Source: philly.com
Pakistani-American lawyer and Ahmadi Muslim Qasim Rashid.
IMAGINE IT IS Sunday, the day a law takes effect stripping American Catholics of their rights.
Such a law disenfranchised German Jews in 1935.
Fewer than 40 years after the Nazis did it, Pakistan disenfranchised its Ahmadi Muslim Community. This Sunday is the 40th anniversary of that tragedy for human rights.
When it was carved from India in 1947, Pakistan was to be a safe haven for Muslims, a democracy with freedom of worship. How ironic that in 1974 it declared Ahmadis – with 30 million peaceful followers in 206 countries – to be non-Muslim, heretics. That opened the gates to state-ignored persecution, pillage, rape and murder that continues to this day.
Don’t blame yourself for not knowing this. Pakistani-American Qasim Rashid didn’t fully understand it until he visited the land of his birth. An Ahmadi himself, he learned he is “The Wrong Kind of Muslim,” the title of a book he wrote after his return, detailing and mourning Pakistan’s descent into the hell of religious hatred.
The 32-year-old lawyer told me that before his… read more at philly.com
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