Wednesday, May 23, 2012

02/27/10,Letter, printed in the Washington Post (DC)

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A leader but also a follower

By Sardar Anees Ahmad

Saturday, February 27, 2010

I am grateful for your informative and timely Feb. 11 news story "A reemergence in the heart of Pakistan." The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has experienced intense persecution since Pakistan's founding. Both my grandfather and my uncle were murdered simply because they were Ahmedi Muslims.

I disagree, however, with the characterization of the Ahmadiyyat's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, as a "rival prophet." Ahmad claimed to be the promised messiah who the Islamic prophet Muhammad prophesied would arrive in the Latter Days. As such, Ahmad claimed to be a subordinate and submissive follower of Muhammad.

So, while some of the orthodoxy who persecute the Ahmadiyyat consider Ahmad to be a "rival prophet," the Ahmadiyyat does not.

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