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Bangladesh: Muslims threaten journalists whose “freedom of expression breaks the limit”

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So many jihadi threats against journalists lately, and they’re all so easily solved: we should send to Bangladesh some of the “journalists” who consistently downplay or deny the jihad threat, demonize and smear those fighting against it, and churn out puff pieces about Islamic supremacists and terror-tied mosques — people such as Christiane Amanpour, Manya Brachear, Niraj Warikoo, Bob Smietana, Kari Huus, Dave Weigel, Michael Kruse, Lisa Wangsness, Anne Barnard, Dylan Baddour and the like. Then the Ansarullah Bangla Team would be assured of favorable coverage, and all would be well. I think it would be a wonderful gesture of outreach on behalf of the Western media. Start packing, folks.

Bangladesh Newspapers

“Bangladesh investigates alleged radical threat against media,” by Julhas Alam, Associated Press, October 20, 2015:

Bangladesh police said Tuesday they are investigating an email sent to various media organizations reportedly by a banned Islamist group threatening to topple “towering buildings” and telling the media not to run anything that goes against what it called jihad.

The email — sent after a series of deadly attacks targeting moderates and foreigners — contains a six-point directive that includes telling women to stay at home. It urges businesses to fire any female employees, and says that working outside of the home is a “punishable offense” according to Shariah, or Islamic law. It does not elaborate what would constitute appropriate punishment.

The letter is signed by the group Ansarullah Bangla Team, which is allegedly linked with several other groups that claimed responsibility for killing four atheist bloggers this year.

It threatens to kill more atheist bloggers, naming six in Bangladesh and nine others living abroad to be targeted as soon as they returned to the South Asian country. It said the list of 15 names is not final, warning that anyone who attempts to degrade Islam would face serious consequences and anyone supporting the atheist bloggers will not “be spared.”…

The email, received Monday by many Bangladeshi media outlets but not the AP, has renewed concerns about radical forces within Bangladesh….

The email was signed with the name Abdullah bin Salim, who said he is an Ansarullah spokesman. Authorities determined it had been sent from a computer in the southeastern district of Chittagong, according to local media that received the email including online news service bdnews24.com and the Dhaka Tribune newspaper. Ansarullah also allegedly has ties with al-Qaida’s branch in South Asia, launched last year in India.

“Our directives will be the law for you from today,” the email says, according to Bangladeshi news service bdnews24.com. “The consequences will be severe if you do not walk the path of Islam. Towering buildings will crumble to the ground, your heads will roll at the feet of the soldiers of Islam.”

It warns the media, “If your freedom of expression breaks the limit we have set, every news media unit should be prepared to face (the consequences) of our freedom to vent our anger,” according to bdnews24.com.

These fellows would love it in the West, where mainstream media journalists are careful not to break the limits to freedom of expression that Islamic supremacists have set.

It also says anyone working for a media organization that publishes reports condemning the “jihadis” for attacks “will be considered to be abettors of atheists and atheism, and they would be fully uprooted.”

Comments

  1. First it was the cartoons in the funny paper section now it’s the front page headlines that are censored. Well can’t say it hasn’t been coming and unfortunately those most blind in appeasement seem to be the least able to actually see the writing on the wall. Those in America such as CNN, The New York Slimes, ABC, NBC, etc etc etc will be the hardest hit by the censoring that they wield so well at this time once the s*** hits the fan! it will get to the point where you cannot even mention the word islamist without apologizing or else a stupid fatwa threat will be put out on your life. Thanks progressives!

  2. Ha, ha, yes.

    I did this to Ola Guerin, a detestable BBC reporter who bought into every manufactured Palestinian sob-story, and blamed the Israelis for everything. The limit was reached when she wept as Arafat’s death and complained the Israelis should not complIn about being bombed.

    So after a concerted campaign by a few like-minded, she was sent to Afghanistan. Still Muslims fighting, day in day out, but not an Israeli in sight to blame it on.

    Aton

    • Aton – see my post on the story of Lord Grade. I thought it was Zimbabwe she was banished to, but you are probably right. I knew it was a s***hole country. Looks like the bitch is back in town! The BBC can’t keep a valuable reporter such as her (sarc) away from Israel for too long.

  3. Surprising that the MSM won’t even come to bat for fellow Atheists.
    They cry a river if a Muslim refugee stubs a toe while trampling over the native EU residents.

