For those who know that Ahmadis have been convenient targets of the Taliban's mass terrorists attacks, kidnappings, and target killings, the allegations and reactions sounded altogether bizarre.
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By Imran Jattala | December 25, 2014
On the heels of the Peshawar schoolchildren massacre in Pakistan, Geo TV’s Morning Show host, cleric-turned-televangelist, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, joined several of his invited clerics in spreading blatant sectarian hatred against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community on Monday.
As Aamir Liaquat cheered on, the clerics unashamedly spewed venom against the embattled Ahmadī minority community and the live studio audience broke into applause several times while the Ahmadis were repeatedly declared enemies of Pakistan.
Clerics took turns asserting Ahmadis were behind the Peshawar schoolchildren massacre and have a hand in Taliban activities.
‘We all may have our own lingering differences for years-on-end, but we collectively, as Muslims, do have a common enemy,’ said one of the clerics. ‘It’s Fitna-e Qadianiyyat (Qadiani mischief),’ he claimed.
‘hunnn (yeaaaah),’ nodded Aamir Liaquat approvingly, pretending to acknowledge as if there was something genuine in the clerics’ finding. The audience broke into applause.
“We should recognize that common enemy of ours instead of fighting among ourselves,” the cleric continued and Aamir Liaquat turned to the audience with raised hands and quickly led everyone in applause again.
For those who know that Ahmadis have been convenient targets of the Talibans’ mass terrorists attacks, kidnappings, and target killings, the allegations and reactions sounded altogether bizarre.
“If Ahmadis had to conspire about anything it would have been about saving our own skin,” said Anis Ahmad Chaudry of Southern California, who has lost his own brother to anti-Ahmadī terrorism in Pakistan. “What’s the benefit of a scheme that would only add to more Taliban terrorism against already beleaguered groups?” questioned Chaudry.
Social media site, Twitter was abuzz with surprised Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis commenting on the Geo TV's brazen disregard for the Ahmadi minority.
"If PEMRA had any teeth, if the govt had any spine & GEO had any conscience then a Aamer Liaquat & his Jaahil Online programme would be banned," tweeted Munir Khan pointing to a previous gaff by Aamir Liaquat.
This is not the first time for Geo TV to accommodate Aamir Liaquat’s anti-Ahmadī propaganda in their live broadcasts.
In 2008, two Ahmadis were gunned down in Nawabshah, Sindh, after the airing of a GEO TV episode, Aalim Online, where the host Aamir Liaquat had facilitated issuance of a fatwa calling for the murder of Ahmadīs -- because they were 'apostates' of Islam.
Finding Ahmadis convenient targets, Aamir Liaquat likes to issue random tirades against the community periodically. In his recent spat with Televangelist Junaid Jamshaid over blasphemy accusations against the later, Aamir Liaquat issued an online rant asserting that he finds Ahmadis as his only enemies.
For Ahmadis, however, Aamir Liaquat’s reason to connect them with the Junaid Jamshaid matter was unclear.
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Boy these thugs prove that in "Pakistani Islam" lies carry more weight than truth and consistency can only bother a dwindling number of decent folks in Pakistan. Here's a glimpse of what the Mullahs say: "As Aamir Liaquat cheered on, the clerics unashamedly spewed venom against the embattled Ahmadī minority community and the live studio audience broke into applause several times as the Ahmadis were repeatedly declared enemies of Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteClerics took turns asserting Ahmadis were behind the Peshawar schoolchildren massacre and have a hand in Taliban activities."
Now it is a fact that most of the Mullah organizations and a lot of Pakistani politicians have been siding with and aiding and abetting Taliban. In fact Mullah Abdul Aziz and many other clerics of the same ilk are adamant that Taliban are the force of Islam. (Fighting for Islam to kill Muslims.) In this environ, where is the chance for Ahmadis to get lovey dovey with Taliban? Let me remind the readers that Taliban killed nearly ninety Ahmadis on one Friday at two mosques in Lahore. But trouble is when it comes to Ahmadis Pakistani logic suffers a stroke and stops functioning and that's what the con artists like Aamir Liaquat thrive on.