Ahmadiyya

I sent this email to the Ahmadiyya UK centre today after a torrent of the most disgusting comments ever were posted on my videos by Qadianis:

Dear Sir/Madam,

You know who I am, I make the videos that you would rather were not made. I am writing to you to obtain a written apology for the language used by your members against me in some of my videos, signed by the head of your movement.

If I do not get a written apology, I will go public about your “Love for All, Hatred for None” facade and show the comments made by your members, reproduced below.

Your members have at times made physical threats too. Is this what you mean by “Love for All, Hatred for None”?

Here are some of the aforementioned comments. The language is Qadiani:

“lol he 38 old lonely shit,from hammersmitih telin us love 4all, u aint ahmdi da 1 bruv
i told u to make video wit ur mama, is she very old then make video wit ya sis, act like a 38 years old and stop postin 5 year old videos
ur people will love it
il see u around hammersmith mmmm dnt no wot u mite cum across wit ”

“coz u are fat shit hahahahahahah, thanx 4 talkin bout urself,but u hav got laanit in ur face,nowonder Allah made u a dog, bark in ya videos”

“weren’t you the fag who got kicked out the jamaat ?

you have way too much time on your hands.. you must be unemployed right?

most pathetic video clip ever!

please also note.. 95% of your viewers are ahmadis.. ”

“your a LOSER blad get a life u NEEK what a fooooooolll ”

“FAT SHIT ”

“luk nxt tym make a video of u fukin ur mum yh,wud luv evry muslim boy will see hahahahahahhaha, ur mum gave details 2 u wen she tumped u hahahahah”

“lol if ur mama da bitch is ahmidi then dnt think da old women gave u any brains, coz ur not ahmidi so hw can she be 1,
k if ur mums old then jus make a video wit u tumpin ur faat ass wit ur sister ”

“ur from hammersmith bruv,il find ya lol ”

“i told u ur not ahmidi nether is ur dam fuked up syco family. so i told u u fat shit, make porn video of ur oldd mama or sister and post it on u tube, u frm hammersmith, see u soon”

“hahahahha 38 year old man livin and fukin his mama, ur not ahmdi at all u wer neva 1, no wonder ur a lonelyyyyyyyyyyy fat shit,wear no1 will even look at u,
how saad u actin like a 12 year old postin video, be mature and post naked video od ur mum or sista , lol mumslim boyyyyyys like u will love it hammersmith boy opps man”

“prophet, ur a fattt syco aret ya, 38 year old fat motherfukin shit, and still bein a mama boy, hav u seen ur face ur 1 hek of a fuked up shitaann

i told u 2 make video wit ur mama, or sista and ur boys wiill luv it, i kno ur mama is not ahmdi anyways, so tumped her hard and post vidio, not video wer a 10 year old can do,”

“ohhh scotland bruv u got that rong, mmmmmmm u shud b scared, lol of ALLAH 2

WAIT DIDNT I TELL U 2 MAKE DAM VIDIO OF UR BITCH FUKED UP SYCO MOTHER LIKE U, AND POST IT N U TUBE, I KNO HER FANNY IS AL WIILLY WONKA, THEN JUS TM A SISTER,

TRUST ME U 1 HECK OF A UGLY FAAAAAAT OLD SHIT, DISGUSTIN LUK AT U LANIT IN UR FACE, HAHAHAH
FAT DISGUSTIN SHIT “

I have blind copied several key people. Your deviant cult has descended to depths even the foul-mouthed Mirza Ghulam Ahmad couldn’t plumb.

You have until Friday night to respond or I go public. So far my campaign has been low level. How you respond determines my next level of activism.

Finally, I am aware that you hypocritically have used violence to silence some of your critics. The people blind copied are witness that I consider myself threatened. (I have filed the threatening emails separately)

Shahid Kamal Ahmad

And their slogan is “Love for All, Hatred for None”. Their language apes their founder’s, who routinely called his opponents “bastard” and “spawn of whore” etc.

A brief note: Those who are used to my swearing should note that I have never used foul language towards these people in my correspondence.

The top ten thinkers in the world today are Muslims!

In a poll conducted by Prospect, a British magazine, of a hundred of the world’s top thinkers, the top ten were Muslims. Alhamdulillah! This is especially surprising considering the poll was jointly hosted by Foreign Policy, a US publication. Of course, the value of such a poll is dubious when proven intellectual frauds like Ayaan Hirsi Ali make the top 20 ahead of he likes of Vaclav Havel, Niall Ferguson and even the spineless apostate Salman Rushdie.

