There is no perpetrator named in this story, and while it is possible that it was not a jihad attack, Hindus in Bangladesh are under constant pressure and live in fear of Islamic supremacists and jihadists. Even if this temple were set on fire by “right-wing extremists,” the ongoing low-level persecution of Hindus by Muslims in Bangladesh continues. But remember: to notice would be “Islamophobic.”
“7 idols burnt as criminals set temple afire,” from the Daily Star, April 3 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Seven idols were burnt as criminals set a Hindu temple ablaze at Adhuna village in Gournadi upazila of the district early yesterday.
After worshipping, the priest left the tin-shed Durga-Kali temple at 10:30pm on Monday, said Satindranath Chakraborty, president of Senerhut Durga-Kali Mandir management committee.
In the morning, the worshippers found the burnt idols of Durga, Sarswati, Laxmi, Kartik, Ganesh, Ashur and Kali and informed the police.
A gang set the temple to fire by pouring petrol at midnight, said Satindranath Chakraborty.
A case was filed in connection with the incident, said Abul Kalam, officer in-charge of Gournadi police station.
Jerry says
A phobia is an unreasonable fear of something usually either unknown or not fully known and understood.
For more than 1400 years Islam has had a genocidal agenda towards and against the followers of every single other religion and towards atheists.
There is, therefore, no such thing as Islamophobia. There is, however, a reasonable expectation, that at any particular time or place no non-Muslim on this planet is immune from being attacked and possibly murdered by adherents of the religion of hate called Islam, and furthermore, because Islam is so steeped in intolerance, most Muslims are also potential targets of self-righteous, hatred filled other Muslim adherents of othe Muslim sects that may be slightly different in some views from their own.
I am not a believer in Satan because. in my view Satan (originally an obstacle or hindrance in ancient Hebrew) is just the evil in minds of some people, especially those indoctrinated in minds anti-social followers of what are hate-filled religions and similar ideologies.
The “Allah” of Mohammed and the Qur’an is not God. It is a man made invisible ideological Idol. Islamic practice of Muslims prostrating themselves and praying five times a day in the direction of a shrine of stone in Mecca, originially a Polythestic pagan shrine, sanctified by the unfounded and false “revelations” of a self appointed false prophet.
A proper analysis of the Qura’n, Hadith and Sira reveals that Islam is the invention of a manipulative evil man, who created a religion of hate, mainly as a recruitment manual for thugs he needed for his plundering raids.
Because most humans are not inherently born evil only hard-core criminals would have joined Mohammed the plunderer in his plundering, raping, murdering and enslaving raids against mainly innocent people.
He needed the propaganda that would de-legitimise all those who did not join him as partners in crime as “Kaffirs” or, collectively “Kuffr”. He falsely branded them as the enemies of his invented deity “Allah”, and thus it became easier from him to recruit “useful-Idiots” followers.
The invention of “martyrdom” and the promise of “express-ticket to heaven” for those who died on Jihad was an ingenious answer to those who asked: “But what if instead of returning with booty, treasure, slaves and sex slaves from the Jihad, I shall die in battle?”
Who amongst the “useful-Idiots” could dispute that false promise when no one who ever died on Jihad was ever recorded as having come back to life to dispute the false promise?
Jerry says
“7 idols burnt as criminals set temple afire”
Allah is, of course, immune from being damaged or destroyed by fire.
This is not because the Islamic “Allah” is not and Idol – a false God.
It is because “Allah” is an invisible Idol, made of nothing but falshoods invented by Mohammed.
The only force, the only fire that can destroy that Idol – false God labelled “Allah” is the truth.