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Whereas, from October 15, 2018, to November 5, 2018, His 
Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide 
spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, an 
international religious organization with millions of mem-
bers across the globe, is making a historic visit to the 
United States, during which time he will inaugurate three 
new mosques: Baitul Aafiyat Mosque in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, Baitus Samad Mosque in Baltimore, Mary-
land, and Masroor Mosque in Manassas, Virginia; 
Whereas His Holiness was elected to become fifth Khalifa to 
Hadhrat 
Mirza 
Ghulam 
Ahmad, 
founder 
of 
the 
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, on April 22, 2003, a life-
long position; 
Whereas His Holiness is a leading Muslim figure promoting 
peace, who in his sermons, lectures, books, and personal 
meetings has continually advocated the Ahmadiyya Mus-
lim values of service to humanity, universal human 
rights, and a peaceful and just society; 
Whereas the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has suffered re-
peated severe hardships, institutionalized discrimination, 
persecution, and violence in several countries in the 
world, including Pakistan, Indonesia, and Algeria; 
Whereas, on May 28, 2010, 86 Ahmadi Muslims were killed 
in Lahore, Pakistan, when 2 mosques belonging to the 
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were attacked by anti- 
Ahmadiyya terrorists and scores more have been killed in 
targeted attacks since then; 
Whereas despite the continued sectarian persecution that 
Ahmadi Muslims are subjected to, His Holiness continues 
to forbid violence; 
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Whereas His Holiness has traveled globally to promote and 
facilitate service to humanity, meeting with Presidents, 
Prime Ministers, parliamentarians, and ambassadors of 
state; 
Whereas His Holiness delivered the keynote address at a spe-
cial bipartisan reception at the Rayburn House Office 
Building on Capitol Hill on June 27, 2012, ‘‘The Path 
to Peace: Just Relations Between Nations’’; and 
Whereas during his visit to the United States, His Holiness 
will meet thousands of American Muslims belonging to 
the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in addition to signifi-
cant United States Government leaders in order to 
strengthen relationships and find mutual means of estab-
lishing peace and justice for all people: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) welcomes His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza 
Masroor Ahmad, to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, 
Virginia, and Washington, DC; 
(2) commends the tireless efforts of His Holi-
ness toward promoting a pathway to achieve indi-
vidual and global peace, as well as individual and 
global justice; 
(3) commends His Holiness for courageously 
and unequivocally condemning extremism and terror 
in all its forms; and 
(4) commends His Holiness for his perseverance 
in counseling all Ahmadi Muslims to eschew any 
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form of violence, even in the face of severe persecu-
tion. 
Æ 
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