A British Muslim admits killing a coreligionist in Scotland because he felt his victim disrespected Islam.
Tanveer Ahmed, from Bradford in northern England, pleads guilty during a hearing at Glasgow’s High Court to killing Asad Shah. The shopkeeper was stabbed and beaten in March at his convenience store in Glasgow.
Police say the slaying was “religiously prejudiced.” Shah was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, a minority sect which differs from mainstream Islam in that it doesn’t regard Muhammad as the final prophet.
Slain Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah (Youtube screenshot)
Prosecutors say that when 32-year-old Ahmed was interviewed by police, he said his actions were motivated by Shah’s “disrespect [for] the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad, Allah and faith.”
Ahmed will be sentenced on August 9 for what Judge Rita Rae calls “a truly despicable crime.”
— AP
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