Doctor killed by fatwa martyr for tolerance (The Baltimore Examiner)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Sep 17th, 2008
Being a staff physician at the same hospital, I feel like in some ways that Dr. [Abdul Mannan] Siddiqi was the Daniel Pearl of Franklin Square Hospital. It was the same unshaken belief in the service of humanity that convinced him to pack up from Baltimore and follow a calling to serve the underprivileged in Pakistan. For 16 years he organized free clinics for thousands only to be the victim of a fatwa (religious decree) issued by a popular TV program that members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are “worthy of death.” A day later, masked assailants killed him in the name of religion.
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