The Ahmadis renounce terrorist attacks, as well as the capturing or killing of Israeli soldiers — not only because bloodshed is against their religious teachings, but because they believe that only governments have the authority to start wars.
 |
| Ahmadiyya Muslim Community leader in Israel, Muhammad Sharif Odeh. Photo Credit: Eliana Rudee. |
Source/Credit: The Algemeiner / JNS.Org
By Eliana Rudee / JNS.org | February 13, 2018
As a small Islamic sect of an estimated 20 million people — about one percent of the global Muslim population — the Ahmadiyya community is a persecuted minority across the Middle East. But at the southern entrance of the Israeli city of Haifa lies Kababir village, which is home to 2,000 residents — 70 percent of whom are Ahmadi Muslims.
In Kababir, Ahmadis enjoy full religious and cultural freedom; they also pray at the only Ahmadi mosque in the Middle East, opened in 1934 and redone in 1979. The safe haven that the Ahmadis have found in the Jewish state mirrors that of the Druze, Bahá’í, and Israeli Christians.
According to Israeli Ahmadiyya community leader Muhammad Sharif Odeh, the Ahmadis have complete religious freedom in Israel. And this is different from the rights accorded to their brethren in the rest of the region and in Pakistan, where Ahmadis cannot use any religious symbols or even greet each other with a traditional Arabic salutation.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Read more
0 Response to "Israel Offers Religious Freedom to Ahmadi Muslims, Other Persecuted Mideast Minorities"
Post a Comment