Eye on jihad: Taliban, thugs or torch-bearers of Islam

The following comments were written in response to an article authored by Dr. Shah Alam Khan in a February 23rd post on TowCirles.Net entitled Taliban, thugs or torch-bearers of Islam, which included:

"What surprises me is the eerie silence of the Muslim ulema in the subcontinent (particularly in India) in their condemnation of this cowardly act of appalling brutality. Where are those who leave no opportunity to condemn what is inconvenient to them, no matter how comfortable it might be to Islam in general and Muslims in particular?"

Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Comments
Source & Credit: TowCirles.Net
By Qasim Rashid | February 24, 2010

Taliban, thugs or torch-bearers of Islam

While I agree with the authors sentiment that the Taliban must be stopped, I fail to understand his concern that moderate Muslims, particularly in India, are not speaking out.

It was on the very soil of India that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, whom Ahmadiyya Muslims consider the long awaited Messiah and Mahdi, declared over 100 years ago that violence has no place in Islam. Since he established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1889, this community of moderate Muslims has expanded to every country of the world with tens of millions of adherents.

Most importantly, in the 121 year history of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, there has not been a single act of violence perpetrated by any Ahmadi Muslim. On the contrary, Ahmadi Muslims have continually condemned violence in the name of Islam in every fashion. They have reached out to Sikh, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian leaders to forge bonds of unity and peace.

However, rather than follow the example of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the so called ulema has condemned them as heretics, and therefore unworthy to follow. Let the ulema say what they will, but a better example of Muslim who preach and practice peace, does not exist on this earth.


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