In the U.S., meanwhile, Ahmadi spokesmen such as Qasim Rashid, Harris Zafar and Kashif Chaudry carry water for the same forces that persecute them in Pakistan.
After Punjab, demolishing the minarets of Ahmadi places of worship started in Karachi. Today, a group of people demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship in Saddar. Two weeks ago, another Ahmadi worship place’s minarets were also demolished in Martin Quarters. pic.twitter.com/X2EnUAtnVV
— Zia Ur Rehman (@zalmayzia) February 2, 2023
“Vandals Attack Ahmadi Mosques in Pakistan—Encouraged by the Police,” by Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter, February 6, 2023:
On January, 18, 2023, three thugs entered the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque on Martin Road in Karachi, Pakistan, and desecrated two of its minarets. “The upper portion of the minaret,” the International Human Rights Committee reports, “has been smashed to bits. The attackers left behind the ladder and a sledgehammer. They fled as soon as the police arrived. This is the third desecration of an Ahmadi Muslim Mosque this month.”
The IHRC is a non-profit and non-governmental organization focusing on freedom of religion or belief based in London, and offers first-hand news on the discrimination and persecution of the Ahmadis. As it points out, “[l]ast month police destroyed minarets at the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Baghbanpura, Gujranwala and few days ago, a 108-year-old Ahmadiyya Mosque in Moti Bazaar Wazirabad was desecrated by the police.”
In Pakistan, the persecution of the Ahmadiyya community boasts the sad record of being the only state-sponsored politics of bigotry in a Muslim country against a Muslim community. For the Muslim Pakistani government, the Ahmadis are in fact non-Muslim heretics. That scholars may disagree is regarded as irrelevant, and the persecution of this group reaches levels of true sadism.
As IHRC reports, quoting information from the Deputy Superintendent of the local police received by the organization, police officers in Adda, Tehsil Gojra, District Toba Tek Singh, forced Ahmadis “to demolish Minarets from their own Ahmadiyya Mosque by themselves.”
What is most staggering is that this is contrary to Pakistan law, as the Supreme Court of Pakistan stated in its recommendations (PLD 2014 SC 699).
Yet, again, on February 2, 2023, vandals attacked the Ahmadiyya Hall, built in 1950 in Saddar Karachi (the commercial district of the Pakistani city), and razed its minarets to the ground….
