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Bangladesh police on jihad murderers: “people think they have done the right thing”

Jun 10, 2016 2:48 am By Robert Spencer

“‘In general, people think they have done the right thing, that it’s not unjustifiable to kill’ the bloggers, gay people and other secularists, he added.” In the face of the popular support for these jihad murders, the government is capitulating: “As a result, even as the government has condemned the killings, it has urged writers not to criticize Islam and warned that advocating ‘unnatural sex’ is a criminal offense.” In other words, just stay quiet and you’ll be OK: give the jihadis what they want and maybe, just maybe, they won’t kill us.

“The Bangladeshi authorities say that they now believe they have identified the top leadership of the two groups they say are responsible, and that they are preparing to round them up. Only when the leaders are caught, they caution, will the attacks be stopped, and at that, only for a while if the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism is not blunted.” How will “the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism” ever be “blunted,” in Bangladesh or anywhere else, while everyone remains afraid to confront “Islamic fundamentalism,” and instead capitulates to it at every turn?

Bangladesh killing

“Bangladesh Says It Now Knows Who’s Killing the Bloggers,” by Geeta Anano and Julfikar Ali Manik, New York Times, June 8, 2016:

DHAKA, Bangladesh — The young man, inching past a crowded checkpoint near a truck stand in Bangladesh’s capital, caught the attention of an alert police officer.

His backpack, together with his appearance, from the unshaven beard to the long Punjabi tunic over baggy pants, set off the suspicion that he was an Islamist militant. The man was arrested after he was found to be carrying a machete, an unregistered pistol and six bullets.

The discovery of the weapons raised alarms. For the last three years, atheist writers, freethinkers, foreigners, religious minorities, gay rights activists and others have been terrorized and killed in Bangladesh by shadowy figures who have struck with machetes and sped off on motorbikes.

Little was known about the attackers, except that they were Islamist radicals, and that their assaults have been coming with ever-greater frequency this year.

The detained man refused to discuss much, saying only that he was Saiful Islam, 23 years old and a teacher at a local madrasa, or Islamic school.

But the picture filled in six days later, when two 19-year-old men, arrested after running from the site of another fatal attack, identified the madrasa teacher as a fellow conspirator. That touched off a cascade of revelations that, for the first time, has allowed the Bangladeshi authorities to penetrate the murky world of the attackers and answer questions about the planning, execution and purpose of the attacks that have baffled the country — and, indeed, the world — since the violence began.

At least 39 people have been killed in attacks with machetes, guns and bombs since February 2013. The killings, mostly with machete blows to the back of the victim’s neck, have been accelerating lately, with five people murdered in April, four in May and at least three so far in June.

On Sunday, a Christian grocer and the wife of a police superintendent who had been cracking down on militant attacks were killed in separate strikes. On Tuesday, a Hindu priest was killed in southwestern Bangladesh.

In a lengthy interview, the chief of the police counterterrorism unit, Monirul Islam, who assumed his post in February, laid out the findings of his investigation in minute detail.

The killings were organized by two militant Islamic groups that have gathered volunteers and recruits, trained them and eventually seeded them into cells run by a commander, Mr. Islam said. They have tried to pick their targets with care, with the aim of gaining support from the public, he said, and trained teams of killers. Their goal was to convert Bangladesh’s mixed secular and religious culture to an Islamist one, the chief investigator said.

The Bangladeshi authorities say that they now believe they have identified the top leadership of the two groups they say are responsible, and that they are preparing to round them up. Only when the leaders are caught, they caution, will the attacks be stopped, and at that, only for a while if the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism is not blunted.

Secular Versus Islamists

Bangladesh, a nation with a Muslim majority adjoining eastern India, gained independence from Pakistan in a vicious war in 1971 and established a secular, democratic government. A military coup in 1975 led to more than three decades of mostly military-backed governments sympathetic to Islamic fundamentalists, until a secular government returned to power in 2009 with an overwhelming majority. But secularism is far from universally accepted in Bangladesh, and has always had to contend with a conservative Islamic culture.

To a surprising extent, the militants have succeeded in their aim of discrediting secularism, the chief investigator said.

“In general, people think they have done the right thing, that it’s not unjustifiable to kill” the bloggers, gay people and other secularists, he added.

