This persecution is ongoing and international, but few take any notice or care very much, because Christians are not today’s fashionable victims. “Islamophobia is the biggest threat to peace in the world today.” — U.S. “academic” Kevin Barrett in Iran’s state-run PressTV
“Home of Catholic family torched in Bangladesh,” by Sumon Corraya for Asia News, March 3:
Dhaka (AsiaNews) – An arson attack has destroyed the home of a Catholic family in the village of Goualliapara, belonging to the parish of Dharenda (Diocese of Dhaka). The incident occurred on the night of March 1 last. The four people present – including two children – were able to escape and get to safety. The police have opened an investigation, but the culprits have not yet been identified. According to residents of the area, they could be Islamic fundamentalists. However, the motive of land issues, the source of conflict in many parts of Bangladesh, has not been excluded.
The house was home to Shipra Palma, her two children and mother-in-law. Her husband, Ben Gomes, emigrated abroad in search of work. Her father died six months ago. “Three days before the fire – the woman tells AsiaNews – we saw some people unknown to us behind our house. They asked around if we were Christians. We feel that this attack was premeditated by them. We have lost in everything, including our Bible and the crucifix. All we have left are the cloths on our backs”.
Nirmol Rozario, general secretary of the Bangladesh Christian Association, belongs to the same parish of the victims and immediately went to the site as soon as he heard the news. He told AsiaNews: “The two rooms of the house were destroyed in less than eight minutes. The attackers may have used gunpowder to light the fire. We demand an exemplary punishment for those involved in this incident. We just want to live in peace”.
Fr. Kamal Corraya , parish priest of St Joseph’s Church in Dharenda, visited the site along with a police officer. “We are very shocked about what happened. This is an attack against the minority, and could be the hands of Islamic extremists. They are very powerful in the area”.
For several months now cases of theft, violence and vandalism of various kinds are a daily occurrence in Bangladesh, which threaten public safety and public order. In this context the arson attack in Goualliapara could be the result of such a climate, rather than a real attack on a religious basis. Further proof of this is another conflict, which broke out in the village of Shindurhata (Dinajpur) yesterday. Here the Christian community is at the center of clashes with the Bengali Muslim community, over land issues, a long-standing problem in the country. Fr. Ujjol Rozario, parish priest of the area, is trying to resolve the situation in a peaceful manner, with the help of the police and local authorities.
mortimer says
And Obama is keeping his promise to stand with the Muslims.
Roger says
Obama is an islamist
Reality Check says
Bloody Muslim cowards! They saw a house full of lonely, unprotected Christian women whose men are either dead or abroad and torched the only roof above their heads. Hope they rot in hell!
Champ says
“Muslims torch home of Catholic family”
What evil savages! Where islam and company go, hell follows …
And of course this savagery is allah approved; more proof that allah is NOT the God of the Bible:
http://www.kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html
Wellington says
Out of curiosity, today I went to the Wikipedia article on Jihad Watch. It mentioned that Robert Spencer is a Catholic (why I had to wonder), that JW is looked upon by many as “Islamophobic” (as though such a descriptive merits serious consideration), that Spencer is intent (God forbid) upon portraying Islam as, to put it mildly, full of problematical directives (never mind the truth of this claim by Spencer), that JW has been “repeatedly criticized by numerous academics” (read here those paragons to dispassioned objectivity like Esposito and Armstrong) and that JW has received funding by donors “supporting the Israeli right” (implicit here is that the “right” of any Western nation should be suspected while the “left” of any Western nation can, only and ever, be acting out of pure, enlightened and noble motives).
I mention all this because, once again, the real problem is not Islam, but rather the excuse makers here in the West, like Wikidpedia, the Southern Poverty Law Center, The New York Times, the BBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, CBC, the Middle Eastern Studies Department at Columbia University, Obama, Cameron, et al.
Well, I’m sure all those who realize a word like “Islamophobia” reeks of hypocrisy, deceptiveness and artificiality get the idea. As for those who don’t, there is little hope for you by now, the only variable here being your ignorance or your mendacity.
eib says
The Melkite See is in communion with the Vatican.
Spencer is not a “Catholic” in the sense you claim.
He is, above all else, a Christian of orthodox belief– he knows Athanasius and believes the creed.
This fold is far bigger than Rome.
Ron Klein says
Muslims – Violent losers.
We all know how violent religion and culture they have.
but
What about losers?
I’m not talking now about Israel.
For the last 200 years no Muslim army won a war against western army.
All declerations about “victory” come from terror organizations or popular uprising.
no army…. and they always come to battle with numerical superiority.
What about Muslims advancing human knowledge through science?
Well, 1000 years ago Muslims were ahead of European.
but
you can count with your fingers of one hand how many inventions they gave us for the last 700 years….!!!!!!
This is sad.
so, blame Israel.
joeb says
All in a days work for Islam. From Religion of Peace:
“Islamic fanatics burned nuns, slit the throats of dozens of students
at a school, murdered members of a polio vaccination team, bombed restaurants and markets, massacred over a hundred villagers and
even waded into a train station to stab over thirty Chinese
commuters to death – all in the past week. People were slaughtered
explicitly in the name of Allah in a dozen other countries as well.
