Argus Posted March 5, 2006 Report Posted March 5, 2006 The Islamists are a danger to everyone, but imagine the danger to the people who have to live among them. It very much sounds as though Pakistan is becoming a madhouse of warring Mullahs and primitive religious radicals. At the gate, a man asks us who we are, where we're from, who we're related to. Satisfied, he lets us in. He is right to be suspicious. The Ahmadiyya Muslim sect -- of which I am a British Pakistani member -- was recently described as, "one of the most relentlessly persecuted communities in the history of Pakistan" by the BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan. In 1974, following riots orchestrated by Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami party, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto caved into pressure from the Mullahs and passed a motion to declare Ahmadis non-Muslim. Ignoring warnings from prominent judges, human rights activists and academics, Bhutto argued that appeasing the Mullahs would put an end to sectarian problems. But more than 30 years on, Pakistan's Muslims are in a state of civil war. As well as the persecution of Ahmadis and recent attacks on the minority Ismaili sect, extremists from Pakistan's dominant Sunni and Shi'ite sects are intent on destroying each other. Daily Star Quote "A liberal is someone who claims to be open to all points of view — and then is surprised and offended to find there are other points of view.” William F Buckley
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