...[T]he Messiah was not to force people to accept Islam, but rather the
force of his arguments, reasoning and spiritual insight would
demonstrate the truth of Islam and attract people to Islam.
Ahmadiyya Times | Articles | Opinion
By Waseem A. Sayed, Ph.D.
Chino Hills, California - USA
I had the privilege of working at the Ahmadiyya Muslim booth at the Annual Arab American Day Festival this year and the experience left an indelible impress on my mind.
This is the fourth, or perhaps the fifth year of Ahmadiyya Muslim participation at the Arab-American Day Festival in Orange County, California, but it was the first time for me. I had heard others talk about it with great fervor and I wanted very much to see it for myself. As the day approached, however, I was assigned another task and it looked as if I would miss another year.
On the last day, however, it all worked out fine. I made it to the Festival and I was there alone during the morning session. So the experience was perhaps even more intense than it may otherwise have been. We had our Muslim Television Ahmadiyya - Al-Arabia on blast and there was a lot going on. What I saw and experienced made it clear to me that participation in the Arab American Day Fair is essential to understand the Arab-Muslim and Arab-Christian divide.
Due to the follies of few extremists - who have the audacity to call themselves Muslims, Islam has become a fair game for everyone's attacks, in hopes to possibly gain converts from among the ignorant Muslims.
The principle reason for this comment is the immense effort that I saw the Christians mount on attacking Islam at the Festival. The sheer numbers of their people, the encampment they had built at the front entrance and across the road on the lot of a Church and the army of people from all walks of life dedicatedly moving through the fair at all times was a thing worthy of being seen and recorded.
I read somewhere that 'those who disagree with truth will persecute those who practice it.'
