تاریخ احمدیت (جلد 15) — Page 567
040 similarly there is a wide spread belief in Pakistan that by becoming non-communal in their outlook Pakistani Muslims would be putting their Hindu compatriots under great obligation۔That is an unwarranted attitude۔Secularism is primarily in the interests of all people and the majority community benefits from it the most۔Without secularism democracy cannot flourish in modern times۔The absence of secularism might harm the religious minorities first of all but it will not take long before, one after the other, different sections of the majority also fall prey to fanaticism and bigotry in the country۔Many Pakistanis have now learned that lesson as a res 't of recent bitter experience۔Had the Pakistan Government committed the fatal mistake of yielding before the anti-Ahmadi agitation fanatics would have demanded exclusion of other sections from the fold of Islam, till at last none but fanatics would be counted as Muslims۔That would be the sure path to ruin and annihilation۔The danger has not wholly vanished yet۔So long as the idea of building a religious State is not totally abandoned the possibility of fanaticism raising its evil head will remain۔It is for lovers of democracy to be fully warned about it۔This so far as the basic principles of the Pakistan۔Constitution are concerned۔Has the country made any progress in other sphere? Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir, by Prem Nath Bazaz pp۔602-604, Kashmir Publishing Company, Delhi, 1954۔