Bangladesh: Islamic leaders accused of blasphemy, accuse accusers of "conspiracy against Islam and Muslims"

Vying with one another to out-Muhammad Muhammad. Note that because the leaders were accused of blasphemy, party members were arrested. But the main point is that in a Sharia environment, blasphemy laws are a live weapon in the hands of those in power. With the OIC trying its best to bring such laws Westward, free people should take careful note of stories like this one. "Dhaka, Islamic leaders accused of blasphemy: protests and more than 100 arrests," by William Gomes for AsiaNews, July 1 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Dhaka (AsiaNews) - More than a hundred activists of Jamaat-e-Islami (Jel) were arrested yesterday during demonstrations which took place across the country, following accusations of blasphemy directed at leaders of their party.

Jel is a fundamentalist Islamic opposition party that aims to conform "human activity" to the teachings of Allah revealed to Muhammad. Yet three of their leaders - Matiur Rahman Nizami..., Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Nayebe Ameer Delwa Sayeed Hossain - have been accused of blasphemy and arrested on June 29.

The allegations date back to March 17 when at a public meeting Matiur Rahman Nizami compared his political sufferings to those the Prophet Muhammad. The Jel leader claims to be persecuted by the Awami league, the ruling party since 2009. The accusation of blasphemy against him came from Mohammed Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpur, Secretary General of the Bangladesh Tariqat Federation, which is part of the government alliance. Observers note that both sides are waving the banner of Islam, but their intentions seem to be more political than religious.

Matiur Rahman Nizami, together with the other two Jel exponents, have repeatedly refused to appear before the Dhaka metropolitan court and we [sic] were arrested. Mohammed Qamaruzzaman, deputy secretary general of the party, spoke of "conspiracy against Islam and Muslims:" This is a political game, a false case fabricated to remove Islam from the country. "

The three arrested leaders will remain in jail for 16 days to answer investigators questions.

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It is the perverse nature of Islam that it empowers the most ruthless. Which is why the most ruthless are so drawn to it.

You are so right!

In Dar-Es-Sociopath, the most sociopathic is king!

Absolutely. Mohammed was anything but the Merciful One, and certainly wasn't party to the truth. Being the personification of ol' Luce, ol' Mo had nothing except every vice in his 'book'...these he laid in accordance with his serpentine nature.

Vying with one another to out-Muhammad Muhammad.

Out-mahounding Mahound has been, for 1400+ years, the substitute for the inter-clan, inter-tribal and inter-family violence that ravaged the Ayrabian Peninsula before mahoundianism was invented, for the sole purpose of harnessing the naturally animalistic, murderous and blood-thirsty nature of the inbred bedouin savage inhabitants of that place against those who weren't like them.

And, as soon as a place is ridden of those who aren't like them, they revert to the same old bedouin savagery by murdering one another, as we can see today in Somalia and Yemen; and as we'll see in Saudi Arabia once the oil that has kept the savagery of its own bedouins in check runs out and their monthly allowances dry up.

I can see the Bengladeshi imams are going to be busy writing fatwads.

"both sides are waving the banner of Islam, but their intentions seem to be more political than religious." --from the article

The "but" is misleading. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that includes a politics (and as Hugh says a geopolitics), a legal system, a "religion" (deen), a military, a set of rules for personal hygiene, a set of rules for diet, a set of rules for social behavior, a set of rules for both private thoughts and public expressions, and many other things.

"Mohammed Qamaruzzaman, deputy secretary general of the party, spoke of "conspiracy against Islam and Muslims:"

Once you are a Muslim, you can never be sure if you are Muslim enough....as the other Muslims will make sure you continue living a life of hell....and then you go to the mosque to keep getting those sermons of death and destruction....then you go out to seek those other Muslims who are not Muslim enough and make sure they are living in hell....and that they had better straighten up soon ......or else...

I have just read the other comments, above.

Nothing to add. I think all that requires to be said, has just been said.

Tanstaafl - you took the words right off of my keyboard.

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