Pakistan: Murder in the name of Prophet Muhammad

This suspected hate crime occurred a few days before the Khatm-e-Nabuwat conference in Pakistan, held by several Islamist organizations that believe in the values of Khatm-e-Nabuwat, a political organization that claims to protect the finality of Prophet Muhammad by promoting the murder of Ahmadis as a virtue.

File photo: An Ahmadi man seen morning after loosing loved ones during
the 28-May-2010 Lahore Ahmadi Massacre. 

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By Mohammad Ali Zafar | September 11, 2011

Naseem Ahmed Butt was fast asleep when gunmen jumped the walls around his home in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in the early morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 4.

Intent on killing Butt because he prescribed to Ahmadiyya — a Muslim-minority sect that has been labeled non-Muslim by Sunni clerics — the gunmen left Butt in a pool of blood after rupturing his kidney with one shot and another to his stomach. According to Butt’s brother, Khalid, the family was under constant threat of being killed due to their faith.

Butt succumbed to his wounds later in hospital, leaving behind his wife, three daughters and a son.


This suspected hate crime occurred a few days before the Khatm-e-Nabuwat conference in Pakistan, held by several Islamist organizations that believe in the values of Khatm-e-Nabuwat, a political organization that claims to protect the finality of Prophet Muhammad by promoting the murder of Ahmadis as a virtue.

All of this because of dogmatic differences between Ahmadi Muslims and the mainstream Sunni Muslims, the latter of which believe Muhammad is the last Prophet and there shall be no other after him.

Ahmadis see Muhammad as the last law-bearing prophet and believe Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India, came as the messiah prophesied in Islam and other faiths.

Due to this belief, Ahmadis have been persecuted across the Muslim world.

That persecution ramped up on Sept. 7, 1974, when the sect was legally deemed non-Muslim in Pakistan, a status that has prevented Ahmadis from performing any act that remotely resembles Muslims — whether it’s greeting anyone with a ‘salaam’ to offering the obligatory five daily prayers.  In doing so, Ahmadis face prison time and the death sentence.

Meanwhile, leaders at the Khatm-e-Nabuwat conference in Chiniot, Pakistan, concluded their three-day-long event by using inflammatory propaganda, stating “Ahmadis are part of a Jewish conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan and are responsible for sectarianism and terrorism in the country.”

Holding nearly 500 gatherings across the Pakistani state of Punjab this month, the Islamist group Khatme-e-Nabuwat has spread its hatred of Ahmadis to a majority of Pakistanis.

It’s no surprise that another Ahmadi man was critically injured on Sept. 7 after being shot outside of Lahore, Pakistan, on Khatm-e-Nabuwat Day, which celebrates the date Ahmadis were given a non-Muslim status.

What’s even more worrying is those who prescribe to the ideology of this Islamist group have settled in the West, with followers across North America and even an office in London.

Spread of the Khatm-e-Nabuwat into the West is a troublesome sign, one that should be addressed by Western leaders and lawmakers, as many members of the Ahmadiyya sect now call the West home after escaping persecution in their respective homelands.


Mohammad Ali Zafar is a Copy editor at Metro News, Canada.



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