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Like Jinnah, Mirza Basheer said a lot of things at one time and a lot of diametrically opposite things at another. Punishing people who aren't dead for something someone who is dead said is a bad idea, so is predicating citizenship rights. Do you think I asked for who my parents were? Do you think it's fair they couldn't even register their marriage in Pak and could only give Nikahnama to American embassy on the way out?

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The point was aimed at the classification of Ahamdis as not being Muslim and how the founder and main leaders of the Ahmadiyya even seen their movement as radically different to mainstream Islam. I haven't seen any statements of them opposing these views.

Regardless, I wasn't advocating or defending their persecution.

You might want to check out the 1974 assembly hearings where the successor of the guy you cited has a bit about “political Muslims”

Are you talking about the below National Assembly where it couldn't be decided by him whether mainstream Muslims are Kaafir according to the widely published statements of the founder?

https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2017/12/22/mirza-nasir-ah...

Yeah, I'm not defending his performance. I think he said something about 'political Kaafir'

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