Islamic hardliners don’t consider Sufis to be true Muslims — and apparently have free rein in Bangladesh.
“Three Sufi Muslims Critically Injured in Bangladesh Machete Attack,” Press Trust Of India, July 17, 2016:
Dhaka: Three elderly Sufi Muslims, including two women, were on Sunday attacked in their sleep by machete- wielding men in western Bangladesh’s border town with India and suffered critical injuries in the latest in a spate of deadly attacks on religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.
Eight to 10 assailants attacked several ‘Bauls’ (mystic singers) around midnight with sharp weapons, iron rods and bamboo sticks at their ‘Akhra’ (residing place) at Ektarpur village in Chadanga district, some 240 kms from here.
“The miscreants were equipped with bamboo sticks and machetes as they attacked the ‘Akhra’… three of the singers were injured in the assault as they were asleep,” a police officer at the scene said.
Rashida Khatun, 60, Abdur Rahim, 65, and his wife Bulu Begum, 50, were injured and are now undergoing treatment at a local health complex.
All the three injured are in critical state, The Daily Star quoted Dr Anisur Rahman, a doctor of Chuadanga Sadar Hospital, as saying.
The other Bauls, however, managed to flee the spot, said Mukul Hossein, landlord of the Akhra. “It could not be known who or why they attacked the Bauls,” Hossein said.
The Baul community renders mystic songs disseminating messages of universal harmony, which is close to the Muslim Sufi thoughts, and do not perform the routine Islamic rituals.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspected the hardliner Muslims in the region to have carried out the attack as the denounce mysticism as “un-Islamic”.
Victim Bulu Begum told reporters that seven to eight men barged into the Akhra and started beating them with iron rods. “Bauls from different areas come to this Akhra. We also went there.”
She said only three of them were there during the attack, and that they could not identify the attackers. The locals heard them scream and rushed them to the hospital.
All of them sustained injuries inflicted by iron rods, doctor Masud Rana was quoted as saying by bdnews.com. “We have found some slash wounds on Rahim’s head,” he said, adding Rashida has injuries on the face and leg, and the third victim had been referred to Rajshahi as her leg injuries seemed critical….

JP says
In countries with no Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus or Secular Humanists Moslems attack other Moslems.
Saleem Smith says
“In countries with no Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus or Secular Humanists Moslems attack other Moslems.”
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Islam is the perfect religion of peace that must never be criticized upon pain of death.
Islam is thought to be perfect by the majority of Muslims. The Quran itself says that Islam is a perfect religion (005:003) and that Muhammad the prophet of Islam is a good example for Muslims to follow (033:021).
The Quran and Muhammad’s Sunnah contain many glaringly evil passages and principles, but don’t worry about all of that, because every University professor in the West and the various political elites continue to assure us that Islam is a religion of peace that needs to be respected đ
Quran 009:029
Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given as believe neither in God nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who do not embrace the true Faith, until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.
Hadith: Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book 52, No. 196:
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah ‘s Apostle said, ” I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ and whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)”
Hadith: Sahih Muslim 4294:
âWhen you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to 3 courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also except it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya (the Islamic tax). If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allahâs help and fight them.â â Muhammad
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammadâs life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Violence
Mirren10 says
Elderly, two women, and attacked in their *sleep**.
Ah, the brave lions of islam !
Angemon says
I was going to say something along those lines but you pre-emptively made my post obsolete đ
Saleem Smith says
Nothing is more obsolete than Islamic theology and civilization.
Morbid Joke:
Q: How many jihadi Muslims will it take to re-create the caliphate?
A: Who the hell knows, but it would include a lot of dead bodies, including “disobedient” Muslims as well as innumerable amounts of unbelieving infidels.
linnte says
Miscreants? The paper calls them miscreants? Wow. Is that an understatement or what?
abad says
Hussein will be starting his “Muslim Lives Matter” campaign tomorrow
Sara Russell says
It’s disgusting that grown “men” would attack old people, who are lying fast asleep.
AnneCrockett says
They kill elderly Muslims, but we are the racist, Islamophobes for objecting
overman says
The Sufi’s have been persecuted by muslims for about 700 years. l think they actually existed before mohammed under a different name. Their beliefs are primarily a mix of Bhuddism, Hinduism and Christianity [they even wrote their own version of the Koran which bore no resemblance to mohammed’s version]- no wonder muslims hate them. There are many Sufi sects, and everyone knows about the ‘Whirling Dervishes’ – who are banned from dancing in places like Turkey, l believe.
lt was an lslamic scholar, Al-Ghazzali, who was seen as almost an equal to Mohammed. He tried to lslamize Sufism and corrupted most of their belief-system with lslamic doctrine. He’s regarded as a Sufi, but from what l understand, most Sufi sects don’t accept him as one. Bill Warner is always quoting Ghazzali as the prime example of Sufism, but as l said, most sufi’s reject him.
On Al-Ghazzali:
“Al-Ghazali has been referred to by some historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[16] Within Islamic civilization he is considered to be a Mujaddid or renewer of the faith, who, according to tradition, appears once every century to restore the faith of the community.[17][18][19] His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded the honorific title “Proof of Islam” (Hujjat al-Islam).[1] Others have cited his opposition to certain strands of Islamic philosophy as a detriment to Islamic scientific progress.
Besides his work that successfully changed the course of Islamic philosophyâthe early Islamic Neoplatonism that developed on the grounds of Hellenistic philosophy, for example, was so successfully criticised by al-Ghazali that it never recoveredâhe also brought the orthodox Islam of his time in close contact with Sufism”