From: rafiq@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (RAFIQ ANWAR)
Subject: The Moderator of SRI is PREJUDICE!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:21:23 GMT


There was an article in soc.religion.islam by Mr. Saggaf,
in which he had incited people to vote "no" for the 
creation of the new proposed newsgroup: soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya.

I tried to do a follow-up to the article, describing the unethical
behaviour of Mr. Saggaf in that article. The follow-up article 
was rejected by Mr. Balasat Ali Raja, moderator of
soc.religion.islam, with a note saying that the discussion 
about the new proposed group has ended. The rejected article
is hereby included:


____________________________________________________________
>From gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu Wed Nov 18 17:19:54 1992
>To: rafiq@rintintin.Colorado.EDU
>Subject: Your article cannot be posted.
>
>All discussion on the new proposed newsgroup has
>ended in soc.religion.islam, as my footnote to
>the article you quoted said.  Therefore, I am 
>not going to post your article.
>
>SIncerely,
>Basalat Ali Raja.
>
>[...header deleted...and my attempted article follows:]
>
>
>alsaggaf@Athena.MIT.EDU (M. Saggaf) writes:
>
>>There is a voting process going on right now about whether or not to
>>create a subgroup of this group called soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya.
>>As I said before, using the word Islam by anyone who has no right to
>>it to pass himself/herself as a Muslim is unacceptable. Please vote NO
>>to the creation of the proposed group. You can vote by sending email
>>to the address
>>
>>	 rana@ucsu.colorado.edu
>>
>>with the sentence
>>
>>	I vote NO to soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya
>>
>>somewhere in the body of your letter.  You may want add the line
>>
>>	Return-Receipt-To: (your email address)
>
>>to your message header to get a confirmation of the receipt of your
>>letter and save the confirmation as a proof of your vote.
>
>>Please VOTE NOW!
>
>>The voting period expires December 3.
>
>>Wassalam,
>
>>/M. Saggaf
>> alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu
>
>>============================================================
>
>
>This is one the most discusting postings approved by the moderators
>of S.R.I. No one should be alowed to post something like this when
>voting has began! It clearly discloses the unbiasness of the 
>moderators of S.R.I.
>
>Everybody is free to vote as he wishes. If you are against the group
>vote against it, if you are in favour of it and feel it the 
>religeous freedom of Ahmadi Muslims to have a group then vote in
>favour of it. 
>
>
>Regards;
>ANWAR RAFIQ.
>
>
>_____________________________________________________________________
[...attempted article ends here.......]



The hypocricy and prejudice behaviour of the S.R.I. moderator 
against the Ahmadi Muslims is hereby proven by the fact that:
after saying that he will not post anything regarding the creation
of this newsgroup in soc.religion.islam, later posts an article
by David Lawrence which was related to the creation of this group!
And this was done after rejecting my article! The head of the 
article by David Lawrence follows:

_________________________________________________________________
>
>From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
>Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.religion.islam,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh
>Subject: Cancelled CFV: soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya moderated
>Date: 20 Nov 1992 01:50:18 -0500
>Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net, gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu
>
>The current Call for Votes (CFV) for an Ahmadiyya newsgroup is being
>cancelled.  A new call for votes will be issued within a few weeks,
>possibly with a new impartial vote taker.  Discussion on the proposal
>is still open until the new vote is called.
>
{....about 100 lines of article deleted for brevity......}
>
>David Lawrence                          moderator, news.announce.newgroups
>
>__________________________________________________________________


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