Submitted by Sadhasiv (United States), May 14, 2008 at 08:44
Islamists (both Shia and Sunni) hate:
- Hindus
- Christians
- other declared non-Muslims
- Sufis (sect of Islam concerned more with prayers than violence)
- Ahmadiyas, a subsect of Sunnis, founded in Sub-continent around 1900; forbidden by Pakistani law since 1980 from calling themselves "Muslim" despite of--or perhaps due to--their contributions to the country which exceed proportionally those of Shias and non-Ahmadiya Sunnis:
- Pakistan would have lost Kashmir dispute if Nehru had decided to use brute-force, rather than taking it to Useless Numpties, which could be bamboozled by Pakistan's then Foreign Minister Zafarullah Khan, an Ahmadiya
- Original commander of Pakistan's 1965 "Operation Grand Slam" was Akhtar Malik; he was removed from command while the operation was ongoing, which certainly was a contributing factor to Pakistan's getting repulsed by an unprepared India
- Only Nobel Prize awarded to anyone declaring nationality as Pakistani was in 1979 to Sahiwal-born physicist Abdus Salaam, an Ahmadiya--who was disallowed from returning home afterwards, until his 1996 passing in Oxford (though he WAS allowed burial)***
- Many military personnel of Pakistan were prosecuted for "apostacy" when their ID cards were changed from "Muslim" to "Ahmadiya"--of course, they had been Ahmadiyas all along, and this was result of the war-criminal dictator's "Islamisation" plan
- Bahais, a subsect of Shias, treated in Iran in manner similar to Ahmadiyas in Pakistan
- Druze, subsect of Shias found mostly in Lebanon, Syria and Holy Land
- Any Muslims of the "other" sect
- Even Muslims of own sect, deemed "not devout enough"
- Other Muslims by convenience--as evicenced in:
- Pakistan's 1971 "Operation Searchlight" which led to the murder of 2.3 million mostly-Sunni Bengali Muslims
- Judicial murders of about 50,000 political prisoners (almost cent-percent Shia) by Khomeini's regime 1986-1988
- Current Darfur crisis (Darfur's population is almost cent-percent Muslim)
***While Subhramanian Chandrashekhar was born in Lahore in 1908, his nationality was originally declared as Indian--and at the time of his Nobel win (1983) American; he was
never considered a Pakistani.
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