Ahmadiyya killings: Call for action against Aamir Liaquat Hussain and Geo TV – by Abdul Nishapuri
In the aftermath of blatant incitement to violence in a recent TV programme hosted by Aamir Liaquat Hussain, aired on Jang Group’s Geo TV, an Ahmadi have been target killed in Pakistan by fanatic Sunni and Deobandi Muslims.
On Aamir Liaquat’s morning show “Subh-e-Pakistan” aired on December 22, 2014, Sunni and Deobandi clerics accused Pakistan’s peaceful and persecuted Ahmadi community of backing terrorism in the country while the Shia cleric insensitively nodded to such hate speech. The Sunni and Deobandi clerics labelled Ahmadis as “Jewish agents” and traitors in this inflammatory segment. They urged Muslims to unite against and recognize this “root cause of terrorism” in the country. This is yet another blatant attempt by Geo TV/Jang Group to divert attention from Deobandi takfiri terrorists of Taliban (TTP) and Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ) and incite violence against persecuted communities.
It’s not the first time that Jang Group / Geo TV gave airtime to hate clerics who incite hatred and violence against Ahmadis, Shias, Christians and other persecuted communities. In the past, Aamir Liaquat (2008) and other Geo TV anchors including Hamid Mir, Najam Sethi and Saleem Safi have been regularly providing free air time to hate clerics namely Ludhyanvi, Fazl ur Rehman Khalil, Abdul Aziz, Mufti Naeem etc thus enabling massacres of more than 45,000 Sunni Sufis and Barelvis, 22,000 Shias and hundreds of Ahmadis and Christians.
We demand that Aamir Liaquat Hussain and all of those clerics who incited to violence against Ahmadis in his programme be arrested and prosecuted along with Mir Shakil ur Rehman (owner of Jang/Geo), Hamid Mir, Najam Sethi, Saleem Safi and other hate mongers and senior officials of the Geo TV network.
While Deobandi and Sunni Sufi clerics in Aamir Liaquat Hussain’s programme wrongly and dishonestly attributed the Deobandi TTP-ASWJ terrorism to Ahmadis and Jews, the Shia cleric’s insensitive nodding to such remarks was equally condemnable. Although the three points raised by the Shia cleric in that programme were not anti-Ahmadi per se, he should have clearly dissociated from the Deobandi and Sunni Barelvi clerics’ hate remarks against Ahmadis and Jews.
People who were directly involved in hate speech against Ahmadis:
– Hamza Ali Qadri
– Muhammad Arif Shah Awaisi
– Aamir Liaqat Hussain
People who appreciated the hate speech indirectly or remained silent were:
– Muft Imran ul Haq Kalyanvi
– Qari Usman
– Shabir Hussain Meethi
– Muhammad Younis Siddiqui
– Mir Shakil ur Rehman
This hate speech incited violence and resulted in the target killing of a 27 year old Ahmadi Luqman Shehzad in Gujranwala on 27 Dec 2014. It is the same city where more three Ahmadis including two minors and a woman were burnt alive by a Deobandi mob a few months ago and not a single perpetrator has been arrested and charged by the Shahbaz Sharif administration.
Register your protest and trend #TakeAmirLiaquatToCourt #BanGeoTV #NoMoreHateSpeech on Twitter and Facebook.
Also, please sign this online petition aganst Amir Liaqat and Geo TV for their HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE and VIOLENCE INCITING air time.
https://www.change.org/p/pemra-hold-geo-tv-aamir-liaquat-accountable-for-hate-speech
Link tp the programme :
https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=760044760738379&id=130730020336526
We suggest that the target killed Shias, Sunni Sufis, Ahmadis, Christians and other persecuted groups treat each other with respect and equality, support each other and refrain from disunity against each other and beware of Jang/Geo’s plan to deflect attention from takfiri Deobandi kharijites of TTP-ASWJ-LeJ who are killing not only Sunni Sufis and Shias but also Ahmadis, Christians, Hindus and other communities.
