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 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.”