Any suggestion of providing basic rights to the Ahmadiyyas is enough to trigger massive protests and even riots among Muslim extremists.
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| A mock graveyard created in the middle of a merket depicting Ahmadi graves. |
Source/Credit: The Wire
By Sten Widmalm | December 6, 2017
The recent turmoil in Pakistan has mostly been described as “blasphemy protests”. An ‘amendment’ to the election law allegedly weakened the import of the declaration candidates for election are required to make about the “finality” of Prophet Mohammed. National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq accepted that a “clerical error” had been made and the statute was re-amended. This description hides more than it reveals. The current protests are driven by Sunni Barelvi groups, with the support of other sects, all of whom are united in targeting one weak minority group which they almost obsessively claim is appropriating Islam.
The amendment concerns the so called Khatm-i-Nabuwwat oath in the Elections Act, 2017 which protects the idea that Prophet Mohammed was the final prophet. If the law as originally amended by a unanimous vote in the National Assembly would have remained in place, it would have opened up for more rights for the country’s Ahmadiyya Muslims. The Ahmadiyyas belongs to one of the most persecuted minority groups in Pakistan. They differ from other Muslims in their interpretation of Mohammed as being the final prophet. In most other respects, they adhere to the same beliefs as most Sunni Muslims. However, in Pakistan, the faith of the Ahmadis is seen as a direct attack against Islam by Muslim conservative and extremist leaders. They see it as an attempt to dilute, distort and “take over” one of the most central ideas in Islam. The Ahmadiyya are essentially described as trying to appropriate Islam and reform it into something which is untrue to, or out of alignment with, an original set of core ideas.
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