Sheikh Nasir Ahmad was the victim of a drive-by shooting in Pakistan because he is from the Ahmadiyya community.
The targeting of the Ahmadis in Pakistan and elsewhere is as brutal as the persecution of infidels and apostates, because they are considered heretics in Islam, as is every Muslim group that doesn’t follow normative Islamic doctrine. Yet Ahmadis routinely missionize in the West by claiming that Islam is a religion of peace.
Ahmadis experience such horrific abuses as the digging-up of the body a three-day-old infant in Bangladesh and leaving her by the road because Ahmadis cannot be buried in Muslim cemeteries, to a mob attack on an Ahmadi funeral in Pakistan, during which the attacks beat mourners with sticks and threw stones at them. The attack was led by Muslim clerics.
No matter what human rights abuses are committed against “disbelievers,” it is deemed “Islamophobic” to call them out.
‘When the blood starts’: Spike in Ahmadi persecution in Pakistan,” Al Jazeera, July 26, 2021:
When the first bullet whizzed past Sheikh Nasir Ahmad’s ear, he brushed at it, thinking it was a mosquito, out on an unseasonably cool August night in the central Pakistani town of Lalamusa.
Before he was able to react, however, two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up alongside him and shot him four times, hitting his right leg, lower back and the right arm he used to try and shield himself from the hail of bullets.
“You don’t feel anything at that time [when you are shot],” Ahmad told Al Jazeera. “[The bullet] is hot as it leaves the barrel, so it’s when the blood starts that you realise that something has hit you.”
Security camera footage of the attack shows Ahmad falling to the ground as the gunmen speed away. He cried out for help, he says, but no one came.
“My clothes were completely covered in blood. The blood was soaked through my trousers.”
Ahmad is a member of Pakistan’s 500,000-strong Ahmaddiya [sic] community, a religious minority that considers itself Muslim but is barred from referring to themselves as such, and from practising aspects of their faith under Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws.
Police say Ahmad was targeted due to his faith, one of a spate of violent attacks targeting the Ahmadis, their places of worship and even their graves in Pakistan in 2020.
The last year has seen a spike in violent attacks against Ahmadis, and a tenfold increase in blasphemy cases lodged against them….
mortimer says
Isn’t CENSORSHIP of ‘Islamophobes’ wonderful? (sarc off) The first step in censorship is to take away the ability to complain about discrimination … then the real discrimination and persecution may begin!
In Pakistani law, Ahmadis are NOT classified as Muslims, in a similar way as most churches do not recognize Mormonism of Jehovah’s Witnesses as ‘Christian’.
Ahmadis may not self-identify as ‘Muslim’, thus they are kafirs who may be persecuted.
Our Western Leftards who are largely atheists or agnostics naively think they will be spared persecution from Muslims. Nothing could be further from the truth. Atheists are persecuted in Pakistan and a number have been assassinated in recent years in Bangladesh.
Those Leftarded allies of radical Islam don’t realize they are playing with fire when they support suppression of criticism of Islam. The fire is spreading through the roots. Eventually, the Muslims will come to persecute communists, atheists and agnostics as well. Don’t they know? Anyone who criticizes Islam will have a target on his back. The Muslims will eventually come for them with rocks, knives and fire-bombs.
Sam Harris and Bill Maher used to criticize Islam, but they have surely received enough death threats from Islamists to convince them to stop. Leftards who hide the violent, evil deeds from the public are merely promoting future preparing of atheists by Muslims.
Peter says
Threat would have more likely come from Corporate bosses who want to be one hundred percent politically correct!
PMK says
A tangential issue: Biden has named the first Muslim to be Ambassador-at-Large for international religious freedom. Since when do Muslims care about others’ religious freedom? Also, this man worked in the Obama White House and is closely linked to Muslim Brotherhood. Whose freedom will he promote?
http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/31/biden-names-first-muslim-as-ambassador-at-large-for-international-religious-freedom/
Infidel says
Absolutely great: he can now lecture countries like Israel, India, Burma and Sri Lanka about islamophobia while ignoring abuses in Pakistan, Turkey, Bangladesh, ‘Palestine’ and other muslim countries
Keith O says
If this wasn’t so serious it would be farcical.
gravenimage says
PMK, that story has now been covered here:
“Biden’s handlers’ new Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom is linked to Muslim Brotherhood”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/bidens-handlers-new-ambassador-at-large-for-international-religious-freedom-is-linked-to-muslim-brotherhood
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Pakistan needs an MLM (Muslim Lives Matter) organization. Then the leaders can pilfer all of the Go Fund Me money donated by virtue seeking foreign governments and corporations from which they can purchase lavish estates as does the head of the PLM (Palestinian Lives Matter), Mahmoud Abbas, and the heads of the ILM (Iranian Lives Matter), the mullahs of Iran.
The white supremacists in the West have a moral obligation to stamp out Muslim on Muslim racism!!
Infidel says
Please don’t give them any ideas! Islam already states that only muslim lives matter, whenever lives matter at all in the first place
gravenimage says
This isn’t new, I’m afraid…
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
+1 PMK. It sounds as absurd as having Russia and China as members of the UN Human Rights Council.
Infidel says
It’s worse. You’ll have a Muslim Brotherhood guy lecturing countries that have prosperous and growing muslim populations about islamophobia, while ignoring widespread abuses by muslim countries
Infidel says
An Ahmadiya named Ahmad? How cute! Reminds me of the ‘Boris and Doris’ couple in True Lies
Keith O says
This just shows that your garden variety mudslime doesn’t discriminate, they hate everyone equally.
Even other mudslimes.
It’s almost like a Monty Python skit, calling each other heretics.
Halaku says
Not only do the Ahmedis quickly become self-righteous flag bearers of Islam where ever they land, they were in forefront of the move to partition India and create a Pure Muslim Land – Pakistan in 1947. Really, do they deserve any sympathy at all?
Infidel says
No, and they are a gateway drug into islam. If Ahmadiya is pot, shi’a is cocaine and sunni is meth
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Sunni Muslims target Ahmadi in drive-by shooting amid spike in persecution of Ahmadis
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Yes, Ahmadis are considered “heretics” by orthodox Muslims. Their rejection of violent Jihad particularly makes them targets for Islamic violence…