Are Ahmadis Not True Muslims? — Page 62
62 ? the recitation of the Kalimah while someone else is being jailed because in his house the words Bismill a hir-Ra h m a nir-Ra hi m [In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, Ever Merciful] were found written. Innumerable stories of these atrocities are currently rife in the country. To keep the Holy Quran or even a single verse in one’s home is considered a crime. The data reported only in the daily Naw a -i-Waqt Lahore shows that 3,113 Ahmadis were arrested in such incidents. However, the actual figures are much higher than those reported in the daily Naw a -i-Waqt. And after 1988 even this number has tremendously increased. The limited data recorded during the period from 1984 to 1988 was reported by that newspaper as follows: 1. 125 arrests for calling themselves Muslims 2. 588 arrests for affixing badges of the Kalimah 3. 178 arrests for writing the Kalimah on the mosques 4. 208 arrests for calling the Adh a n 5. 76 arrests for adopting Islamic epithets In addition 1,421 Ahmadis were arrested in other cases. ( Naw a -i-Waqt , 11 September 1988, p. 10, issue no. 313) All these reports are well within the knowledge of the general public. In spite of all this, these maulav i s claim that there are no restrictions on the Ahmadis. So Maulav i Ludhi a na vi must be cognizant of this, yet he keeps claiming otherwise. Under these circumstances, we make the request to the Government of Pakistan to withdraw these ‘concessions’ from the Ahmadis and grant them to our opponent maulav i s and their followers.