Saturday, October 08, 2005

Calling an Ahmediya place of worship a mosque is a crime?

EDITORIAL: The ‘foreign hand’ again!

In the case of the Mandi Bahauddin attack, the slain and the injured belonged to the Ahmadiyya community. The place where they were praying, since 1974 when the community was declared non-Muslim, cannot be called a mosque under law. Bait-ul Zikr (the house of prayers) is how it is referred to if the Ahmadiyya do not want to get into trouble.

Some tell Dawn..

Terrorism strikes again

ONCE again a place of worship has been attacked in Pakistan, it being of no consequence what religion or sect the dead and wounded belonged to. The dastardly act occurred at Mong near Mandi Bahauddin yesterday at a mosque where firing by unknown gunmen left eight people dead and 14 injured.