A video has long past viral on social media in which a gaggle of Islamists are noticed vandalising one Ahmadi Mosque situated in the Saddar space in Karachi, Pakistan. The incident reportedly happened on Thursday, February 2.
Within the video of the incident, it may be noticed that 3 masked males are status atop the construction and smashing the tomb and the minarets with hammers. A big crowd has assembled to look at the boys vandalise the construction. Against the tip of the video, a person can also be noticed seeking to desecrate the kalima inscribed on it. In step with experiences, the incident came about in entrance of a number of cops, who did not anything to forestall the miscreants from vandalising the Ahmadi position of worship.
After Punjab, demolishing the minarets of Ahmadi puts of worship began in Karachi. These days, a gaggle of folks demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi position of worship in Saddar. Two weeks in the past, some other Ahmadi worship position’s minarets have been additionally demolished in Martin Quarters. percent.twitter.com/X2EnUAtnVV
— Zia Ur Rehman (@zalmayzia) February 2, 2023
This assault used to be reportedly very similar to that performed within the Martin Quarters space in Pakistan on January 18, 2023. Pakistani media outlet Crack of dawn then reported that Zaheer Ahmed, a member of the Ahmadiyya Centre, lodged the criticism, mentioning that he used to be found in his non-public place of job in Clifton at round 3:45 pm on Wednesday (Jan 18) when he won data that some 10-12 folks wielding sticks and different gadgets had amassed on the centre’s gate and have been chanting slogans.
They scaled the centre’s wall and ransacked it, in addition to destructive the minaret (tower), he stated, including that by the point he arrived, the attackers had fled.
Ahmadis in Pakistan constitute a persecuted minority and the exclusion of Ahmadis is even enshrined within the charter of Pakistan. Ahmadis have additionally been excluded from the Pakistani govt’s minority fee geared toward safeguarding the rights of the rustic’s minorities. An estimated 4 million Ahmadis face serious abuse and discrimination in conjunction with different minority communities like Hindus, Sikhs and Christians.
In step with the Pakistani charter, Ahmadis can’t name themselves Muslims, and they are able to’t name their position of worship mosques. Additionally, their puts of worship can’t appear to be a masjid or mosque, and they are able to’t have a construction like minarets. Additionally, Ahmadis may’t write the Kalima-e-Tayyiba on its partitions.
Because of this, mob violence and killings in opposition to the Ahmadiyya group have transform increasingly more not unusual in Pakistan.
Remaining 12 months within the month of September, the Ahmadi group in Pakistan’s Punjab province sought justice from the Pakistani govt after Islamists allegedly desecrated 16 graves at a cemetery for putting Islamic symbols like verses from the Quran on gravestones.
On Would possibly 19, one Ishfaq Ahmed’s grave used to be desecrated in Peshawar. A 36-year-old Ahmadi guy used to be brutally murdered in entrance of his two kids.
In a similar way in February 2022, just about 50 graves belonging to the Ahmadi group have been allegedly desecrated by means of the native police and Maulanas for the usage of Islamic symbols on gravestones at a cemetery in Punjab, Pakistan.