A Great Victory for Ahmadiyyat — Page 9
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 9 ] Just imagine, the White Paper issued by this government has shamelessly embarked on an audacious and immoral act of character assassination against its own citizens. The statement about divorced women and how they were left to adorn the houses of ill fame is a disgusting and horrific accusation. Under a truly Islamic government the accusers would deserve a punishment of eighty lashes each. Irre- spective of the facts, they [the government of Pakistan] would not have published these things unless they believed them to be true, we have no qualms about what they believe to be true or the many things that have been brought to their attention. We only want to tell them that this is the opinion that you yourselves hold about the Islamic status of the members of the National Assembly which declared the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jam a ‘at as non- Muslim—a declaration which you hail as the resolution of the hundred year old issue. That is not all. It is further stated that these people were murderers and supporters of murderers. It is stated that one individual not only assisted murderers but was also involved in getting the cases against them dismissed. Addi- tionally, it is stated about him that he was involved in obtaining illegal licenses for handguns and other firearms. It is written that he also stole from the poor, widows, and orphans by exerting his influence in private courts. He is said to have also extorted huge sums of money from con- tractors and industrialists, and then disrupted their work