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Sweden: The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

Not to be confused with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light are a religious organisation which has been at the receiving end of discrimination in several countries outside of Europe and targetted because some Muslim-majority countries consider them “heretics” where they have been imprisoned, tortured and targetted by both state…

Not to be confused with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light are a religious organisation which has been at the receiving end of discrimination in several countries outside of Europe and targetted because some Muslim-majority countries consider them “heretics” where they have been imprisoned, tortured and targetted by both state and non-state actors. This has led to members of the community seeking asylum in other countries.

To our knowledge, Sweden is the only European country that has taken discriminatory action against members of the religion and this is summarised in a report issued by the movement itself, which can be found here.

After discrimination in other non-European countries such as Turkey, Azergaijan, Thailand, Algeria and Malaysia, their hopes to establish as safe base in Sweden were dashed by the above discrimination in Sweden and they have since established their headquarters in the United Kingdom. A field group of academics and human rights experts (AFN was part of this project) visited the movement’s headquarters and over two days were explained the theology of the movement and visited their headquarters. The movement was open to, and answered all questions put to them A series of articles have since been written by Professor Massimo Introvigne and Karolina Maria Kotkowska covering much of the movement’s theology and activities.

You can find these articles here along with articles covering religious discrimination against the movement covered by Human Rights Without Frontiers.
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-1-a-drama-and-its-characters/
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-2-from-ahmed-al-hassan-to-abdullah-hashem/
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-3-esotericism-and-progressive-millennialism/
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-4-the-divine-just-state/
https://bitterwinter.org/the-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-5-why-are-they-persecuted/
https://hrwf.eu/azerbaijan-fleeing-persecution-the-plight-of-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-members/
https://hrwf.eu/thailand-persecutes-the-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light-why/
https://hrwf.eu/algeria-a-un-special-rapporteur-meets-members-of-ahmadi-religion-of-peace-and-light/
https://hrwf.eu/turkey-un-urges-turkey-to-halt-deportation-of-persecuted-ahmadi-religious-minority/

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