Imran Khan and the Anti-Ahmadiyya playbook

Source: http://blog.tehelka.com

During a match in the 1989 India-Pakistan cricket series, K Srikanth started protesting after he was declared out leg-before-the-wicket. Imran Khan, a tiger in the making, gave him a second chance and called him back to play. But Srikanth was caught behind on the very next ball. Then came the World Cup of 1992, where Imran flaunted a T-shirt with an image of a tiger and announced, “I want my team to play like a cornered tiger.” Over the next two decades, the word ‘tiger’ latched onto Imran so tightly that now even his supporters are called tigers.

Alas, on 1 May 2013, the tiger was spotted bleating like a sheep.

The pattern of events is straight out of the anti-Ahmadiyya playbook. A decent Pakistani forgets to treat Ahmadis with contempt, the religious hyenas attack that person’s loyalty to Pakistan and then a tiger – and in this case ‘The Tiger’ – sheepishly offers an apology while throwing an already beleaguered community under the bus.

On 23 March 2013, Pakistani journalists in UK had an audience with the worldwide leader of the Ahmadiyya community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad. Forty-two minutes into the conversation, a woman by the name of Nadia Ramzan Chaudhry made the political mistake of …read the rest @ blog.tehelka.com

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