“I have no idea how these trivial matter had entered the faith of Islam in the first place and how these inter-sectarian matters have been accepted as “cornerstone of Islam.”
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By Staff Report | April 7, 2016
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has issued a “position Statement” to clarify “where it stands with regard to the Ahmadiyya community.”
The statement issued on MCB website on April 6th repeatedly insisted that the group preaches "pluralism and peaceful coexistence" and does not approve of killing anyone for their faith.
In the case of Ahmadis, however, MCB statement left intact the very enigmas many extremists manipulate for use as their springboards to carry out atrocities against Ahmadis around the world.
The statement affirmed the ‘mounting pressure’ MCB is facing to accept Ahmadis as Muslims; however, it explicitly stated that due to the “fundamental theological difference with the Ahmadi community, the MCB is not in a position to represent or be represented by the Ahmadi community."
“I can’t imagine any Ahamdi Muslim sitting around waiting for the day when he or she might get to enjoy representation by MCB,” sarcastically expressed Imran Jattala, chief editor of The Times of Ahmad, who believes majority of the MCB membership doesn’t live up to the true teachings of Islam anyway.
“Just look around and note all the scandals various British Muslim organizations, mosques and madrasas – supposedly members of MCB -- are embroiled in,” Jattala said. “Well, so much for the high principles in Preamble and Basis of affiliation section in MCB Constitution the statement is touting. The memberships’ conducts are very unbecoming of anyone associating himself or herself with the Prophet Muhammad.”
The MCB "Position Statement" asked “Muslims should not be forced to class Ahmadis as Muslims,” which irked many on social media immediately debunking the duplicity by MCB.
Dr Basharat Nazir (@BashaNazir), a peace advocate from the United Kingdom who Tweets about “laws, systems and politics in Pakistan that marginalize religious communities,” while acknowledging MCB statement as a “good effort”, said the statement “[f]ell short of accepting that Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim and free to do so.”
“Hello MCB. Why not accept too that Ahmadis shouldn't be forced to class themselves as non-Muslims,” Dr Nazir asked in his social media post on micro-blogging website Twitter.
Ahmadī Muslims believe in all the tenants of Islam without exception and they were considered a sect of Islam prior to the change of this status at the hands of late Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who in 1974 – at the demand of religious zealots – caused an amendment to the Pakistani Constitution which declared Ahmadis as non-Muslim.
“A political decision made in Pakistan in 1974 excommunicating #Ahmadis is official view of Muslim Council of Britain,” wrote Myra MacDonald (@myraemacdonald), South Asia specialist and author of Heights of Madness, a book on the Indo-Pak Siachen war.
MCB Position Statement declared “the cornerstone of Islam is to believe in One God and in the finality of the prophethood of the Messenger Muhammad, peace be upon him.”
“I have no idea how these trivial matter had entered the faith of Islam in the first place and how these inter-sectarian matters have been accepted as “cornerstone of Islam,” questioned Imran Jattala.
“I do know one thing though: the original authentic Arabic rendering of the Islamic creed, Shahadah, is “lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muḥammadur-rasūlu-llāh” which simply translate as “There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God.” Imran Jattala explained. “So, why and how they added "last" before “messenger of God” is beyond me.”
"It is these people who have changed their faith but blame Ahmadis for their own errors and mistakes in their faith."
-- UK: The Muslim Council of Britain's Position Statement on Ahmadis is dangrous
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