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Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times
By Imran Jattala | July 3, 2011
Hyderabad, India: Copycatting from their counterparts across the border in Pakistan, the Tehfuz- Khatme Nabooath (TKN) group of India, an Islamist extremist organization, has infiltrated the area police departments in certain rural parts of India.
According to multiple local area reports, Islamist clerics of Sunni faction have been creating anti-Ahmadiyya tensions in Kamam, a place in Warangal district, located some 150km from Hyderabad, in Andhra Pradesh state.
The situation, first initiated by the local Sunni extremists, climaxed when TKN joined the fray and together the clerics instigated the local Muslim population of Kamam to boycott the entire Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the area.
About 40 Ahmadī families have lived in the area for decades.
According to the information received by Ahmadiyya Times, local extremist clerics and operatives from TKN have been causing problems in the area since the last few years.
“They have recently started influencing the local police authorities as well,” the report stated.
Some Muslim police personnel, who have fallen prey to the pressures by Islamist clerics, are now threatening the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community to leave the area, ‘or else,’ it was reported.
“The Circle Inspector of the area who is a Muslim, had asked senior members of the Jamā’at [community] to appear at the station,” the reports said.
As a result several local leaders of the Ahmadiyya Communty were detained and placed under arrest, the report added. “They are now asking … [the Ahmadis] to get out of the place and go to Qadian where they belong.”
Qadian, a town in Punjab, India is the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community where the reformist movement was first established 122 years ago, in 1889.
Representative from the senior leadership of the Ahmadiyya community have rushed to the area to meet the Police official and thwart the condition from getting any worse.
The loosely-knit factions of Tehfuz- Khatme Nabowah, also known as Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme-Nubuwwat in Pakistan, and Aalmi, Majlis Tahaffuz Khatme-Nubuwwat in the UK, are reported to be similar to Al-Qaeda in their setup. In that, the TKN factions share ideology but work independently in various geographical regions and attract extremists from all Islamist groups, including those from banned terrorist organizations.
TKN India is patronized by the Darul Uloom, the famous Islamic seminary, in Deoband.
In August 2010, the seminary announced further expansion of its activities started during the last decades.
"In view of great challenge from the Ahmadiyya Movement (Qadiyanism)," the announcement stated, "Darul Uloom convened the All India Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Conference and established a special department to refute Qadiyanism."
One TKN related group from the UK was investigated last years by the media organizations, Channel Four and BBC, for spreading hate materials and threatening Ahmadis in the UK.
In recent weeks Pakistani TKN group was reported in the local and international media for having issued life threats to Ahmadis in Pakistan.
The group has distributed pamphlets in Faisalabad, an industrial town in Punjab, calling the local Muslim population to take up weapons and shoot Ahmadis anywhere, everywhere.
‘Kill them on open streets where you find them,’ the pamphlets instigated the Muslims to carry out murders of Ahmadis. “In return, earn martyrdom and everlasting paradise,” the pamphlets have promised.
Open letters sent to Ahmadī families ordered them to convert ‘to Islām’ or prepare to die.
-- Adapted from Shahid Pervez report.
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