Save Muslims from Extremists

All Muslims must be saved from what? Is there any evidence that Ahmadis in Indonesia have a compulsion to get adherents? Almost all Muslims believe that, in the latter days, Imam Mahdi will come, as foretold by Prophet Muhammad.

The difference is just who, where and when Imam Mahdi will come. It is not reasonable to declare them non-Muslim just because of that.

The writer said: Prophet Muhammad instructed his comrades to burn the dhirar mosque. All Ahmadi mosques should be categorized as dhirar mosques.

It is not right to imagine ourselves as the Prophet and do what he did because we live in difference circumstances. We need to know the background of this incident.

Imam "Abdul" Azhim Az-Zarqani tells us in his book about the connection between Abu Amir al-Khazraji and the Roman Emperor, Heraclius against the Islamic community in Madinah. Heraclius suggested Abu Amir build a place to spy on the Prophet and his comrades called it a "mosque".

We know that there was a war between the Roman Empire and Islamic community in Madinah and sometimes peace treaties. After the Battle of Badr between 313 Muslims and a Meccan army of more than 1,000 in 624 AD, Abu Amir fled to Mecca and there incited the Meccans and other Arabs to avenge the defeat of Badr. He was with the Meccan army at Uhud and so on.

So the background is not the same as between the Ahmadis and Abu Amir.

Unfortunately, it is very sad to read about the provocation to burn a place of worship down in the name of Islam.

Dildaar Ahmad

Bogor, West Java