State-sanctioned definitions of Muslim identity trigger escalating sectarian narrowing

Evidence

Another result of this shift in Bhutto’s focus was the declaration in 1974 that the Ahmediyya community should no longer be recognized as Muslims within Pakistan owing to heterodox aspects of their beliefs. As commentators have noted, this declaration gave a green light to religious interests to push for ever more aggressive and narrow definitions of Islam and therefore of “Pakistaniness.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 866

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on Naqvi’s Home Boy and the boundary-drawing around Muslim identity that the novel contests. — connects to: Wahhabism legitimizes itself by declaring nearly all other Muslims apostates — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1847
• DEFINE: The 1974 Ahmediyya declaration is a concrete case of how ‘narrow definitions of Islam’ get institutionalized.