Still, it’s great to see Muslims on top, ousting rabid right-wing wannabes like Christopher Hitchens - who once was left-wing, but having never outlived or outclassed Gore Vidal, resorted to the journalism of convenience and dipped his nib in the vitriolic ink of hypocrisy and hatred that represents the majority of the West’s Islamophobic media machinery today.

So here we have it, the top ten, led by a guy I’ve never heard of…

1. Fethullah Gulen
2. Muhammad Yunus
3. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
4. Orhan Pamuk
5. Aitzaz Ahsan
6. Amr Khaled
7. Abdolkarim Soroush
8. Tariq Ramadan
9. Mahmood Mamdani
10. Shirin Ebadi

Nice especially to see two of my favourite Islamic writers in that list. (I won’t tell you who they are). Two of that list are also Nobel laureates. Interesting things happening in Turkey these days and I don’t just mean their football team reaching the semi-finals of Euro 2008, though I must confess to having cheered loudly when they equalised against the prematurely euphoric Croatia.

Oh by the way, no Qadianis in the top 100. Funny that. I tried to think of a solitary Qadiani thinker. I failed. You see, they don’t think. Because if they did, they wouldn’t be Qadiani anymore now, would they?

I gasped at the audacity of the Ahmadiyya’s pitiful “cry-wolf” organ repeating a story from the Bangladeshi Daily Star about an Ahmadi family in Bangladesh being “harrassed”.

Looking at the actual picture, the “persecution” that this family received was ostracism and boycott from the mainstream Muslim community.? Not exactly the end of the world then. No beatings, no house burnings, no murders. Just ostracism and a boycott.

Not nice, but let’s consider this. I watched a programme this evening where the brothers of a teenage mum had their faces beaten to a pulp by thugs, just for being their brothers. Now that’s ostracism to the max. Only, I didn’t see them make a fuss, or start putting up web sites about it.

Still, ostracism and boycott, whilst not exactly life threatening, can be “painful”.

Which brings me to the point. The Ahmadis routinely boycott Ahmadi families for:

• Allowing their daughters to marry a Muslim
• Listening to music at a wedding
• Asking routine questions about their faith
• Not paying the 6.25% tax

The families in question have to write begging letters for weeks, sometimes months and even years to the current Mirza Cult Leader of the day, seeking pardon. In the meantime, the community shuns the family and sometimes individuals and they are left in limbo, neither accepted by the Ahmadis, nor by the Muslims (unless they renounce the cult, which very few brave people do).

This practice started in earnest with the arrival of the Cult’s True Master, Mirza Mahmud, son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. This man was responsible for setting up the cult apparatus in the image of the Papacy in Rome. A horrific example can be found in the murder of Fakhrudin Multani. This poor man was a companion of Mirza, a true believer. He left his home and settled in Qadian, to be with his master. He was then treated like a modern day paedophile in a northern town and ultimately murdered.

His murderer was hanged by the government, but buried with full honours by the Ahmadiyya. This is an old story. The newer ones, while often not as violent, are just as painful and the reasons often more petty. This happens while rapists connected to the Mirza family are given enormous financial support and while the cult keeps grabbing land for no reason other than to satisfy the greed of the leadership.

Nobody condones murder or persecution. I’m not backing any of that kind of nonsense here. I used to be one of them - how could I possibly condone violence against them? I am just of the firm opinion however, that the persecution of Ahmadis is the most overplayed card in the history of all fitnas to affect the Muslim Ummah. If it’s persecution you want to see, look at Palestine. Look at Chechnya. Look at Bosnia. Look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Then shut the fuck up already.

It would behove the Ahmadiyya to stop bleating on about “persecution” when its own house is in disarray. When the Ahmadiyya stops boycotting and ostracising its own for allowing their daughters to marry Muslims, then they should feel free to put out pathetic press releases about a family practising a cult that is anathema to Muslims getting cold-shouldered.

It certainly looks like the end of the road for the Ahmadiyya.

In Indonesia, as in the rest of the Muslim world, the Ahmadiyya are not just considered a heretical sect by Muslims, but a treacherous one. By regularly denouncing Muslims as terrorists (but never overtly of course) they align themselves with those who despise Islam. By professing victim-hood despite claiming ownership to “The True Islam” and thereby expelling all Muslims from the Ummah in so doing, they come across smelling a bit hypocritical.

They love censorship. Oh the irony! They make a lot of noise about having their literature banned in Bangladesh and their cult outlawed by the `ulama of Indonesia, but they are quick to clamp down on any dissident Ahmadi who tries to question the leadership. As for “apostates” from Qadianism, like me, well, the gloves are off.

