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Bangladesh: Muslims attack Christian pastor with knife, attempt to slit his throat

Oct 6, 2015 11:56 am By Robert Spencer

“Police said the attackers are yet to be identified but suspect they could be members of a fundamentalist group.” No kidding, really?

Not a Christian fundamentalist group, either.

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

More “dialogue” needed, eh, U.S. Catholic bishops? How many jihadis have you turned from their ways by that “dialogue,” Bishop McManus? A bit of “dialogue” will erase that exhortation to beheading right out of the Qur’an, now, won’t it, Bishop Farrell? If we can just sit down and talk with the Islamic jihadis, they’ll shower us in flowers, right, Bishop Soto? The only people you all have to be concerned about are those who don’t fall in line and confess that Islam is the Religion of Peace, eh?

Bangladesh crime scene

“Christian priest attacked by armed men in Bangladesh,” PTI, October 6, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

Dhaka: A Christian priest in Bangladesh has survived an attempt on his life by three suspected Islamists who attacked him in his house after pretending to want to learn about Christianity, days after two foreigners were killed by armed men in attacks claimed by ISIS terror group.

52-year-old Luke Sarker, the pastor of Faith Bible Church, suffered injuries when three men yesterday attacked him with a knife and tried to slit his throat at his home in the northwestern district of Pabna, police said.

The attackers aged 25-30 had entered the pastor’s house pretending to be enthusiastic learner of Christianity.

The assailants fled the scene leaving behind their motorbike as people in the neighbourhood rushed when Sarker, also a homeopath practitioner, screamed for help.

Police said the attackers are yet to be identified but suspect they could be members of a fundamentalist group.

“We have launched an investigation. Until now it appears to be part of an effort to create political unrest,” special superintendent of police’s criminal investigation department Shahriar Rahman Kajol told PTI.

The motorbike left by the attackers outside the house was carrying a registration number having a fake address, Kajol said.

Sarker had joined as a pastor of a local church three months ago and used to depend on the meager donation of the church and his homeopathy practice.

The attack on the pastor came a week after an Italian and a Japanese were killed in the country facing violence by hard-line Islamic groups.

A Japanese businessman Hosi Koniyo was gunned down on October 3 in northwestern Rangpur five days after an Italian aid official Cesare Tavella was killed in the capital Dhaka sparking an international uproar.

The fatal attacks on the two foreigners were claimed by Islamic State group though it was refuted by Bangladesh’s government, which tended to blame the Opposition for trying to destabilise the country….

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  1. Truth Seeker says

    Oct 6, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    Killing Non Muslims will get the Reward of Janaah. Abettors of these Activities will be feeling proud for the Supremacistic achievement. though some of them pretend as condemning.

  2. Ex-muslim says

    Oct 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    This is pastor should immediately leave his home and move to somewhere else now because they will surely try to kill him again. Their failure to kill him in their first attempt will be taken as a challenge
    to be overcome and their second attempt will very likely be successful so he has to leave now.

    • Karen says

      Oct 6, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      I wish he could come to the US, along with all those persecuted by Islam.

      • RG says

        Oct 7, 2015 at 11:48 am

        Don’t forget, under O-bomb-a, the Christians aren’t allowed political asylum, just Mudslimes!!!!!

  3. Rob says

    Oct 6, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    .. and I’ve just agreed to sponsor another B’desh family through World Vision!

    • Baucent says

      Oct 7, 2015 at 3:24 am

      World Vision will definitely be on the hit list, as they will be regarded as “missionaries”.

  4. Angemon says

    Oct 6, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Let’s see: atheists bloggers, Christian pastors… Are there any Jews in Bangladesh? If so, they might want to start looking over their shoulder (more often).

  5. Baucent says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 3:22 am

    Bangladesh is falling into the same Islamist abyss that Pakistan is already in. Expect these attacks to grow while the government lives in denial that there is a local branch of Islamic State in it’s midst. Tourism, if they have any will evaporate, foreign investment will flee, such are the blessings Islamists bring to a country.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Oct 7, 2015 at 4:18 am

    It is a great pity for India – as it also is for Israel – that population exchange, at the time of partition, when both countries achieved Independence, was not complete.

    That is: *all* Muslims should have been evicted from what became the Jewish state of Israel (and in 1967 all Muslims should have been evicted from the lands that Israel won in self-defensive warfare, lands that had in fact been part of Mandatory Palestine and *also* happen to be ancestral land of the House of Israel, chockfull of ancient Jewish historical and sacred sites). Without a Muslim Fifth Column Israel’s self-defence against Jihad would be a lot more straightforward.

    AND: ALL Muslims should have been driven out of India into ‘Pakistan’, the territories seized by Islam that later split (in a mass-murderous civil war) into ‘Pakistan’ and “Bangladesh’; and ALL non-Muslims then resident in ‘east’ and ‘west’ “Pakistan’ should have upped stakes and gone to Hindu-majority India. NO Musiims in modern, independent India; NO non-Muslims in ‘Pakistan’ (East or West). Then India, not dragged down by a sullen and dangerous and ever-growing Muslim Fifth Column, would have gone ahead by leaps and bounds; and Pakistan and Bangladesh would have descended into the Void even faster than they have already done…but there would have been no innocent Infidels within their grasp to be tormented, exploited, degraded, raped and generally treated like garbage. And Indian self-defence against the Jihad waged by ‘Pakistan’ would have been infinitely simpler; just a matter of massively fortifying and patrolling the borders and borderlands to repel all ‘raids’ and attempted invasion.

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