Nefarious “Ahmadiyya Sect” still the order of the day in Algeria!

Amnesty International has just issued what observers said as a “dreary” human rights annual assessment report on Algeria by claiming that the authorities continued to restrict the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly and religion, and prosecuted peaceful critics, including human rights defenders, in what it described as “unfair” trials. Refugees and migrants were arbitrarily expelled”, as it put it.

“The authorities continued to block access to Algeria by UN human rights mechanisms, including those with mandates on torture and other ill-treatment, counter-terrorism, enforced disappearance and freedoms of association and peaceful assembly”, claimed the report. 

“The authorities also continued to prevent international organizations, including Amnesty International, from conducting human rights fact-finding visits. The authorities prosecuted peaceful critics and forced the closure of media outlets”, the report said.

 “From June onwards, Amnesty International claimed that the authorities targeted members of the Ahmadi Sect by arresting more than 50 in Blida and Skikda provinces and other parts of the country on account of their faith, Soon after the June arrests in Blida, the relevant authorities publicly accused Ahmadis of extremism and of serving hostile foreign interests. In November, a court in Skikda sentenced 20 Ahmadis to fines and prison terms ranging from one month to one year”, according to Amnesty’s report.

“The government again failed, as claimed by the Amnesty International report, to enact legislation protecting the right to asylum”.

What Amnesty International seems to forget is that the followers of the deleterious “Ahmaddiyya Sect” have sought through their covert propaganda campaign with foreign ramifications, to lure young Muslims in some remote and rural parts of Algeria, through large sums of money, cars and other favours, into joining their organization whose thought is very adverse to mainstream Sunni Islam and offends the noble Prophet of Islam, Mohamed, God’s Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him, in addition to castigating the Muslim worshippers who pray in the national mosques behind an officiating Imam.

In a reaction to Amnesty’s report, the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADHH), stated that it is “following with keen interest the issue of the adverse methods used by the Ahmadiyya sect which, it said, has become a necrosis of Algerian society, through the dissemination of false and deleterious beliefs in the minds of young Algerian people, especially the needy and the poor”.

It further emphasized that “the call for a law to protect religions is not intended to limit the freedom of belief, but to promote the fight against incitement to hatred and to enhance dialogue among followers of religions and cultures in order to foster the understanding and appreciation of their respective  similarities and to promote respect and tolerance for the views of other beliefs while maintaining and promoting respect for the cultural and religious diversity that is consistent with the norms and standards of human rights”, the LADHH statement further underscored.