Source: blogs.tribune.com.pk
“The clerics tried to attack me at my office and later at the race course police station. The police were very supportive and didn’t let them touch me. Later, they surrounded the race course police station and tried to pressurise the police. Luckily, some of my friends came to my aid and they did whatever they could to make sure I get out of police station safely.”
He was freed from the police station in the wee hours of night, when the angry mob had dispersed. That day his life changed and he went into hiding along with his family. This is howMuhammad Shoaib Adil narrated his story.
That the space for liberal voices is shrinking in our society is a known fact. The brutal murder of human rights activist, Rashid Rehman, serves as a reminder that raising your voice can get you killed. As the state watches helplessly, more and more enlightened people are being targeted.
Muhammad Shoaib Adil is the editor of the liberal Urdu monthly Naya Zamana and is being hounded by fanatics, spewing venom against him on the basis of alleged ‘blasphemy’ charges.
He was picked up from his office on June 12, 2014, by the police, along with dozens of angry clerics who had filed complaints to register a blasphemy case against him. His crime: he published the autobiography of Muhammad Islam Bhatti, a former judge of the Lahore High Court who happened to be Ahmadi. Islam Bhatti and… read the rest at blogs.tribune.com.pk
Categories: Ahmadis And Pakistan, Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Asia, Islam, Pakistan
These mullas are doing all against the prophets. The prophet Jesus a.s. was stopped from preaching freely. The prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s. was stopped from preaching the message. He was stopped from preaching by the local Mullas of the mushrikeen i.e the polytheists of Makkah.
Why the ruling party and other law makers are not taking notice of all these acts of lawlessness.
There are bad laws. That is bad enough. But the street power to enforce those bad laws and to pressurize the police and courts is beyond any decency.