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'''''Qadiani''''' ({{langx|ur|{{nq|قادیانی}}}}, {{langx|hi|क़ादियानी}}; {{IPA|ur|qäː.d̪ɪjäːniː |pron}}) is a religious slur used to refer to [[Ahmadi Muslims]], primarily in Pakistan.<ref>{{cite book| author = Antonio R. Gualtieri| title = Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadis and Orthodoxy in Pakistan| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwHaOabz7YC&pg=PA14| year = 1989| publisher = Guernica Editions| isbn = 978-0-920717-41-7| page = 14 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Meaning of ''qaadiyaanii'' in English, Hindi & Urdu|url=https://www.rekhtadictionary.com/meaning-of-qaadiyaanii |access-date=2023-04-01 |website=Rekhta Dictionary |language=en}}</ref> The term originates from [[Qadian]], a small town in northern India, the birthplace of [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], the founder of the [[Ahmadiyya]] movement. While it is pejorative<ref name="Ispahani2017">{{cite book|author=Farahnaz Ispahani|title=Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jl7ODQAAQBAJ&pg=PT105|date=2 January 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-062167-4|pages=105–}}</ref> to the Ahmadi Muslim Community, it is used in official Pakistani documents.<ref name="pakistancode">[http://www.fmu.gov.pk/docs/laws/Pakistan%20Penal%20Code.pdf Pakistan Penal Code] Chap. XV "Of Offences Relating to Religion" pp. 79–81</ref>

Pakistan officially persecutes Ahmadiyya and uses the term ''Qadiani'' to label members of the religion. The [[Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan]] officially declares Ahmadiyya to be non-Muslims.<ref name="2ndamend">{{cite web |title=Constitution (Second Amendment) Act, 1974 |url=http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/amendments/2amendment.html |website=The Constitution of Pakistan |publisher=pakistani.org |access-date=21 January 2020 |archive-date=28 August 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010828025648/http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/amendments/2amendment.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Ordinance XX]] officially labels Ahmadi Muslims as ''Qadiani'' and prohibits them from any religious or social practices of the Muslim faith.<ref name="Berberian">{{cite journal |last=Berberian |first=Linda J. |date=1987 |title=Pakistan Ordinance XX of 1984: International Implications on Human Rights |url=https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ilr/vol9/iss3/5 |journal=Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review |volume=9 |issue=3 |access-date=21 January 2019 }}</ref> The [[Ahmadiyya Caliphate|fourth caliph]] of the community, [[Mirza Tahir Ahmad]], was forced to flee Pakistan under threat of arrest in 1984, prompting a [[diaspora]] of followers to [[Islam in the United Kingdom|the UK]], [[Islam in Germany|Germany]], and [[Islam in Canada|Canada]].<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |title=Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Muslim Spiritual Leader,74 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/17/world/hadhrat-mirza-tahir-ahmad-muslim-spiritual-leader74.html |access-date=24 January 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 May 2003 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Ahmadiyya members are targets of death threats by majority Muslims, both inside Pakistan and in diaspora refuges.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Jerome |title=Hardliners call for deaths of Surrey Muslims |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hardliners-call-for-deaths-of-surrey-muslims-2112268.html |access-date=20 January 2020 |work=The Independent (UK) |date=21 October 2010}}</ref>

The term is sometimes used in an academic context to distinguish the main Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, referred to as ''Qadiani'', from the separatist [[Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement]], referred to as Lahori Ahmadis.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Khan |first=Adil Hussain|title=From Sufism to Ahmadiyya : a Muslim minority movement in South Asia|date=2015|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-01529-7|location=Bloomington|oclc=907336796}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Mirzai]]
*[[Ahmadiyya in Pakistan]]
*[[Persecution of Ahmadis]]
*[[Human rights in Pakistan]]

==References==
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{{Religious slurs}}

[[Category:Persecution of Ahmadis]]
[[Category:Islam-related slurs]]
[[Category:Ahmadiyya in Pakistan]]


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