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That's unfortunate considering Ahmadiyyas were at the forefront of the Pakistan movement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_in_Pakistan https://en.m.wi

That's unfortunate considering Ahmadiyyas were at the forefront of the Pakistan movement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_in_Pakistan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_in_Pakistan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ahmadis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ahmadis

valarauko 6y ago
The community also produced Pakistan's first Nobel Laureate, and the first Muslim to receive a Nobel for science. Upon his death, the Pakistani government defaced his gravestone to remove the word "muslim". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam
- nashashmi 6y ago
  Indeed they are highly educated minority. Often it is thought that the British facilitated their establishment and growth and gave them opportunities both in the colony and abroad from which they prospered.
  - valarauko 6y ago
    That supposes some sort of concerted action by the British Raj, which I don't think was the case. Rather, the early Ahmadi Caliphs were keen to state their loyalty to the British as their temporal masters, and that the hands-off British rule was preferable to native princes, especially the Sikhs. Like other evangelical movements in such an environment, they flourished.
  - selimthegrim 6y ago
    It's true that they did take British money to establish early colleges in Punjab but no more (and quite a bit less) than the DAV schools did. But the story of British conspiracy falls apart when you consider they dragged MGA into court on charge of mailing a letter inside a parcel. If he was really working for Punjab CID or whatnot do you think they would have bothered with that or he would have bothered writing effusive letters of praise to judge when he was acquitted?
  - selimthegrim 6y ago
    I don't understand how people can think Akbar Allahabadi was the best thing since sliced bread and then complain that other people participated in British education more than them. Doesn't that come with the territory?

valarauko 6y ago

The community also produced Pakistan's first Nobel Laureate, and the first Muslim to receive a Nobel for science. Upon his death, the Pakistani government defaced his gravestone to remove the word "muslim". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam

nashashmi 6y ago
Indeed they are highly educated minority. Often it is thought that the British facilitated their establishment and growth and gave them opportunities both in the colony and abroad from which they prospered.
- valarauko 6y ago
  That supposes some sort of concerted action by the British Raj, which I don't think was the case. Rather, the early Ahmadi Caliphs were keen to state their loyalty to the British as their temporal masters, and that the hands-off British rule was preferable to native princes, especially the Sikhs. Like other evangelical movements in such an environment, they flourished.
- selimthegrim 6y ago
  It's true that they did take British money to establish early colleges in Punjab but no more (and quite a bit less) than the DAV schools did. But the story of British conspiracy falls apart when you consider they dragged MGA into court on charge of mailing a letter inside a parcel. If he was really working for Punjab CID or whatnot do you think they would have bothered with that or he would have bothered writing effusive letters of praise to judge when he was acquitted?
- selimthegrim 6y ago
  I don't understand how people can think Akbar Allahabadi was the best thing since sliced bread and then complain that other people participated in British education more than them. Doesn't that come with the territory?