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In the view of these "orthodox Muslim fanatics," Muslim heretics have no religious or even human rights. From the Daily Star, with thanks to Twostellas:
Orthodox Muslim fanatics razed an Ahmadiyya mosque at Bhadughar in Brahmanbaria minutes before the Juma prayers yesterday.In the latest incident of persecution of the minority religious sect, the hate-filled mob vandalised and robbed Ahmadiyya houses, injuring at least 11, including six women.
One of the injured, Shabju Mia, 52, president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bhadughar chapter and imam of the mosque, is in critical condition and undergoing treatment at Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital....
Witnesses said local BNP leader and former ward commissioner Abdul Quddus led the raiders who were carrying a banner of International Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwat Committee, Bangladesh.
Quddus, with two local businessmen -- Sobhan and Hossain - acting as his lieutenants, arrived with about 100 people carrying sticks in front of the tin-roofed bamboo-walled mosque at 1:00pm and asked the congregation to let them in.
"They asked our people to vacate the mosque saying we'll not be permitted to worship there any more," Monjur Hossain, district amir of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat, told The Daily Star.
He quoted a leader of the fanatic mob as saying, "We'll set up a madrasa here. And you are no longer permitted to enter this place, as we've been warning you time and again."
At this point, some 900 people led by the imams of two nearby Sunni mosques joined the raiders in storming into the Ahmadiyya's mosque. Many of them were brandishing machetes and axes.
Witnesses said the bigots dispersed the Ahmadiyya men guarding the entrance hitting them with clubs and sticks. They then broke into the mosque and went on a rampage.
They lashed and struck at the devotees right and left. One of them hit Imam Shabju on the head with an axe when he was delivering the sermon. While some others threw stones from outside on the tin-roof to crush it, said witnesses.
"After wreaking havoc to their heart's content, they broke off and took away the bamboo-walls, leaving behind a ruin of a mosque," said the Ahmadiyya imam in apparent indignation and grief....
During the attack, hundreds of orthodox fanatics were standing around the mosque chanting anti-Ahmadiyya slogans.
Hearing the news of the raid, family members of the Ahmadiyya devotees rushed out of their homes running towards the mosque to save and rescue their dear ones.
But the raiders swooped on them with maces, machete, clubs and axes injuring Asma Begum, Shamsunnahar, Pushpa, Hossena Begum, Jahanara Khatun and Fatema Begum. Besides, a number of other women and girls received minor injuries as the bigots pelted stones at them.
The mob later plundered and vandalised the houses of 12 Ahmadiyya families.
While leaving the place, they threatened of harsher torture if the Ahmadiyyas do not leave the mosque and the area immediately.
Police arrived at the spot one hour after the incident but did not record any case. But they sat in discussion with the local elite, the influential and the leaders of anti-Ahmadiyya groups and asked them to stop recurrence of such violence....
In 1987, Sunni fanatics captured the main Ahmadiyya mosque in the district, drove away, excommunicated and confined them to a small area. "Since then, we've been worshipping in this small mosque," the Ahmadiyya imam said.
South Asian People's Unity against Fundamentalism and Communalism yesterday strongly condemned the attack and demanded immediate arrest and punishment of the raiders.
"It is a part and continuation of the countrywide torture and aggression on Ahmadiyyas that have been tarnishing the country's image," said Shahriar Kabir, general secretary of the organisation, demanding of the government immediate reconstruction of the mosque.
Posted by Robert at October 30, 2004 7:45 AM
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As covered recently in this website, Sunni muslim suicide bombers in Pakastan are going to Shi'ite mosques and attacking the congregation with machine guns, before detonating themselves next to pillars in an attempt to bring the roof down on those who have survived the initial onslaught.
The fact that in Bangladesh, the Sunni muslims
are only attacking the congrgation of other sects with axes, clubs and stones suggests that the Sunni muslims in that country must be "moderate muslims", of which we hear so much about these days.
Europe is facing mass immigration from Pakistan and Bangladesh in steadily increasing numbers. Does any Western government there make the attempt to screen these people for their beliefs, to discover whether they would consider doing the same thing in their new country of residency?
Of course not. After all, as those of a liberal persuasion would point out, it is racist to assume that they would, despite the fact that the issue here is a highly questionable ideology, and not race at all.
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at October 30, 2004 10:54 AM
They have already attacked a church in Britain and thrown stones at the church-goers. More church attacks will undoubtedly be seen once they get stronger in numbers.
Posted by: Suzan at October 30, 2004 12:16 PM
The Ahmadiyyas have simply been declared non-Muslims in Pakistan -- though the only Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize is the physicist Abdus Salam, a member of the Ahmadiyyas. In fact, if his name is eliminated because the Ahmaidiyyas are considered to be Infidels, then there are no Muslim Nobel Prize winners in any of the sciences (P. B. Medawar and Elias Khoury are, partly, of Lebanese Christian descent).
And in literature -- they had to do it, didn't they, in the interests of keeping everyone happy, Naguib Mahfouz, whose books will be the sort of thing you like if you like that sort of thing, a tedious roman fleuve, the fleuve in question being the muddy Nile, on whose banks Cairenes of the coffeehouses are born, and suck at their hubble-bubble pipe, and talk endlessly to one another, and read newspapers, and then die, and there is plenty of the wisdom of the ages to go around, but who can even judge whether or not the books are well or ill-written -- certainly the Swedish Committee members had no way of knowing, but they wanted to give an award to Arab literature, that much is clear, and so they chose, as they often do, a pig in a poke. Still, Mahfouz was the victim of an assasination attempt -- even after he received the Nobel -- for allowing as how peace with Israel might be possible.
This leaves the more-than-doubtful winners such as Shirin Ebadi (denounced by many Iranians as -- well, what would be the Farsi female equivalent of Uncle Tom to account for her pretense that Islam has "nothing to do" with the mistreatment of women in Iran) and of course the murderer Yassir Arafat. About whom, there is nothing to say -- except, just before he dies, where where where did you stash all the loot in the secret bank accounts? Puh-leeze tell us, the "Palestinian people" would like to get their hands on just some of it --- and who better to retrieve it than us, your loyalist loyalists. It will be quite a deathbed scene -- all that money, all that foreign aid from the EU, stashed away, or invested in real estate. And not even Suha knows where it is, or how to get it. Perhaps the Swiss bankers will simply keep it -- in their time-honored tradition. Ordinarily one would be against this behavior. But in this case...
Posted by: Hugh at October 30, 2004 4:21 PM
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