"Doctor killed by fatwa martyr for tolerance"

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Being a staff physician at the same hospital, I feel like in some ways that Dr. [Abdul Mannan] Siddiqi was the Daniel Pearl of Franklin Square Hospital. It was the same unshaken belief in the service of humanity that convinced him to pack up from Baltimore and follow a calling to serve the underprivileged in Pakistan. For 16 years he organized free clinics for thousands only to be the victim of a fatwa (religious decree) issued by a popular TV program that members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are “worthy of death.” A day later, masked assailants killed him in the name of religion.
As an American Muslim I invite all Islamic societies to join me in condemning such heinous acts happening in their own backyard. Or people like me would be justified in asking the million-dollar question — “Really, where are these moderate Muslims at such tragic times?”

– Faheem Younus, MD, Associate section chief ID, Baltimore