Community's exiled leader dismisses hatemongering as diversionary tactic, but consequences of demagoguery are real for country's most persecuted faith group
Source/Credit: Asia Times
By F.M. Shakil October 16, 2017
“We do not require a certificate from any government or National Assembly to be a Muslim. We are Muslims and believe in all pillars of faith” - Mirza Masroor Ahmad
When the son-in-law of the recently-disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched into a venomous diatribe against Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community – the country’s most persecuted faith group – last week, dissent in the National Assembly was conspicuous by its absence.
In fact, lawmakers burst into thunderous applause as the retired Captain Muhammad Safdar Awan denounced Ahmadis as a threat to the existence of the country, its constitution, ideology and interests. And they thumped their desks to endorse Sadfar’s demand for a ban on the recruitment of Ahmadis to the armed forces, Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission, and other strategic state institutions, including the judiciary.
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