Source/Credit: Neighbor Newspaper
By Allison Khan | February 20, 2011
Dodi Iskander of Atlanta, Georgia, may have a serious expression, but there is a reason for that. He belongs to Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam and he is also from the same region where the recent murders of Ahmadis took place in Indonesia.
Albert Camus said "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair." It seems like an oxymoron, but if you think of the beauty of Abraham and Jesus, whose only crime was to believe in one God, it explains why people rise up against a prophet of God.
Why extinguish the light of God? This is the only explanation for the recent heinous crime where the Indonesians beat and killed their fellow Muslims.
"There's an especial hatred that arises out of some hearts when a Messenger comes from God," Abdul Khan of the Georgia Ahmadi mosque, Baitul Baqi says. "It has nothing to do with what the prophet has done."
A close friend of mine, Amtul Saboor, lived in Indonesia for many years. She told me: "Indonesians in general are very polite and nice people but fanatics do exist in every society." It is not a small statement that she is making. It has huge implications. To accept this, we cannot believe that America is any safer than Indonesia, when it comes to crimes committed in the name of fanaticism.
Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam has created such websites as: www.MuslimsforPeace.org and www.TombofJesus.com. These websites are explanitory in tone, because the Promised Messiah said:' "jihad by the sword" has no place in Islam. In its place, he taught his followers to wage a bloodless intellectual "jihad of the pen" to defend Islam.'
One thousand Indonesians marched to an Ahmadi mosque. where the men took turns doing duty defending their mosques. They had been threatened, but who could have expected what happened next? The men dragged the Ahmadis outside, stripped them of their dignity and killed them in front of everyone.
I have only glimpsed two pictures of the men, prone, lying on the ground and it is enough to make me cry in sajda for the rest of my life. What can I do to stop it? There is nothing left but prayers because they are dead.
"The people who did this have to be mad," Amtul Saboor stated. "No one in their right mind could do what they did no matter how fanatic they are."
I cannot imagine being an Ahmadi-Muslim in Indonesia right now. The unrest continues. The situation remains precarious. Any man who goes to his mosque to do his duty is aware that at any time, this violence could erupt against him.
"At times like this we should pray that May Allah strengthen our faiths and keep us all steadfast," she told me.
What exactly are these Muslims protesting?
They object to the the Ahmadi belief in the Promised Messiah. They object to a prophet after Muhamed, pbuh, even though Hazrat Ayesha said: "Say that he is the seal of the prophets, but do not say there will be no prophet after him."
The motto of the Ahmadis is: "Love for All, Hatred for None." How can anyone object to such a beautiful message? It is perfect.
It is 2011. We have achieved a global community with the use of instantaneous messaging, cell phones and emails. We belong to one another. While we are not responsible for the actions of fanatics, we are responsible for preventing such fanatical behavior, insofar as we are able.
The people in Abraham's time tried to burn him in a furnace, but God cooled it. The Jews who ran the temples put Jesus on the cross for spreading the message: "turn the other cheek" and "give to Caesar what is Caesar's."
We have to make a choice. Which side are we going to be on? There are only two choices.
While the other seventy two sects are fighting among themselves, you will never observe this at the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam.
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