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Thursday October 15, 2009
Ahmadiyya • Hate Groups • Human Rights Violations • Islam:
In Indonesia, a series of attacks on followers of the Ahmadiyah sect by fanatical Muslims — who consider the movement to be a cult of Islam — continues to draw criticism.
Alfred C. Stepan, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University in New York, an expert in religion and democracy urging the government to exercise its authority when there are violations of human rights.
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Sunday July 6, 2008
Ahmadiyya • Islam:
Canada’s largest mosque was officially dedicated Saturday by an estimated crowd of 5,000 people that included religious leaders, Canada’s two top politicians and throngs of faithful.
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Monday June 16, 2008
Ahmadiyya:
In Indonesia, Islamic hardliners have forced the government to ban a cult or sect of Islam.
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Wednesday June 11, 2008
Ahmadiyya • Islam:
Liberal Indonesians accused the government of caving in to extremists yesterday after it placed restrictions on the Ahmadiyah movement, a minority Islamic sect, in the face of violent protests by Muslim hardliners.
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Monday June 2, 2008
Ahmadiyya • Islam:
The ‘religion of peace’: Islamic hard-liners broke up a religious tolerance rally Sunday in Indonesia, beating demonstrators with bamboo sticks and calling for the deaths of members of a Muslim sect they consider heretical, witnesses said.
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Ahmadiyya • Islam:
An Islamic hate group has called on its supporters to wage war against the Ahmadiyya movement — theologically a cult of Islam.
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Monday April 28, 2008
Ahmadiyya:
The attack in West Java’s Sukabumi district came after a government team recommended this month the Ahmadiyya sect be banned because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of Islam.
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Sunday April 20, 2008
Ahmadiyya:
More than 1,000 Indonesian Muslims gathered in front of the presidential palace on Sunday to press the government to ban a Muslim sect that has been branded heretical by most Muslims.
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Saturday April 19, 2008
Ahmadiyya • Islam:
A government team has recommended that Indonesia outlaw a Muslim sect that has come under attack from hard-liners as heretical, angering human rights activists who accuse authorities of cowing to pressure from extremists.
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Monday October 1, 2007
Ahmadiyya:
A sect of Islam hopes to build a worship center in a Maryland, USA, town.
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Tuesday January 2, 2007
Ahmadiyya:
Scattered protests Tuesday accompanied a ground-breaking ceremony for the first-ever mosque in what used to be Communist East Berlin.
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Monday July 24, 2006
Ahmadiyya:
An Indonesian Islamic sect which claims it has been persecuted by extremist Muslims today met with Australia's consul in Bali to seek support, warning they may lodge pleas for political asylum.
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Tuesday June 27, 2006
Ahmadiyya:
DHAKA: Hundreds of hard-line Muslims rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Sunday to demand the government declare a minority Islamic sect non-Muslim, police said.
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Wednesday March 29, 2006
Ahmadiyya:
Minority groups of Christians and Muslims are seeking judicial review of the new decree on houses of worship that they say will obstruct them from practicing their faiths.
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Saturday February 4, 2006
Ahmadiyya:
JAKARTA, Indonesia--Nearly 1,000 Muslims armed with machetes attacked a housing complex belonging to a minority Islamic sect in Indonesia Saturday, some of them throwing Molotov cocktails, police and local media said.
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Saturday October 8, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
ISLAMABAD At least eight people were killed and 20 wounded Friday in an attack on a congregation of a minority Muslim sect in central Pakistan.
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Friday September 30, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
With their mosques and homes destroyed and their members terrorized, the Jamaah Ahmadiyah Congregation is fighting back, by peacefully filing a lawsuit against the Bogor administration after it banned the Islamic sect from any activity in the regency.
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Friday September 23, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
While trauma caused by a recent attack on Ahmadiyah property in Cianjur regency, West Java, has not yet healed, Ahmadiyah members faced pressure from another organization on Thursday.
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Thursday September 22, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
West Java Police named on Wednesday [21 September] seven more people as suspects in an attack on properties owned by a controversial Muslim sect in Cianjur, West Java, on Monday. A total of 12 people have now been named as suspects in the attack.
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Wednesday September 21, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
JAKARTA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested a dozen people after mosques were damaged and homes belonging to members of a breakaway Muslim sect burned down, a senior officer said on Wednesday.
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Friday August 19, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
Excerpt from report by Indonesian Detikcom website on 16 August
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Friday July 22, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
Excerpt from report attributed to Antara, carried by Indonesian newspaper Suara Merdeka website on 20 July
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Monday July 18, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
Text of report in English by Indonesian news agency Antara web site
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Monday May 23, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
On Friday, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Queens will open the doors of its mosque in Holliswood to the public for a celebration.
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Sunday April 24, 2005
Ahmadiyya:
The protesters had gathered to hear their neighbours denounced as heretics and infidels.
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