This was also an era in which religion and the state were one unified entity . ... no Jew , Christian , Zoroastrian , or Muslim of this time would have considered his or her religion to be rooted in the personal confessional experiences of individuals . ... Your religion was your ethnicity , your culture , and your social identity ... your religion was your citizenship . The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , a minority sect found in South and Southeast Asia , rejects any form of punishment for apostasy whatsoever in this world , citing hadith , Quran , and the opinions of classical Islamic jurists to justify its views . However , Ahmadiyya Muslims are widely considered as non-Muslim apostates and persecuted by mainstream Islam , because of their beliefs
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Persecution of Ahmadis
Apostasy in Islam