While we condemn those Sunni Sufis and Shias who hate Ahmadis, we also condemn two fake liberal Ahmadis namely Malik Omaid and Tahir Imran Mian who continue to flatter fake liberal elites such as Najam Sethi, Beena Sarwar, Sherry Rehman etc and are working on an agenda to sow disunity in persecuted communities and deflect attention from Deobandi takfiri terrorists and their fake liberal comrades.
Any Sunni Sufi, Shia, Ahmadi or Christian who is maligning each other’s sect helping the Deobandi plan to divert attention from TTP-ASWJ. Through the Aamir Liaquat Saga, Geo TV is tyring to divide momentum and focus on takfiri Deobandis. Victim communities must support, not attak each other. Ahmadis, Sunni Sufis, Shias, Christians etc may differ with each other but all of us must clealry condemn hate speech and incitement to violence against Ahmdis and all other sects and religions.
We loudly and clearly condemn murder of Ahmadis in Pakistan. We know the pain because we have lost 22,000 Shias and 45,000 Sunni Sufis at the hands of Deobandi takfiri terrorists.
We are sharing Geo TV Hamid Mir’s tweet as an exmple of how Deobandi Mafia/Geo Network wants to wedge differences among persecuted communities.
In plain words, Hamid Mir, the supporter of Deobandi ASWJ-TTP terrorists who killed more than 100 Ahmadis in Lahore and elsewhere and 22,000 Shias across Pakistan, is saying that: let my friends kill Ahmadis while they also continue to massacre Shias, Sunni Sufis, Barelvis and Christians.
This hypocrisy reminds us of some bigots who want us to treat Ahmadis as lesser equal than Shias and Sunnis. All mazlooms (opppressed) are equal and must unite against takfiri Deobandi terrorism.
We urge Pakistanis living in North America, Europe, Australia etc to lodge formal and legal complaints against Geo TV and its owners.
Extracts from: Taliban are Zaliman, CFRM etc
Petitioning Chairman PEMRA
This petition will be delivered to:
Chairman
PEMRA
Hold GEO TV & Aamir Liaquat Accountable for Hate Speech
Nazish Ahmad
United States
Dear Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (PEMRA),
On Aamir Liaquat’s morning show “Subh-e-Pakistan” aired on December 22 on Pakistan’s GEO TV, a panel of clerics (Mullahs) falsely accused Pakistan’s peaceful, patriotic and already persecuted Ahmadi community of backing terrorism in the country. They labelled Ahmadis “Jewish agents” and defamed them as traitors of the State. The Mullahs on the panel urged Pakistanis to let go of their differences and unite against the “qadianis” – the “root cause of terrorism” in the country.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=760044760738379&set=vb.130730020336526&type=2&theater
It must be remembered that Aamir Liaquat promoted similar anti-Ahmadi hate speech from his GEO TV show in September 2008 as well. Three prominent Ahmadi leaders were gunned down within two days of that broadcast. Neither Geo TV nor Mr. Liaquat ever apologized despite their clear role in incitement of this anti-Ahmadi violence.
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/world/asia/a-star-televangelist-in-pakistan-divides-then-repents.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 ;
Six years have passed since. We must not wait for dead bodies to pile up this time. GEO TV and Mr. Liaquat must be held accountable for inflammatory hate speech and incitement to violence against fellow Pakistanis.
We urge you to look into this issue immediately and take action against those exploiting the media to flan the flames of divisiveness and sectarianism. PEMRA can and must play its due role in our war against extremism by ensuring that the ideological weapons of this war – rampant hate speech and stigmatization of minorities – is checked, and punished.
Sincerely,
– Responsible Citizens of Pakistan
https://www.change.org/p/pemra-hold-geo-tv-aamir-liaquat-accountable-for-hate-speech
Hats off to LUBP. Country is not void of honest and courageous people who call cat a cat. Some how or other this so called Dr again and again finds place to ignite the hatred amongst Pakistanis. Do not get distracted by Hamid Mir. He is also the second side of same coin. Ahamdies do not react vilently but tell to this Dr and HM that all innocents are protected by God Almighty and when stick of God moves then such people do not get place to hide. Both were warned by the Almighty in the past but failed to learn lessons. One can only wait and see how now Nature acts if both do not repent their follies.
