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Pakistani Mob Destroys Ahmadi Mosque

by Associated Press

   ISLAMABAD --

   Sunni extremists have demolished a mosque belonging to Pakistan's
   minority Ahmadi sect in the eastern city of Sialkot, the latest mob
   attack on minorities in the country.

   No one was inside the Ahmadiya Mosque and there were no casualties in
   the pre-dawn assault Thursday. The mosque had been shut years ago by
   authorities to avoid violence.

   A video of the attack surfaced on social media, showing a mob
   demolishing the mosque, which is said to have been visited by Mirza
   Ghulam Ahmad, who founded the Ahmadi faith in the Indian subcontinent
   in the 19th century. His followers believe he was a prophet.

   Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Muslims in 1974.

   Ahmadis make a tiny minority of the Muslim-majority Pakistan and are
   often targeted by Sunni militants who consider them heretics.