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Ahmadiyya%20in%20Pakistan.pptx
Summary (what is not on the slides)
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When he was 14 years old he scored the highest ever recorded marks for the matriculation exam at the Punjab University (matriculation exam is exam taken as a sort of placement test for movement into tertiary education.) He received his first Bachelors in Mathematics at age 18 and master’s degree at age 20. Three years later he completed his second Bachelor’s at Cambridge with double first-class distinction in Math and Physics. He completed his doctorate by age 25, with his thesis earning him the Adams Prize.
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The broad estimates of numbers are due to the difficulty discerning just how many Ahmadi there are because of the sect's discriminated status in Islamic countries.
Distinct beliefs include the interpretation of "Jihad" and some Ahmadi's belief that Mirza Ahmad (the founder of the sect) was a prophet.
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Bhutto passed the bill in 1974, even though he resisted for a while, those non-Ahmadi Muslim who were disenchanted became more and more violent until he had to cede to their wishes.
There are currently laws against Ahmadiyya claiming to be Muslims, for them to call their places of worhship “mosques”, to use the common greeting of “Asalamu alaikum”, publicly quote the Quran or disseminate their beliefs.
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Being a part of a religious group seems to play a larger part for being the categories through which one might primarily identify themselves (as compared to nationality, social class etc.)
Though general feeling towards Ahmadi remain negative in Pakistan, there is evidence of a movement towards acceptance (or at least non-discrimination/oppression).
There is an interesting number of words that appear in Urdu that have religious meaning that is of specific importance to Islam, while at the same time there are some words with religious meaning in English that are not found in Urdu, like "cult".
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