Not only did they try and take my YouTube work down, ultimately unsuccessfully of course, but they also failed to respond when I tried to elicit a reason. Mostly of course, they censor Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s work. Not surprising really, as this embarrassing man, who claimed to be more than just any old prophet, was fond of obscene epithets to describe his opponents when they repeatedly pointed out his fallacies and absurdities. So the Ahmadi top brass censor Mirza’s work by failing to provide English translations of his more obscene outbursts.

(Blasphemy after blasphemy they let slip through the net, quite brazenly. It is telling that they find it acceptable to blaspheme against Islam, but unacceptable to let people read about him calling his opponents “bastards” and “bitches”.)

The interesting thing is how most of the devotees suffer from cognitive dissonance. I should know. I was once one of them. Lying to yourself is the only way you can cope with the mental meltdown that results from trying to understand the ramblings and chicanery of a seriously doped-up charlatan.

Ahmadis deal with their cognitive dissonance with a standard bunch of retorts. Including:

• “Your references are wrong”. (No they’re not. I checked them out. Sometimes the Qadianis shift the page numbers in Mirza’s books - erm - that’s cheating!)
• “You’re quoting out of context” (On the odd occasion, yes, but most of his nasty output is nasty despite heavy contextualisation)
• “That’s not an authentic book” (Which is why I used only Ahmadi books in my YouTube videos, either bought from them, or downloaded, live, on video, from their web site)
• “The same accusations were made against Muhammad (pbuh)” (Actually, they weren’t. Nobody accused the Last Prophet (saw) of using foul language against anyone, or of taking drugs, ever - and more to the point - any accusations made were rejected in the Qur’an)
• “He’s not really claiming prophethood” (Err, read his books. Especially “The Removal of a Misunderstanding” and “Lecture Sialkot”)

I enjoyed exposing some of Mirza’s more blasphemous, but less abusive work last year on YouTube. It provoked a huge amount of interest and a backlash not just against me, but from the ordinary, innocent Ahmadi who has been kept in the dark, against the Qadiani leadership, who have no answers. Intellectually risible and shamefully vacuous, they are being exposed as nothing more than a cheap cult, existing only to extort money from their members and to serve their imperial masters.

I have learned that they send tins with the face of the latest Mirza on to children, poor or not, to fill the cult’s coffers. Charging a membership of 6.25% of all salaries after tax, and calling those who don’t subscribe to the “Get me into heaven” scheme at a minimum of 10% earnings and property “hypocrites”, the leadership deserves exposure to the truth, and ridicule and brickbats from those with understanding.

Now it appears that the foundations of the movement have been smashed as the Indonesian Ahmadiyya has publicly declared that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was not a prophet after all, but just a teacher. This is interesting in the light of Mr. Mirza’s repeated proclamations of prophethood and the Ahmadiyya’s insistence that those who aren’t Ahmadis are in fact kaafirs (infidels/deniers) and outside the pale of Islam.

What kind of a religion categorically denies its own prophet in order to keep going as a headless chicken? Why, the completely nonsensical and utterly pointless Ahmadiyya of course. It has shot itself in the foot. It has lost the wind in its sails. It is lost at sea and listing.

This news will send shockwaves through the core of the movement and no doubt, there will be attempts to explain it away in the time-dishonoured fashion of Mirza, who routinely claimed victory despite being the victim of TKO after TKO against the most average maulvi of the time.

With this massive own goal (switching sports here) it looks like this is the beginning of the end of the Ahmadiyya. One can only hope that they will abandon the teachings of the deluded, opium-eating charlatan Mirza and rejoin the mainstream.

And as long as they reject Mirza completely, seeing as his beliefs are impossible to reconcile with mainstream Islam, they will of course, be welcome with open arms. Come back to the fold of Islam Ahmadis, we have a lot of work to do together. Insha’Allah.

My apologies to my regular readers for the dearth of output in recent times.

Some updates are in order:

My health is so-so, but it has been a lot worse.

I am enjoying my job, my working environment is excellent, my boss is supportive and my colleagues truly lovely people. I am enjoying the business again and taking pleasure also in playing video games; my most loyal readers will be surprised at this. My most reason poison has been Super Stardust HD, but I’m looking forward to playing Bioshock too.

Being (a limited) part of PLAYSTATION®3 has been an unexpected joy. When I started this job at Sony back in December 2005, I thought it would be a stop-gap, as it was quite a step down from START! games and even the web consulting, (though a huge step-up from unemployment!) but it has been a source of ever greater satisfaction. That can only be a good thing, can’t it? As my former boss remarked recently - during my illness Sony has been a calm port in a storm.

