0:00 There's only one main difference between Ahmadi and Muslims. Ahmadi Muslims believe in the Promised Messiah, and that he has already come while Muslims are still waiting for the Messiah. This is partly why Ahmadis are hated and declared as non Muslims by Pakistan's government, so now I'll be sharing the story of Muhammad who had to leave Pakistan his home country because of the constant death threats and not being able to practice his religion freely. 0:25 Hi, my name is Mohammed Abdullah and I am 22 years old and I have been living in Canada for three and a half years and I mean, I came in Canada in 2016. And I have three sisters. I'm the only brother, my sister my family's here, I mean, my father's, my mother's my sister, we're all here in Canada. 0:45 Hi, my name is Kamina Shafiq and I'm 24 year old. I'm originally from Pakistan. I have been in Canada for almost three and a half years. I left my own country with my family because we couldn't practice our religion. We are Ahmadi Muslims being an Ahmadi Muslim, we are not allowed to call ourselves Muslim. Ahmadi Muslims have been declared non-Muslims since 1974. Because we have little difference in our beliefs. As we are Ahmadi Muslims we face discrimination in our schools, college universities and so on. Then we decided to come Canada so we can build our better future and we can live our life with freedom. 1:36 Basically my family I and I we move to Canada just because we have some religious problems not some bad I mean a lot of religious problems. The one the first in first I'm going to share with you is there are like about 72 communities in Muslim. Along the line Muslim then there are 72 communities most in Muslim in Pakistan and some of the Muslim in Pakistan they say that Ahmadis are not Muslims. The main reason is we we Ahmadis have some difference in opinion in our beliefs. So that's why a lot of communities in Pakistan, they say not you are not Muslim. If we say Salaam or if we call our mosque as a mosque or if we build a mosque, we could go to jail for like three years and we have to pay a lot of fine. And this is I mean, this is so ridiculous. We were so scared when I was in Pakistan like it was we were so depressed. I mean, like even in my school like in my classrooms. One day I was sitting in my classroom and we just had done our work and my teacher she stood up because she didn't have to do anything. She stood up, she said Mohammed I said yes, she can she goes just stand up. I stood up she has I hear something about you. I said, What did you hear about me? She said, are you Ahmadi or are you Muslim? I said what do you mean? And where did you hear? Hear it? She said no, I just answer me are you Ahmadi or like, you Muslim? I said I'm Ahmadi Muslim? She said no, Ahmadis are not Muslim. It was so I was so depressed that day like, this is my school. Why are you discussing this kind of stuff here in my class in front of the whole class. You can call me or you can call me somewhere in the staffers or outside of staff room and ask me this kind of questions. Why are you asking me this question in front of the whole class? When in our family, a lot of people have been killed by these extremist people, so this is the problem that's why we left Pakistan. 3:47 Coming to Canada is a life changing experience. It's a totally different country. I mean, it's a multicultural country, it's totally different for me, even my family. Pakistan is not a multicultural. It started it was really hard to live in here because we didn't know anything with no language. We didn't know Canada's first language. It was a barrier for us. For me, it was really hard because I remember my third in Canada when I moved to Canada, my father gave me some money and then he says just go to bank and deposit. I said no, I don't want to go to bank and my father goes why I said no, I don't know English that I don't want to go to bank. So my my father has no you'll be okay. And I started the school here in Canada when I when I came to Canada. I went to Humber College they said you have to go to adult school and get a high school credit so I went to Humber adult school and I took ESL classes and I have done high school diploma here. Taught in the in the but it was really hard but and then second thing is finding work here in Canada. It was really hard because I didn't know how to make resume. I didn't know what resumes resume is. Because in Pakistan there are not a lot of jobs there, so people helped me a lot here. I mean like people in Canada and people in Pakistan they are like totally different people. I just love Canada. I love Canadian people. Even like I experience more thing that if you don't know English, they help you a lot like they try to help you a lot that just say this go there here. A lot of even my classmates, my teacher, they helped me how to make resume and then when I made my resume, may I applied for a job and I got the job here. Now I'm doing a job here. So I'm here at Costco with my supervisor and we are shopping for our workplace. We'll be done soon and we'll take everything back to our workplace. After some time, I just love Canada it's it's it's superb, like wonderful people in Canada.