Standard YouTuber Saleem Wastik, an ex-Muslim who appeared on a number of reveals, is battling for all times in hospital after being stabbed repeatedly within the neck and stomach by two males on Friday. The boys entered Wastik’s residence in Ghaziabad’s Loni space, launched the murderous assault and fled.
Although most ex-Muslims reside a double life, with out divulging that they’ve renounced Islam, Saleem Wastik was identified for expressing his vital views in public. He ran two YouTube channels and appeared on TV reveals. His YouTube channel, with 179 movies, has 28.4K subscribers.
The 2 assailants, who got here on a motorbike, entered Wastik’s Ashok Vihar Colony below Loni Police Station space of Ghaziabad on Friday morning. The 2 did not take away their helmets, and launched a murderous assault on Wastik, plunging their knives into his neck and stomach.
Wastik was first taken to a close-by hospital however was then referred to GTB Hospital in Delhi as his situation grew to become vital. Sources within the hospital instructed India Immediately TV that his situation is “extraordinarily critical”.
A number of outfits and persons are linking the assault on Saleem Wastik to his being an ex-Muslim and his views that had been vital of Islam. Police, nevertheless, aren’t leaping to any conclusions whilst they scan CCTV footage and probe the assault.
“I didn’t see them, I didn’t see what number of occasions they struck or the place they struck. I didn’t see who they had been. The police got here at round 8 am. An ambulance had come to take him [to the hospital],” an affiliate of Salim, hiding her face with a shawl, instructed India Immediately TV’s Mayank Gaur.
Thousands and thousands of individuals throughout the globe have switched or altogether left their religions, in keeping with Pew Analysis. Nonetheless, leaving Islam in a Muslim nation or a rustic with a sizeable inhabitants, like India, comes at a fantastic danger.
That is as a result of Islam, in contrast to different religions, would not allow apostasy, the act of leaving one’s religion. In some international locations, apostasy is punishable by loss of life.
There are claims on social media that an individual working an Instagram account below the deal with “official_m3hdi_” carried out the assault on Saleem. The claims stem from messages posted in an unique group referred to as “Muslim Military”, the place the consumer allegedly wrote, “Saleem ex-Muslim ko hospital pohocha diya. Video chaahiye full?”
India Immediately Digital verified that an account with this deal with exists. Nonetheless, it couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the group or the message allegedly posted there, wherein a video of the assault was allegedly posted.
Saleem Wastik, in October, mentioned ex-Muslim Sahil, who returned to Islam to fulfil his mom’s final needs and bury her.
Within the final 5 years, Sahil had emerged as one of the crucial outstanding activists of the Ex-Muslim motion globally, a listing that features names like Maryam Namazie, Zafar Heretic, Harris Sultan, Adam Seeker, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali amongst others.
Ex-Muslim Sahil posted concerning the assault on Salim Wastik on his YouTube channel, which has virtually six lakh subscribers. “It was a brutal assault. There have been experiences that he succumbed to his accidents, however this is not true,” Ex-Muslim Sahil stated within the video, including that his situation was vital.
“Very distressed from listening to concerning the brutal assault on Saleem Wastik. He was certainly one of my greatest inspirations in talking concerning the fact of my non secular custom that was obscured by Maulvis, in confronting the radicals inside my group head on. Pray that he makes it alive,” posted activist Puneet Sahani on X.
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(With inputs from Mayank Gaur)
