Recent PEW Survey has revelaed that only 50 per cent of mainstream Sunnis in Pakistan accept Shias as Muslims and that at least 30 per cent of Sunnis think that Sufi (Barelvi Sunni) Muslims are non-Muslims. Reasons for such widespread intolerance about Shias and Sunni Sufi Barelvis are to be found not only in takfiri madrassas and militant groups but also in seemingly moderate scholars. We present one such example, in this post, of a person who is perhaps one of the most influential moderate clerics in Pakistan’s upper-middle class. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi (born in 1951 in Sahiwal, Punjab) is Pakistan’s leading … Continue reading Javed Ghamidi’s problematic views about Sufi Sunnis and Shias