6/3/10, Letter to Editor, The Journal Times

Taliban extremists killed more than 50 worshippers at two Mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community during Friday prayer services. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has faced intense governmental and extremist persecution in Pakistan for nearly 40 years.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is taking credit for the attacks. Terrorists attacked two Mosques with automatic weapons and hand grenades.

Those Muslim groups responsible for the attack have broken cardinal rules within Islam, such as the Quranic directives, "And create not disorder in the earth" (7:57) and "whosoever killed a person, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind" (5:33). Islam condemns violence and the taking of innocent lives, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community rejects any claims from those who do so that they are following Islamic principles.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community sends condolences to the families of the victims of the tragedy.

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