The unthinkable has just happened in Pakistani Media. I have written in the past about our media making wrong use of the freedoms given to them and this incident is stark glaring in your face proof of what should never be allowed to happen “on air”
In a program aired on 7th of September 2008 called “Aalim Online” by Dr Aamir Liaqut Hussain as its anchor a religious fatwah or edict was issued terming the killing of Ahmadi sect members to be necessary (Wajib ul Qatal) according to Islamic teachings, because its followers don’t believe in the last prophet, Mohammad, peace be upon him. Dr. Amir repeated his instruction several times, urging fundamentalists Muslims to kill without fear.
While on air the anchor person also pressured the other two Islamic scholars (from two different sects) on the program to support the statement. This resulted in a unanimous decision among the scholars, on air during a popular television show, to urge lynching with the intent to kill. This was not a one-off. On September 9, Mr. Hussain answered a query with the comment that blasphemers are liable to be put to death.
According to the information received, at 1:15pm on September 8, 18 hours after the broadcast, six persons entered the Fazle Umer Clinic, a two-story hospital at Mirpur Khas city and two of them went to the second floor and started pressuring 45 year-old Dr. Abdul Manan Siddiqui to come downstairs to attend to a patient in crisis. Dr. Manan left his office and descended into an ambush. He was shot 11 times and died on the spot. His private guard was also shot and is in a serious condition. A woman was also injured by firing. The killers remained at the hospital until the doctor was declared dead, then they walked out of the building’s front entrance. Police registered the killers as unknown.
On September 9, 48 hours after the broadcast, Mr. Yousaf, a 75 year-old rice trader and district chief of the Ahmadi sect was killed on his way to prayer in Nawab Shah, Sindh province. Yousaf was fired on from people on motor bikes, and sustained three bullet wounds. He died on the way to the hospital. The assailants had taken a route past a police station. No one was arrested.
This is beyond murder this is the utter failure of our media and the programme in question should be immediately blocked, shut down and the anchor tried for accomplice to murder. This is utterly totally disgusting behavior and should be condemned by as many of us as possible!!!
I urge all my fellow Pakistanis to contact and make their voice heard at any and every level of information so that this despicable and bigoted anchor and his reprehensible actions can be brought to swift justice. He may claim that he is not directly responsible but the truth lies in the pudding so as to speak.
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Information by Asian Human Rights Commission
This guy is not even a qualified religious scholar. He is not Islamically qualified to give fatwas!! Truly a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Why don’t people use their common sense…plenty of people didn’t believe in the Prophet (PBUH)’s mandate in his lifetime, he never taught us to kill them.
This is true jaahiliyah masquerading as religious teaching!
Sometimes I wish for the Nov 3 emergency to have never ended and all these b**tards to still have been in their cages!
That is sickening!
I’d stopped watching his show long ago!
Doesn’t that moron realize the country is already on fire due to misguided ideologies?
I hear ya guys thats the whole point…do anything or say anything as long as u can get ratings and pocket that fat chek from yr media house.
This is why i think even at the pretext of sounding dramatic the onus is on us the people of pakistan who have the education and the recources to tell the world and our countrymen the real story….The one which does not need ratings or hate or hits or ads.
So much for the free media.
funny thing is…shakil-ur-rehman’s first wife was an ahmadi before she met him.
Aamir Liaqat is a walking talking idiot. I agree, he should be trialed for accomplice to murder and sent to jail for good. The world is better off without men like him who spread hate.
So the shows happen live? I mean don’t they edit and air it later?