• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Bangladesh: Muslim cleric incited mob to burn Hindu homes over “blasphemy”

Nov 14, 2017 1:50 pm By Robert Spencer

A delegation of Stanford University professors and students needs to go over to Thakurpara and explain to this Muslim cleric that Islam teaches peace, and that only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise.

“Locals claim six youths and a cleric were instigators,” by Kamrul Hasan, Dhaka Tribune, November 14, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Victims of the attack on Hindu homes in Thakurpara village and their Muslim neighbours could not identify most of the people who carried out the attack, although they placed the attackers as residents of Mominpur and Hariar Kuthi, two notoriously rough neighbourhoods.

They also pointed fingers at six locals and the cleric of a local mosque for their dubious role in organising the protests.

Many people living in villages next to Thakurpara admitted they took part in the human chain organised at Soylashah Bazar to protest the controversial Facebook post on November 10. However, they denied having anything to do with the mayhem.

The human chain was meant to be a 15-minute protest after the Jummah prayers, but things went out of control when “hoards of outsiders” started showing up at the place, according to some of the participants of the protest.

The six local, who are aged between 30 and 40, are Julfikar Ahmed, Raju Ahmed, Jahangir Alam, Alamgir Hossain, Robiul Islam and Moslem Uddin.

Julfikar and Raju are brothers, both rice traders, and are said to be supporters of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Alamgir and his brother Jahangir run a grocery shop. Rabiul is an autorickshaw driver in Rangpur city while Moslem is a seasonal crop trader. Imam of Soylashah Bazar Mosque, Sirajul Islam, joined them on request of Alamgir.

A youth from Lalchandpur village, preferring anonymity, told the Dhaka Tribune that Alamgir Hossain, a grocer, was the one who first showed the controversial Facebook post to others in the locality.

Alamgir also filed a case with Gongachora police station in connection with the post.

Alamgir and Imam Sirajul went to Paglapir Central Mosque in the evening of November 4 and campaigned against the Facebook post. They also showed a printed copy of the content to the people in the area.

The two men subsequently met Imams in adjacent areas, including Mominpur, Hariar Kuthi and Taraganj villages, and convinced them to exhort against the Hindu community.

Alamgir and Julfikar also reportedly used the loudspeakers of the mosques to spread hateful messages.

Nahid Hossain of Soylashah Bazaar told the Dhaka Tribune that even on the day of the attack, Alamgir had sent a boy to bring a loudspeaker from a mosque. But the boy did not show up later.

A young man who was present at the human chain said that although the event was organised by the six men, they got scared at seeing the police and disappeared from the front of the gathering.

It was a huge gathering and chaos erupted when Alamgir and Julfikar, who were well-known faces, could not be found all of a sudden.

After the key organisers left the scene, a local Imam started speaking and told the people to form a human chain. According to police sources, the Imam the participants were referring to was Olama Dal leader Mawlana Enamul Haque Majedi.

Some time later, Jatiya Party leader Fazlar Rahman and Hariar Kuthi Union Parishad Chairman Harun-or-Rashid, who is also the organising secretary of the local Awami League unit, were seen leading the human chain. BNP leader Masud Rana was also present in the bazaar area.

Police sources said they were looking for Fazlar. This correspondent tried to reach Harun-or-Rashid and his wife over phone, but found the phones turned off.

Rangpur Superintendent of Police Mizanur Rahman on Sunday told the reporters that they were arresting people on the basis of photos captured during the protest….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Bangladesh, blasphemy, Featured, Hindus, mosques, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Thakurpara


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. abc says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 2:15 pm

    In other news: BBC discovered that the armed ISIS fighters, including the foreign ones, left Raqqa protected by a secret deal with a US led coalition. “Raqqa’s Dirty Secret”

    • John Forbes says

      Nov 15, 2017 at 7:16 am

      I WOULD PUT NOTHING PAST THE POSSIBILITY WITH THE BBC! AFTER ALL, THEY WERE A BIG PART OF THE MUSLIM CHILD RAPING COVER UP & DENIALS IN THE UK & HAD TO BE DRAGGED KICKING & SCREAMING OUT OF THEIR SACRED TOWER N LONDON ONCE DETAILS WERE UNCOVERED!
      STILL DESPITE THESE CHILD RAPES BEING RELIGIOUSLY & RACIALLY MOTIVATED THE BBC SEES NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS BEHAVIOUR & THE CHILD RAPISTS ETHNICITY & RELIGION ( INITIALLY THEY WERE ALL KASHMIRI PAKISTANI’S BUT NOW HAVING SEEN THAT THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES FOR DOING THIS OTHER MUSLIMS HAVE JOINED THE PACKS!

