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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Pakistani Shias live in terror as sectarian violence increases

The Sunni majority is using blasphemy laws to target and murder those they call ‘heretics’

Syed Kareem* has been in hiding for weeks. He fears if he is seen on the streets of Karachi, the Pakistan city he calls home, he will be a dead man walking.

His ordeal began with a Facebook post in early September, where he condemned the killers of a Shia Muslim martyred centuries ago. Though Kareem had meant it as a post of religious devotion, it caught the attention of an extremist Sunni Muslim group, who called him a traitor to Muslims.

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from Islam | The Guardian https://ift.tt/34fXMEW

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