Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza, a religious scholar, and internet sensation, has narrowly escaped another murder attempt.
According to media reports, a security guard stationed at Mirza’s Research Academy foiled an assassination attempt on the outspoken commentator, who frequently clashed with scholars from other schools of thought.
Armed with a sharp weapon, the attacker, identified as Ali Hassan from Gujrat, shoved the guard in a desperate attempt to barge into the Research Academy’s premises.
The attacker, however, was caught by the academy’s guards and other members.
Later, the assailant revealed his sinister plot to assassinate the controversial scholar.
As Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza escapes another ‘murder attempt’, in the meantime, a case has been opened, and investigations are underway.
Mirza survived the first assassination attempt in 2017, and the second attack occurs in 2021 when an armed man attacks him while taking a photograph with him.
The self-proclaimed Islamic scholar was only slightly injured.
Muhammad Ali Mirza was born on 4 October 1977 in Jhelum, a city in Punjab, Pakistan. He is a 19th-grade mechanical engineer in a government department
Ali gives online lectures on various religious topics and runs a research academy where he imparts religious education based on his own interpretation of the Quran and Sunnat.
His detractors claim he uses derogatory terms for Islamic saints and presents out-of-context clips from his lectures as proof.
Ali allegedly opined that present-day Ahmadis are better than Jews and Christians (the people of the book). He, however still declared them as non-Muslims and said that his video clips have been presented out of context.
