Scanned photo & caption from front page of Dawn, May 29, 2010; Reuters photo
Posted this info to my yahoogroup today:
Dear friends:
There was a front page photograph the day after the Lahore massacres, of an elderly Ahmedi with a cap and small white beard, hands ‘clasped together in a prayer of sorts’ as Dawn captioned it. ‘Of sorts’. Even Dawn could not call it prayer.
Iconic photo of a Muslim man pleading for his life as fanatical Hindu fundamentalists went on the rampage in Gujarat, India (March 2002).
It reminded me of another photo of a man during the Gujarat carnage in India, hands clasped, pleading for his life.
Then there’s this photograph a friend sent of a banner on Mall Road outside Lahore High Court that reads: “Yahudi, Isai, Mirzai Islam ke dushman haiN’ (Jews, Christians, Ahmedis, are enemies of Islam).
How could this banner be allowed to be put up and remain up?
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