Pakistan: “You are a Qadiani, I am going to kill you”

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These attempts at killing Ahmadis are getting more and more common because of the openness of the hate messages published on Ahmadis.

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By Mahrukh Arif | January 27, 2014

Here we go again. Only two weeks ago, the whole Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was mourning the death of the young Arsalan Sarwar – a 17 year old ahmadi muslim, killed by unknown people on the birthday of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad (peace be upon him), as he was helping his Sunni muslims friends decorating the street (Rawalpindi, Pakistan). Another news, reported by Ahmadiyya Times – an independently run website that does not claim to represent the official views of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – said that another young Ahmadi has been attacked on this 23rd january.

The young ahmadi man went to work at 11 o’clock as usual but on that day a bearded man was sitting outside the store and waited for him to come in. As he came, the bearded man entered, he told the non Ahmadi co-worker not to work with Ahmadis as they are infidels and told him to get out of the shop. Ahmadiyya Times relate the information : “As the co-worker ran out, the mullah took out a dagger and proceeded to attack the Ahmadi youngster on his neck saying “You are a Qadiani, I am going to kill you.” The youngster fought the attacker trying to stop the knife with his bare hands and received several wounds.The boy succeeded in running out of the shop and took safety in a nearby store. The mullah immediately escaped with another person on a motorcycle.”

These attempts at killing Ahmadis are getting more and more common because of the openness of the hate messages published on Ahmadis. Several people regularly post pictures of shops who refuse to sell anything to “Qadianis” – a derogatory term used to refer to Ahmadi Muslims – unless they accept Islam and reject Ahmadiyya on Twitter to spread awareness. Posters allowing and encouraging to kill Ahmadis are openly displayed in streets.

Facing all these attacks and persecutions, the Ahmadis never showed any sign of violence. Even after two of their mosques were attacked in Lahore by Talibans on the 28th may 2010 – referred as the “Lahore Massacre” – they didn’t vehicule any hate message, nor did they ask for anything from the Pakistani government. They have always maintained that they only rely on God. In the meantime, no justice was ever done for the victims of this inhuman and unjustified attack.

The great founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who dreamt of a secular state, who once stated in one of his most famous speech ” You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State” must be turning over in his grave seeing how utterly extremist and intolerent his country has become.

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