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Afghanistan/South Asia

Bigots plan anew to capture Ahmadiyya mosques

2004-09-02

Religious extremists under the banner of Aamra Dhakabashi yesterday announced renewed plans to capture three Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat complexes, two in Dhaka and one in Narayanganj. At a press conference held at city's Nayapaltan, Aamra Dhakabashi, an organisation spearheading the anti-Ahmadiyya campaign, said they will take control of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat complexes at Chashara in Narayanganj on October 8, at city's Nakhalpara on December 10 and Bakshibazar on March 4 next year. After invading those religious establishments, they will also say juma prayers there. Once that's done, they'll be graded by Learned Elders of Islam and assigned positions in the pantheon of Muslim Holy Places™. They're expected to be numbers 25,831 and 25,832... Besides, they will hold processions and rallies to drum up support for the capture programme, speakers said at the press conference. "We're ready even to sacrifice our lives to make our plans succeed and no resistance can make us backtrack, " Shamsul Haq, president of Aamra Dhakabashi, said. "We won't object to Ahmadiyyas performing their religious practices once they are declared non-Muslims," he added. "We won't object, but we'll kill them..." Jamal Naser Chowdhury, general secretary of Aamra Dhakabashi, said a real Muslim can never accept the way Ahmadiyyas distort the holy Quran. "Ahmadiyyas will have to convert to Islam, if they are to live in this country," he added. "It don't matter if they were born here! It don't matter if their folk've lived her since they had tails! They can't be here now, 'cuz we say so!" He said Ahmadiyyas mislead the uneducated section of the population and convert them to their (Ahmadiyya) religion. Leaders of the religious extremist outfit also demanded punishment to Professor Kabir Chowdhury and his followers for backing the Ahmadiyyas. They asked the government to withdraw all cases against their leaders and issue gazette notification of banning the Ahmadiyya publications. Earlier on August 27 a plan of Aamra Dhakabashi to capture Ahmadiyya headquarters in Bakshibazar was foiled in the face of resistance by police and civil society.

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Afghanistan/South Asia

Ahmadiyya complex capture plan foiled

2004-08-28

Police action and civil society resistance kept at bay religious fanatics who threatened to capture the Ahmadiyya headquarters in Bakshibazar yesterday to the relief of Dhaka residents reeling from deadly grenade attacks on an Awami League rally. The fanatics under the banner of Aamra Dhakabashi failed to gather at any point in the capital, but threatened to take the Ahmadiyya base soon after the release of their four top leaders arrested overnight. A Dhaka court sent Aamra Dhakabashi President Shamsul Huq, Secretary General Jamal Nasser Chowdhury and key leaders Abdul Kader and Sharafat Ali to jail yesterday. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Bangladesh, hailed the government and civil society steps, saying the government role proved it could resist fundamentalists if it wanted. Fourteen platoons of police were deployed at 12 points in and around the Ahmadiyya Complex in the morning to stop Aamra Dhakabashi activists who threatened to say their Friday prayers at the mosque in the sect's headquarters 'at any cost'. The fanatics, after the Juma prayers, tried to gather at Azad Field, but police chased them away. Failing to organise its people, Aamra Dhakabashi formally 'postponed' their capture bid in the afternoon. Thanking the civil society leaders for their role, Ahmadiyya Nayebe Amir Meer Mobashwer Ali said, "The secular people of Bangladesh possess a strong power and the dream that attended Bangladesh's birth will come true if they join hands to this end." The SAPUFC, Awami League and 11-party leaders and activists earlier gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar and held a rally with SAPUFC President Prof Kabir Chowdhury in the chair. "We will soon form a platform of pro-Liberation, secular, non-communal and progressive people to resist fundamentalist threats anywhere in Bangladesh," Prof Chowdhury said. "Only an united people can stop the extremist and fundamentalist forces who are getting stronger across the country alarmingly."

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India-Pakistan

Bangla MPs want Ahmadiyyas declared non-Muslim

2003-12-28

Anti-Ahmadiyya religious activists in Bangladesh on Friday threatened to sideline members of parliament (MPs), elected on an Islamic manifesto, if they do not table a bill declaring the Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims in the next parliament session. Part of the continuing low-level pogrom against them... “Since they promised an Islamic society, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Fazlul Haq Amini, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, MPs of the Jamaat-e-Islami and other Islamic parties, must place a bill in parliament,” demanded Mahmudul Hasan Mamtazi, amir of the Khatme Nabuwat Andolon Coordination Committee, an anti-Ahmadiyya alliance. “If you don’t do so, beware Nizami, Amini, Sayeedi and others, we will stage a sit down wherever we find you,” warned Mr Mamtazi in a demonstration in Dhaka. Y'see, under the caliphate, there will be tolerance and justice in the world... Some fifteen hundred anti-Ahmadiyyas of a conglomerate of Islamist outfits took part in the demonstration jointly organised by the Nabuwat Anodolon and Aamra Dhakabashi, a socio-cultural organisation, on the Shaheed Faruq Road after Friday prayers. “We will paralyse the whole country if the government does not evict the ‘Ahmadiyyas’ from the Nakhalpara Ahmadiyya mosque by January 9,” Mr Mamtazi threatened. “We will begin a countrywide agitation demanding declaration of the Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims and freeing the mosques from their occupation,” he added. Hmmm... A lot of money flows into Nakhalpara Ahmadiyya mosque, huh?

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