Mirza Ghulam Ahmad The Messiah of Islam/Christianity

[singh598]

Good reading for Sikhs he was born in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Raaj

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad

[UKLondonSikh]

The fact is this Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was scared to debate with Giani Ditt Singh of Singh Sabha fame. It is said that Mirza Ghulam Ahmed realised how badly his reputation would suffer given that he considered himself a high caste Qureshi (the same Arab Brahmin caste that Prophet Muhammad belonged to that had control of the sacred black stone at Mecca) whilst he had commented to his British allies that Sikhs like Giani Ditt Singh were mainly descended from untouchables and thus should not be treated with the same respect accorded to supposed "royalty" like him from Fatimid ancestry.

Perhaps he also realised that whereas Sikhi teaches us to eradicate slavery and punish slaveowners, the holy Prophet Muhammad owned and traded in black African and child slaves extensively - which doesn't exactly compare favourably to the founding of the Khalsa Panth in 1699 and its eternal mission towards global justice for the weak and oppressed.

Having said all that, Ahmadiyya's are lesser opponents of Sikhs than the mainstream Muslims of Punjab who number 100 million and rejoice at their victories from 1947 whereby they killed off and ethnically cleansed at least 10% of the Sikh population at the time - the equivalent to 3million Sikhs being killed off today.

[Jonny101]

All ahmadis I have met are nice people. They generally respect Sikhs and I think we should also respect those who show respect to us. They are a very persecuted minority in Pakistan.