By Liaquat Ali Khan, Founder, Legal Scholar Academy and Professor of Law
Huff Post: Small-minded versions of Islam have fanaticized Pakistan – an antediluvian land with deep interfaith roots leavened with the teachings of Hindu Swamis, Buddhist Monks, Sikh Gurus, and Muslim Sufis – into a ghastly country. Stories are frightening. Few days ago, a native Christian couple, accused of desecrating the Qur’an, was thrown into a brick kiln and burned alive while a crowd of over a thousand villagers participated in the rite. In 2010, two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore were attacked with guns and grenades, killing 94 people. Around 5000 Hindus leave the Sindh province of Pakistan every year as their holy books and temples are burnt. Hindu women are abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to the kidnappers. Non-Muslims are not the only victims of hateful fanaticism. Muslim on Muslim violence is also escalating as Shias kill Sunnis and Sunnis kill Shias.
Behind religious violence in Pakistan is the rise of Takfiri (تكفيري ) mindset, which sees Islam through a narrow keyhole of self-righteousness and accuses the world of apostasy.
Takfiri Mindset
Declaring others as deviants from “the one true divine path” is a universal phenomenon, found in all religions. In Islam, Takfiris are the self-appointed guardians of “true Islam.” Takfiris proclaim that Muslims who do not follow a specific version of Shariah are Kafirs (non-believers), and not Muslims. They oppose the spiritually generous viewpoint that many paths lead to God and that there could be honest diversity within the same religion. Militant Takfiris use violence to enforce “true Islam.” Ahmadis, Shias, and even Sufi-Sunnis are ambushed and killed because these groups, according to Takfiris, have corrupted “true Islam.” Sufi shrines are bombed as places set against Shariah.
Categories: Accepting Islam, Answers to Anti-Islam, Anti Islam act by Muslims, Asia
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