I am planning on doing some more videos on the Qadianis, but as they are going to be more ambitious, I can’t just knock them out as I did before. The American top brass Qadiani, Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah, has still not replied to any of my queries on why they filed DMCA takedown notices and then chickened out after I counter-filed. I note that certain Qadianis are continuing with either vileness, hatred or libel. I’m leaving them to it. For now. Their disgusting behaviour continues to underline their spiritual bankruptcy.

Summer holidays are almost over and I have scarcely been allowed any time with my kids, and even phone time has been severely restricted. I find this painful, of course, but no longer unbearable. It’s amazing what the human spirit can withstand and I’m fairly certain I could take a hell of a lot more. Let’s hope not though.

In whatever spare time I have had recently, I have been getting to grips with Ruby on Rails, having introduced myself to it a couple of years ago after evangelising the 37signals stuff on this very blog. It took ages to get it working on the server I work with, I had to jump through several hoops to finally get a response. I also managed to get it set up on my Mac, which seems to be the perfect development environment for it. Indeed, the RoR team all use the Mac with TextMate, the latter being my editor of choice too.

I have of course had moral and practical support from a couple of friends, without whom I would have eventually got to where I am now, but without my sanity.

I am rediscovering my zest for life again. I had rather taken computing and my earlier aptitude and ability for it, for granted, letting my talent fizzle away whilst my personal life was going through its Perfect Storm. Now I am excited again. By languages, by hosting, by servers, by the Internet, by Open Source, by programming, by hacking (in the proper sense of the word) and by all things computing. I’m excited by media, by film-making, by editing, by communication, by databases, by photography, by life. It feels good, despite my health not quite keeping up just yet. I feel that this zest and passion, the thing that has been missing for so long, is what will drag my health kicking and screaming into some kind of order, insha’Allah.

I am also not letting myself get too angry at things. Sure, the world is still fucked, but I ignore the papers, I don’t watch the news, I mute the telly when the ads come on and I look at cunts like Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin and don’t even get too annoyed. After all, why give them the energy?

Of course, I am still trying to improve as a Muslim. I really tried to drop the ‘c’ word from the above paragraph, but it sits so well and it’s the only swear-word in the whole post, which might just get me a 15 rating.

You know what has helped? Realising that a lot of people, mostly colleagues and some blogmates actually, are wise to propaganda and what the media and the state apparatus is trying to do. Whilst not necessarily getting the whole picture, which is not to suggest that I do, far from it, they do at least know that they are being lied to. And that is always a very good start.

So this shift in attitude might mean a shift in posting style. I am tired about being angry with injustice. It saps my energy and gives it to the problem, rather than defusing it. I am grimly aware that no adult should believe as a child does, that when she covers her face with a pillow, the monster will no longer see her. I’m sure the monsters are still there, that the Bankers, Zionists and Crusaders are still at it with their imperialism and oppression and tyranny and murder and looting and slavery, but in all honesty, as long as I’m aware, why drown myself in it? What good can possibly come from it?I have been using blogging as a tool to spread misery to others. That’s what it boils down to. It wasn’t always this way. I would like to get back to stuff that doesn’t fill people with hurt and anguish and anger. Not all the time anyway. We must stand against oppression, but there are other ways of doing that.

Perhaps I’ll come up with some kind of Web thing that facilitates the viral distribution of happiness.

As you know, I wrote to Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah on the 19th of July. I have yet to hear from him, so I wrote to him again just now and my email is reproduced below.

Dear Sir,

I’m wondering why you haven’t replied to my email below?

I await your response eagerly.

Regards,

Shahid Kamal Ahmad

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Shahid Ahmad
Date: 19-Jul-2007 01:31
Subject: DMCA Notification
To: nrehmatullah@yahoo.com

- Hide quoted text -
WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Dear Dr. Nasim,

YouTube has informed me that you filed a DMCA Notice under section 512 to have all of my videos removed. Under the DMCA Safe Harbor provision, YouTube duly removed my videos, giving me the opportunity to serve a counter-notification, which was entered on the 25th of June. Further to that, you had 10 business days to file a suit, which you failed to do.

I’m curious as to:

a) Why you filed the notice in the first place?
b) Under whose authority?
c) On what grounds?
d) Why you did not take legal action?
e) Why you used a yahoo account for your email address and not an official Ahmadiyya email address?

I believe that I am now in a position to pursue legal action against you, and I am considering my options, especially given the behaviour of some of your movement’s adherents towards me in recent months.

