I was wondering what could possibly make an educated person do something so heinous and so I noted the passages that might give us a clue about his thought process:
It was on February 13, 2015, when he says he decided that Mahmud had to die... “It was something she said during the talk,” he recalls. “That we shouldn’t be afraid of the #Taliban, we should stand up to them, demonstrate against them, something like that. That is when we made up our minds.”
“There wasn’t one particular reason to target her: she was generally promoting liberal, #secular values. There were those campaigns of hers, the demonstration outside Lal Masjid [in Islamabad], Pyaar ho jaane do (let there be love) on Valentine’s Day and so on.” He laughs softly, almost bashfully, as he mentions the last.
Aziz calls himself a #Salafi
When an interrogator asks him why he and his associates targeted Ismaili Shias, he cites their sectarian affiliation as the reason. “It is perfectly acceptable to take the lives of women and children for that reason.”
Aziz’s radicalisation began in 2009, following a visit to Saudi Arabia for umrah
Upon his return to Pakistan, he decided to read translations of the Quran
“It was over time, primarily through reading the Quran, that I developed an inclination towards jihad.”
In 2011, Aziz went to Waziristan for training where, he says, he was attached to a group headed by Ahmad Farooq, deputy head of #al-Qaeda in the subcontinent
the sudden ascendancy of the Islamic State (IS) and its territorial gains in Iraq and Syria became a lightning rod for militants across the globe
“We were in Waziristan when the creation of the [IS’s] Khorasan [chapter] was announced, and we pledged loyalty to its emir, [former TTP commander] Hafiz Saeed Khan.”
Silly Aziz, didn't you know that Islam is a religion of peace and that Allah hai bus pyar hi pyar