http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26118/indonesia-jails-victim-of-attack-on-ahmadi-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26118/indonesia-jails-victim-of-attack-on-ahmadi-sect#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:34:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26118 An Indonesian man wounded when Muslim hate criminals attacked members of his minority Islamic sect was sentenced Monday to six months in jail, more than some of the actual attackers who were caught on video.

It is part of a pattern of abuse against followers of the Ahmadiyya sect.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26118/indonesia-jails-victim-of-attack-on-ahmadi-sect/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26117/no-shame-for-religious-killings-in-indonesian-town http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26117/no-shame-for-religious-killings-in-indonesian-town#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:54:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26117 When Dani bin Misra was released from prison last week after serving just three months for smashing in the skull of a member of a Muslim sect, this conservative Indonesian town let out a triumphant cry. "He's a hero!" Rasna bin Wildan said of the teenage killer.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26117/no-shame-for-religious-killings-in-indonesian-town/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26091/indonesia-under-fire-for-light-sentences-in-attack-on-islamic-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26091/indonesia-under-fire-for-light-sentences-in-attack-on-islamic-sect#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:45:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26091 Muslim savages who hacked, stoned and beat to death three members of a peaceful sect of Islam were given a slap on the wrist in what observers around the world consider to be a miscarriage of justice.

Last February the barbarians attacked followers of Ahmadiyya, a Muslim minority sect.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26091/indonesia-under-fire-for-light-sentences-in-attack-on-islamic-sect/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25685/muslim-extremists-kill-members-of-peaceful-ahmadiyya-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25685/muslim-extremists-kill-members-of-peaceful-ahmadiyya-sect#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:53:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25685 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25685/muslim-extremists-kill-members-of-peaceful-ahmadiyya-sect/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25350/ahmadiyah-beliefs-explained http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25350/ahmadiyah-beliefs-explained#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:18:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25350 The beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect has tried to clarify its beliefs, with the national secretary of Ahmadiyah Indonesia, Zafrullah Pontoh, saying it had never claimed Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as their prophet.

Rather, he was the “Promised Messiah, a savior for Muslims, Christians and Jews.”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25350/ahmadiyah-beliefs-explained/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24957/indonesia-hard-line-muslim-groups-renew-attack-on-ahmadiyah http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24957/indonesia-hard-line-muslim-groups-renew-attack-on-ahmadiyah#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:35:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24957 Three people were allegedly injured and houses damaged when clashes broke out between an angry mob and members of Islamic sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah in Kuningan regency, West Java, on Thursday.

The Ahmadiyah sect, with 500,000 followers in Indonesia, believes that its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the final prophet and not Mohammad, contrary to the central tenet of mainstream Islam, which says Mohammad is the last prophet.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24957/indonesia-hard-line-muslim-groups-renew-attack-on-ahmadiyah/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24573/why-are-ahmadis-persecuted-so-ferociously-in-pakistan http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24573/why-are-ahmadis-persecuted-so-ferociously-in-pakistan#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:43:24 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24573 Why are Ahmadis persecuted so ferociously in Pakistan? Because anyone who defends an apostate is themselves an apostate, writes Mohsin Hamid in an opinion piece at Dawn.com.

This is what the persecution of Ahmadis achieves. It allows any Muslim to be declared an apostate. For the logic can be continued endlessly. When an Ahmadi man is wounded in an attack and goes to a hospital for treatment, if the doctor agrees to treat him, she is helping an apostate, and therefore she becomes an apostate and subject to threats. When a policeman is deputed to protect the doctor, since she is an apostate, the policeman is helping an apostate, so he too becomes an apostate. And on and on.

The collective result of this is to silence and impose fear not just on the few per cent of Pakistanis who are Ahmadis, or even on those who are Christians and Hindus, but on all of us. The message is clear. Speaking out against the problem means you are the problem, so you had better be quiet.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24573/why-are-ahmadis-persecuted-so-ferociously-in-pakistan/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24373/attackers-hit-mosques-of-islamic-sect-in-pakistan http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24373/attackers-hit-mosques-of-islamic-sect-in-pakistan#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 06:54:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24373 More than 80 worshipers of a minority Muslim sect, the Ahmadis, were killed and more than 110 wounded Friday in a coordinated assault by seven well-trained attackers on two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, the authorities said.

The target was the Ahmadis, a group of about two million Muslims in Pakistan who are considered heretical by many mainstream Muslims because the Ahmadis believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who founded their movement in 1889, was the messiah foretold by Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24373/attackers-hit-mosques-of-islamic-sect-in-pakistan/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21728/the-ahmadiyya-community-theologically-a-cult-of-islam-opens-canadas-largest-mosque http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21728/the-ahmadiyya-community-theologically-a-cult-of-islam-opens-canadas-largest-mosque#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:58:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21728 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21728/the-ahmadiyya-community-theologically-a-cult-of-islam-opens-canadas-largest-mosque/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21564/ahmadiyya-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21564/ahmadiyya-5#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:09:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21564 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21564/ahmadiyya-5/feed 0