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The Wrong Kind of Muslim
By Qasim Rashid
Out of the silent night, two men moved swiftly through the mosque’s front gate. All that separated a fully loaded Kalashnikov in the hands of a madman from 50 innocent worshippers was a straw curtain that hung helplessly in the doorway. “In the end, they killed eight of my brothers, and shot 20 more.” The two men belonged to a Taliban offshoot. The 50 innocent worshipers were Ahmadi Muslims. I listened silently as Yusef related the events of that ominous October day in 2005, in his hometown of Mong, Pakistan. In Pakistan, Ahmadi Muslims are the Wrong Kind of Muslims, and therefore declared wajib ul qatl.
Yet Pakistan’s silence was deafening.
And Mong was not the exception, but the rule. Not long after, eight Christians from Gojra, Pakistan would be burned alive on account of their faith. Wait until Maharram and Shiite Muslims become the national target of choice. If you are an atheist, you ostensibly don’t exist — and if you are street smart, you won’t exist in the public eye. Every day, another Hindu woman is kidnapped, raped and forcibly “converted” to Islam. Then on May 28, 2010, the Taliban returned to brutally murder another 86 Ahmadi Muslims, and one Christian — in broad daylight with police watching.
And Pakistan’s silence remained deafening.
But Pakistan was not always like this. My father, born just three years after Pakistan’s birth, tells me of a time when the dream of Pakistan was to give India’s persecuted Muslim minority the priceless opportunity to build the world’s greatest, most tolerant nation. Today, Pakistan endows Salman Taseer’s assassin as a hero and sentences the doctor who helped kill Osama bin Laden to 33 years in prison. My father tells about the time when millions flocked to Pakistan as the land of opportunity. Today, as one-third want to leave, Prime Minister Gilani callously retorts, “Why don’t they leave then, who is stopping them?”
My father reminds me when Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah specifically appointed non-Muslims to his cabinet to champion Pakistan’s pluralistic platform. Last year, Pakistan’s only non-Muslim federal Minister, a Christian named Shabazz Bhatti, was assassinated because he specifically championed Pakistan’s pluralistic platform. Likewise, Governor Salman Taseer was also brutally murdered.
Yet Pakistan remains silent.
I ask my father about Pakistan’s beautiful beginnings because they are things I have never seen. By the time I was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in the early ’80s, I was already a constitutional kafir (legally declared non-Muslim). I was a criminal by age 2 because uttering asalaamo alaikum to my father, while being a legally declared non-Muslim, was a crime. By age 4, I was liable to receive capital punishment from the Pakistani government simply for believing that Muhammad is only the greatest prophet, but not the last prophet. And for millions of Ahmadi Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Shias and atheists living in Pakistan, what began as state sanctioned persecution of the Wrong Kind of Muslims has now spread into an all out war against anyone not deemed the right kind of human.
We must remain silent no more.
My humble effort launches with my story, “The Wrong Kind of Muslim,” for which I am building a base on kickstarter.com (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1943913431/the-wrong-kind-of-muslim-an-untold-story-of-persec)
-My sincere hope is that this book gives voice to the millions who have had their voices ripped away — ripped away through terrorism, rape, burnings, unjust laws, an apartheid government and a silent majority. While the silenced suffer in deafening agony, I am striving to make their voices heard. And I hope you do not remain silent. A bigger Kalashnikov in response is not the answer. But, the voice of reason and compassion through the power of the pen is more powerful a weapon than any force on Earth can withstand. It won’t be long before another helpless curtain is all that remains between another madman with a Kalashnikov and dozens of innocent human beings. We can make sure it does not happen.
The author can be followed at his twitter account @ twitter.com/muslimiq
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Allah created pigs and langurs for the kafirs to reincarnate as and some of them you can find habitually lurking around and puking crap on this forum
Better to be born as pig or langur than as muslim. But that is not allah’s good deed. Nothing good can be ascribed to Mohammad’s god. All that he can bring forth are zombies and mental slaves (called muslims). Pigs and langurs will never be made into zombies or mental slaves.
@ AKB
You really are the weakest sort of troll on the internet. Other than useless jibes and constant re-posting of other people’s opinions and claiming those as facts, you really haven’t added anything to this entire conversation.
Instead of tearing down your “arguments” one by one i will ask but one question.
If YOU know ahmadis are not muslims and if “every muslim” knows ahmadis are not muslims… then how do you justify the constitutional discrimination and wanton violence perpetrated against them?
If the argument is that they are “misleading”… well then it’s quite clear that the “real muslims” really don;t have a very strong faith to begin with since they can be “fooled” by the “obvious” lies of the ahmadis.
If the argument is that they “ought to be punished for their blasphemy”…. well then good luck and i hope you enjoy your vengeance. It would certainly be a very “muslim” thing of you to do.
Anyhow i don;t think there is any point arguing with a person who has already shut his mind and spirit to reason and decency.
Allah is very powerful. He can transform humans into pigs and pigs into humans.
You lost me at “….India’s persecuted Muslim minority…….”.
When was the Muslim ‘minority’ persecuted in India? Is the fall of the last Mughal emperor the onset of this ‘persecution’? Or, is it the Hindus moving ahead with times by acquiring modern education leaving their Muslim co-citizens behind?
Why is it that only the Muslim ‘minority’ was persecuted, if at all? And, how is it that the Muslim ‘minority’ also kicked the Hindus’ asses in riots despite being a minority?
to milestogo
The association with allah, kuran and 7th century Arabia transforms muslims into rapists, thieves, fascists, liars, violence-glorifiers and the like. Otherwise they can become better human beings. This transformation into rapists, thieves, fascists, liars is illustrated by persons like AKB, tajender…
AHEM,……Following the Aryan invasion and their destruction of the great Indus civilisation (Semito-Dravidian) these barbarians plunged India into dark ages that were to last for 2500 years, from 1500 BC to 1000 AD, darker than the Ecclesiastical Dark Ages of Europe. Brahmanic Science during this period held that, and still holds that…
Flat Earth . The earth was universally held to be flat.
Earth-Serpent . The earth is supported by a 1000-headed serpent.
Wine Sea . The earth floats in a sea of wine.
Demonic Eclipses . 2 demons swallow the Earth and Moon, leading thereby to eclipses.
Trillion-Year-Old Universe . The universe is 26 trillion years old as per the numbers cooked up by some rishi.
700,000 mile Mt. Meru . Mt Meru is 100,000 times higher than Mt. Everest.
Dung Medicine .
Ayurvedic medicine contains urine and dung of various animals as ingredients.
Alcohol Universe . The universe is filled with alcohol.
Such beliefs existed amongst many primitive peoples, but not in the 10th century AD, and definitely not now, when institutes are set up in India to prove that many of the fallacies stated above are correct
Allah is very powerful. He can transform pigs into ahem and ahem into into human being.
to tajender
Allah is an arabic tribal fascist god-concept of the 7th century. It is gone and dead. The only things left of this god-concept are its fascism, violence, arab racism and lies. Making huge boasts and grand claims brings nothing. It only pushes you further down the path of deceit and self-deceit. All sociopolitical indicators in islam-based societies are pointing to this.