Glasgow Muslim shopkeeper murdered hours after posting Easter wishes

[grossproffit]

A newsagent was murdered by a fellow Muslim after he wished his Christian friends a peaceful Easter.

Asad Shah, who was stabbed up to 30 times at his shop, had praised both the life of Jesus and ‘his beloved Christian nation’. Left lying in a pool of blood, the 40-year-old died in hospital

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509367/Muslim-shopkeeper-stabbed-death-hours-posted-happy-Easter-message.html#ixzz4426EWF9m

Asad Shah, a much-loved local shopkeeper, brutally stabbed near his store; police arrest Muslim suspect, believe crime was ‘religiously prejudiced’

A Muslim shopkeeper was brutally murdered in Glasgow Thursday, hours after wishing his Christian customers a happy Easter on Facebook, in what police are treating as a religiously motivated crime.

Police arrested a 32-year-old Muslim suspect in connection with the killing.

“A full investigation is under way to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death which is being treated as religiously prejudiced,” police said.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/glasgow-muslim-murdered-hours-after-posting-easter-wishes/

The world lost a very special person today. It's a very sad day.

[6chars]

1. Absolutely horrible

Sympathies.

[linuxman]

2. Poor poor man.

Rest in peace.

[shenmue]

3. ...

[NikolaC]

4. So incredibly sad

[Chasstev365]

5. Do they really think God would praise such a repulsive act?

It's horrors like this that make me happy not to be a practicing anything, rather, simply a human being who cares about others. Organized religion has many problems.

[Throd]

6. Sadly, yes.

[Odin2005]

7. Horrifying!

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Just ask Trump, or Cruz, or Rove, or Brock and the other manipulators.

This is the kind of response they enable with every nasty remark thrown to the ravening hordes of believers. They may not intend bloodshed as such but they certainly engineer and tune the hatred that drives it.

[FrodosPet]

9. The perp is a Trump supporter?

[Chan790]

12. The only one in Scotland possibly, if they were. n/t

[JI7]

11. the suspect is muslim

[Ford_Prefect]

13. My point is this is the kind hate driven behavior that Trump and the others I mentioned are

laying the groundwork for here. It is terrible that an ordinary guy could be murdered for saying something so innocuous to his neighbors and customers. The apparent reason for the murder was EXACTLY the kind of intolerance that is being generated by Trump and the others with every hateful word to enable the anger and give it a target.

You do not have to stick a knife into someone to damage their lives. Passing legislation can accomplish the same and worse, as it just did in my state by making LGBT people legally sanctioned targets for hatred and abuse.

We have had Muslims attacked here in America for simply being in the wrong place and breathing, or running a neighborhood convenience store. Which is not to mention Sikhs and others who simply looked "wrong" to their racist attackers. Which is not to mention what happened to a few Asian store owners in certain neighborhoods not so long ago.

I overheard some sickening remarks the other day while at lunch in a local restaurant. It was not the first time I heard such here, nor did the people who made them seem to think they were not common belief. I can imagine just what it will sound like to eat there in a few months with the hate turned up to full boil to win the election.

This attack was not about Muslim, it was about purist hatred of the other. In Glasgow the knife was apparently wielded by another Muslim who saw it as his duty to enforce his version of the true faith. In America we are heading towards a confrontation of those who think they carry the true "American" faith and whose fear of the other is being used to enforce that vision on the rest of us, and just possibly the rest of the world.

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14. The killing of a Muslim convenience store owner or clerk

is a very common occurrence here in the US. I highly doubt that the perps are Trump supporters, Christian fundamentalists, or Mormon polygamists.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. My point is that Trump and the others are building up to that condition. The NRA has already

selected some of the targets. Read a little history will you please?

[grossproffit]

18. He was stabbed over 30 times.

An incredible loss was suffered today at the hands of a fanatic.

[Ford_Prefect]

20. That fanatic was programmed by the same kind of Institutional intolerance I have referred to above.

The trigger was an innocuous remark.

[JI7]

10. so they killed him for kind message to christians ?

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. Senseless killing

[romanic]

17. Horrible.

And to hear it was another Muslim that did it. What for, because he actually had love for people of other faiths. Ridiculous and Senseless.

R.I.P. to Shah.

[grossproffit]

19. Asad Shah. I will never forget you.

I've learned more about you since your murder. You were a man of honor, who always had patience and never had a terse word to say.

May your memory be a blessing to all who knew and loved you.