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Eugene

(61,819 posts) Sat Dec 27, 2014, 07:27 PM Dec 2014

Man from Ahmadi religious minority killed in Pakistan after Muslim leader calls them 'enemy'

Source: Reuters

Man from Ahmadi religious minority killed in Pakistan after Muslim leader calls them 'enemy'

ISLAMABAD Sat Dec 27, 2014 2:21pm EST

(Reuters) - Gunmen in eastern Pakistan shot dead a member of the Ahmadi religious minority on Saturday, an Ahmadi spokesman said, five days after a Muslim leader denounced Ahmadis on a popular Pakistani television talk show.

Luqman Ahmad Shehzad was shot in the back of the head near Bhiri Shah Rehman village, a small community of Ahmadis in the Gujranwala district, said Saleem ud Din, the spokesman.

He is the eleventh person killed for being Ahmadi in Pakistan this year. Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim but believe that a prophet came after the Prophet Mohammed, who in Islam is revered as the last of God's messengers.

In 1984, a Pakistani law declared them non-Muslims and made it possible to jail Ahmadis for "posing as a Muslim" or "offending a Muslim's feelings".

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Igel

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1. "Offending a Muslim's feelings."

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Sun Dec 28, 2014, 03:19 PM

Dec 2014

'In 1984, a Pakistani law declared them non-Muslims and made it possible to jail Ahmadis for "posing as a Muslim" or "offending a Muslim's feelings"'

I've seen this kind of attitude around here fairly often. What offends a groups feelings must be made illegal and punished because their feelings are exquisitely sensitive and authentic. Even as they're intentionally offensive.

It all boils down to "us versus them" at its most hypocritical. Except they see it entirely as right versus wrong, because they can only be right, and what's wrong should be punished.

As soon as you adopt that POV, you've created a great impetus for a person's feelings to become exquisitely, amazingly sensitive and to stay perpetually raw. It makes them feel hyper-righteous in their hypervigilance, as they pronounce judgment on everything around them.

Meh. What can you do with primates?

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