By Kashif N. Chaudhry, Huffington Post:
Kashif Religious clerics in Pakistan celebrate September 7th as a day of victory for Islam and Pakistan. Officially dubbed the “Khatme Nubuwwat Day” or “Finality of Prophethood Day,” many mosques come alive with celebrations this day, sweets are distributed and intense speeches are made in large religious gatherings.
Forty years ago this day, Pakistan passed the second amendment to its Constitution, forcibly declaring the Ahmadis non-Muslim. With the stroke of a pen, the Ahmadis had been snatched of their basic right to self-identity at the insistence of the very clerics who had opposed Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his rightful struggle for Pakistan. It was this day that Pakistan started drifting away from the vision of its valiant founder. When Jinnah was pressed by extremist clerics to declare Ahmadis non-Muslim, he had replied, “What right have I to declare a person non-Muslim, when he claims to be a Muslim.”
So, what had Ahmadis done to deserve this State-sanctioned discrimination now?
