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Bangladesh: Christian clergyman arrested as “threat” to Islamic pilgrimage

Jan 14, 2016 10:55 pm By Robert Spencer

Any of Rev. Gilbert Biswas’ Western colleagues would have told him: he was needlessly provoking Muslims. He was poking them in the eye. He should show more respect, which means curtail everything that Muslims find offensive. If you do something that Muslims find offensive, like preaching Christianity, you’re just needlessly causing offense. You’re harming the dialogue. Surrender and submission are the way of Western clergymen. They’re the way of the future.

BANGLADESH_Muslim pilgrimage

“Christian clergyman arrested as a ‘threat’ to the Bishwa Ijtema Islamic pilgrimage,” Asia News, January 13, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Dhaka (AsiaNews) – Bangladeshi police detained Rev Gilbart Biswas for preaching the Gospel and selling religious booklets during Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest Islamic pilgrimage in the world after the Hajj, which is held every year in Tongi (near Dhaka), on the banks of the Turag River.

The clergyman was taken into custody last Saturday. Deployed to provide security to the event, police justified his arrest on “security grounds” because of his “suspicious behaviour”. One officer said that “no one can proclaim the Gospel on other religious sites.”

In reality, the Constitution of Bangladesh guarantees every citizen the right to profess, practice and propagate their faith.

“We are very concerned about the arrest of Rev Gilbart Biswas,” said a fellow clergyman, anonymous for security reasons. “He did not commit any crime and was arrested illegally by the police, which has not yet released him.”

Now the “judge wants to read the booklet Rev Gilbart Biswas distributed,” he added. “After reading it, he will give his verdict.”

The Bishwa Ijtema (Global congregation or World Meeting in Bangla) is an annual event organised by the Tabligi Jamaat (Society for the spread of the faith), a transnational religious and non-political movement that seeks the spiritual reform of Islam….

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  1. Rob says

    Jan 14, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    Why do I support Bangladeshi children via a Christian charity.
    Why did India come to the rescue of Bangladesh when its coreligionists from West Pakistan were committing mass rape and murder in the 1970s.
    Is there any Muslim country capable of honorable action?

    • cliffface says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 12:29 am

      Honourable action in the mohammedan world is not like honourable action in the rest of the world.
      Honour is not about doing something good or fair like in the western world for moslems.
      Honour to a mohammedan is about personal pride only.
      Honour killings are common place among the savages.
      Honour is about blowing yourself up or shooting or stabbing innocent people the “disbelievers”.
      To find honour in the islamic world just look for those who have murdered the most innocents.
      The names of the schools in Gaza or the mosques in pakistan or iran will answer your question best.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 15, 2016 at 1:06 am

        Good post.

        • cliffface says

          Jan 15, 2016 at 9:07 am

          No it is a horrible post.
          I am attacking people I do not even know and only have a knowledge based on what has been fed me by mainstream media.
          The same people that have had us all hating Russia or China because we need an enemy or threat to keep an audience.
          I have lost my honour because I have allowed myself to get angry and as offensive as I can be to people I may never meet.
          It shows how easily we humans can laugh at those being manipulated to the constraints of religions or state control such as with communism and dictatorships and claim our own ultra corrupt systems are so much better and almost unchallengeable. .
          So much hate and yet I do not hate anyone at all.
          If only the road ahead was not so dark and I just as you wish also did not sense the tidal waves of anger coming my way.
          I apologise to all of humanity if you think what happens in the future is my fault but I will always think it is someone else’s fault anyway won’t “WE”.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 15, 2016 at 8:54 pm

          Actually, I should have known that a good post by the generally appalling clifface would have been intended as sarcasm.

          But whether he likes it or not he was right the first time–the values of Islam are very different from those of the civilized West–they are diametrically opposed, in fact.

          And the idea that the MSM is telling the truth about the savagery of Islam is just laughable–all too often, they do what they can to whitewash that foul creed.

    • DFD says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 5:57 am

      Rob: “Is there any Muslim country capable of honorable action?”

      NO!

      Delando Islam

    • Jerry says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 9:44 pm

      Muslims are offended by the mere existence of non-Muslims.

      To avoid offending Muslims, if you are non-Muslim you must either allow them to murder you, convert to Islam or commit suicide.

      HBO is proactive in promoting that kind of “dialogue”

      So are the PC Eurabians and even the Pope is doing his best to facilitate such “dialogue”.

  2. spartan says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 5:55 am

    Further confirmation that Bangladesh is a leader in the Muslim world in adhering ever more closely to the example of the Prophet-may-peace-be-upon-him.

    Cracking down on the spread of “disbelief” follows legislation in 2014 to lower the legal age of marriage for girls to 16 from 18, bringing it closer into line with the example of the Prophet who took Ayisha as his bride when she was 6, and consummated the marriage when she was 9.

    This also provides economic benefit, since Bangla spinsters of 18 are a burden to their families who must provide an escalating amount of dowry to marry them off – and puts money earlier into the hands of the grooms to purchase flights to Europe in search of refugee status to escape the “war zone” at home. Or perhaps just to upgrade their cell phones.

  3. Charli Main says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 7:14 am

    One officer said that “no one can proclaim the Gospel on other religious sites

    Unless that gospel is Islam, of course. No churches in Saudi Arabia but Saudi Arabian sponsored Mosque building in Christian countries is halal The destruction, defilement and desecration of Christian religious sites throughout Muslim occupied Christian lands, is halal but destroying a Mosque is racist, bigoted, xenophobic and Islamophobic.
    Muslims are two faced hypocrites. I have nothing but absolute contempt for them.

    • spartan says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 8:01 am

      On the contrary, you should applaud them, for they have shown the way in dealing with the current wave of Muslim migration; they have accepted exactly “0” migrants thus far from the Muslim “war zones”.

      Western nations should follow the example of the most holy protector of Mecca and express immediately their solidarity with the Saudi government in its anti-immigrant policy.

      It would at the very least generate humor value as we would witness the dilemma of PC brigades worldwide having to decide whether Saudi was “Islamophobic”!

  4. dragaozao says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 8:36 am

    Islam is an ideology. Ideologies don’t reform. They died. Example? Soviet Union and comunism. Islam will follow the same route. But, like all monolithic ideologies, leaving behind a trail of blood. Western “liberals” will have the same fate.

  5. Mark says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 10:18 am

    Please view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary. It really exposes Islam. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

    • Angemon says

      Jan 15, 2016 at 12:11 pm

      For completion’s sake, here is its companion (the fist part of Dr. Werner’s lecture):

  6. Dan Jones says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    Of the 454 suicide bombers last year, 450 were Muslim… so who is the “threat”?

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  7. gravenimage says

    Jan 15, 2016 at 8:46 pm

    Bangladesh: Christian clergyman arrested as “threat” to Islamic pilgrimage

    Bangladeshi police detained Rev Gilbart Biswas for preaching the Gospel and selling religious booklets during Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest Islamic pilgrimage in the world
    …………………………….

    Muslims attacking and even murdering other Muslims is not considered a threat, but a peaceful Christian preaching and selling booklets *is*.

    More:

    In reality, the Constitution of Bangladesh guarantees every citizen the right to profess, practice and propagate their faith.
    …………………………….

    *In reality*, any such supposed safeguards for Infidels in Dar-al-Islam are not worth the paper they are printed on.

    The Constitution of Bangladesh was written in English and wasn’t even translated into Bengali until 1987.

    By the way, the entire constitution–not that it was being much adhered to, anyway–was essentially invalidated in 1988 with the passage of the Eighth Amendment, which declared Islam as the state religion.

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