In 2008, a dozen Ahmadi graves – located about a kilometre away from the Muslim graves – were desecrated, though the perpetrators were not identified.
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By Nicholas Yong | May 1, 2017
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When Syed Ali and his wife became members of Singapore’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the 1980s, the couple encountered strong family objections because of their faith.
The 64-year-old father of six and grandfather of 10 recalled, “We were separated (from my wife’s family) for seven or eight years, with no contact. But my wife was very firm. That’s why I was very grateful for her firmness.”
Back in the 1940s, his father Syed Ahmad, a sailor from Indonesia, was one of the first people in Singapore to embrace the Ahmadi faith. Ali himself was brought up in a mainstream Muslim family.
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