Intro
The aggressive behavior of the Ahmadiyya Movement is now being experienced in Canada. On Sep-17-2024, the Ahmadiyya application for Jalsa-2025 in Bradford was denied, which is leading to investigations into the operations of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat in Canada. Michael Owen, who is a general assignment reporter for BradfordToday is reporting about in a recorded vote during committee of the whole Tuesday, Sept. 17, five of council’s nine members voted against approving AMJ’s application to host the event from July 4-6, 2025 at the Hadiqa Ahmad Ahmadiyya Community, 3078 Line 11 in Bradford. Only Ward 1 Coun. Cheraldean Duhaney, Ward 2 Coun. Jonathan Scott, Deputy Mayor Raj Sandhu and Mayor James Leduc voted in favour of the 2025 event, in contrast to the unanimous support provided last year for the 2024 event. The Sep-17-2024 council meeting can be found herein. Farhan Khokhar (Na’ib Amīr)(Vice President) was there too, he said: “We have placed Bradford on the map” (See 1:38:58 time stamp)!! This was done in a braggadocio way.
The Jalsa Salana Canada-2024 at Bradford caused a huge accident to happen on the 400 Highway, which caused traffic all throughout the city, it is unclear if Ahmadi’s were involved in the accident. One resident said that if there was a need for emergency services, people would have died. The same resident said that the traffic was overwhelming and people felt paralyzed. The same resident was concerned that the Ahmadiyya Movement already has approval for a cemetery and wants a temple soon. How will the City of Bradford handle all of this? Another resident, who lives across the street said that there was too much dust in the air, too many pedestrians, lots of noise. She said that many Ahmadi’s wandered onto her property.
There was a follow-up meeting on Oct-1-2024 and again, the application for Jalsa-2025 was denied. The Jalsa was denied by a vote of 5-4. The Ahmadiyya Movement will not be allowed to hold their Jalsa-Canada in Bradford because the City of Bradford can’t handle the load/traffic and etc. Members of the Ahmadiyya Community essentially called council members as racist and bigoted and this was the reason for the refusal. A few residents were upset about comments by Farhan Khokhar (Na’ib Amīr)(Vice President) wherein he said:
“We have placed Bradford on the map” (See 1:38:58 time stamp)!! This was done in a braggadocio way and some local residents who spoke up about it at the City Council Meeting.
Safwan Choudhry (Director of Media relations) was there (1:14:33 to 1:19:55 time stamp), on 10-1-24, the Ahmadiyya Movement showed up in full force to complain about getting denied. Safwan Choudhry mentioned how every single council member had visited the Jalsa. Safwan Choudhry hella kissed up and praised the Bradford City Council and begged them to change their decision on denial. Safwan Choudhry then mentioned that Ahmadis are persecuted, this is the persecution card, Safwan said that the Jalsa is banned in a few countries. Safwan Choudhry even said that Ahmadi’s have been murdered and their have changes to constitutions to stop Ahmadi’s from practicing their faith openly (what does that even mean, salat in the street?). Safwan Choudhry complained that Ahmadi’s aren’t even allowed to call their places of worship as mosques. In a CTV interview, Safwan Choudhry had boastfully said that the Jalsa Salana Canada in Bradford would be “on our own terms”, residents had complained about this boastfulness too. Safwan Choudhry then lied and said that he only said it this way because Ahmadi’s aren’t allowed to hold the Jalsa in “other countries” (he meant Pakistan).
According to reports from AMJ, the organization had spent more than $1 million locally on the conference including roughly: $143,000 at Home Depot, $140,000 at Battlefield Rental, $115,000 at The Sarjeant Co., $100,000 at Gwillimdale Farms, $28,000 at Petro Canada, $18,000 at Tim Hortons, plus more at Osmows, Walmart, Dollarama, Canadian Tire, Bradford Rental and more.
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