Ahmadiyya

Ramadan Mubarak to all of my readers.

Here’s a link to last year’s post on the subject, nearly all of which still applies.

In previous years, the fasting period (from dawn to dusk), was short enough for me to keep some fasts. This year, Ramadan has shifted towards the back end of summer and therefore the fasting period is a challenging 16 hours. Given my diabetes, it would be crazy for me to try and keep the fast and then wrestle control of my condition in the 8 hours that remain of the day (or rather, night). So I’m disappointed, but I won’t be fasting.

Ramadan didn’t used to mean much to me as a Qadiani, but since I have been a Muslim, it has been an uplifting experience. I feel connected to every Muslim on the planet, of every race and background. (Qadianis are connected only to a Punjabi subgroup, because despite their best efforts and the support of Western media and governments, Islam and even other groups are highly resistant to this heretic creed). Of course, Qadianis do fast, and I do pray that those who love the part of Qadianism that takes its core from Islam, will be guided to truth and revert to Islam when they realise just how divergent Islam and Qadianism are.

Islam is vibrant today, because despite rampant Islamophobia, more and more people are drawn to Islam and indeed, are becoming Muslims by the day. The dark(!) picture painted of Muslims in the Western media doesn’t very often tally with the reality. For starters, Islam is way too diverse and confusing for most people to grasp. Sure, modern-day Orientalists, some of whom are faux-left-wing bloggers thrown up to media-stardom level by a system that clearly hasn’t a clue, have tried to pin this label and that on us, completely missing the point - that despite many differences, Muslim people have more in common with each other than their rulers and dividers would like to portray.

In this holy month, Muslims will be fasting and doing their best to be as “good” as they can. We will be reciting Al Qur’an, we will be praying taraweeh, we will make dhikr, we will attempt to minimise our bad habits and increase our good ones. We will be kinder to neighbours, we will be more loving to our parents and our children. We will call for peace and denounce oppression and tyranny.

What is it about my Islam that you still find threatening?

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?