The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 138
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI by the government of military dictator of Pakistan, General Zia-ulHuq and then by his successor governments. It has employed fanatic. Mullahs to whip up sentiments against Ahmadis by their inflammatory and false propaganda. So far the masses have not cooperated with the fanatics and there is no general rioting. But due to incitement by Mullahs, sixteen Ahmadis were killed by individual fanatics between 1984-1988. So far not a single culprit was punished. . No Azan is allowed in Ahmadi Mosques. Hundreds have been arrested on charges of professing Islam as their faith and reciting. Kalima or wearing Kalima badges. Kalima has been removed from hundreds of Ahmadi mosques and a number of which have been burned, demolished or desecrated by police and administration, and other fanatics. Thousands of Ahmadi Muslims have been arrested, beaten, tortured or publicly humiliated for declaring their beliefs. . These incidents have been investigated and confirmed by the independent world agencies like Amnesty International and other human rights groups. The subcommission of UN Commission on. Human Rights declared the ordinance a prima facie breach of. International norms of freedom and of conscience. . Ahmadi Muslims are facing a most intolerable barrage of abuses, ridicule and contempt. The media especially the newspapers use extremely foul and filthy language about the Founder of the. Ahmadiyya Movement and its leaders. The teachings of Ahmadiyyat are distorted and misrepresented grotesquely so as to create enmity and hatred against members of the Ahmadiyya Community. Among the religious groups who are foremost in their enmity towards the. Ahmadiyya Community are Jama'at Islamic and Majlise-AhrareIslam. These groups have been closely allied with the government of. Pakistan. . To Muslims of the World who are outside Pakistan this persecution of Ahmadis and especially this effort to prevent them from practicing Islam may sound very odd and incredible. In the history of Islam, great Imams and Saints have been persecuted and declared apostate, at one time or another, by their opponents. While thousands of Muslims were declared 'Kafirs' (disbelievers) at the 138