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Hirsi Ali, Why Do You Declare War on Me?

By Kashif Chaudhry
In Ahmadiyya, Human Rights, Islam, Loyalty, Op-eds, United States
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Originally published in the Huffington Post My name is Kashif Chaudhry. I am a Pakistani immigrant to the United States. Currently, I am completing a Cardiology fellowship in Boston. While speaking at Yale a few days back, Ayaan Hirsi Ali declared war on me. But why? To provide some perspective, I am a Muslim who belongs to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the single...

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Hirsi Ali: telling a critic from an Islamophobe

By Kashif Chaudhry
In Ahmadiyya, Islam, Op-eds
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Originally published in Pakistan Daily News Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born US citizen who is known — among other things — for her radical views on Islam. Her supporters consider her a leading critic, while many others believe she is guilty of Islamophobia and bigotry. I think she is a perfect case to educate people on the difference between the two. Hirsi Ali immigrated to the Netherlands in...

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