We are so arrogant and ignorant and donot learn from history.What happened in PESHAWAR is the direct result of Ahmadiyya Ammendment in 1974. Mullahs are loose cannon for 40 years and Pakistan is suffering. I think it was decided in NAP meeting to protect minorities. What a protection? These killers should be hanged in open and should be a lesson for generations to come.Whre is Ijaz ul Haq s/o Ziaulhaq. Zia ul Haq named his son IJAZ after his best friend, an AHMADI friend IJAZ AHMD KHAN . They both did staff college togeather in QUETTA. Pakistan, the CAPITOL OF HYPOCRITES.
Deobandi liberals are wrongly implicating Shia cleric in this. Some Ahmadis too have fallen in the same trap.
They (Deobandis and fake liberals) are wrongly implicating Shia cleric in this episode. None of the Shia cleric’s three points was against Ahmadis. His one sentence (“I agree fully”) could have been worded better but that’s a common way of speech in a conversation.
Shia cleric Shabbir Hasan did not say that I agree that Ahmadis and Jews are behind terrorism. He said that I agree that every one should unite to celeberate Eid Milad un Nabi and that the Great Satan is behind terrorism.
LUDP is a Shia, Sunni Barelvi propaganda blog. They are killing Deobandis and Ahmadis in Pakistan.
When LUBP highlighted and condemned the Anti-Ahmadi bigotry of powerful Deobandi cleric, Tahir Ashrafi, where were these so-called liberals? I will tell you. Must of them were egging on Tahir Ashrafi as he issued threat after threat to intimidate and harass LUBP. Most, if not all, of the same activists who are condemning Aamir Liaquat-WHERE WERE THEY WHEN TAHIR ASHRAFI WAS SAYING WORSE THINGS AND AHMADIS WERE BEING KILLED??? So anti-Ahmadi and Anti-Shia bigotry by Tahir Ashrafi is kosher but same by Aamir Liaquat is condemnable. This is hypocrisy. Bigotry is bigotry.
And how are the criminals who are killing Ahmadis. In past instances, the killers ALL belonged to ASWJ-LeJ-Sipah Sahaba.
Why is there no condemnation for this Deobandi terrorist organisation?
Please name one Shia or one Sunni Barelvi who has been involved in militancy against Ahmadis.
One must condemn bigotry against Ahmadis. But selective condemnation is even worse.
If you think one of your person was killed by Muslims bcos some fame seeking tv host said something about you people then you are most idiot stupid morom Qadiani I’ve ever seen on social media…
In the past years in Pakistan almost fifty thousand Muslims including Muslim scholars Shias and Sunnis have been killed due to the violence in that country, A Muslim shrine was bombed in Lahore, thousands of places in Pakistan were targetted by terrorists and those thousands of places were not places of your lot but were all Muslims, now can we say that fifty thousand Muslims were killed by your people because if we don;t believe in the claims of Mirza Ghhulam Qadiani the founder and JESUS of the Ahmadiyya cult then we are not Muslims?
You peole are killed by your own hitmans when ever they open their mouths against your corrupt conning cult leadership which is a fact you can never deny. We can prove that Mirza Masroor your present so called spiritual leader ordered the ki;ling of many Ahmadis who were planing to l;eave the cult specially in the last decade. Mirza Masroor found it very easy to get his opponent Ahmadis killed then blame it on the Muslim becaue it is easy for him to hide his dirty work behind the fog of terrorism in Pakistan.
People are not stupid its you who think the world is stupid and your cunning evil cult is smart..
@daggers of truth – i think it shud be called daggers on truth. Anyways, blaming does not prove anything. Ahmadies are already blamed for everything wrong. You are also blaming directly their leader, so why dont you simply go to UK Police or at least to Punjab police?
