Netherlands: Ahmadiyya Muslim community threatened by radical Muslims

"This year we received two letters calling us kaffirs [apostates] of Islam and Wajibul-Qatl  [to be killed]. Also, In England this spring pamphlets were distributed calling us ‘heretics, to be killed'."

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Edited by Ahmadiyya Times | December 14, 2010


The small Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the Netherlands is fearful about the actions of radical Muslims.

The Mobarak Mosque in The Hague recently installed security cameras.

Nur L. Verhagen, Ahmadiyya spokesman said that this year they received two letters calling them 'kaffirs' [apostates] of Islam and Wajibul-Qatl  [to be killed]. Also, he said, pamphlets were distributed in England this spring calling Ahmadi Muslims ‘heretics, to be killed'.

“We do not want conflict,” says Ahmadiyya spokesman. “But we have to be careful about such potential violence in the Netherlands as we are threatened in England.”

Last year posters were hung in shops in London and Bradford, warning customers of the Ahmadiyya-owned businesses and that they should not be patronized.


During the same period Ahmadiyya mosques were also the targets of bombings in Pakistan.

Since [the constitutional aments in] 1974, the Ahmadiyyas are no longer regarded as Muslims according to the Pakistani law.

The Dutch Imam Abdul Jabbar Van de Ven called for the Ahmadiyya for the utmost care and avoidance of any conflict.

“The Ahmadiyya community opposes any and all forms of extremism,” Imam Jabbar said.


 In the Netherlands the mosque in The Hague serves about 850 followers from Amsterdam and the community in Nunspeet.


-- Source, The Press, December 12, 2010

--- By Ahmadiyya Times,  Ahmadiyya Muslim community threatened by radical Muslims