Then in the West, Shia and Ahmadi leaders work with those who would persecute and victimize them in Pakistan.
“Pakistan: State patronage propels Sunni groups to target Shias, Ahmadis,” ANI, September 18, 2022:
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Sectarian violence in Pakistan is on the rise as Sunni groups are threatening Shias, Ahmadis and non-Muslim minorities under the state patronage.
The Sunni groups enjoy support from the military and political leadership, reported International Forum for Right and Security (IFFRAS).
Although the phenomenon has been known to many, especially the military, there has been a clampdown on the media in reporting such a trend.
In 2020, well-known defence analyst, Dr Ayesha Siddiqa wrote about the revival of sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shias in Karachi and other urban centres in Sindh and Punjab. She pointed out that Pakistan has reportedly witnessed the killing of approximately 4,847 Shias in incidents of sectarian violence between 2001 and 2018, reported IFFRAS.
Two years later, a well-known international policy think tank, the International Crisis Group (ICG) in its latest report on sectarian violence in Pakistan, warned of “the rise of a local Islamic State franchise and the growing influence of a hard-line and violent protest movement known as ‘Labaik’ that draws support mostly from Pakistan’s Barelvi majority.”
The “Labaik” is the hardline Barelvi group, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which has been on the rise for the past few years, especially during the Imran Khan regime, reported IFFRAS.
The ICG report, published in early September this year, pointed out that these new groups, though different in many ways, were responsible for some of the country’s worst inter-communal bloodshed in recent years.
The report warned that “Muslim minorities, particularly Shias, are deeply vulnerable. Vigilantism is dangerous as hardliners mobilise around allegations of blasphemy to gain political clout.”…
Raja says
After the passing of Mohamed his followers fought each other over booty or “patent”. They are still fighting each other. They only fight to finish off each other.
Yet islam is a great religion/sarc off
tim gallagher says
I suppose I must be too intolerant, but I keep seeing photos of these knuckle draggers, these throwbacks that islam produces, like those shitheads in that photo and I keep thinking, hey, it’s 2022 and look at these primitive looking clowns. Same with those covered up women. 2022 and islam produces these things from 7th century Arabia. islam has to go. It is nothing but a disgusting throwback to primitive times that is holding back the human race with its barbaric rubbish..
Infidel says
Actually, when I read about Pakistan persecuting Ahmadiyas and Shi’as, I just yawn. It’s not like either of those communities support religious plurality. In fact, this term ‘islamophobia’ is an invention of the Ahmadiyas, not the sunnis, as one might think
somehistory says
mozlums of any sect want the rest of us dead. It’s difficult to care when they are fighting and killing each other. The only sad part for me is that they are killing little kids.
Raja says
Somehistory,
Death mandated by islam to Kuffar can be hastened if the mullah and most of islam deem it fit to go in for the genocide at “appropriate time” as it happened in Kashmir in 1990’s. So actually it is the mullahs who “feel pulse of Satan or promptings from Satan for appropriate time” . It can be worse when the kings/authorities are in full agreement with the mullahs, like in case of Azerbaijan et al. Unfortunately the state and the ummah overlap each other so it becomes double edged sword for islam and living hell for Kuffar.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: State patronage propels Sunni jihadis to target Shias, Ahmadis
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When Muslims run out of Infidels they turn on each other.