Eye on Extremism: Church killings just wrong

...[O]ur own experience when on May 28, two of our Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques were attacked in Lahore, Pakistan, where 87 worshippers were slaughtered when they were standing in worship.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Edmonton Journal
By Aneesa Mirza | November 8, 2010

Re: "Seven killed in Baghdad church drama; Priest among first to die as gunmen storm evening mass," The Journal, Nov. 1.

Reading the news and its details were very painful for me and my family. My grandchildren asked me why such atrocities happen to innocent people who are occupied in worship and singing the praise of their Creator?

I could not answer them in a language which they could grasp. For them there is a problem with humanity at large when people cannot live in peace, especially in a church, mosque, synagogue or a temple.

I shared with them our own experience when on May 28, two of our Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques were attacked in Lahore, Pakistan, where 87 worshippers were slaughtered when they were standing in worship.

My grandchildren knew the details of this horrific murder of innocent worshippers and connected with those killed in the Baghdad church.

I think they were able to share the pain better then we grown ups and one of them remarked that if houses of worship are not safe, then the people are not doing their duty to protect each other.


I and my family would like to strongly condemn this horrific action of people, whatever their faith, and pray the survivors are granted patience to bear this grief.

Killing innocent people, especially in a house of worship, is not justified by any standard of morality.

Aneesa Mirza, Edmonton

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