Reminds me of famous Munir Commission Report of 1953 in which no two clerics could agree on definition of a Muslim.
BALTIMORE, MD, US: Saleha Riaz asks a profound question in her gut-wrenching piece “Where are the sane Muslims?” (January 28) when she writes: “Where are those who know that belief in one God is all it takes to be a Muslim, that everything else is secondary?”
This reminds me of the famous Munir Commission Report of 1953 in which no two clerics could agree on the definition of a Muslim. Justice Munir and Justice Kayani valiantly protected Pakistan’s body from this cancer like two skilled doctors. Two decades later, Bhutto succumbed to political pressure and created the first mutated cell of this cancer by declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims. Thinking that the cancer would remain localised, a decade later Zia barred Ahmadis from using terms like ‘Assalam-o-alaikum’ or ‘Bismillah’.
Faheem Younis
Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2011.
