Where Are The Sane Muslims? (Express Tribune)
Saleha Riaz asks a profound question in her gut wrenching piece (Where are the sane Muslims?): “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 clergy could agree on the definition of “who is a Muslim”. Justice Munir and Justice Kiyani 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 localized, a decade later Zia barred Ahmadis from using common Islamic terms like “Assalam-o-alaikum” or “Bismillah”.
What we have now is a widespread cancer in Pakistan. And our “doctors” who knew that “belief in one God is all it takes to be a Muslim” are long dead.
Unless we commit to eliminating this “Kafir cancer” by reversing the first mutation, the root cause, all of us are likely to succumb to it.
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