In 2011, Indonesians were left reeling when chilling mobile phone footage showed the lynching of three Ahmadis in the village of Banten.
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| (File) One of the hundreds of anti-Ahmadiyya rallies each year in Indonesia |
Source/Credit: Centre on Religion & Geopolitics
By Usman Ahmad | June 22, 2017
The killing last year of a Glasgow shopkeeper highlighted divisions around this Islamic sect, and the discrimination it faces across the globe.
On the outer edges of the town of Rabwah, Pakistan, a group of mourners gathers for the last rites of Malik Saleem Latif. An Ahmadi Muslim, Latif was gunned down the previous day in a religiously motivated killing claimed by jihadi group Laskhar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). He was one of four Ahmadis killed over a five-week period between March and May 2017 in various targeted attacks.
Latif was the cousin of Professor Abdus Salam, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has become a symbol of the Ahmadiyya movement in Pakistan. In December 2016, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government renamed the National Centre for Physics at Qaid-i-Azam University after Salam. On the same day the announcement was made, police carried out an unauthorised raid at the headquarters of the Pakistani Ahmadi Muslim Community, which numbers between 250,000-400,000. Four of its members were arrested on charges of spreading "hate speech." One of the accusations was excessive use of Quranic verses and hadith (the sayings of the Prophet Mohammad) in publications meant for community use. These incidents, along with the 2017 killings, paint a picture of the kind of persecution the community has faced.
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