For many years the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been the victim of a nationwide hate campaign, which has seen shops, malls and marketplaces across the country display similar provocative messages and posters.
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By Staff report | December 19, 2015
The Press Desk of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in London issued a statement today expressing that the Hafeez Centre anti-Ahmadi protests are a result of many years of continuous anti-Ahmadi posters campaign at Pakistani places of business without any governmental action early on to stop the hate.
The traders from the Pakistani IT marketplace -- known for distribution of pirated software and movies -- launched protests against the government and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after police removed the hate sign directed against Ahmadis and subsequently arrested the shop owner for displaying disparaging words.
Pakistani authorities had intervened on Sunday, December 13th, only after a photo of the sign above suspect Abid Hashmi's store stating, “Qadiani dogs are not allowed to enter this shop” went viral on social media during that weekend.
Thumbing their nose at the Punjab Government, the local traders' community at the Hafeez Centre reacted angrily to the police action and held a protest rally condemning both, the Punjab Police and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community with reference to the removal of the sign and arrest of the shop owner.
According to the Ahmadiyya press Desk statement, demonstrators gathered in front of the Hafeez Centre carrying large banners with further "inflammatory statements against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community."
"For many years," the statement said, "the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been the victim of a nationwide hate campaign, which has seen shops, malls and marketplaces across the country display similar provocative messages and posters."
Upon his release, Hashmi was garlanded, and a large procession of the Hafeez Centre traders and other anti-Ahmadi operatives from Tahir Ashrafi's Pakistan Ulema Council and Majlis Tahuffuz Khatima-e Nubuwwat terror groups followed him back to the Hafeez Centre.
Thousands in the social media raised eyebrows and balked at the Pakistani authorities for again cowing to extremists' pressure and affording Hashmi an extraordinary treatment.
Although the Punjab government wasn't responsive to the social media activists' protesting Hashmi's special treatment, ironically however, the credit for the first police action at the Hafeez Centre against the anti-Ahmadi shop owner was assigned to one so called 'human rights activist,' who is also known for propping up mullah Tahir Ashrafi, one of the leader in inciting Ahmadi hatred in Pakistan.
-- Updated
-- UK: Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Press Office Reacts to Lahore Hafeez Centre Protests
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