They have also put the secular government on the defensive. As a result, even as the government has condemned the killings, it has urged writers not to criticize Islam and warned that advocating “unnatural sex” is a criminal offense….

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  1. Cr says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 2:56 am

    Its our future, our permissiveness it is encouraging

  2. Ted Tyler says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 4:29 am

    It looks like the Atheist Community is finally beginning to get the message:
    http://religiondispatches.org/secularist-activists-are-being-murdered-in-bangladesh-an-ongoing-crisis-causes-many-to-flee/

  3. jayell says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 5:17 am

    “People think they have done the right thing (by committing murder)…” And this from a police officer. I think.I must have heard it all now. So I think I’ll just avoid Bangla Desh from now on, and anyone who comes from there.

    • particolor says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 6:32 am

      I wonder how they’ll feel when ALL their Overseas Aid Money is Cut Off ? :-

      • Bob says

        Jun 10, 2016 at 6:43 pm

        Particolour – d’you honestly think that that’ll ever happen??

  4. David says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 5:56 am

    I’m not surprised. After all we are essentially dealing with a very DEEP MENTAL DISEASE! Which, at best is what islam really is.
    At worst? Pure satan worship!

  5. ICH says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 7:32 am

    Islam is so evil.

    And yet you can debate these guys online till you are blue in the face.
    They wont listen to reason.

    They are right and you are wrong regardless of facts.

    • Ted Tyler says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 7:49 am

      Your religion tells you what you are supposed to do – And most of the time – you do exactly that. If facts contradict your religion, then those facts must be ignored.

  6. Jean-Francois Morf says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 7:51 am

    First thing to do: kill all imams teaching Djihad…

    • Idania says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 10:12 am

      You are right but it would be better to burn all Qur’ans books and forbid the sale of that evil book. The Kur’an is a killing manual. It is a manifesto for taking over everything that is not muslim. It is an evil book, that is why devoted muslims are terrorists. Beware of devoted muslims, specially Imans, may be you are their target, they are the ones targeting infidels for massacres. Look at what is happening all over the world, learn from the past, they have not changed, they are worse now because we have them among us. There is not “peaceful” muslims. they are justified to kill all non-muslims according to the Kur’an teachings.

  7. Jerry says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:08 am

    How will “the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism” ever be “blunted…

    I think outlawing sharia and islam’s jihad teachings would be a good first step. Hey look, if people can go to jail for putting a piece of bacon on a mosque door then I think we can criminalize a murderous war manual. Religion shouldn’t get a free pass when it comes to conspiracy to kill and terrorize. And every one knows it’s not just a religion, it’s more a guidebook for jihad, hate, and conquest. Even if it were a religion it has no place in civilized society, who cares if they’re offended. They offend us with their threatening presence. I get so sick of the left’s babyish attitude about this, the idea that it’s a religion and can’t be criticized for the crimes and immoralities it provokes. Islam’s religious heritage is the inspiration for an army of terrorists and cultural jihadists around the world, millions are dying and suffering, entire cultures are getting destroyed–OURS. But our leaders act like stupid children running from the playground bully. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had leaders who could be brave for what we stand for? Cripes sake, we’re still healing from slavery and Jim Crow. Please tell me how islam’s barbaric sharia and ignorant bigotry is any different than the hell we’ve already come through. You’d think we had no past from which to learn.

    Enact anti-sharia laws. No more mosques. Close the borders to muslim migrants. That’s how I would “blunt” islam’s evil influence if I had the power.

    • Ted Tyler says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 8:34 am

      If you put Jews, Christians, Atheists, and Other together, each group may feel that it is superior to the other groups – but they don’t push it and they don’t make laws extoling the virtues of their particular group and the inferiority of the other groups. Only Islam has manuals that are specifically designed to show Muslims how to force all other groups to submit to them.

      These submission laws cannot be enforced when Muslims are a small percentage of the population, but when the Muslim population begins to exceed 50%, our secular laws will be replaced with Sharia Laws, and our freedoms become history.

      • Jerry says

        Jun 11, 2016 at 9:53 am

        All true.