At the same time, Muslims are the only people who attach the
word “phobia” to the end of their religion and pretend that it
is irrational to even think that Islam is different or dangerous.”
medina says
Muzzo’s fellow traveler here to defend the indefensible, and to question the obvious. And now it’s a dogwhistle for “racism” in the deep south. Lawdy!
gravenimage says
test
gravenimage says
The four people present – including two children – were able to escape and get to safety. The police have opened an investigation, but the culprits have not yet been identified. According to residents of the area, they could be Islamic fundamentalists. However, the motive of land issues, the source of conflict in many parts of Bangladesh, has not been excluded.
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This is, actually, of a piece—in many parts of Dar-al-Islam, the proximate cause of violence against Christians is seizing their land.
But the only reason this is an issue is that violent, supremacist Muslims have little to fear from their Islamic governments, which rarely punish such land grabs, and never severely.
More:
The house was home to Shipra Palma, her two children and mother-in-law. Her husband, Ben Gomes, emigrated abroad in search of work. Her father died six months ago. “Three days before the fire – the woman tells AsiaNews – we saw some people unknown to us behind our house. They asked around if we were Christians. We feel that this attack was premeditated by them…
………………………………
As poster Reality Check notes, these “brave Mujehedin” waited until there were no men in the house to attack—mot even men hobbled by old age and the strictures of dhimmitude…
Sickening.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “…the culprits have not yet been identified. According to residents of the area, they could be Islamic fundamentalists. However, the motive of land issues, the source of conflict in many parts of Bangladesh, has not been excluded.” and “another conflict, which broke out in the village of Shindurhata (Dinajpur) yesterday. Here the Christian community is at the center of clashes with the Bengali Muslim community, over land issues, a long-standing problem in the country.”
The story is reported as if the attacks on Christians (or, as it might be, on some other occasion, on Buddhists, or on Hindus; in some cases, in Bangladesh, Muslims have gone on a spree against *all three groups of non-Muslims simultaneously**) are *either* motivated by Islam *or* by ‘land issues’. The same thing is done in reports on Muslim attacks upon Christians in northern and central Nigeria – it’s represented as if it’s “herders vs farmers”.
But why can’t it be *both* about land grab *and* jihad? I’d say that it is Jihad precisely in order to kill or drive out non-Muslims and *take their land*. Jihad is *all about* seizing and controlling ‘turf’.
In some of the shrieked accusations of blasphemy in Pakistan, the motive has been quite transparent: for a Muslim, or the entire Muslim mob, to attack one or more non-Muslims and/ or destroy their livelihood or seize their property. When Rimsha Masih was accused of blasphemy, the Mohammedan Mob used this as an excuse to drive a whole neighbourhood of Christians out of house and home…betcha that Muslims now occupy that neighbourhood, squatting on the proceeds of theft-by-violence-and-lies.
Islam *is* a land grab – a *massive* land grab. Islam is *all about* coveting and grabbing other people’s stuff: bodies, plunder, and *territory*.
Ex-Muslim now-Christian Patrick Sookhdeo covers this lust for temporal territory – and the ways that Muslims rationalise it, and the many insidious methods (in addition to or as an adjunct to openly-declared armed invasion and conquest ) by which they set out to get and control turf for the allah gang, in his book “Faith, Power and Territory”. Note well – “power and territory”. Another book, “Islam in Britain” is a case study of the process at work.
Another ex-Muslim, Sam Solomon, covers the same subject in his book “Al-Hijra: the Islamic Doctrine of Immigration” and in a shorter book, “The Mosque and Its Role in Society” (the mosque being, so to speak, the focal point for expansion of the Ummah – and its control over and islamisation of territory – in any given locale).
Defcon 4 says
Just like the Jews who were forced out of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt who lost most all of the properties left behind without any compensation whatsoever, or the Christians of Iraq and Syria today. I’d extend GI’s comment about hating islam to include muslimes, the scum who implement the Jew hating, xenophobic, misogynistic, totalitarian creed which is islam.
exsgtbrown says
However, the motive of land issues, the source of conflict in many parts of Bangladesh, has not been excluded.
Islam’s grand plan is land confiscation….
thomas_h says
Whether or not the proof will arrive it is perfectly legitimate, rational AND practical to assume it was the moslem savages who, again for the Xty-thousand time in row, have committed the crime. It is as legitimate and rational as assuming that if the Bangladeshi authorities are unable to identify the culprits, or discover they were Catholics (or Buddhists, Hindu, or one of the lost tribes of Israel..) they, being good muhammedans, are lying.
Listen Watchwatch:
If it walks like muhammedan, talks like muhammedan, looks like muhammedan, smiles like muhammedan then it is a …liar. Just as his revolting “prophet”…whatshisname…
But, unless you are a complete idiot, you must know it.