Ahmadiyya struggle to survive: Islamic Tolerance test for Muslim Indonesia

Ahmadiyya struggle to survive: Islamic Tolerance test for Muslim Indonesia

By Tom McCawley

July 2, 2008

Ahmadiyya, which claims followers in 190 different countries, is no stranger to persecution. Pakistan, where the breakaway sect was founded in the 19th century, banned the group in 1974. In Bangladesh, Muslim groups petitioned to have Ahmadiyya followers officially declared as "kafirs", or non-believers. Ahmadiyya claims that its estimated 200,000 to one million members in Indonesia have faced rising harassment with the country's transition to democracy.

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