Gunmen, suicide bombers, and all around terrorist thugs have attacked two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan earlier today. The mosques were located in the Ahmadiyya Muslim community; they are a group who are deemed misguided apostates by the Pakistani government.
At least 80 people have been murdered (120 injured) while attending salatul-jumah or Friday Prayer at their local mosques this afternoon. The attack is being documented as the most organized and vicious assault of Ahmadiyya followers ever in the country.
The United States state department spokesman Philip Crowley has stated, 'Washington condemns the "brutal violence against innocent people", which is good to know. He said nothing of the Taliban who is allegedly behind these deadly and unjust raids.
There is absolutely no place in Islam for such acts. Inarguably, this is haraam.
External Chair, Maha Salah-Ud-Din, of UM-Ann Arbor's Pakistani Students' Association has provided Examiner.com with the following statement: Our personal opinions about religion do not justify killing fellow human beings who do not have the same beliefs as we do. At a time when Pakistan is already in the spotlight and Muslims are already hated by the majority of the world, we have Muslims killing human beings in Mosques. Such actions are putting ourselves on a pedestal for the world to look at. This is very sad to hear and especially at a place where we are offering prayer. A few bad seeds do not speak for the whole bunch.
And to be 100 percent certain that such acts are forbidden, here is a clear and beautiful passage of the Holy Quran condemning killing/murder: “…if any one killed a person, it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind; and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole of mankind…” - The Holy Quran (Chapter Five, Verse 32).
Today's incident is a tragedy and a heinous crime against the teachings of Islam.