  8. Christianblood says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:11 am

    (Bangladesh police on jihad murderers: “people think they have done the right thing)

    Of course muslims everywhere think the jihadists are doing the right thing when they massacre infidels and Western politically-correct establishment agrees with muslims by favoring muslims and even backing them in their genocidal jihad wars while ignoring and demonizing the victims of global islamic jihad.

    • Idania says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 10:16 am

      Japan is the smarter country in the World. They don’t allow Muslims there. They know what is at stake.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 10, 2016 at 10:34 am

        Unfortunately, that’s not true:

        https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/hugh-fitzgerald-among-schoolchildren-or-islam-outreach-in-japan

        http://muslimjapan.com/

  9. Angemon says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:48 am

    His backpack, together with his appearance, from the unshaven beard to the long Punjabi tunic over baggy pants, set off the suspicion that he was an Islamist militant. The man was arrested after he was found to be carrying a machete, an unregistered pistol and six bullets.

    This wouldn’t have happened in, for example, the US. Not because the muslim community is so well assimilated that there are no muslims in the US who would do such a thing but because a police agent who looked at someone matching that description and found him suspicious would be charged with “racism” and made, alongside an untold number of his colleagues all across the country, to attend a “diversity” course – assuming he wasn’t fired on the spot, burned on the bonfire of public opinion and used as leverage against being suspicious of muslims.

    The detained man refused to discuss much, saying only that he was Saiful Islam, 23 years old and a teacher at a local madrasa, or Islamic school.

    But the picture filled in six days later, when two 19-year-old men, arrested after running from the site of another fatal attack, identified the madrasa teacher as a fellow conspirator.

    This should surprise no one. If murderers are acting according to islamic law, the first place to look for “radicalizers” should be in places where islam is taught.

  10. pdxnag says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Their version of CAIR might explode on them if they raise a fuss.

  11. Mike Ramirez says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 9:25 am

    Muhammad taught:

    It is legal to seek vengeance and retribution in like manner: “A life for a life” and a Muslim who shall abandon Islam shall be killed.(Imam An-Nawawi’s Book – Hadith #14)
    (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 6, Book 61, Number 577, Narrated ‘Ali)

    “Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to ‘Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn ‘Abbas who said, ‘If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s Apostle forbade it, saying, ‘Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).’ I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'”
    Source:(Sahih Bukhari: Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57, Narrated ‘Ikrima)

    “The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If they (the people) drink wine, flog them, again if they drink it, flog them. Again if they drink it, kill them.” (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 38, Number 4467)

    No doubt I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection.”
    Source: (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 9, Book 84, Number 64, Narrated ‘Ali)

    “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, ‘O ‘Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.'” (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176, Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar)

    ***

    Jesus said: ” Beware, the time will come when whomever kills you will think that he is doing a service for God.(John 16:2) – paraphrased

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  12. Linde Barrera says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    So heartbreaking, gut wrenching and just plain evil when innocent people are killed. As particolor stated, cutting off aid would give these countries’ governments a jolt, but wouldn’t it also hurt the innocent people not committing crimes? Banning Islam and the Quran is the answer because those 2 are the biggest factors in causing terrorism.

  13. Georg says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    “people think they have done the right thing”

    Mhm. Maybe “never again” would be more appropriate.

  14. Manuele says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 1:55 am

    “Bangladesh police on jihad murderers: “people think they have done the right thing” I say that ONLY A MUSLIM THAT MAKE A DUMB ASS COMMENT LIKE THAT IN A DEFENSE FOR MURDERING PEOPLE. THE MUSLIMS’ MURDEROUS BEHAVIOUR, THERE IS NO DEFENSE FOR THEIR DIABOLICAL ATTITUDE IN DISRESPECT OF HUMAN LIVES.

  15. Ganesha_akbar says

    Jun 11, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    Hopefully, President Trump will invoke the Truman doctrine before glassing their ancient evil Ka’aba.

    Shinto-fascist beheaders were only pacified the hard way by Democrats. Give 72 hours notice to evacuate, then glass the Ka’aba. Mecca would make a fine proving ground for kinetic bombardment (rods from god) and excellent negotiating leverage against Tehran’s belligerence.

    No more Hajj. No more Ring of Tawaf. No more Islam. Checkmate.

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