Identity Theft, Not Persecution: Why Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Laws Exist
Ahmadis say they are 'not allowed to practice their faith' in Pakistan. The real issue is different: Ahmadiyya appropriated the identity markers of 1.8 billion Muslims — titles, honorifics, sacred terms — while simultaneously declaring every non-Ahmadi Muslim a kafir. The laws exist because of an irreconcilable identity conflict, not religious persecution.