Pakistan Must Act to Stop the Genocidal Campaign Against Shia Muslims

More than three dozen Shia Muslims have been killed by terrorists in Pakistan this month, pushing the number of victims over three hundred so far in 2014. This epidemic of suicide bombings, bomb explosions and targeted assassinations against the Shia community has extended to Karachi, Hyderabad, Khairpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Quetta, Peshawar, Kohat, and Gilgit, together with the main pilgrim routes.

Since 2008, extremist terrorists have openly declared on the social media that they intend ultimately to exterminate the whole Shia population of the country, numbering between 17 and 30million - unless they convert to the fundamentalist brand of Sunni Islam the terrorists espouse. Thousands have been murdered already, and their properties and places of worship destroyed. This campaign of religious cleansing also extends to other minorities, strikingly similar to what the Daesh are doing in Iraq and Syria. Its time the international community joined the dots, and recognised that we have to contend not only with the territorially based pseudo-caliphate in the Middle East, frightening as that is to all civilised people, but also with its metastasising growths in other vulnerable states, of which Pakistan is the main example.

Malik Ishaq, the leader of the most notorious anti-Shia extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) says that Shia Muslims are "the greatest infidels on earth" and demands that the Pakistani state "declare Shia non-Muslims on the basis of their beliefs". The LeJ is officially banned, yet Ishaq was released from prison in May when the prosecution failed to produce evidence against him and he was acquitted of charges including the master-minding of a bomb attack on Shias in Quetta which killed 90 people. Not a single one of the genocidal killers of the LeJ and other terrorist groups has been finally convicted and put behind bard: some are arrested and spend a few months in custody, but somehow they all get away with their heinous crimes in the end.

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The conflicts in the Muslim world is more and more resembling the reformation religious wars in Europe.
This could go on for decades.