A Pakistani Sunni mob harassed 3 Ahmadi Muslims at a “love for all” stall in Derby (UK) today. When requested to stop curses & threats, they replied:
“Our prophet taught us to stop anyone attacking our religion.”
UK authorities should take this extremism very seriously. 1/3
Ahmadi Muslims regularly hold conferences/seminars to clarify the teachings of Islam to western audiences. To characterize these as “an attack on religion” & harass/threaten Ahmadis should not be allowed in the West. Hundreds of Ahmadis have lost lives to such extremism. 2/3
This is the ringleader of the Sunni extremist mob. At a time when Muslims are wrongly stereotyped as extremist, all Muslims must come together & call out bad apples like these that give us all a bad name. 3/3
Would appreciate if anyone can identify this man. Also, here is the stall that triggered them. Boggles one’s mind how three Ahmadi Muslims showing the world Islam is about love and peace could evoke such hate & bigotry from another Muslim. :/
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Great points. Lets have a public discourse on this. I think you misunderstand me.
1. - I believe homeopathy works but I remain a skeptic on many levels. I can’t prove it works & my mind seeks rationality & objective truths & so I crave scientific research in this field.
2. I disagree that being skeptical of homeopathy makes one a lesser Ahmadi. Such judgments are far more dangerous than expressing skepticism. I don’t expect this from you Tahir Bhai. The biggest skeptic I know of homeopathy was my role model the 4th caliph (ra).
3. Problem is some “weak-minded” Ahmadis, to borrow your language, trust homeopathy blindly, when 10 homeopaths would give you 10 different medication for same ailment. Such blind trust, at the expense of ignoring standard care, has proven fatal more than once.
3/23 UPDATE: ALARMING speed of rise in # of #COVID19 cases in the US. Some of this could be due to increased testing, but even if we account for this, the actual # out in the community is far more than this graph shows. This is a huge disaster in the making. 1/4
When I first compared data of the two countries (03/13), we were 10 days behind Italy. Today, we are just 3 days behind. With this speed, we're looking at crossing Italy in ~ 2-3 days. We are failing at "flattening the curve," & I worry for what is to come in the coming days. 2/4
MORTALITY DATA: We are 13 days behind Italy. With case load increasing at the current rate in the US, our healthcare resources will soon be tested to their max (already are in some parts of the country). This is why it is imp to support hospitals NOW. There is no time. 3/4
I just superimposed Italy's #COVID19 case data onto ours here in the US. Take a look at this closely. We are following the EXACT SAME trajectory as Italy, just 10 days behind. 1/3
Italy instituted a lockdown on 03/09. For the US, this would be Thursday 03/19. However, Italy found out this was too late to effectively #FlattenTheCurve. If we are to change our path & dampen the effect of this crisis in the coming days, we might have to lockdown earlier. 2/3
In the absence of such a measure from the federal government, I urge all of you to not go out and stay indoors please. Remember, ~ 400 deaths in Italy today. We don't want to be there next week. #SocialDistancing TODAY will help save lives TOMORROW. 3/3 #CoronaOutbreak
Looking at various economic indicators comparing India vs Pakistan over last 6 decades.
1. Pakistan & India had same amount of exports in the 1960s. But then the lines diverge quickly. The gap today is huge.
2. Foreign Exchange Reserves: The two countries also had similar foreign exchange reserves till the 1970s. But then, India just took off. No comparison today.
3. Inflation: Pakistan's Rupee was stronger than India's in the 1960s. Now India's is almost twice as strong.
07/14/1903: 116 years ago today, Sahibzada Abdul Latif Shaheed (1853-1903), Islamic Scholar & Royal Advisor to King Abdur Rahman Khan & Habibullah Khan of Afghanistan, was stoned to death for becoming a disciple of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as).
The first Ahmadi Muslim martyr.
The Afghan govt asked him multiple times to leave Ahmadiyyat & be spared. His response:
"I am carrying the chains, shackles & handcuffs for the sake of Prophet Muhammad & to me they are like ornaments. I'm walking briskly because I am impatient for a rendezvous with my Master."
He was an eminent scholar & academic. He had thousands of pupils all over Afghanistan & beyond. He had great influence on the Afghan kings & its darbars & had the honor of placing the Amir's crown on the head of Habibullah Khan himself on the eve of his coronation in 1901.