Taliban religious bigots show their intolerance of Muslims

Washington Post:

The modest office where Sarfraz Naeemi kept his library and received visitors seeking spiritual guidance is now a charred hole. The floor is strewn with burned pages, glass shards and ball bearings from a young suicide bomber's lethal vest.

Even though this cultured provincial capital is fast becoming used to bombings, the assassination of Naeemi, a scholarly cleric who promoted religious harmony and spoke out against Taliban extremism, has resonated far beyond the blackened walls and shattered windows of the quiet seminary he headed here.

Naeemi's death Friday has provoked a universal outpouring of grief and condemnation across Pakistan's political and social spectrum. It has marked a turning point in the consolidation of public opinion against the Taliban, a violent Islamist movement that was once fostered by the state and nurtured in similar seminaries.

But the killing of Naeemi, 61, who used the religious title mufti, has also broadened the Taliban insurgents' war against the "infidel" state to include fellow Sunni clerics who defy them. It has raised fears that sectarian violence will erupt in a tolerant, lively metropolis that draws millions of pilgrims to its historic religious shrines.

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Last week, the Taliban issued a public letter against Shiites in a Lahore newspaper, declaring them non-Muslim and ordering them to leave Pakistan, convert or face violent consequences. This week, police have barricaded Lahore's Shiite shrines amid rumors that they will be infiltrated by female suicide bombers. Police now search all worshipers, hustle them through narrow openings and urge them to leave after a few moments.

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There you have. It confirms what I have been saying about the religious bigotry of the enemy. If you don't accept their weird religious positions then you become the "other" to be killed. It really does not matter if you are a Muslim, because if you don't agree with the Taliban you are not a Muslim.

Perhaps the rest of Pakistan will continue to rally against the bigots and try to save themselves and their country. If they do so, they will have the support most of the rest of the world.