ACTIVITIES AT THE ISMAILI CENTRE LISBON

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28 March 2023:
At around 11.30 AM today, a man armed with a knife entered the premises of the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon and attacked three people, killing two and injuring the third. The police and security services immediately responded, and the attacker has been taken into custody.

The mental state of the attacker and his motives are not yet known, and the police are investigating.

The Ismaili community is shocked and saddened by this incident and is providing support to the families of the victims.

Prime Minister António Costa conveyed his solidarity to the victims’ families and to the Ismaili community. He said: “Everything points to this being an isolated incident.”

The perimeter of the building has been secured and the Ismaili community is cooperating fully with a police investigation.
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ATTACK AT THE ISMAILI CENTRE LISBON

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65097098

Lisbon stabbing: Two women killed at Ismaili Muslim centre

Two women have been stabbed to death at a Muslim religious centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.

The attack took place at the Ismaili Centre on Avenida Lusíada. The suspect, who was in possession of a large knife, was shot in the leg by police.

He was then detained and taken to hospital. The motive for the attack on Tuesday is not clear.

Police said they received a call at about 11:00 local time after the suspect entered the centre.

Officers asked the suspect to stop the attack, but he disobeyed and was shot.

The attacker is believed to be Afghan and the two victims were Portuguese women - one was the attacker's English teacher at the centre and the other a fellow classmate, according to Portuguese media.

Prime Minister Antonio Costa said it appeared to be "an isolated act" and discussing a possible motive was "premature".

This was echoed by home affairs minister Jose Luis Carneiro, who said "the circumstances and motivations" of the attack were being investigated.

He said the alleged attacker was a "relatively young man" with three young children and his wife had died in a refugee camp in Greece.

The president of the Afghan community Association, Omed Taeri, said the attacker arrived in Portugal "a year or so ago" and was being aided by the Ismaili centre.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/tw ... 023-03-28/

Two women killed in knife attack at Lisbon Ismaili centre

By Catarina Demony
and Miguel Pereira

LISBON, March 28 (Reuters) - Two women were killed and one person wounded in a knife attack believed to have been carried out by an Afghan refugee at the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon on Tuesday, officials said.

Portuguese police shot the alleged attacker after he refused to lay down a large knife and began to approach them. Officials said he was arrested and taken to hospital.

Ismailis are a minority within Shia Islam whose members have been attacked by extremist groups in countries such as Pakistan.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/2 ... mic-center

Portugal: Two women stabbed to death at Lisbon’s Islamic centre

Police say the attacker is in custody after he was shot and wounded for failing to put down his knife.
A police officer stands guard outside Ismaili Centre, after a deadly knife attack in Lisbon, Portugal, March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

Two people were killed and several others were injured in a stabbing at an Islamic centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, Portuguese authorities have said.

Officers were called to the centre just before 11am (10:00 GMT) on Tuesday where they encountered a man “armed with a large knife”, read a police statement.

The suspect has been taken into custody after he was shot by police because he did not obey warnings to put down his weapon.

Two female employees, aged 49 and 24, of the Ismaili Centre, located not far from the Benfica Lisbon football stadium, were killed in the attack, according to a report from TV station RTP.

A police spokesman told the dpa news agency that the deceased had not yet been officially identified and that a “terrorist attack” was suspected, but without ruling out other motives.

Local media reported that the attacker was a widowed Afghan refugee and a father to three children. Al Jazeera could not independently confirm the identity of the attacker.

Prime Minister Antonio Costa expressed his condolences and solidarity to the families of the victims and also to the Ismaili community in Portugal on Twitter.

It is too early to speculate about the motives for this crime, said Costa. “We have to wait for the results of the investigation,” he said.

Later in the day, Interior Minister Jose Luis Carneiro, said that “everything leads to believe” that the attack was “an isolated act”.

Portugal has been considered one of the safest countries in the world and does not tend to experience Islamophobic attacks or generally a high level of crime.

Prince Karim Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s Ismailis, opened the Lisbon centre in 1998. It has exhibition spaces, classrooms and prayer halls.

There are approximately 7,000 Ismaili Muslims living in Portugal, a nation of about 10 million people. The Ismailis belong to the Shia branch of Islam.

Many fled to Portugal from Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony during the African country’s civil war which ended in 1992.
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https://www.politico.eu/article/knife-a ... ic-center/

Knife attacker kills 2 at Islamic center in Lisbon

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa says it is ‘premature’ to draw conclusions about the attacker’s motivations.
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Members of the Portuguese Judiciary Police arrive at the Ismaili Islamic centre in Lisbon, after two people died following a knife attack | Patricia De Melo Morera/AFP via Getty Images

By Wilhelmine Preussen
March 28, 2023 3:41 pm CET

Two women died in a knife attack on Tuesday at Lisbon’s Ismaili Center, home to a minority branch of Shia Islam.

According to Portuguese police, the attacker was shot after being confronted by officers. He was arrested and taken to hospital after the attack, in which a third person was also injured.

