Eye on Extremism: Ahmadis fight for the honour of Holy Prophet of Islam, Pakistan, Jinnah

"The demand for Pakistan was not a result of Jinnah's imagination, but was a natural outcome of a long economic exploitation of the Moslem masses by the Hindus, who are not even now prepared to adopt a compromising attitude and to give them their due."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | History
Source & Credit: Research | Anonymous
By Imran Jattala | July 25, 2010

Ahmadiyya Times Note: 
Speaking ill of the Holy Prophet of Islam Muhammad (on whom be peace) is not a new phenomenon. The enemies of Islam have used every opportunity to mount insults for the Holy Prophet.

The members of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community continuously defend the honour of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (on whom be peace) against the most vile attacks by the enemy's of Islam.

They also defend Pakistan and Qaid-e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah against the anti-Pakistani sentiments when ever such sentiment raises its head.

Back on 1947, only two month after the creation of Pakistan, Ahmadiyya Muslim Imam of the London Mosque has to rise to the occasion when TIME printed a depiction of the Holy Prophet Mohammad and spoke ill of the creation of Pakistan and wrote vile remarks about Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

The text of the following letter, published on November 17, 1947, is self explanatory:

Source & Credit: TIME | Archives

By M. A. Bajwa | London | 1947

Sir: I, as Imam of the London Mosque, leader of the Ahmadiyya Moslems in Great Britain, crave the hospitality of the columns of your magazine—to expose the serious injury that has been caused by the publication of a picture of Mohamed (may peace and blessings be on his name) the Holy Prophet of Islam, and ... by unfortunate remarks in the body of the article headed "India-Pakistan" in the issue of Oct. 27.

The painting of portraits is not approved by Islam and the idea of making a picture of the Holy Prophet is absolutely repugnant and extremely abhorrent to the Moslems. But the slanderous picture which has appeared in your magazine depicts ideas that have no foundation in Moslem history, and the inscription below is simply exasperating. . . . Mohamed's (may peace be on him) sword never took the life of a single human being. He preached peace—not war. . . .

You again attack him in the body of the article by calling Jinnah "far too easy a villain" and "conceivably an obsessed child of Mohamed." . . . Your rebukes to Mr. Jinnah are quite uncalled for. . . . The demand for Pakistan was not a result of Jinnah's imagination, but was a natural outcome of a long economic exploitation of the Moslem masses by the Hindus, who are not even now prepared to adopt a compromising attitude and to give them their due.

M. A. BAJWA London

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,887645-3,00.html

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