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Don't Read the Koran

Charles Oliver | 12.23.2013 6:00 AM


Pakistani police have charged Masood Ahmad with pretending to be a Muslim after he was secretly recorded reading from the Koran. Ahmad, who faces up to three years in prison, is a member of the Ahmadi sect. Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims, but the Pakistani constitution declares them to be heretics.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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