Ahmadis have long alleged the Saudi hand in the 1974 anti-Ahmadiyya campaign run against their community in Pakistan and have made their case with facts presented through circumstantial evidence.
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By Imran Jattala | June 26, 2015
WikiLeaks released over 61,000 the so-called “Saudi cables” on June 19th from their cache of more than half a million documents the transparency group claims it holds and among the leaked documents surfaced proofs of Saudi government’s yet another involvement at the highest levels in a recent campaign against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Indonesia.
While the Saudi government has attempted to discredit the cables as ‘fake’, WikiLeaks has a long track record of hosting large-scale leaks of government materials which have always panned out as authentic.
According to the contents analyzed from the leaked documents so far, the Saudi government seems to maintain a keen interest in devising ways to disrupt the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Indonesia and curtail its activities.
In one case a document dated March 19, 2012 and signed by Crown Prince Naif bin AbdilAziz, the Deputy Prime Minister and President of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs directed the Ministry of the Islamic Affairs to coordinate with the Foreign Ministry and the Indonesian Supreme Council for the Islamic Da’awah for “setting up practical programs there [in Indonesia] that could be executed against the risk of Al-Qadianiat [the Ahmadiyya community].”
The Crown Prince further directed Saudi Embassy in Jakarta “to keep in contact with the Indonesian government to explain the Qadianiat risk and keep trying to prevent its spread.”
Ahmadis have long alleged the Saudi hand in the 1974 anti-Ahmadiyya campaign run against their community in Pakistan and have made their case with facts presented through circumstantial evidence.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the late Pakistani Prime Minister from the early 1970s -- who declared Ahmadis non-Muslims and created a foundation for extremism and Islamization of Pakistan -- was suspected of cowing to Saudi pressure into carrying out his anti-Ahmadī drive.
The claim was often rejected by Bhutto sympathizers until Dr Mubashar Hasan, a co-founder of Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) and a close confidant of party chairman Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, confirmed in a video interview that Saudi pressure was in fact the reason behind 1974 anti-Ahmadī amendment to the Pakistani constitution.
The documents posted by Wikileaks are the first direct evidence of the Saudis' wide-scale anti-Ahmadi campaign.
-- Leaked cables back suspicions of Saudi campaign against Ahmadiyya community
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