Rizvi was the founder of an influential Pakistani Islamist party. Their purpose was to protest anything that strayed from ultra-conservative blasphemy laws. Show a little ankle as a woman, and get the crap beaten out of you on the street. Refuse to wear a hijab, get acid thrown in your face, or worse.
Rizvi, who had been confined to a wheelchair since 2009 after a car accident, died on Thursday after leading anti-France demonstrations. The cause of death was not provided for the chronic troublemaker. His passing into Jannah occurred in a hospital in Lahore, TLP spokesperson Pir Ijaz Ashrafi told AFP.
Well, c'est la vie.
Rizvi headed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) which he founded in 2015. Recently, he led protests against France in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, demanding for the expulsion of the French ambassador after President Emmanuel Macron defended freedom of speech and the right to criticize Islamic ideology; something that can get a guy beheaded.
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in conservative Pakistan, where laws allow for the death penalty for anyone deemed to have insulted Islam or Islamic figures such as Mohammad, even though he was a pedophile and murderer and Islam is a set of ideas and ideas cannot be insulted.
Under Rizvi's leadership, the TLP and its followers have staged violent protests, including demonstrations that wrought havoc in several cities in 2018 after Pakistan's supreme court acquitted a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, of blasphemy charges. Rizvi wanted her executed but he died instead on Thursday. Perhaps it's a question of karma.
As news of Rizvi's death spread late Thursday, his lunatic followers began flocking to his home in Lahore.
Pakistan's religious affairs minister Pir Noor-ul-Haq Qadri said in a statement that the nation had "lost a great religious scholar," while Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted his condolences. Others, such as Robert Spencer, Bill Warner, Nonie Darwish, and Pamela Geller, not so much.
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