Islam and the Freedom of Conscience — Page 24
~ 24 ~ Certainly the Holy Prophet sa was the greatest of all adherents of the Sharia that was revealed to him. It is extremely cruel to convey such disgraceful thoughts about him. . . . The immediate response of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the publication of the caricatures The other Muslims are incited to strike actions, damage and destruction and such is their response. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community promptly reacted to this in the manner they should have. The Ahmad i s promptly communicated with the newspapers. This is not a matter that took place today that they are taking strike actions in February 2006. This incident took place last year in September. When the mischief was made how did we respond? As I said, this took place in September or maybe early October, and our Missionary promptly prepared a detailed article which was sent to the newspaper that had published the caricature; a protest was made at this publication. The teaching of the Promised Messiah as was explained and they were told that this is our way of protest. We will not launch a rally but we will do the Jihad of the pen with you and express our feelings of sadness at the publication of the images. They were told that freedom of conscience notwithstanding, it is not meant to hurt the sentiment of others. Anyway, this was