Bangladesh: Court issues arrest warrant for author of novel insulting Muhammad

We don't have this sort of thing in the enlightened West. In the enlightened West, no one will arrest you for writing something negative about Muhammad. They'll just smear you as a racist and a bigot and threaten to kill you. The West is thus much more enlightened than Bangladesh. "Bangladesh arrest warrant over ‘blasphemous’ book," from AFP, June 5 (thanks to the Religion of Peace):

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court has issued an arrest warrant for the writer of a 2003 novel that allegedly contains insulting remarks against the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), a lawyer said Tuesday.

The court in Dhaka issued the order in response to a petition from a Muslim activist accusing author Salam Azad of hurting religious sentiment in his banned book “Bhanga Math” (“Broken Temple”).

“We told the court that the book contained slanderous remarks against the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and Islam. The judge accepted the petition and issued a warrant of arrest,” the petitioner’s lawyer Ekhlas Uddin told AFP....

Azad, 48, said the book, published in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, was banned for blasphemy by the Bangladeshi government in 2004.

The book is alleged to contain insulting remarks about the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and the Quran....

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"The book is alleged to contain insulting remarks about the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and the Quran...."

mohammed and the quran are an insult to humanity, common sense, and to all that's good and decent. This court has it completely backwards--again.

This moron Mo/allah is an insult and shame to humanity!!1

“We told the court that the book contained slanderous remarks against the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and Islam. The judge accepted the petition and issued a warrant of arrest,” the petitioner’s lawyer Ekhlas Uddin told AFP....".

Are they going to start arresting people for insulting the tooth fairy, next ?

Muhammad was about as real as the Easter Bunny.

How can you be arrested for insulting a non existent person ?

Lampooning Mohammad has become a novel thing to do....It' s easy...Mohammad gave plenty of examples to lampoon...

yep

mohamd! may spuhf!!!!!!!
M

Bangladesh: Court issues arrest warrant for author of novel insulting Muhammad
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Salman Rushdie redux...

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The court in Dhaka issued the order in response to a petition from a Muslim activist accusing author Salam Azad of hurting religious sentiment in his banned book “Bhanga Math” (“Broken Temple”).
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Why is it whenever Muslim "religious sentiments" are "hurt" that people wind up in prison or dead? [Rhetorical question]

Luckily—from what I have been able to find, it looks as though author Salam Azad is in India, beyond the reach of the Bangladesh Shari'ah courts.

On the other hand, India is also full of crazed Muslims, so he still may not be very safe...

If Salam Azad and Ekhlas Uddin want to read a novel that would drive him and the Indonesian court to rants of wrath, they ought to open "We Three Kings," in which an American entrepreneur is pitted against a Saudi sheik. The novel was finished in 1980, long before anyone thought to "insult" Mohammad and Islam, and it does plenty of that, or before anyone thought to criminalize freedom of speech. The heroes who refuse to submit to the Saudi's will — neither pragmatically, nor politically, nor in terms of Islam (which means “submission”) — are an American entrepreneur, and a New York City police detective. The enablers who sic the Saudi mujahideen on them are the amoral, pragmatic denizens of the State Department. Who knew?

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Kings-Merritt-Fury-ebook/dp/B003YXXKP2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1338983238&sr=8-4

I imagine the author is shaking in his boots, waiting for that arrest warrant. Not likely.

If Salam Azad and Ekhlas Uddin want to read a novel that would drive them and the Bangladesh court to rants of wrath, they ought to open "We Three Kings," in which an American entrepreneur is pitted against a Saudi sheik. The novel was finished in 1980, long before anyone thought to "insult" Mohammad and Islam, and it does plenty of that, or before anyone thought to criminalize freedom of speech. The heroes who refuse to submit to the Saudi's will — neither pragmatically, nor politically, nor in terms of Islam (which means “submission”) — are an American entrepreneur, and a New York City police detective. The enablers who sic the Saudi mujahideen on them are the amoral, pragmatic denizens of the State Department. Who knew?

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Kings-Merritt-Fury-ebook/dp/B003YXXKP2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1338983238&sr=8-4

I imagine the author is shaking in his boots, waiting for that Bangladesh arrest warrant. More likely, the warrant would come from our very own enforcer of political correctness, the DHS, via some dhimmi American judge. This is what is meant by a "global" caliphate.

So many people insulting Mo...! What is going on????

Maybe president O. woll have to intervene and create mandatory instruction in schools and workplace as to how to speal about the subject. Nicely. Gently.

And spread the knowledge around to other countries. We are offending the Muslims!
They may get traumatized! The DSM 4 manual should have an insurance coverage under "Mohammad insult related psychological trauma" and provide Bahama vacations and seminars to the insured and insulted victims...

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