The following letter was published by The Globe and Mail, on Feb. 22, 2013.
It was intolerance that led to my family’s coming to Canada in 1989, when I was barely 2. We were persecuted in Pakistan for being members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community – the same community whose mosque and community centre the Prime Minister chose for his official announcement of Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom.
On witnessing this occasion, I was reminded of something the late Mirza Tahir Ahmad, previous head of the community, once said: “My prayer is that Canada becomes all the world and all the world becomes Canada.” Amen!
Muneer Ahmad Khan, Ottawa
