Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama‘at and the Palestinian Muslims — Page 16
Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at and the Palestinian Muslims [ 16 ] Muhammad sa. However, even those Muslims could not conceive that a time would come when those associated with Islam would attempt to obliterate the kalimah with their own hands. No Muslim could have even remotely imagined this. Today, this dubious honour goes to the tyrannical government of Pakistan. A new dreadful and ter- rifyingly bloody history is being written. A new concept for the defence and service of Islam is being presented: to attack the very basis of Islam, assault the affirmation of God’s Unity, and to assault the affirmation of the belief in the prophethood of Muhammad sa. This government has declared that if Ahmad i s do not deter from respecting the kalimah that bears the Unity of God and belief in prophet- hood of Muhammad sa , and if they do not stop affirming it, then they will be severely punished. This is the worst assault against Islam, and it is rising from the soil of a self- proclaimed ‘Islamic’ country. It has tainted the atmosphere and created an ugliness in the world. Examples of Those Being Penalised for Reciting the Kalimah I will present an example of the method in which these activities are being carried out. A young Ahmad i , who was arrested for the crime of writing the kalimah , documents his experiences and explains how the workers of the tyran- nical government of Pakistan are ‘serving’ Islam. He writes: