On the heels of the Peshawar schoolchildren massacre in Pakistan, Geo TV’s Morning Show host, cleric-turned-televangelist, Aamir Liaquat Hussain, joined several of his invited clerics in spreading blatant sectarian hatred against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community on Thursday.
As Aamir Liaquat cheered on, the clerics unashamedly spewed venom against the embattled Ahmadī minority community and the live studio audience broke into applause several times while the Ahmadis were repeatedly declared enemies of Pakistan.
Clerics took turns asserting Ahmadis were behind the Peshawar schoolchildren massacre and have a hand in Taliban activities.
‘We all may have our own lingering differences for years-on-end, but we collectively, as Muslims, do have a common enemy,’ said one of the clerics. ‘It’s Fitna-e Qadianiyyat (Qadiani mischief),’ he claimed.
‘hunnn (yeaaaah),’ nodded Aamir Liaquat approvingly, pretending to acknowledge as if there was something genuine in the clerics’ finding. The audience broke into applause.
“We should recognize that common enemy of ours instead of fighting among ourselves,” the cleric continued and Aamir Liaquat turned to the audience with raised hands and quickly led everyone in applause again.
For those who know that Ahmadis have been convenient targets of the Talibans’ mass terrorists attacks, kidnappings, and target killings, the allegations and reactions sounded altogether bizarre.
“If Ahmadis had to conspire about anything it would have been about saving our own skin,” said Anis Ahmad Chaudry of Southern California, who has lost his own brother to anti-Ahmadī terrorism in Pakistan. “What’s the benefit of a scheme that would only add to more Taliban terrorism against already beleaguered groups?” questioned Chaudry.
Social media site, Twitter was abuzz with surprised Ahmadis and non-Ahmadis commenting on the Geo TV's brazen disregard for the Ahmadi minority.
"If PEMRA had any teeth, if the govt had any spine & GEO had any conscience then a Aamer Liaquat & his Jaahil Online programme would be banned," tweeted Munir Khan pointing to a previous gaff by Aamir Liaquat.
This is not the first time for Geo TV to accommodate Aamir Liaquat’s anti-Ahmadī propaganda in their live broadcasts.
In 2008, two Ahmadis were gunned down in Nawabshah, Sindh, after the airing of a GEO TV episode, Aalim Online, where the host Aamir Liaquat had facilitated issuance of a fatwa calling for the murder of Ahmadīs -- because they were 'apostates' of Islam.
Finding Ahmadis convenient targets, Aamir Liaquat likes to issue random tirades against the community periodically. In his recent spat with Televangelist Junaid Jamshaid over blasphemy accusations against the later, Aamir Liaquat issued an online rant asserting that he finds Ahmadis as his only enemies.
For Ahmadis, however, Aamir Liaquat’s reason to connect them with the Junaid Jamshaid matter was unclear.
http://ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.com/2014/12/pakistan-televangelist-aamir-liaquat.html
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