Pakistan's Bloody Massacre Will Always Be Remembered!
It was Friday May 28th 2010 and both mosques were packed with the congregations gathered to offer their weekly Jumu’ah (Friday) prayers when terrorists attacked the two Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Lahore, the largest city in Pakistan, Punjab Province... Using hand grenades and automatic rifles, the terrorists entered the mosques in a coordinated and planned attack at two different locations, and started shooting indiscriminately. In a short period of time, more than 85 were martyred and many more injured.
From the surface, it sound like another terrorist attack in Pakistan or its neighboring territories - other mosques and churches have been attacked and grenades have exploded in shopping areas and are now a part of everyday life in those countries. However, the attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques on Friday May 28, 2010 were part of a continuous plan to harass and discriminate against this peaceful community. The major exception being that the brutality against this community has the full support of the laws, constitution, judicial system and the police in places such as Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
From the surface, it sound like another terrorist attack in Pakistan or its neighboring territories - other mosques and churches have been attacked and grenades have exploded in shopping areas and are now a part of everyday life in those countries. However, the attacks on Ahmadiyya mosques on Friday May 28, 2010 were part of a continuous plan to harass and discriminate against this peaceful community. The major exception being that the brutality against this community has the full support of the laws, constitution, judicial system and the police in places such as Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
In those counties, anyone who does not participate in persecuting Ahmadis is themselves subject to persecution as well.
The government of those countries who would not provide security to its citizens has the local media working alongside them. Threats are made against the community prior to the attacks, but neither the local media, nor the police nor the government of those countries reacts to complain. The authorities would not even refer to the place of the attacks as mosques, but called it ‘places of worship’ to signify that the place attacked is ‘non-Muslim’ worship places.
The response of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, as always, is a peaceful one. The supreme head of the Community advised it members to show patience, pray and must not show any inappropriate reaction. In total, the community, which consist tens of millions the world over shows the utmost obedience to its spiritual leader while sympathizing with each other for the loved ones who have gone to a better world.
History of the community over the past 120 years has shown that it has thrived after every attempt of persecution and its enemies were humiliated. It is all God’s work, for instance, in Pakistan, in 1953, Ahrar party agitated the whole country against Ahmadis and the government had to declare Martial Law to keep peace. Ahrar party was not a factor in Pakistan anymore. In 1974, Prime Minister, Bhutto declared Ahmadis as ‘non-Muslims’ for purposes of constitution and the law. He was hanged against all odds. In spite of pressure from international leaders and the absence of concrete evidence against him, his destiny could not be changed. In 1984, President Zia made the practice of the Ahmadiyya beliefs a criminal offense. He was blown up in a military plane crash at the height of his power and they only recovered a piece of his jaw.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community became known all over the world because of continued and relentless persecution. Reports from United National human rights council, Amnesty International and U.S. State department declared openly that Pakistan’s behavior in dealing with the minorities was unacceptable.
How International Human Right Law Agents will take care of the planners, perpetrators who were, and are still involve in executing murderers acts against minority in their land (i.e. Pakistan Indonesia and Bangladesh) is yet to be seen. But we Ahmadiyya Muslims know from experience of over 120 years, that such act against our community results in its progress the world over. Our blood shed will not go in vain. The Holy Qur’an has told us that at the end it is the Prophet Muhammad (saw) and his true followers who would triumph. So it is written and so shall be done.
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