Source: The Guardian
Prominent members of Glasgow’s Muslim community have called for calm and solidarity following the fatal stabbing of a shopkeeper whose messages of interfaith harmony united his multicultural community.
Police have confirmed that the man arrested in connection with Thursday evening’s killing – which is being treated as “religiously prejudiced” – was also a Muslim.
Following the revelation, Humza Yousaf, the Scottish government’s only Muslim minister, immediately responded in a tweet: “No ifs, no buts, no living in denial – vile cancer of sectarianism needs stamped out wherever it exists – including amongst Muslims.”
Asad Shah, whose final Facebook update, posted a few hours before his death, offered Easter greetings “to my beloved Christian nation”, was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
This minority Muslim group faces persecution – most recently in Pakistan and Indonesia – and is treated with open hostility by many orthodox Muslims.
Shah was discovered with serious injuries outside his newsagent shop in the Shawlands area of Glasgow, a few miles south of the city centre, just after 9pm on Thursday. He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police Scotland announced on Friday evening that a 32-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the death, and that they were treating the attack as “religiously prejudiced”.
Aamer Anwar, the human rights lawyer and one of Scotland’s most prominent advocates for reform within the Muslim community, said faith leaders needed to “step up” and speak out publicly against all forms of religious sectarianism.
Anwar said: “In a city like Glasgow, we have known for too long what hate crime and sectarianism means. We do not want to see the importing of sectarian bigotry and hatred from Pakistan to the UK.
Categories: Europe, Hate Crime, Islam, The Muslim Times, UK
Get the heck out of EU, this is a prime example why multicultural with Muslims does not work. Even though this Muslim is what u would call a more peaceful Muslim, and dies not follow pedophile Mohammad to the letter of war, his killer did.
Next it will be a Christian. Like Pakistan on Easter, it could be during an Easter egg hunt in u.k.
What will your Cameron say then? What will your liberal PC protesters say then..
Take it? All part of life with Muslims?
They r fundamentally brain washed in a cult called a religion
I have read that this shopkeeper had been making claims that he was in fact a prophet and that this is why he was killed. His particular sect of islam is apparently replete with prophets.
It will be interesting to see how this story develops.
I think one thing is clear that a khatm e nabuwati has killed this guys; as khatm e nabuwatis often do kill innocent people. Funny that you missed this important point and went straight to prophets. Well I guess this khatm e nabuwati will get what he deserves. It is not Pakistan you know where kahtm e nabuwatis can get away literally with murder .
https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-don-t-let-asad-shah-die-in-vain-ban-hate-organisation-khatme-nabuwat