Muslim protestors arrested after anti Qadiani demonstartion

By Mohamed Siddique, TwoCircles.net,

Hyderabad : Police arrested about 20 protesting Muslims in Hyderabad today when they tried to hold a demonstration near the place of worship of Ahmadia (Qadiani) community on the occasion of Friday.


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The demonstrators were demanding the removal of a board on the place declaring it to be a mosque. Muslims reject the claim of Ahmadias that they were also Muslims and have been demanding that they should stop calling their places of worship Mosques.

As soon as the Friday congregations over in the nearby mosques, a large number of Muslims gathered outside Ahmadia center demanding that the board be taken off. The community had a new board with “Lailaha Illalla Mmohammadur Rasulullah” and “Masjid” written on it.

The Hyderabad city police commissioner B Prasad Rao said that as a precautionary measure additional police force and personnel of anti riot Rapid Action Force was deployed near the Ahmadia center. The police had also barricaded the place with barbed wires to keep the protestors at bay.

Tension is prevailing between the Muslims and members of Ahmadia community since Sunday last when a protest by Muslim community had forced the state government to cancel a conference of Ahmadia Jamat.

All Muslim organizations, including the politically influential Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and Jamat-e-Islami had held a huge public meeting in Hyderabad on Saturday last demanding that the Ahmadias should be declared as non Muslims in India as their faith clashes with the basic tenets of Islam. “The Qadianis should not be allowed to undertaking any public activity in the name of Muslims and Islam as they don’t believe in Prophet Mohammed being the last messenger of God. They believe their found Ghulam Ahmad to be their prophet”, said Asauddin Owaisi, MIM MP from Hyderabad.

The Ahmadia community is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the selection of successor to the founder of their faith.

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