The Christian family paid back a loan, but the Muslims wanted more: Inquiring minds want to know if it would be ruled riba (interest/usury) by local Islamic authorities, or just a community's jizya-like extortion of a vulnerable family of converts from Islam who had it coming for having the gall to leave Islam.
"Bangladesh - Christian family beaten, cut - and faces charges," from Compass Direct News, December 8:
MALUMGHAT, Bangladesh, December 8 (Compass Direct News) – The harassment that Bangladeshi converts from Islam face from Muslim neighbors in this southeastern area near Cox’s Bazar can take serious turns – as it did last month, when an attack by about a dozen Muslims left a Christian family with machete wounds.
Confident that no police would side with Christian converts from Islam, the Muslims in Chakaria town, near Cox’s Bazar 380 kilometers (236 miles) southeast of the capital city of Dhaka, later filed false charges of assault against the wounded and limping Christians, family members said.
The smallest of claims can serve to provoke such attacks. Laila Begum, a 45-year-old Christian convert from Islam, said she was helping to make disbursements for a local non-governmental micro-credit agency called Darpan in Chakaria town on Nov. 1 when 10 to 15 Muslim neighbors blocked her way and demanded 200 taka (US$3).
Begum told Compass she had borrowed 2,000 taka (US$30) last year from a neighbor, a Muslim woman who goes by the single name of Kohinoor, and this year paid her back with interest. Telling the group she would give them no more money as she had already repaid the loan, Begum said, she asked why they were demanding more.
They began beating her, snatching a pair of gold ornaments from her ear.
“Suddenly they got equipped with sticks, iron rods, knives and machetes,” she said. “Several places of my head were lacerated by machetes and iron rods. They also cut two of my fingers when I tried to fend off their attacks. They beat me in several places of my body by iron rods and sticks.” [...]
One of the attacking neighbors, she said, told her, “Nobody will come to save you if we beat you, because you are converted to Christianity from Islam.”
Begum, her husband and elder son were admitted to a nearby hospital. Her husband is still hobbled, walking with the aid of a stick.
“Muslim neighbors filed a case against us where they mentioned that we had beaten them – it is a false case,” Begum said. “They beat us and they filed a false case against us.”
Police Sub-inspector Manjurul Alam confirmed that the Muslim neighbors had filed a case against Rahman’s family, and that Rahman had also filed an assault case against the attackers.
“We are investigating it,” he said.
Begum said local Muslims threatened to beat the Christians again if they filed a case against them.
“They threatened that if we file a case, they will carry out an arson attack, and our house will be burnt to the ground,” she said. “They will evict us from the locality. They will beat us again and our life will be in great trouble.”
The family informed local governing council members about the attack, but they demanded 20,000 taka (US$300) to settle the matter and also threatened them, she said.
“The local council officials also told us that if we file any case in the police station, our houses will be burnt to ashes and we will be evicted from the locality,” she said. “The Muslim neighbors are spreading rumors that we beat them, that we borrowed 22,000 taka from them and that we did not pay them back the money. But we do not have anyone to stand beside us and listen to us.”
Belligerent Attitude
Because the family members are converts from Islam, they said, neighbors and distant relatives often pick quarrels with them over any small issue, with villagers later joining in to threaten or attack them.
“If we go to the market or any public places, Muslim people push us roughly from behind and use filthy words against us about Christianity,” said the oldest son, Salim Rahman. [...]
This is disgusting.
The Muslims bash people - indeed, they lynch people - and then blame the victim.
*spit* *spit* *spit*
Robbers thieves liars. Murderous supremacists.
Thug cult. Gangster religion.
This brave family has left the Muslim Mob and now the Muslim Mob wants to rob and kill them - can't have anyone leaving The Mob because that implies that there might be something wrong with The Mob, and it makes The Mob weaker and smaller.
Every naive Christian religious leader in the western world who is getting suckered into 'interfaith' snake-oil gatherings with the local sweetly smiling imam should have his nose rubbed in this horrible story from Bangladesh.
For the benefit of new visitors, it is necessary to emphasise that Muslim sharia law prescribes that Muslims who leave Islam, and convert to another faith (or become atheists) must be killed.
This doctrine rests on passages from the Hadith, that is, the traditions about Mohammed, which have great authority among Muslims.
Ibn Abbaas said : The Messenger of Allah said, “Whoever changes his (Islamic) religion, kill him.” Al-Bukhary (number 6922)
Abd-Allah ibn Masood said : The Messenger of Allah said : “It is not permissible to shed the blood of a Muslim who bears witness that there is no god except Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah, except in one of three cases : a soul (in case of murder) ; a married person who commits adultery ;
and one who leaves his religion and separates from the main body of Muslims.”
Sahih Al Bukhary number 6484 and Sahih Muslim number 1676
Here is what Islamic jurisprudence has to say - a typical passage from a standard Sunni law book which, I assure you, though written in the 14th century, is still taken very, very seriously today by pious Muslims.
