A World Unsafe for Diversity

"In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists and I did not speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I was a Protestant so I did not speak up. Then they came for me...by that time there was no one to speak up for anyone." Attributed to Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)

When a government establishes itself under a particular religion, where one faith has a privileged status over others, it brings upon itself the task of defining who belongs to that favored religion, and who does not. This is the current predicament in several established Muslim and Muslim majority countries, like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia, in which Ahmadi Muslims have been systematically denied certain privileges, and harassment has ranged from public protest to murder...Read more

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