March 28, 2016

Prominent Muslims call for unity after Glasgow shopkeeper's killing

Monday 28 Mar 2016 - 11:03 Makkah mean time-19-6-1437

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Glasgow, (IINA) - Prominent members of Glasgow’s Muslim community have called for calm and solidarity following the fatal stabbing of a shopkeeper whose messages of interfaith harmony united his multicultural community, according to media reports.
Tributes were paid on Saturday to a British Muslim shopkeeper Asad Shah, 40 year-old killed in what police described as a “religiously prejudiced” attack.
After the incident, police arrested a 32-year-old Muslim man, and a spokeswoman said: “A full investigation is underway to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death which is being treated as religiously prejudiced.”
Shah was discovered with serious injuries outside his newsagent shop in the Shawlands area of Glasgow, a few miles south of the city centre, just after 9pm on Thursday. He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The day before his death, Shah had apparently posted a message on Facebook reading: “Good Friday and very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nation!”
Over the weekend, tributes have continued to flood in for the shopkeeper, who moved from Pakistan to Scotland in the 1990s and was the eldest of seven siblings. Shawlands residents described a gentle man who cared deeply for his community and every year would print out his own Christmas cards with personal messages for customers.
More than £50,000 in donations have been collected for the Shah family by the fund-raising site Go Fund Me since Friday.
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