"The classical Shafi‘i manual of law, "‘Umdat al-Salik" [The Reliance of the Traveller] by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (died 1368), English translation by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, published in the USA in 1997:
"8.1 When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatises from Islam,
he deserves to be killed.
8.2 In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed."
In Muslim-dominated countries where sharia law is not fully practised, the punishment for apostasy is usually carried out informally, by the family of the apostate, or any other Muslim who gets the chance.
At the following links are three discussions of this subject and of the state of play in some of the major Muslim countries.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7A34C6DA-BD62-4AA8-AEBE-570C086B66B2
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5761
http://www.kabyles.net/Apostasy-in-islam-The-point-of-no,3895.html
(the third link is an article posted on a French Berber website - the Berbers of Kabylia in North Africa suffered much from the Arab supremacism inherent in Islam, and many are apostasising to French secularism or to Christianity, both in France and even in North Africa - at great risk).
The great American scholar of Islam, Christian missionary Samuel Zwemer, wrote a whole book 'The Law of Apostasy in Islam', on the topic of what Islam does to apostates, and on the sufferings of apostates from Islam, throughout history. It may be read online here:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Books/Zwemer/Apostasy/index.htm
Now, back to the news story.
This family - father, mother and adult children - have chosen to leave Islam. Their Muslim neighbours, for whatever reason, have not yet carried out the due; but are deliberately, sadistically, making their lives a misery. Presumably the neighbours are hoping that if sufficiently cruelly harassed, the family will return to Islam.
Christians are encouraged to pray for this little family of Confessors to be granted grace to persevere; but make sure you share their story with your priest/ parson/ minister.
Islam flatly denies virtually every clause of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; it certainly denies the validity of the clause that provides that every person shall be free to change their religion if they so desire.
What's with all the horror stories coing out of Bangladesh of late? You used to never her anything about them. Hugh's "Millions of Cats" strategy would work fantastically and would cause Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, and Indonesia to cannibalize qiute rapidly and in that order.
Posted by: jdamn
What's with all the horror stories coing out of Bangladesh of late? You used to never her anything about them
Human life reduced to an inch of foreskin
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.The people of Narail can bear witness to the reign of terror, the inhuman atrocities, inflicted on them after (General) Yahya let loose his troops to do what they would. After March 25, many people fled Jessore in fear of their lives, and took refuge in Narail and its neighboring localities. Many of them were severely bashed by the soldiers of Yahya and lost their lives. Very few people ever returned. Bhayna is a flourishing village near Narail. Ali Akbar is a well-known figure there. On April 8, the Pakistani troops surrounded the village on the pretext that it was a sanctuary for freedom fighters. Just as fish are caught in a net so too were the people of this village all assembled, in an open field. Then everyone- men, women, and children--were all forced to line up. Young men between the ages of 25 and 30 were lined up separately. 45 people were shot to death on the spot. Three of Ali Akbar's brothers were killed there. Ali Akbar was able to save himself by lying on the ground. But no one else of that group was as fortunate. Nadanor was the Killing field. Every day 20 to 30 people were taken there with their hands tied behind their backs, and killed. The dead bodies would be flung into the river. Apart from this, a slaughter house was also readied for Bengalis. Manik, Omar, and Ashraf were sent to Jessore Cantonment for training and then brought to this slaughter house. Every day they would slaughter 9 to 12 persons here. The rate per person was Taka ten. On one particular day, 45 persons were slaughtered here. From April 15 to December 10, the butchery continued. It is gathered that 2,723 people lost their lives here. People were brought here and bashed, then their ears were cut off, and their eyes gouged out. Finally they were slaughtered... : The Chairman of the Peace Committee was Moulana Solaiman. With Dr. Abul Hussain and Abdul Rashid Mukhtar, he assisted in the genocide. Omar would proudly say, "During the day I am Omar, at night I am Shimar( legendary executioner famous for extreme cruelty). Don't you see my dagger? There are countless Kafirs (heretics) on it."
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I don't know what happened above but here is the proper link
http://www.muktadhara.net/page35.html
Islam is the only religion (and I have my doubts about Islam being a religion. I feel it is a political entity and not a religious one) which requires it's members to kill those who leave Islam.
It it were not for compulsion, Islam would have never grow to be anything more than a tiny cult among the Arabs. Islam was spread with the sword, not by its message. The sword is still being used to spread Islam as well as been used to retain its members.
How many other Muslims would leave Islam if such compulsions vanished?
jdamn
What's Hugh's "Millions of Cats" strategy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions_of_Cats
Salvation...Muslims wouldn't even know the word if it jumped up and bit them in the behind. Being beaten to death as a Christian is hundred times better than living as a Muslim on any given day.
Don't worry about those who can destroy the body but those who can destroy the soul.
Islam: 1.2 billion of the walking dead.