Ahmadiyya Militia

The Ahmadiyya Militia was raised during the 1947 Partition of India to protect members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim branch from sectarian violence, based on the guidance from their founder, Ahmad, that violence could be used only in defensive wars.[1]

References

  1. Simon Ross Valentine. Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama'at: History, Belief, Practice. Columbia University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-231-70094-6, ISBN 978-0-231-70094-8


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