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176 Mahzarnama Parliament, caused the ouster of Catholicism from the territory of England! If the Deobandi sect is forced upon the Ahle Sunnah wal Jama'ah now, it would re-enact the tragedy of the Henry VIII and the Roman Catholics. Callers towards Goodness, [Underneath are affixed the signature of the Patron of Jamee'at- ul-Ulamaa Pakistan, Hadhrat Maulana Makhdoom Sayyed Nasir Jalali is affixed, followed by signatures of numerous other Barelvi ulema. [Quoted in the Monthly, Tuloo-e-Islam, May 1953, pp. 64-65] The Shia Monthly, Al-Muntazer, Lahore, wrote in 1970: "Those who have formulated the manifesto of the Jamee'at have, with great cunning, also included in it an article with which they can label every Islamic sect—except their own—to be ‘non- Muslim. ' Khatme Nubuwwat is just a handy excuse, otherwise their use of the word ‘etcetra' has ample room in it to enable Mufti Mahmood and Ghulam Ghaus Hazarvi to declare just about any sect of Islam to be ‘un-Islamic. '" [Al-Muntazer, Lahore, 5 February, 1970, p. 10] The apprehension expressed by Al-Muntazer became a reality only two years later, as evidenced by the following resolution adopted by the "Khilaafat-e-Raashidah Conference" at Multan, which is reproduced as under: "This momentous rally of the Khilaafat-e-Raashidah Conference at Multan, demands from the Government of Pakistan that in view of the fact that: the Shias have demonstrated that they are a separate entity from the mill'et by demanding a curriculum of education which is separate from that of the Muslims, and religiously-held property (auqaaf) which is separate from those of the Muslims; and, in view of the aforesaid, they have practically declared that they are an independent minority, separate from the generality of Muslims (aam'mat-ul-