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The questions nobody wants to ask about Asad Shah’s murderOn Maundy Thursday a Muslim shopkeeper in Glasgow was brutally murdered. Forty-year-old Asad Shah was allegedly stabbed in the head with a kitchen knife and then stamped upon. Most of the UK press began by going big on this story and referring to it as an act of ‘religious hatred’, comfortably leaving readers with the distinct feeling that – post-Brussels – the Muslim shopkeeper must have been killed by an ‘Islamophobe’. Had that been the case, by now the press would be crawling over every view the killer had ever held and every Facebook connection he had ever made. They would be asking why he had done it and investigating every one of his associates.But it then appeared that although the Asad Shah murder was being treated by police as ‘religiously motivated’ the suspected killer might in fact have been another Muslim and that, it was speculated, there might also have been a connection with a message on Facebook in which Mr Shah wished a very happy Easter to his ‘beloved Christian nation’ and suggesting people follow in ‘The Real Footstep of Beloved Holy Jesus Christ’.
Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya (Ahmadi), a member of – against some stiff competition – one of the most persecuted sects within Islam. Persecution against them in Pakistan and elsewhere around the Islamic world is rife. Yet despite that (or perhaps for that very reason) they are probably the most peaceable and indeed admirable sect within Islam. Among other things, Ahmadiyya Muslims formally reject the concept of Jihad that other schools cling to. In Britain whenever there is a vaguely positive news story about Islam it almost invariably involves Ahmadi Muslims. Remember the bus adverts a few years back saying that Islam had ‘love for all, hatred for none’. That was paid for by Ahmadiyya Muslims. Remember the stories of a Muslim group not burning poppies but actually selling them for the Royal British Legion? Ahmadiyyas again.
As Douglas Murray points out, the real questions behind this man's murder will not be asked.
Why are some Muslims persecuting Muslim minorities? What can we do as a country to help fix it? Will the police take as seriously anti-Ahmadi bigotry as seriously as they do anti-Muslim hatred and threats? (The police didn't lift a finger when it came to the leader of Glasgow Central Mosque praising the murderer of a "blasphemer" in Pakistan, but jumped on a non-Muslim moron who referred to a Muslim woman as a "towelhead" on Twitter.)
This is our reality now. In allowing mass Muslim immigration, what were previously the problems of Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia and India are now our problems. Now that we have allowed it, though, we must deal with these issues as they arise as best we can and make sure everyone is safe and the bad guys are dealt with.
01 Apr 2016, 5:06 am
