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Bangladesh: Muslim mob attacks Christian couple for leaving Islam

Apr 5, 2015 5:48 pm By Robert Spencer

BANGLADESH_-Muslim mob“The mob also broke the fence of their home and said they would chase them out of the village for leaving Islam, according to Christians familiar with the situation.”

Muhammad said: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-`ashriyyah, Al-Ja`fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.” There is only disagreement over whether the law applies only to men, or to women also – some authorities hold that apostate women should not be killed, but only imprisoned in their houses until death.

So if this mob threatened the couple only with exile, rather than death, it must have been made up of moderates.

“Bangladesh Christian Couple Attacked Over Baptism,” BosNewsLife, March 31, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BosNewsLife)– A tense calm has returned to a village in northern Bangladesh after an angry mob attacked a Christian couple because they were baptised, while a Christian who carried out the baptism was beaten and lost his job, BosNewsLife learned.

Details of the February 2 violence in Gobindagonj in Gaibandha district has just emerged with police warning local residents to halt the violence. “Such courageous displays of support for minority Christians are unusual from Bangladeshi authorities,” commented Barnabas Fund, an advocacy group supporting Christians in Islamic countries.

Police reportedly warned “that in Bangladesh every citizen has the right to practise their faith.”

The married couple was attacked when returning home after being baptised, according to investigators. Local residents were seen attacking the man, identified only as Samuel, and his wife. One Muslim imam apparently slapped Samuel’s wife on the face in front of their two young children.

The mob also broke the fence of their home and said they would chase them out of the village for leaving Islam, according to Christians familiar with the situation….

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  1. Wellington says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    Demonstrating once again that, among the major religions of the world, Islam is by far best suited for the barbaric element of mankind. And anyone asserting to the contrary is, I submit, either an ignoramus or a liar.

    • PRCS says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 7:30 pm

      Indeed. Ignorance of the issue or deceit are the only two possibilities for those who deny the truth about Islam.

      And the phrase “Muslim scholar” is a quite a oot, too.

      • Wellington says

        Apr 5, 2015 at 7:50 pm

        Yes, the term, “Muslim scholar,” in a world which had its head on straight, would be accorded the same respect as the term, “Nazi scholar.” Unfortunately, the world does not have its head on straight and this is precisely why Islam is still extended a respect it most certainly does not deserve.

        Ignorance is the greatest ally of Islam. Though not religious myself, I would assert this of no other major faith. Not even remotely.

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Here’s the latest by the excellent Douglas Murray, questioning WHY Western journos and politicos refuse to mention the ‘I’ word, when it comes to persecution of Christians throughout the Middle East and Asia:

    “Can anyone explain why the West gives fanciful excuses for what these killers are doing, despite their perfectly clear explanations for what they are doing?”

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5496/christians-dying

    • particolor says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 8:25 am

      OIL !! 🙁 As Black as Islam ……

  3. Joseph says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    Man are these guys UGLY!!! I bet that when they @uck a goat, the goat makes THEM wear a bag over their head.
    Isn’t inbreeding great?

    • Godwin says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 10:52 pm

      Look like a bunch of beasts. Let God punishes them with more floods n the rest of the free world should not donate a single cent to help them

  4. Sam says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    Can any sane person give an example to show that Islam is a religion pf peace?

    • Joseph says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 8:35 pm

      No….no ….and NO
      There isn’t any.
      Stop trying, you will be wasting your time.

    • Nimrod says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 9:12 pm

      Muslims would tell you that once they kill or convert all the infidels then everything will be peaceful because there are no more infidels to kill. That is their utopian fantasy and the only basis I know of for claiming that there’s anything peaceful about Islam.

      Just like communism, the Utopianism doesn’t work. Even if everyone were muslim, Sunnis, Shias, and other smaller sects would be killing each other as they’d just declare each other hypocrites, apostates, or whatever, and thus infidels who should be killed.

      So even in an all-muslim world, Islam would still be the social blank check for endless warfare as the answer to everything is to declare others to be infidels and then kill them. Latest example (warning, gruesome images) http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/04/05/yawn-islamic-state-isis-jihadists-are-now-beheading-palestinian-refugees-in-damascus-refugee-camp/

    • particolor says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 8:39 am

      Mo Hamhead gave water to a Dog !!

  5. Darren says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Yet liberals are obsessed with Christians oppressing people.

  6. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    The crowd of 1.5 billion Muslims in the world have at least one thing in common.
    Each of them walks this world ALONE.

