A shocking e-mail on Monday informed me of a Philadelphian murdered in Pakistan.

Habib Peer, 60, was a hardworking Pakistani American who had raised three children and run two businesses in the city. He considered himself a devout Muslim and was a leader in his Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Last week, he was shot dead by masked men in the southern Pakistani city of Sanghar, where he was helping the family of his brother - who had been murdered four years before.
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A Philadelphia man was murdered in Pakistan Thursday in what relatives say is a case of religious persecution.

Habibur Rehman came to Philadelphia from Pakistan 20 years ago. He raised a family and ran a newsstand in Germantown. But Rehman belonged to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a group that believes the long-awaited Messiah came to earth in the late 19th century. Jamal Elias, chairman of religious studies at Penn says the group is persecuted in Pakistan:

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