Democracy - QeRN

Saudi Sows Hate and Makes Others Reap

After considerable agonising over trans-national Muslim affinity, and avoiding criticising any single party, the time has come to say it: if Arab cultural fetishes and monarchical paranoia are not actively combated by Muslims worldwide, they threaten the trans-national fabric of the Ummah (Global Islamic Community). This is a rather lengthy

Qadiani

Follow-up: Are Ahmadis Allowed to Vote in Pakistan?

Link to my previous article on the subject Respected Iftikhar Chaudhry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and Respected Fakhruddin Ibrahim, Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan: In 2002, when President Musharraf re-established a joint electorate, he agreed to the demands of Muslim scholars and issued Presidential Order Number

Ahmadiyya

Refusing to Vote in Pakistan

Many readers have asked: In the Aljazeera Debate on Ahmadiyya, why would the Qadiani Ahmadiyya representative say that Ahmadis are* ‘not allowed to vote in Pakistan’*? A Harvard-educated lawyer, Amjad Mahmood Khan, should know how to read statute and regulation. In the debate, when I countered by saying that ‘Ahmadis