    Islam is about duty and image.
    If someone decides to leave Islam, it is a poignant reminder of just how ALONE each individual Muslim truly is.

    • PRCS says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 7:33 pm

      How’s that typhoon?

      • Jay Airahs says

        Apr 5, 2015 at 9:42 pm

        Muslims honor kill their own daughters.
        Every day opportunistic Muslims turn on each other because the political system of Islam is rotted to the core.

        Don’t mistake the piety of the Islamic mob for spirituality.
        Muslims love death because they hate life.
        Duty is just an excuse Muslims use to rat on each other.
        When a Muslim prays head to butt in a crowded mosque they are truly ALONE.
        At some point it all sinks in.

  7. jay says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    I love that the biggest surprise of anyone in the article is that the police told the mob to cool it. Those are some true Christians, that would risk so much.

  8. Rob says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    Obama’s comment about ‘some folks in a deli’ is the most callous utterance from a political figure since Marie Antoinette.
    No small coincidence that both utterances involved Paris.
    I loath Obama and his messianic mindset.

    • Betty says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 8:49 pm

      don’t know PRCS. BUT I have read he wants 100 million by the time he leaves office. and he has what another year and a half or better.

  9. PRCS says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    I wonder how many Bangladeshi Muslims Uncle Sugar has brought into our country as “refugees”.

  10. DCWatson says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    Look at that grill. He could eat an ear of corn through a picket fence.

  11. somehistory says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    What these people need are some mirrors….we could hope, but in vain, that seeing their ugliness might make them ill enough to keel over.
    The wild beast of islam is ugly, absolutely hideous, and makes the countenance of satan’s worshippers the same. Their hearts are ugly and they have no conscience.
    I pray daily that it will soon be time for God to “do His will on earth as He does in heaven (Matthew 6:9).”
    Then all of this evil will be brought to an end.

  12. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    Islam is about image and lies.

    If every Bible was confiscated and the all records of the Ten Commandments were destroyed, Christianity would still survive.
    Even though Hollywood hype tries to confiscate with a revised take to make itself a profit and Islam tries to erase all trace in order to substitute a false prophet, Christianity would still survive.

    Even if all the churches were outlawed, the basic message of Christianity would still survive.
    Christianity lives on the inside.

    • marco says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 8:27 pm

      Well said and a message of hope on this Easter Sunday.

    • somehistory says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 10:03 pm

      I agree. We know God’s Standards, His Principles and Commands and His Laws are written in our individual hearts.

  13. jewdog says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    Didn’t the Beatles do a song and a gig in Bangladesh when there was a big flood there? Maybe it’s time for a contemporary group to do a number for all the religious terror and repression there, as if any of our pop stars cared.

    • Semeru says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 11:55 pm

      No, the Beatles never played in Bangladesh, But there was 2 benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows were organised to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related Bangladesh atrocities.

      The two Madison Square Garden shows raised US$243,418.50, which was given to UNICEF to administer on 12 August 1971. By December, Capitol Records presented a cheque to Apple Corps for around $3,750,000 for advance sales of the Concert for Bangladesh live album.

      Aside from complaints regarding the high retail price for the three-record set, particularly in Britain, a result of the government’s refusal to waive its tax surcharge. Controversy soon surrounded the project’s fundraising. Because the event had not been registered as a UNICEF benefit beforehand, and was therefore not granted tax-exempt status, most of the money generated was held in an Internal Revenue Service escrow account for ten years

  14. Semeru says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 12:07 am

    At the time of the concerts there was no mention of Genocide

    The genocide in Bangladesh began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight,] as West Pakistan began a military crackdown on the Eastern wing of the nation to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination. During the nine-month-long Bangladesh war for independence, members of the Pakistani military and supporting militias killed between 300,000[–3,000,000 people and raped between 200,000–400,000 Bangladeshi women in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape.

    The USA supported West Pakistan

  15. duh_swami says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 6:35 am

    A Mahoundian played the part of Jesus in the ‘Killing Jesus’ movie…Ponder that for a while…

  16. Dr. Alaya Mukty Akhtar says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 7:44 am

    It is wrong to attack some one who leaves Islam.
    It is wrong even to abuse some one if they leave Islam.
    I know Islam don’t allow any one to leave Islam.
    BUT remember, this law will apply if the country runs by Sharia Law just like Saudi Arab.
    It is totally wrong in Bangladesh.
    These criminals must be punished those who breaks the law of that country.
    Bangladesh have capital punishment and these beasts must be put to death penalty those who attack some one by changing their religion.

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