy prophets.

In 1974, the Pakistani parliament, persuaded by orthodox clerics, declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslims. Ten years later it adopted an ordinance forbidding them from practicing some of the most basic elements of Islam including the call to prayer, citation of the Koran and recitation of the Kalimah, the defining phrase of Islam, which states that there is no God but God and that Muhammad is his prophet. Violators face up to three years in jail and a fine.

Amnesty International says Ahmadis have been slain in Pakistan for their faith with little or no effort by the government to protect them or to find the killers.

Pakistan denies this, saying perpetrators of violence have been arrested and that intolerance toward religious minorities is not tolerated.

“The Ahmadi beliefs are in absolute contravention to Muslim beliefs, but everyone has equal rights of worship in Pakistan,” said Nadeem Kiani, spokesman for the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington. “There are some people who try to incite sectarian violence from time to time to carry out their own agendas, but as far as the government and 99% of the general public are concerned, there are no problems with Ahmadis.”

He did say, however, that members of the sect should identify themselves as Ahmadis and not Muslims.

Ahmadis say that denies their identity.

“In this country, you have complete freedom to worship,” said Imam Shamshad Nasir, the spiritual leader of the Chino mosque. “How can we have all this freedom in a Christian country but no Muslim countries offer the same kind of freedom?”

Shamshad served as a missionary in Ghana and Sierra Leone and bubbles over with enthusiasm for his faith. He writes newspaper columns in English and Urdu, speaks at interfaith gatherings and has a weekly radio segment. “Understanding Islam”airs Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. on KCAA-AM (1050).

“We represent Islamic teachings for the modern man — old tea in new cups,” he said, sitting in his tidy, book-lined office.

“The founder of our sect said jihad means to struggle for a good cause, not to kill unbelievers,” he said. “We believe you should be loyal to your country, obey the authorities wherever you are. You should respect humanity regardless of race, color or religion and deal with the needy and the poor.”

The Ahmadi credo is “Love for all, hate for none.”

Still, people protest the sect.

A group of Muslims in New York put an advertisement in a Pakistani newspaper urging co-religionists to be on guard against Shamshad and his columns.

“He is deceiving people,” they wrote. “He is Ahmadiyya and he is not a Muslim. . . . Don’t ask him any questions, and ignore his answers.”

But local religious leaders are loath to declare members of the sect non-Muslims.

Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, an umbrella organization of mosques, said the sect shouldn’t be persecuted.

“If they have the same beliefs as all Muslims in the oneness of God and the finality of the prophet Muhammad, then they are Muslims,” he said. “And if they don’t subscribe to that, they are entitled to hold to what they believe is right but cannot be considered part of the mainstream Muslim community.”

He quickly noted: “I will not say they are not Muslims. I will not judge them for what they are and what they are not.”

Ahmadis tend to be highly educated. They claim a 99% literacy rate in Pakistan.

At Friday prayers in Chino recently, about 220 men, including doctors, engineers, lawyers and scientists, crowded into a carpeted room listening to Shamshad’s sermon. (The women, who are similarly accomplished, are kept strictly separate.)

Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize winner, physicist Abdus Salam, was an Ahmadi who moved to Europe. His son-in-law, Dr. Hamid Rahman, is a member of the Chino mosque and an orthopedic surgeon.

He said there are at least 3,000 Ahmadis in California.

When the prayers ended, Naser Noor emerged to put on his shoes. The 39-year-old Rancho Cucamonga banker is originally from the city of Peshawar, a bastion of Islamic militancy.

“You never revealed your faith or it could blow up on you,” he said. “When I went back in 2008, it was totally intimidating.”

A video posted on YouTube shows what appear to be police standing by as a group of men uses chisels and paint to remove Arabic and Koranic phrases from an Ahmadi mosque in the east-central city of Faisalabad. Meanwhile, distraught Ahmadis prostrate themselves in tearful prayer.

Such incidents have caused many to feel a deep sense of estrangement from their homeland.

“When I heard about the law making us non-Muslims, I felt I was no longer from Pakistan,” said Anwer Khan, general secretary of the mosque. “I don’t hate it because I am from there, but I lost my love for my country.”

Still, he says, he has hope.

“We have 15,500 mosques all over the world. We opened 123 mosques this year. So who is winning?” he said.

“Hatred always loses. Love always wins.”

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I’m sorry to report some sad news. Yesterday, on Friday 15th May 2009, my beloved brother in Islam Sheikh Raheal passed away.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayi raji`oon!

Sheikh Raheal was instrumental in supporting me when I was making the decision about whether to revert publicly or not. He supported me with his loving kindness and patience.

It is hard to imagine a man more loving and patient. One of the biggest names to have left Ahmadiyya to revert to Islam, he was a constant thorn in the side of the cult. Yet, he was always dignified and decent.

No matter what filth the Qadianis tried to spread about him, he remained above it and continued to rebut their hateful matter with logic and wisdom.

May Allah (SWT) grant him jannah and shower his beloved family with rahmah. I urge all Muslims to pray for this great man and his family.

I will write soon insha’Allah on how he was such a great help to me.

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From the Calgary Herald on Friday the 19th:

A Calgary-based company has sued the country’s largest mosque for nearly $4 million in allegedly unpaid bills related to a contract to construct the northeast religious facility.

EllisDon Construction Services Inc. filed the statement of claim earlier this month in an attempt to recover $3,962,671 it claims it is owed, plus $1 million in “damages for interference with contractual and economic relations.”

The construction company says it entered into a written contract in June 2006 to build the 45,000-square foot Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque, completed in late August this year, and that the contract was breached.

Naseer Ahmad, an employee or agent of Ahmadiyya also named as a defendant, is alleged to have interfered with EllisDon’s contractual and economic interests with an an intent to damage its reputation.

EllisDon alleges he “encouraged subcontractors to reduce their billings on the project and to make up the reductions on other projects; issued instructions directly to subcontractors to carry out additional work then refused to pay for the work; advised contractors that delays in payments arose from the contractor’s incompetence or misconduct; and attempted to pursuade the project consultant to rescind approvals and certificates of payments that had already been issued.

If not paid the amount owing, says the claim, a builders’ lien must be placed on the mosque and property and it should be sold to pay off EllisDon.

A spokesperson for Ahmadiyya, based in Toronto, did not immediately return phonecalls on Friday.

None of the allegations have been proven in court. No statement of defence has been filed.

When I was a Qadiani, I used to hear of a lot of fraud, mismanagement, nepotism and skullduggery surrounding the building of Qadiani places of worship, so this comes as no surprise, if true.

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