[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1125 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1125

  Welcoming His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide 
spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, to the United States, 
including Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, DC, 
and recognizing his commitment to world peace, absolute justice, global 
   unity among nations, nonviolence, rejection of extremism, nuclear 
    disarmament, elimination of weapon profiteering, eradication of 
poverty, economic equity, service to humanity, universal human rights, 
            international religious freedom, and democracy.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2018

    Mr. King of New York (for himself, Ms. Speier, Mr. Pallone, Mr. 
 McGovern, Mr. Roskam, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Raskin, Mrs. 
     Torres, Mr. McCaul, and Mr. Connolly) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Welcoming His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide 
spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, to the United States, 
including Pennsylvania, Maryland, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, DC, 
and recognizing his commitment to world peace, absolute justice, global 
   unity among nations, nonviolence, rejection of extremism, nuclear 
    disarmament, elimination of weapon profiteering, eradication of 
poverty, economic equity, service to humanity, universal human rights, 
            international religious freedom, and democracy.

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 
        members 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, Maryland, 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 
        lifelong 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 Muslim values of service to humanity, universal 
        human rights, and a peaceful and just society;
Whereas the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has suffered repeated 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;
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 special 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 significant United States Government leaders in order to 
        strengthen relationships and find mutual means of establishing 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 Holiness toward 
        promoting a pathway to achieve individual 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 form of violence, 
        even in the face of severe persecution.
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