Irreconcilable Differences
Differing interpretations of a teaching should never end in physical confrontation. The open-debate model used over 50 years ago would be a more dignified approach.
July 19, 2005
UNDER a light rain and an overcast sky, trucks and buses, eight in all, sped out of the Mubarok campus on Jalan Raya Parung 72, Pondok Udik, Kemang, Bogor, West Java. Hundreds of police escorted the convoy, which evacuated about 200 followers of the Ahmadiyah sect to the office of the Cibinong Regency Public Prosecutor's Office, West Java.
Last Friday afternoon was a low point for followers of the Ahmadiyah sect (Qadiani subsect). That da
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