Ahmadiyyas

• Radical Islamists in Pakistan demolished an over 100-year-old worship place of the minority Ahmadi community.

About Ahmadiyyas

• Origins of religious sect are in Qadian near Amritsar in Punjab, India.
• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in 1889 as a revival movement within Islam, emphasizing its essential teachings of peace, love, justice, and sanctity of life.
• Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the leading Islamic organization to categorically reject terrorism.
• The movement spread Western liberal education among the Indian Muslims.
• The Ahmadiyya community is the only Islamic sect to believe that the Messiah had come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to end religious wars and bloodshed and to reinstate morality, peace and justice.
• They believed in separating the mosque from the State as well as in human rights and tolerance.
• The Ahmadiyya Movement was plagued by mysticism.