“Today, at 10:57 a.m., we were informed that a knife attack was taking place at the Ismaili Center, located on Avenida Lusíada, in Lisbon,” police wrote in a statement, adding that the attacker was shot after refusing to lay down his weapon and approaching officers with the knife.

In a statement, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa issued condolences, “I express my solidarity and condolences to the Ismaili community and the families of the victims of this morning’s attack on the Ismaili Center in Lisbon,” and praised the police who “immediately proceeded to arrest the suspect.”

According to multiple local media reports, the suspect in the fatal stabbings is of Afghan nationality.

Costa said that it was “premature” to interpret the attacker’s motivation, adding that it is necessary to wait for the police investigation results.

A statement on the main Ismaili website said the community was “shocked and saddened by this incident and is providing support to the families of the victims.”

The Ismaili Center in Lisbon is the world headquarters of the Ismaili community, and was the personal project of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the minority group.
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A message from our Ismaili sister in Portugal. Sharing as received.

Nenita Sadrudin

Out of respect and mourning for the suffering and sorrow that the loved ones of our sisters Ismailis Farana and Mariana are experiencing, I intend to leave my feelings and pray for faith and courage to be two forces constantly present in your lives and to get you through this moment with as much light as possible - I also wish a speedy recovery to the third member who was injured in the process. Amen.

This message is addressed to all of us Ismailis rooted in Portugal and is a message with an appeal that must be taken into account in our lives and especially over the course of the coming months that will certainly be very challenging. I don't know what motivated brother Ismaili to commit this tragic act, but, not devaluing that it is necessary to clarify his reasons, the truth is that it has no relevance to what I am going to ask everyone who is reading and following me. Neither is this relevant, nor do I find the emphasis on the nationality of the person who committed the crime useful. This will only trigger a feeling that our natural instinct of survival will hardly fight, but that we have to be strong and enlightened enough to not fall into the temptation to get carried away by it and generalize.

We are a strong community, a wonderfully inclusive community and, above all, we have to constantly remind ourselves that we are only this force (which I even consider supernatural) because EVERY successful step we take in the work of our institutions is thanks to this diversity, this tolerance and the This cultural fusion that both defines and qualifies us as a reference community in the societies in which we live.

Let's continue to welcome our brothers whether they are Afghan, Portuguese, Italian or even Martian and treat them as our brothers effectively because that's what Imam wants and why that defines us as a community.
Let's not make the mistake of doubting the safety of our children based on this isolated act.
We seek to promote inclusion and harmonious coexistence among members from various places and address existing pluralism as our greatest intangible wealth.

We affectionately call our place of prayer "khane" which means "home". Welcoming our family into our home is one of the greatest blessings we have and having been handfully chosen for this purpose brings us even more gratification.

Do not forget that in order to be Portuguese Ismailis, we were once Ismailis who had to leave their countries of origin due to political, social and economic circumstances. We sought, with the guidance of our beloved Imam, to improve our living conditions and established ourselves in Portugal. We are today a prestigious community for the work we do within the civil society in which we get ourselves into and we have created space for more brothers from other parts of the world to have the opportunity to see their conditions improved too.

Portugal is both the home of the Ismailis who were already rooted here, and it is the home of our brothers who have been coming in recent years.
We have no idea of the challenges that these Murids have experienced leaving their countries of origin and the life they are trying to earn here in Portugal is challenging enough, not knowing the language or the customs, which puts them at a direct advantage when it comes to capturing the opportunities that exist. And that's our job as their brothers: to relieve them, guide them and accompany them so that they can become self-sufficiency and, perhaps, one day, enter this cycle of helping. And the work of the institutions has been exemplary in this regard.

Let us encourage ourselves to further strengthen our bonds, because now more than ever, newcomers need to base themselves on us and we HAVE a duty to be here to welcome them with love. Let us not be blinded by this tragic act. This does not define us! Nor will it ever define!

You reading this: the attacker has children, who are YOUR spiritual siblings at the same level as your biological children, and they shouldn’t or shouldn’t feel that such a tragic act will result in their marginalization. And this extends to all our newcomer brothers. Let's not generalize. Lets generate more strength and unity.
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As Received Today :

Lisbon Parliament observed one minute silence for the Ismaili community.

Farana Sadrudin, aged 49 from Lisbon Jamat
Funeral on Friday 31 March 2023 at 2.00 pm
at Ismaili Centre, Lisbon

Mariana Jadaugy, aged 24 from Lisbon, Portugal
Funeral on Saturday 1 April 2023 at Belas Church, Lisbon
At 2.30pm after the Church Service at 2.00pm

Farana Sadrudin had a degree in Engineering from the Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal and was the niece of the diplomatic representative of the Ismaili Imamat, Nazim Ahmad.
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Bashir wrote this email one week before he killed the two women ( they are mentioned in his CC: line).

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Bashir probably felt depressed and had a mental breakdown. That is the only comments that we will allow here. Of course info from newspapers are allowed but no comments please.
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