Source: Daily Ummat, Pak | Ahmadiyya Times
By Imran Jattala, Editor | July 31, 2010
In its July 30th publication, Daily Ummat, an Urdu newspaper published from Karachi, Pakistan, has made several unsubstantiated statements in its reporting of anti-Ahmadiyya agitation news from Indonesia.
The focus of this clarification is primarily the description attributed to Ahmadiyya Times in the story, wherein Daily Ummat described Ahmadiyya Times as “a worldwide newspaper [or magazine] of Qadianis [Ahmadis].”
This description by Daily Ummat is utterly incorrect.
Although a clear disclaimer has always been prominently displayed on the front Page of Ahmadiyya Times, the editorial staff, once again, clarifies that Ahmadiyya Times is an independently run website and does not claim to represent the official views of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Furthermore, Ahmadiyya Times assumes full responsibility for the contents of its web pages.
One of the chief objectives for starting Ahmadiyya Times was to battle the questionable media practices from within and to counter unsubstantiated and sometimes all together made-up facts and reports - by the likes of Daily Ummat.
It should be noted that Ahmadiyya Times takes issue not only with misreporting and misrepresentations about Ahmadi Muslim community, but also about injustices against and persecution of any people.
The editor of Ahmadiyya Times further asserts that we will always, vigorously but peacefully take positions to defend the honour of Islam and its Holy Founder, the Holy Prophet Mohammad (on whom be peace); the honour of all religions at their origin and their founders; the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani; and his successorship in Ahmadiyyat (Khilafat-e Ahmadiyya).
-- Ahmadiyya Times
Jazzakum'Allah Ahsanul Jazaa for clarification and highlighting Ummat's deception. This news has many fabrications e.g. the Mosque in question was not built recently and that Ahmadiyah are not declared non-Muslim in Indonesia like Pakistan. The language used by Ummat for Holy Founder of Jamaat Ahmadiyya is un-appropriate against any standard of journalism. It appears that Blasphemy clauses of PPC are only applicable to non-Muslims.
ReplyDeleteI have been viewer of this newspaper, it is pro-taliban newspaper, in the past it has gone for maligning Jammat’s people, I myself read one such investigation report in which it published baseless allegations against officials of Jammat in Karachi city. So if such newspaper publishes anything about already persecuted community, every sensible mind knows it is total nonsense. But it is for Pakistanis to think that how such religious yahoos are contaminating thinking of common Pakistanis, and it will just make our nation hateful to others which is nothing but suicide in today’s interdependent and economically competing world.
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