  2. bryce swan says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    surprised the local “youths” are aged 30 to 40. youths sounds like under 20 to me

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 3:08 pm

      Yes–the frequent claim of this all being “youths” is given the lie here.

  3. MFritz says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Learn the lesson! The imam incites and they do the violence.

    Next time our press and politicians “wonder” where the violence comes from. THEY KNOW.

  4. gravenimage says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    Bangladesh: Muslim cleric incited mob to burn Hindu homes over “blasphemy”
    …………………………

    This is enormously common–Jihadists are incited to violence by Muslim clerics.

    So much for the idea that violent Jihad has nothing to do with Islam.

  5. gravenimage says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    And given that this “blasphemous” comment on Facebook was supposedly made by a Hindu man who actually turns out to be illiterate, chances are that the Imam was in on–or even the instigator–of the fake post in the first place.

  6. Jaladhi says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 3:22 pm

    That’s what Muslim clerics always do – incite the Muslim mob! That is why often the Muslim mob starts rioting right after the Friday “prayers”. If you get rid of these clerics, perhaps, half the problem of Muslim jihad might disappear from this planet!

  7. Paul N Silas says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    No way this was Islamic violence, “IT’S THE RELIGION OF PEACE” according to G.E. Bush

    • Paul N Silas says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 3:53 pm

      G.W not GE

      • Karen says

        Nov 14, 2017 at 7:11 pm

        We knew what ignoramus you were referring to.

  8. DRHazard says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 4:28 pm

    Stanford professors should encourage their female PhD students to do their doctoral work in Bangaldesh on the subject of “Women’s Freedom in the Islamic World”. They would go to this country, that has never been bombed by the West (as far as I know), and mingle among working class Muslim men asking them what they believe regarding women’s rights. They would ask questions like; “How has the wars waged by the U.S. and European countries against Islam affected your perception of women”. And they would get answers like “Me and my friends are now going to rape you”. If that female student has been properly indoctrinated her first thought would be “it’s not their fault”. Later on, after her attempts to bring the rapists to justice failed and she found herself instead facing charges of fornication, she would think “this is Robert Spencer’s fault. If only we had banned Islamophobes from existing this would have never happened.”

    But, of course, no female student from Stanford would ever do that. They would much rather do all their reality warping, virtue signalling “studies” amidst the prosperity and safety in and around Stanford.

    Stanford and most other universities now teach their students who should be hated and then give them a forum in which they can revel in the rage they hold against their imagined enemies.

  9. IndianTiger says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    The libtards in my country (India) are always generating excuses for muslim slime. We constantly urge them to move to Porkistan or Bangladesh to experience “freedom”. So far no takers. I wonder why?

  10. Karen says

    Nov 14, 2017 at 7:20 pm

    Excellent proposal. There are many new areas of imagined crimes and fantasy history to be developed. There must be hundreds of socials ills in Bangladesh that need a western entity as the source of the blame – just imagine the endless material for Women’s Studies dissertations!

    • Karen says

      Nov 14, 2017 at 7:22 pm

      Oops, this was a reply to DRHazard.

  11. Infidel says

    Nov 15, 2017 at 9:38 am

    THE MSM in INDIA is DEAD SILENT on this… But then we are used to these suppression of truth isn’t it?? The LEFT has become a global disease of falsehood and bigotry today. GOD SAVE THIS PLANET..

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • janicevanguilder on New study reveals that Muslim religiosity strongly linked to hatred towards the West
  • Boycott Turkey on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat
  • Yogi on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe
  • Hoi Polloi on Why so many Muslims can’t wait for Biden to get inaugurated
  • Hoi Polloi on EU Parliament members call for firing of border agency director for preventing illegal migrants from entering Europe

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.