From: rana@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Nabeel Ahmad Rana)
Subject: RFD: soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya moderated
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:51:52 GMT

	REQUEST FOR DISSCUSSION
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NAME OF PROPOSED NEWSGROUP:

	soc.religion.islam.ahmadiyya

CHARTER:

	A religous newsgroup, which would mainly discuss the beliefs, 
	teaching, and philosophy of this particular sect in Islam called
	Ahmadiyya. It may also be used to post important events within
	the World Wide Ahmadiyya Islamic Community.


PURPOSE OF THE GROUP:


	The following are some of the main purposes this group will 
	achieve:

	i)	To Discuss the beliefs of Ahmadi Muslims in the world.

	ii)	To Discuss Ahmadiyya Islam in general.

	iii)	To Discuss the origin and teachings of this potent 
		religious force (Ahmadiyya Islam) on earth.

	iv)	To Discuss current world problems and see why Ahmadiyya
		Islam claims to be a solution for them.

	v)	To exchange important news about the World Wide Ahmadiyya
		Muslim Community which numbers over 10 million world-wide.

	vi)	To add some diversity in the religous newsgroups so far 
		present on Usenet.

	vii)	To Discuss why this particular religous sect is so widely
		persecuted in general and in the Islamic world in special.


TYPE:


	The group will be MODERATED because of its controversial nature.
The moderators have been decided through personal e-mail contacts within the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Netters community. The community has generally agreed to 
have the following moderators to start the newsgroup:

Moderator:	Nabeel A. Rana  (rana@rintintin.colorado.edu)
Co-Moderator:	Dr. Tahir Ijaz (ijaz@ccu.umanitoba.ca)



A BRIEF DISCRIPTION ABOUT AHMADIYYA ISLAM:


	Ahmadiyya Islam is a sect of Islam which believes in the second 
comming of Jesus Christ. The sect believes that the Promised Messiah 
has appeared about a hundred years ago. This sect was founded by Hazrat
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, who claimed to be the promised Messiah 
and Mahdi. He claimed that prophisies contained in almost all the great
religions of the world about the advent of a massenger from God have
been fulfilled. His claims raised storms of hostility and extreame   
opposition from Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and other religions.
Such opposition is seldom witnessed in the history of divine reformers.
Dispite the opposition and hostility against this sect of Islam, the
growth of Ahmadiyya Islam was unaffected. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
grew at an exponential rate and today numbers over 10 million. The 
Community is still growing. And the Community beleives that the pace of 
its growth is destined to engulf all of mankind. The Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community is a highly organized community. They stand established in 120 
countries of the world. They have one supreme head, which is called the
Khalifa, who is Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth sucsessor of the 
founder of the Movement. 


NEWSGROUP CREATION:

	The discussion for this group will last from Oct 15, 1992 till 
Nov 8, 1992. The discussion should take place in "news.groups". All 
followups should be under this same title heading. The discussion period
is small because a lot has already been discussed through e-mail.
I invite all netters in general and Ahmadi Muslim netters in particular
to take part in the discussion. Any suggestions, comments, problems may
by included in the discussion or sent directly to rana@rintintin.colorado.edu

	At the end of the Discussion Period, voting will be held. The rules
on how to vote will be posted here. If the group passes the voting, 
the group will be created. The voting will be held for 21 days.
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Nabeel A. Rana
e-mail: rana@rintintin.colorado.edu
LOVE FOR ALL: HATRED FOR NONE