    Yet, listen to the sound their (matter of fact) voices when they do their PC contortions in trying not to appear to show the slightest empathy toward victims of Muslim maniacs.

    Oops — the words Muslim and maniac are a bit redundant.

    • Rapidly becoming the 11th Commandment throughout the Western World. The unremitting efforts of Obama. Cameron, Merkel and Hollande to Islamise their countries is awesome. In the distant future, historians will be writing books about Europe´s decision to commit suicide by Islam.

      • It seems we western countries are so caught up and have been for a while in supposedly standing for what a country should be but that excuse is wearing thinner and thinner and looking more and more cowardly as if we are people without a spine which in fact a lot of us are especially our leaders. In any event that is how islamists see us. We need to give up the train of thought and realize that this is about our survival and start getting rid of our leaders who are found out to be traitors and add to that getting rid of traitorous media that plays into the appeasement game on demise of the West.

  5. Robert Spencer’s solution: “we should send to Bangladesh some of the “journalists” who consistently downplay or deny the jihad threat”

    It might teach them something if they visited some journalists in their Berzerkistan jails.

    However, the solution is to have editors who INSIST on hiring WELL-INFORMED journalists with degrees in Islamic studies.

    A general study of POLITICAL SCIENCE will not prepare a journalist for Islam. EDITORS! ARE YOU LISTENING?

    • Like having the wolves guard the sheep. Or having a useful idiot / liar write about how liars are not really liars.

      More proof of the decline in journalistic integrity – maybe the need to “appear to be the best news source” and be the first media outlet to release the story is top priority ( beat the competition at all cost )– in that case, throw the old who what where when how why and verification of sources out the door.

    • Your solution is well taken and might work if the editors weren’t controlled by the owners who I suspect are bought off to allow the things they do. Ironically with such lack of principles they themselves will be shown the door so to speak when the s*** hits the fan which is to say when islamists have more power in this country and that is being promoted daily thanks to liberal media.

  6. “EDITORS! ARE YOU LISTENING?” No never, that would be against our liberal world view.

  7. It warns the media, “If your freedom of expression breaks the limit we have set, every news media unit should be prepared to face (the consequences) of our freedom to vent our anger,” according to bdnews24.com.

    Uh-oh. Time to cow down and wait for the scary people to go away.

    (spoiler alert: they never do)

  8. Bangladesh: Muslims threaten journalists whose “freedom of expression breaks the limit”
    ………………………………….

    And what “breaks the limit”? Clearly, anything less than full support for the horror of imposition of full Shari’ah.

    And then we have the usual threats–toppling of tall buildings and beheadings–death and destruction, which is the very basis of Islam.

    More:

    The letter is signed by the group Ansarullah Bangla Team
    ………………………………….

    “Ansar” means “helpers”, and refers to those who helped the “Prophet” impose Shari’ah in Medina. The rest of the word, of course, refers to “Allah”. So these are Allah’s helpers–or enforcers–in Bangladesh.

  10. The Muslim Mafia issues more threats, the MSM cowers and covers for them, co-conspirators in the death of free speech.

    As Germany and Sweden attempt to close the doors after already admitting the Devil. Too late, and we won’t be hearing much about the murder and rape of Infidels, that is just their “culture”.

  11. Something tells me that atheists might be just looking at Christians vs Islamists a little bit differently these days. So much for progressive naivety or thinking you can talk logic when dealing with inbred cult maniacs.

    • The ‘all religions should be banned’ shallow thinkers might. Hardened atheists will continue to denigrate Christians because it’s safe to do so. For the noisy self-publicists it also keeps their brainwashed fans buying their books.

      More interestingly, if you have your ear to the ground you will hear that many ordinary Muslims are becoming sickened by Islam and are turning to Christ. I do believe that the great sifting of the wheat and the tares is just beginning.

  12. Journalists (the msm) throughout the world have shown themselves to be such lily livered cowards and quislings, these threats against them, together with the threats against them in Australia, move me not at all.

    They will continue in their blinkered stupidity, and not even the attack on the Charlie Hebdo journalists caused them to change their stance. They are utterly contemptible. Nothing will force these creatures to confront reality – they will go to their deaths still mouthing their PC/MC insanities. Screw them.

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