The Qadiani Ahmadiyya spent the last decade flirting with Islamophobes, supporting middle eastern wars, and vilifying Pakistan, Indonesia and other Muslim countries. Recently, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the head of the Qadiani Ahmadiyya offshoot of Islam, appears to be attempting to gain some relevance as history passes him by. We decided to delve into this trend in some detail as his ham-handed attempts are creating security concerns for Muslims in Europe, U.K., Canada and the United States.
Paradoxically, the sympathy that the movement had managed to garner out of their ill-treatment and discrimination in Pakistan and elsewhere seems to be fast evaporating.
While these recent idiosyncratic statements appear to have been primarily targeted at the internal captive audience, eyebrows are being raised as the repercussions are affecting the Muslim community. Known more as a manager than a leader, Masroor has rarely taken a position on significant issues and has been content to work behind the scenes. When he has taken a position, it has invariably been a random page out of the U.S.-neocon anti-Islamic book.
The events about which these statements have been made may have been local but their impact is global. Thus, it needs a broader analysis.
Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
Marine Le Pen had invited about 100 diplomats to a luncheon earlier this month during a visit to UN Headquarters in New York. But only four accepted: the envoys from Trinidad-Tobago, Armenia and Uruguay — who obviously are of no concern to her at all — and the fourth guest, Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor.
The application to the United Nations for admitting the state of Palestine has been submitted.
In a speech eerily reminiscent of Colin Powell's shameless assertion of Iraqi WMDs at the UN, President Obama produced another US presentation at the UN that reeked of hypocrisy and falsehood. Any credibility that the United States had has been lost.
The issue of Israel goes back to a curious nexus between the cause of the Crusades and to the Protestant guilt at the Holocaust. Germans are mostly Lutherans, and the intellectuals among the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust vowed to bring down Protestant Christianity as an immoral and racist herd psychology that was capable of any atrocity. In our opinion, it is not Protestantism or Martin Luther -- there is a certain Nordic tendency to racial and social purity that may be confused with Protestantism. It remains in check for decades, but when confronted with uncertainty, the Nordics band together and go overboard with their misguided cohesive dehumanisation of 'the other'. The Vikings did it, the English did it, Hitler did it, and now the Anglo-Saxon world did it again after 9/11.
Diplomats don't make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments.
The application to the United Nations for admitting the state of Palestine has been submitted.
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