Ahmadiyya Community denounces desecration of another mosque in Pakistan
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Spain has issued an official statement denouncing the desecration of a new Ahmadiyya mosque in Faisalabad, Pakistan, by local police disguised as civilians, under the ongoing state-sponsored persecution of Ahmadis.
The Ahmadiyya Community urges the Government of Pakistan to ensure that all citizens enjoy freedom of religion and equal rights as citizens, as stipulated in the Pakistani Constitution.
The following text is the press statement of the Ahmadiyya Community:
LOCAL POLICE DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS DESECRATE ANOTHER AHMADIYYA MOSQUE IN FAISALABAD (PAKISTAN) UNDER CONTINUED STATE SPONSORSHIP IN PERSECUTION OF AHMADIS
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA
Unfortunately, we have to report yet again another destruction and demolition of a Muslim Ahmadi Mosque in a rural settlement called 261 R-B, Adhwali district, Faisalabad, Pakistan. This desecration was orchestrated by the local police themselves in civilian disguise.
INCIDENT: The incident took place on 17 June 2021 under the vigilance of the local Superintendent of Police and his team who gathered around the Ahmadiyya Mosque at 261 R-B, Adhwali District Faisalabad, Punjab with the aim of desecrating the mosque. Later, the local police removed all the debris and put cement in the parts of the mosque which they desecrated.
The Koranic inscriptions were also erased from the houses of the Ahmadis in the immediate neighbourhood. Such incidents openly expose the fact that not only the lives and honour of the Ahmadis in Pakistan are at stake, but also their places of worship and homes.
REQUEST: We ask for your support, along with that of your acquaintances and contacts, in calling for religious freedom and the safeguarding of Human Rights under the current Government of Pakistan.
Pressure must be brought to bear on the Government of Pakistan to arrest the culprits in order to safeguard the image of Islam and that of its own country, which claims to be an Islamic democratic country.
What is essential is that the Government of Pakistan ensures that all citizens enjoy freedom of religion and equal rights as citizens, as stipulated in the Constitution of Pakistan, Article 20, and in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2, 18.
