Momodou Sabally has said it’s his personal opinion it’s wrong to ask the leader of the Ahmadis to ‘pray on behalf of Muslims’.
“And also it is my personal opinion that what happened at the UDP Congress in asking the leader of the Ahmadiyyah Jammaat to lead the prayers on behalf of the Muslims was wrong,” Sabally wrote on Friday.
According to the active UDP member, he knows it was the moderator who made the error which he later tried to correct.
Sabally said: “I also know that this was not an official position of the party but an error on the part of the moderator of the programme who later tried to correct the error.
“The majority of Muslims in UDP, and also those present at that forum, are mainstream Muslims; and they do not identify themselves with Ahmadiyyah.
“Therefore it is undemocratic to ask the leader of the Ahmadiyyah to lead prayers for that majority.
“As a Muslim and believer in the divine injunction that “there is no compulsion in religion”, I do respect the rights of the Ahmadiyyah Jammaat to practice their faith as they see it.
“I believe in the rights of every individual to choose their own way of worshipping God, and I respect those rights at all times.
“It is the nature of humans that we make errors sometimes; such errors should be corrected and we must endeavour to respect all protocols, with tact, be they worldly or religious.”
