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| Job opening due to employee termination: Dean of Islamic Studies, University of Karachi. | |||
| 2014-09-20 | |||
Dr Muhammad Shakil Auj, Dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi, was attacked by two gunmen on a motorbike as he was making his way in his car to a function at the city’s Iranian cultural centre. A junior teaching colleague was also hit and suffered an injury to her arm. “A bullet pierced through his head, proving fatal,” senior police officer Pir Mohammad Shah told the Associated Press. “We are investigating the killing. It would be premature to state the motive at the moment.” The 54-year academic was known as someone who had spoken out on many issues in Islam and written several articles. One of the articles had suggested Muslim women should be allowed to marry non-Muslim men. He had also said Muslim women did not need to remove lipstick or make-up before going to prayer. In 2012, Mr Auj, 54, had complained to police that four colleagues from the university had threatened him and sent him text messages accusing him of blasphemy. They had claimed a speech he had made that year in the US amounted to blasphemy. One of the academics he complained about had previously held his position within the department. The four men face charges but are currently out on bail, according to reports.
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 And there you have it. We always want to know where are the moderate Muslims, the reformers? They end up like this guy. |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2014-09-20 00:36 |