In the meantime, I’d be interested in your response to the above.

Regards,

Shahid Kamal Ahmad

One more thing; I have a HiDef camcorder and I’m not afraid to use it. Watch this space. Well actually, not this space, but you know what I mean.

The DMCA (Takedown) Notice for my videos was filed by:

Ahmadlyya Muslim Community
Dr. Nasim Rehmatullah
National Vice-President USA
PO Box 219, Conneaut, Ohio 44030
440 725 8019
nrehmatullah@yahoo.com

So I wrote the following to him in response:

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Dear Dr. Nasim,

YouTube has informed me that you filed a DMCA Notice under section 512 to have all of my videos removed. Under the DMCA Safe Harbor provision, YouTube duly removed my videos, giving me the opportunity to serve a counter-notification, which was entered on the 25th of June. Further to that, you had 10 business days to file a suit, which you failed to do.

I’m curious as to:

a) Why you filed the notice in the first place?
b) Under whose authority?
c) On what grounds?
d) Why you did not take legal action?
e) Why you used a yahoo account for your email address and not an official Ahmadiyya email address?

I believe that I am now in a position to pursue legal action against you, and I am considering my options, especially given the behaviour of some of your movement’s adherents towards me in recent months.

In the meantime, I’d be interested in your response to the above.

Regards,

Shahid Kamal Ahmad

I sent that last night. No response yet. I shall keep you posted.

In the meantime, devotees of the charlatan Mirza Ghulam Ahmad have spread all kinds of daft stories and made all kinds of suggestions, including the quite ludicrous idea that the whole thing was orchestrated by a bunch of his followers in London with backing from the centre and that they “spared” me legal action so as not to upset my family. What jokers and liars these people are.

The Ahmadiyya “Muslim” Community has decided not to take me to court pursuant to my DMCA Counter-Notification of 25th June. As a result of this, my videos are being re-instated. Justice is sweet, even when it takes time.

I now have to decide whether I want to take legal action, but that was never what it was originally about.

And in any case, I’m getting all my kicks from playing the most wonderful Super Stardust HD on my PS3…my score of 23.5 million puts me above all my colleagues, some of whom are hardcore gamers. I must say, it feels ridiculously good to be top. The “older” guy can still do it.

Going back to YouTube, they finally responded once I turned to the newly formed UK corporation. The latter will not have to respond now that the Americans have answered my plea before the UK office opens for business in the morning.

All in all, YouTube have been quite slow, but I can understand why. I am more concerned that the person who filed the DMCA takedown (section 512) on behalf of the AMC remains anonymous. Nobody should be able to file a case such as this anonymously.

Regardless, a temporary victory for a single Muslim against the family business of the Mirza Royal Family…(all victories are temporary….just as my top ranking amongst my colleagues is likely to disappear by tomorrow…as ephemeral as the morning dew…since one of my somewhat proud colleagues is at this very moment, attempting to usurp my titanic figure….poor guy!)

The ultimate conspiraloon might believe so. I just think they’re incompetent. (At least I know how newspapers come up with headlines now…just tell a great big lie and put a question mark at the end)

i have emailed YouTube with my counterfile, which they at first rejected due to a supposedly incomplete portion (which they didn’t point out at first!). I updated the counter-notice and retried. Since then, and it’s over a week now, I have emailed them on over a dozen occasions, but received no reply.

This is frustrating, but it’s clear that I’m going to have to knuckle down for a long battle. Suits me fine.

The Ahmadis have got away with defending their confusing, paranoid and vulgar “prophet” for far too long and I will use all legal means to pursue this.

Let’s get this clear, I have no issue with ordinary Ahmadis. Many of them think they’re Muslims, but they’re wrong.

My job is to pull the curtain away from the Wizard of Qadian and reveal him for the ugly charlatan that he is. Ahmadis should hopefully wake up and rejoin the Ummah once they see what he was really about.

As for YouTube, any advice welcomed, but I will try fax next as they don’t respond to email.

Update 1 - 26/6/7

7 hours ago, and not long after the above post appeared, YouTube finally responded to my counter-notification and informed me it had been passed on. The Ahmadiyya now have my home address, my personal mobile telephone number and my email address. We’ll see what happens on the intimidation front.

They have already been at my ex-wife, reducing her to tears, brainwashing my kids and exerting social pressure on my mum, where she felt compelled to beg me in tears to stop my action, lest the “wrath of God” destroy me. Much as I have my problems with my ex, she doesn’t deserve that, after all, what is it to her? Why did they drag her in and humiliate her? With my kids too?

That’s what cults do.