Word: ahmadiyya
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...Worst hit by the deterioration in law and order have been Bangladesh's religious minorities. The Ahmadiyya, a tiny Muslim sect that is not recognized by the fundamentalists as being truly Muslim, has had to endure angry mobs surrounding its mosques, defacing the walls and disrupting religious services. The other prime target of the extremists' wrath is the country's large Hindu community, which has been repeatedly subjected to threats, rapes, arson, looting and assaults. Human-rights activists claim there has been little effort made to protect the Hindu community. "In many cases the police simply refuse to register complaints...
...number and variety of pilgrims on this year's hajj were living proof of the fervor that burns within the youngest of the world's universal faiths, second in size only to Christianity. According to Islam's mission-minded Ahmadiyya movement, there are 647 million Moslems around the world; less partial statisticians lower the figure to a still impressive 465 million. Today, 35 countries in Africa and Asia have Moslem majorities. In much of West Africa, Islam now gains converts at a 9-to-l ratio over Christianity...
...need for a strict return to Islamic practice, and its doctrine slowly spread through the lands of the faith. Sharply countering Moslem fatalism, the 19th century philosopher Al Afghani preached ijtihad (self-exertion), urging Islam to adapt to the currents of change in the modern world. India's Ahmadiyya movement helped revive Islam's long-dormant lust for converts. Twentieth century nationalism gradually brought independence, and a new spirit of confidence, to Islamic countries of Africa and Asia...
Eweida insists that "the council's mission is purely religious-it has nothing to do with politics." Nonetheless, the council is violently opposed to Islamic organizations associated with other Moslem leaders, such as the mission-minded Ahmadiyya Movement of Pakistan or the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia. To Eweida, it is kismet that Islam should grow, and that Egypt should become the center of Islamic culture. Nasser thinks...
Hafiz and Bashir are missionaries for the Moslem Ahmadiyya sect,* whose 1,000,000 members have made proselytizing one of their major works. Ahmadiyya Moslems already have mosques in Paris, London, Berlin and Chicago...