Ahmadiyya
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Pakistan & India as Imperial Nation States
X.T.M reports a conference claim that India and Pakistan are post-imperial states smothering small nations, does not adopt that frame, and argues that ethnicity resurges in Pakistan because Islam has…
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Flame Thread Warning
Moderation warning that stricter deletion of comments is coming. X.T.M also notes the killing of Ahmadi physician Dr Sheikh Mahmood Ahmad and argues Pakistan must rethink its treatment of minorities.
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On Ahmadiyyas and Jains
The author argues that Hindu treatment of Jains and Muslim treatment of Ahmadiyyas show why Hindus and Muslims differ: for Hindus culture almost always trumps religion, while hostility to Ahmadiyyas…
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The Role of the Ahmediyya Movement in Kashmir
Hamid Hussain’s essay on the little-known role of the Ahmadiyya movement in Kashmir and Pakistan history, offered as an outcome of background research done while writing a piece on recent…
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The Shias of Kashmir
Hamid Hussain traces how Shia migrants and missionaries from Iran and Iraq came to Kashmir in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and sets out where Shia communities live today, as…
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The Indian Muslim question
After an open-thread row over Pakistani Hindus and Indian Muslims, the author says he feels he de-Muslimises himself in India, argues Indians treat Muslims like a caste while Pakistan sorts…
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Ahmedis and Pakistan. Some background..
Prompted by economist Atif Mian’s removal from Imran Khan’s advisory council, the author gives background on the Ahmedi movement: its origins in 19th-century Punjab, its role in the Pakistan movement,…
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“Islamic Chains”
Prompted by Atif Mian’s removal from an advisory council, the author argues Pakistani Muslim liberals tolerate injustice yet bristle at any criticism of Islam, citing izzat and weak outrage over…
