Murder in the Name of Allah — Page iv
EDITOR'S FOREWORD. Hardly a day passes on which an Islamic event does not make headlines. . The president of a Muslim state is assassinated by the supporters of. Muslim Brotherhood; a European journalist is taken hostage by Islamic. Jihad; a Pan-Am aircraft is hijacked by another Muslim group; American university professors are taken into custody by Hezbullah. The glare of 'Islamic' revolution in Iran is reflected through the flares of every Gulf oil refinery. . In 1953 there were widespread demonstrations and anti-Ahmadi riots throughout what was then West Pakistan, leading to an almost complete breakdown of law and order. The leading trouble-makers were the Ahrar-i-Islam and the ulema (learned scholars), who had consistently opposed the creation of Pakistan. But it was Maulana Abul Ala. Maududi, the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami (the counterpart of the. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt), who became their voice. Martial law was proclaimed and the chief minister of the Punjab was replaced. A court of inquiry was set up jointly under Justice Mr Muhammad. Munir and Justice Mr M. R. Kayani to investigate the causes of the disturbances. . No student of modern Islam should fail to read the report on the events of 1953. It explains in detail some of the problems that the new Muslim state was facing. But it is a judicial report and, as such, does not set itself the task of warning or advising. The present book, however, is the work of a man of God - not simply a work written out of duty by a court official. . In 1955, Mirza Tahir Ahmad drew attention to certain aspects of the Munir Commission Report and spelt out the dangers the new. Islamic state was facing. He showed how the Jamaat-e-Islami, despite being a minute minority of the population, would destroy Islam in. Pakistan. In his book, Mazhab ke Nam per Khoon (Murder in the Name of Religion), which he wrote thirty years before his election as the head of the Ahmadiyyah Movement in Islam, Mirza Tahir Ahmad shows how Islam is being exploited by the Mullahs and presented to the