Muslim Shopkeeper Murdered for Wishing Friends a Happy Easter on Twitter

[The Librarian]

Horrible crime in Glasgow on Thursday evening when a well loved Muslim shop keeper Asad Shah was stabbed to death by at least one other Muslim man. Mohammad Faisal, a family friend, said a bearded Muslim wearing a long religious robe entered Mr Shah’s shop and spoke to him in his native language before stabbing him in the head with a kitchen knife.

Mr Shah had posted the Twitter message ‘Good Friday and a very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation’. Residents of Shawlands in Glasgow say he was well respected and had been known to hand out Christmas cards to neighbours despite being of a different faith.

Hundreds have turned out in a vigil near the crime scene...

[The Librarian]

There is a struggle going on within the Glasgow mosque between traditionalists and reformers. It is one of the more regressive communities where women are not welcome and African muslims are treated like second class citizens.

[The Librarian]

And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

Matthew 5:47