Sunni murders of Shias in Pakistan

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Mar 4, 2022 at 09:31

Dear Dr Pipes,

It is a Pakistani hobby to kill its Shia population. Today, when the world is pensive and reflecting about what we did wrong to deserve Putin, Pakistani Sunni Muslims have no such predilection: in a suicide bombing 57 Shias were killed and nearly 200 injured (reference below). Ukraine is suffering due to a single thug in Russia but the Islamic world suffers because in Islam violence is universally franchised to all individuals who want a place in heaven.

I feel like suggesting that Shias should leave Islam in protest but that will not be a solution. It is the Sunnnis who should leave Islam. No heaven is worth the voluntarily chosen misery on the earth and 1400 years of mara-mari (the business of killing) must come to an end.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1678238/suicide-blast-in-peshawar-mosque-claims-56-lives-injures-more-than-190

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