Legal Opinion
Naveed Ahmed Sahi v. Alberto Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 25, 2005No. 04-2828PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Board of Immigration Appeals denied Naveed Sahi’s application for asylum and ordered him sent back to Pakistan, his country of origin. Sahi is a member of the Ahmadi religious sect. The Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims, but many Muslims disagree. The disagreement arises from the fact that Ahmadis do not accept, as most Muslims do, that Mohammed was the last prophet of Islam — they think that Mizra Ghulam Ahmad, who founded their sect in the nineteenth century, was also a prophet of Islam. Pakistan considers the sect a pernicious heresy. In 1974 it officially…
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