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Pakistan: Muslim who murdered Ahmadi accused of blasphemy hailed as ‘hero,’ ‘Lion of Islam’

Jul 31, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Where is the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims condemning this murder and insisting that such killing is completely un-Islamic? Or are such displays only for the consumption of non-Muslims in the West?

An update on this story. “‘Hero’, ‘Ghazi’, Lion of Islam: Pakistani nationals hail man who murdered an elderly Ahmadiyya for committing ‘blasphemy,’” OpIndia, July 30, 2020:

The most shocking glorification of Khalid Khan came from a senior leader of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Haleem Adil Sheikh, one of the country’s leading politicians and the leader of ruling PTI changed his social media profile picture to that of the killer Khalid Khan.

The Islamists in Pakistan have turned Khalid Khan—the man who shot dead Tahir Ahmed Naseem, an accused in a blasphemy case, in a Peshawar courtroom earlier this week into a ‘hero’ as people took to social media to hail him as the ‘Lion of Islam’ for killing the ‘blasphemer’.

We had earlier reported regarding the brutal killing of Tahir Ahmed Naseem, who belonged to the minority Islamic sect of Ahmadiyyas. Naseem, who was facing a trial for ‘blasphemy’, was shot dead in front of the judge in a local court situated in a high-security zone in Pakistan’s Peshawar city on Wednesday. Naseem was on trial for ‘insulting’ the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. He was in jail since 2018.

Following the incident, the police arrested the killer Khalid Khan. The killer had reportedly confessed to the police that he had been ordered to carry out the killing by Muhammad because the accused had belonged to the Ahmadiyya faith.

However, shockingly, hours after the killing of Naseem, the killer Khalid Khan is now hailed as a hero by Pakistanis, claiming that he saved ‘Islam’. Many in Pakistan have been justifying Khalid Khan’s heinous crime as an act of bravery and hailing him as some sort of a ‘hero’ for killing an unarmed elderly man inside a courtroom.

Hailed as a hero for killing an unarmed elderly man

One social media users even referred to the killer as ‘Lion of Islam’.

Another Islamist from Pakistan praised the confidence and courage of killer Khalid Khan and prayed to Allah to ‘boost his courage’.

Some also hailed Khalid as ‘Ghazi’ for severing the head of a Qadiani and ‘putting a brake on the activities of Qadianis’. Qadiani is a religious slang used by Pakistanis to insult Ahmadiyyas, as Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of Ahmadiyya sect was born in Qadian.

Compared with others like him who had killed blasphemers in past

A Pakistani social media user Naeem went to an extent to compare Khalid Khan to various Islamic terrorists, who had unleashed similar terror in the past against people who had disagreed with certain aspects of Islam. The social media user compared Khan to the likes of terrorists such as Amir Cheema, Ilm-ud-din, etc…

The most shocking glorification of Khalid Khan came from a senior leader of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Haleem Adil Sheikh, one of the country’s leading politicians and the leader of ruling PTI changed his social media profile picture to that of the killer Khalid Khan. after he had shot an alleged blasphemer in court in Peshawar.

However, after social media outrage against Sheikh, the PTI leader from Sindh later said on Twitter, “This is to clarify, I personally don’t manage my Facebook accounts. This was posted without my knowledge or consent.”

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Filed Under: "Tiny Minority of Extremists", Ahmadis, blasphemy, Featured, Pakistan Tagged With: Khalid Khan, Tahir Ahmed Naseem


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  1. gravenimage says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    Pakistan: Muslim who murdered Ahmadi accused of blasphemy hailed as ‘hero,’ ‘Lion of Islam
    …………………………

    This is who Muslims consider a hero–a thug who kills an elderly man in a courtroom. Note that “Ghazi” is an honorific for Muslims who kill Infidels.

    More:

    Where is the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims condemning this murder and insisting that such killing is completely un-Islamic? Or are such displays only for the consumption of non-Muslims in the West?
    …………………………

    Good point. This is just Taqiyya for the West–in places like Pakistan deep in Dar-al-Islam, Muslims reveal what Islam is really like.

    • Mural says

      Jul 31, 2020 at 2:41 pm

      +1. Did not know that about the word ‘Ghari These morons even have a term for such a thing!

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 31, 2020 at 2:50 pm

        Yes–just appalling, Mural. Who else has a term for such a thing?

  2. Mural says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    With such ‘lions’ who attack an elderly, unarmed man, I wonder what the rest of the animal kingdom is capable of.

  3. James Lincoln says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    2020 US foreign aid to Pakistan: $438.37 Mn

    Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country

  4. Keith O says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 5:47 pm

    I used to think of Pakistan as an under developed nation with a history filled with wonderful culture.
    Now when I hear the name of this country a vision of a post apocalyptic war zone filled with jabbering rabid apes comes to mind.
    And this is what one F#*ked up belief system can do to what used to be sane, rational people.

    • Mural says

      Jul 31, 2020 at 9:45 pm

      Yup. This country split up from India because they wanted a Pure land ( Pakistan). Now, they are increasing the purity by killing Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and their own Shia and Ahmediya brethren.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 31, 2020 at 9:50 pm

        That’s the only kind of “purity” Pakistan has *ever* had.

        • Keith O says

          Aug 1, 2020 at 8:43 am

          GI, you mean other than pure Islamic insanity?

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 1, 2020 at 11:13 pm

          Yep.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 5:35 am

    Mohammed had the very elderly (120 year-old) unarmed man Abu Afak killed, so it must be all right, halal. Abu Afak had criticised Mohammed.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 11:14 pm

      Yes–he also had elderly woman Umm Qirfa torn apart by camels.

      Ugly, ugly stuff.

  6. Phil says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 8:43 am

    Nobody should play cricket with this barbaric country which glorifies murderers, let alone India. As another man said, without the death sentence for apostasy and blasphemy this disgusting religion would’ve died out ages ago. Death to Islam and boycott their followers.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 11:32 am

    Stop the islamic/muslim migration invasion around the world by cutting off entry to all muslims and islamic followers to non-muslim/islamic countries.

  8. John says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Islam is Muhamheads horror movie to humanity…rated m for murder.

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