Ahmadiyyas and the Lahore mosque attacks, by Tahmena Bokhari

Posted by Ethan Casey on June 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Click here to read the full comment from a friend of mine in Toronto, currently serving as Mrs. Pakistan World:

“As a social worker I have worked with hundreds of members of the Ahmadiyya community in Toronto to help them seek asylum and settle in Canada along with other social work issues. I was extremely passionate about this work but it did come with some criticism from a few members of the wider Muslim community. This criticism was mainly that Sunnis (dominant Muslim sect) should not be helping the ‘anti-Islamic’ Ahmadiyyas. My specific faith label is not the issue here, my values of social justice are, and I would claim that social justice are the very values my personal faith has taught me.”

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