Ahmadiyah to file protest against sect ban

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 09/03/2008 2:44 PM  |  National

Islamic minority sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah plans to file a protest to the government against the gubernatorial ban in South Sumatra put in place earlier this week.

Yan Husein Lamardi, a member of Ahmadiyah's advocating team, said the regional administration, unlike the central government, had no authority to issue the ban.

The government, he said, had only issued joint ministerial decree on Ahmadiyah's activities and nothing about ban.

"No prohibition was stated in the decree," Yan said, as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com

South Sumatra governor Mahyuddin N.S. issued a decree Monday banning Islamic minority sect Ahmadiyah and any activities of the Indonesian Jamaah Ahmadiyah (JAI) organization from the region.

The governor said the decree was made in accordance with the ministerial decree ordering the sect to stop all religious activities or face charges for blaspheming Islam.

Yan said Ahmadiyah had obeyed the decree and was no longer propagating the sect's teachings.

"We no longer mention that there is another prophet after Prophet Muhammad in our sermons," he said.

Ahmadiyah will also protest against violence the sect has been suffering since the issuance of the ministerial decree. Yan said that the sect had suffered at least 24 attacks since the
ministerial decree issued two months ago. (dre)

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Abdul mukhlis (not verified) — Mon, 09/08/2008 - 11:09am

I think, Muslims in Indonesia should start learning a lesson from what befall Pakistan. Pakistan is the first to include in its constitution that Ahmadiyya is minority non-Muslim and prohibited to use any symbol of Islam. Many Ahmadi followers have been murdered, their property were looted and destroyed. Their civil rights are denied by the state.

Now, after Ahmadiyah followers prohibited and banned from taking any legal part in any post in the state. Has Pakistan become the most peaceful country in the world or what? And those Ahmadi followers who were driven out from their country and have to live in foreign countries. Have them been proven to be criminals or terrorists, or bad citizens?

Is not that the state Pakistan now are being led by prominent Ulamas who know Islam well and blessed by Allah. So, even the live of prominent politiciant was not save and slained in the street. Where is the blessings? Where is the proof that Pakistan is being blessed by God for its action to declare Ahmadiyah non-Muslim and deprived its followers from expressing themselves as Muslim?

Why this country soon become the most dangerous state in the world?

One more question: Why Ahmadiyah you consedered to be non Muslim continue to progress and spread all over the world?

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