Re: Mob loots, torches Christian colony in Lahore
Just 30 years? The anti Ahmadi riots in Lahore occurred in 1953 i believe.
See, that's the problem. Pakistanis ask where this menace came from? We hear quite a bit about sectarianism now a days but most consider it to be a recent phenomena. Well it's not.
It was nurtured by the government against the Ahmadis in order to please the Mullahs. Ahmadi leaders are on record telling the government that this menace that they were encouraging against the Ahmadis would not remain contained. The mullah would never be happy. They would keep demanding that the next kafir be taught a lesson.
Ponder over the following quote:
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"The Vice-Chancellor of a Pakistani University said to me recently that when he asked a great Mullah and eminent scholar
who had only recently migrated to Pakistan after much
vacillation and calculation—as to his opinion about a certain
Islamic sect, he gave the fatwa that those among them who are of
ghali, or extremists, must be put to death, and those who are not
ghali, are liable to be punished. Then I asked about another sect
which has numerous millionaire businessmen. He replied: all
members of that sect are worthy of being put to death. It was the
same scholar who was in the vanguard of those thirty, or thirtytwo, ulema—and he was their prime-mover—who laid it down
as mandatory, in their proposed Islamic Constitution that: every
Islamic sect must be given recognition, with the exception of
only one sect which must be considered outside the pale of
Islam. Of course, they too deserve death but this is to be
explicitly decided later. When the appropriate time comes we
will deal with them accordingly.
Another scholar, among the aforementioned group, stated: so far we have initiated Jehad in the path of Allah, only against one sect. After attaining success in this venture, Insha Allah (God willing) we shall turn to making
short work of others."
[Iqbal aur Mullah, p. 9, by Dr. Khalifa Abdul Hakeem, M.A.,
Ph.D.; Published by: Bazm-e-Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan]
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Also:
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When Mr. Justice Muhammad Munir asked various Muslim divines to define a Muslim, during the 1953 Enquiry, no two divines could unfortunately agree on any single definition. Mr. Justice Muhammad Munir regretfully observed:
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Keeping in view the several definitions given by ulama, need
we make any comment except that no two learned divines are agreed on this fundamental. If we attempt our own definition as each learned divine has one and that definition differs from that given by all others, we unanimously go out of the fold of Islam. And if we adopt the definition given by any one of the ulama, we remain Muslims according to the view of that alim but kaafirs according to the definition of everyone else.
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The conclusion reached by Mr. Justice Muhammad Munir clearly
establishes the fact that up to the time when this Judicial Enquiry
Report was being prepared, there had never existed any
consensus on the definition of a Muslim which might find
corroboration with view held by the earlier saints of Islam.
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