How ahmadiyya cult kills it’s own people:
https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=s2_ghAi-bsE&lc=I8bpGphAXyS0mN3wkmKQwtmHe97kFtI8Pfp-k801sXk
The welcomed launch of the 20 point National Anti-Terrorism Plan must show action on these points, in particular:
“Strict actions against culprits involved in spreading extremism, sectarian and terrorism violence.”
“Ensuring security of minorities in the country via uprooting extremism and terrorism.”
These resonate especially in the light of the broadcast by Geo TV of the programme hosted by Aamir Liaqat on 22 December 2014 (subha pakistan) in which along with four other Mullahs, incitement to hatred of the minority Ahmadi community, was promoted. Referring to them as a ‘fitna’, accusing the group of being behind the attacks in Peshawar, despite their being extremist claimants to the attacks, and labelling them as the ‘enemies of Pakistan’. Encouraged and applauded by Liaqat, this broadcast, was a direct affront to the above parts of the plan, against the mood of the nation – against promoting hatred and divisions amongst ordinary law abiding citizens.
On 27th December in Gujaranwala, a young Ahmadi was shot in the back of the head, a brutal act of murder, in which such incitement played its part; stirring hatred, dehumanising the victim. The very acts of Peshawar, and countless others.
Geo, Aamir Liaqat and those who part took in this show should be brought to task, if nothing else this programme was a direct affront to these two aspects of the national Plan, if not to all of it.
Today if action is taken against such acts, it sends a resounding and powerful message to those who rule the airwaves, that they have a duty of responsibility to all citizens in Pakistan, in what they say, do and are accountable for what they incite.
The safety and well being of all can so easily be breached, by the prejudices and pronouncements of a few, for whom a platform has been given, to undermine the re instigation of humanity ‘insanyaat’.
Do not let them and others like them hijack all efforts for restoring peace and humanity in Pakistan, please make Geo, Liaqat and the Mullahs an example to others of the determination of the nation.
Well said Saeed, for too long Pakistan’s politics and religious pronouncements have been selectively silent on the plight of minorities, Ahmadi’s especially, for fear of mullah reprisals. With Nazi’isc undertones, Ahmadi’s have been dehumanised to the point where any acts, be it the Lahore Mosque massacre, where hundreds were killed, or the recent burning of a grandmother and her grandchildren in font of crowds, police onlooking, in Gujranwala, go unnoticed, with no witnesses or efforts to apprehend the perpetrators.
When humanity leaves the very echelons of a society, enshrined by unjust laws and a constitution, which desecrates basic human rights…. These times are inevitable, inhumanity knows no boundaries.
Aamir Liaquat and some other Mullah’s are creating hate against Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Islam never allows anyone to disturb and kill as the mullahs are doing in the name of Islam. Ahmadiyya is a peaceful sect of Islam which is preaching Islam all over the world and motivates people to follow the true teachings of the Holy Quran and Holy Prophet (SAW). Mullah like Aamir Liaquat should be punished so that they can do terrorist activities in the society.
Thanks Adila Ahmad for a wonderful comments made against so called Islamic thinkers. In fact it is a group of Aamir Liaqat for which Pakistan is now under the umbrella of extremists. There is a dire need to take proper actions against these Mullahs otherwise mass people will have to suffer.
amir bhai ap ne marey dil ki awaz uthai hay ary tex k naam per logo ko dhoka aur frad laga rahey hain inaam dana hay tu is tara do main ap ka shukria ada karna chaht a hon aur ap k saath mil kar awaz uthana chahta hon mujey ap key morning show main ana hey aur kuch batana hey lekan main lahore main hon ap karachi main??????????????????????????????
Ahmadiyya members are peacefully preaching the Islam of Holy Prophet (SAW) all over the world. Over 260 million members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are the real and true lover of Holy Prophet (SAW) and they are building Mosques and they have their mission house in more than 208 countries of the world. Mullahs being zealous are persecuting the peaceful Ahmadiyya members.