Unfortunately, in Pakistan, the Ahmadi card is so potent that instead of putting Safdar in his place, the National Assembly was cowed down into unanimously, and without any discussion, restoring the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat laws.
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By Ayesha Ijaz Khan | October 20, 2017
As someone who lives in the West, I am troubled by the rise of Donald Trump in the United States and of far-right anti-immigrant movements across Europe primarily because, as a Muslim, I resent their Islamophobic politics. I am concerned about their attempts to scapegoat Muslims and stir fear and hysteria against a minority community. Yet I am also heartened by the fact that the law does not discriminate against Muslims, and that Muslims do technically have the same rights as those belonging to any other faith. This includes, for example, in the case of the United Kingdom, state funding for Islamic schools.
Think about that for a second. Muslims in the UK can get funding from the government to run an Islamic school. While there have been cases where some of these schools have found themselves at odds with the government regulator or been the targets of rather negative media attention, fundamentally, the eligibility for government funding remains intact. The rights of Muslims, thus, are not different from the rights of those belonging to any other faith. This does not mean that Muslims are never targeted unfairly or discriminated against but it does mean that the law is, by and large, fair.
Ironically, this is only possible in a society that acknowledges that religion must be separate from the business of the state. The state must protect all its citizens equally and this can only be done if it is not partisan to any community and does not declare itself to have an official faith. Muslims in the West routinely rely on this principle to enforce their rights.
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